From a43df6d799febf3cb15135813808ef1e414f20d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Geldreich Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 14:20:43 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new files --- bin/overmeire.json | 40747 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ bin/process_all.bat | 2 + 2 files changed, 40749 insertions(+) create mode 100644 bin/overmeire.json create mode 100644 bin/process_all.bat diff --git a/bin/overmeire.json b/bin/overmeire.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1477ab9 --- /dev/null +++ b/bin/overmeire.json @@ -0,0 +1,40747 @@ +{ + "Overmeire": [ + { + "date": "66", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Under the reign of Nero, Simon the Magician attempts a flight in the presence of the Emperor. He kills himself. Saint Peter witnesses the experience and prays for the magician to fail.", + "location": "ITALY, ROME", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_0" + }, + { + "date": "5/21/70", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Flavius Josephus described an incredible size demonic ghost. Before dawn, chariots and armed soldiers appeared over the entire country.", + "location": "PALESTINE, Jerusalem", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p. 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1" + }, + { + "date": "80", + "desc": "(Translated from French) When Emperor Agricola was in Caledonia, flames appeared above the forest, and on clear days it was possible to make out a vessel in the sky.", + "location": "SCOTLAND, Caledonia", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p. 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2" + }, + { + "date": "180", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Under the reign of Emperor Commodus, \"great prodigies happened at that time... one often saw stars suspended in the air during the day...\" [IN REALITY: it was the Haley's comet...] (Between 180 and 192)", + "location": "ROME ANTIQUE", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"The E.T. and the UFO in History\" Famot 1977, Volume 2 p. 113", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3" + }, + { + "date": "200", + "desc": "(Translated from French) There was in the village of Notorita a man called Hashiro-Kima-Washi. He was a large individual who had wings on his body so that he could fly and rise very high in the sky. He refused to obey imperial orders and robbed people.", + "location": "JAPAN, Notorita", + "ref": [ + "Yves NAUD: \"Les Ovnis et les E.T. dans l'histoire, tome 1\" - ed. Famot 1977, tome 2 p. 237", + "Book 1 of Nihongi", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_4" + }, + { + "date": "235", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A red meteor emitting pointed rays fell from the northwest to the southwest in the Liang camp. The meteor moved three times back and forth above the camp, each time with a greater magnitude when moving forward and when withdrawing.", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p. 39", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_5" + }, + { + "date": "1/314", + "desc": "(Translated from French) .. the sun fell to the ground and three other suns rose together above the horizon. And another day, the sun quickly lowered to the ground and three other suns flew side by side, after rising in the west, heading east.", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 47", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_6" + }, + { + "date": "1/317", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three suns shone at the same time in the sky tinted with multicolored colors. The suns were surrounded by an aureole and suspended at ten meters above the ground. The center of the suns had a greenish color.", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.47", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_7" + }, + { + "date": "394", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"...one night, there appeared something resembling a woman dressed and moving high in the sky. It had colossal dimensions and an aspect so horrible that the witnesses who contemplated it were terrified. It went back and forth in the sky, above the streets of the city. It constantly emitted a sound similar to the whistling of a whip and the air reverberated with it. This sound was like that usually made by a tamer when he excites wild beasts to enrage them before presenting them to the spectators of an amphitheater...\"", + "location": "TURKEY, Antioch", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des Ovni\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 54", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_8" + }, + { + "date": "436", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The author cites J. Obsequens: \"Earthquakes follow one another at a frightening rate.... Suddenly, and in the midst of all the spectators, a child was taken up by an unknown force high enough in the sky that it was lost to sight; after which, having descended as he had ascended, he declared to the Patriarch Procus, to the Emperor himself and to the assembled multitude that he had just attended a great concert of angels praising God...\"", + "location": "BYZANCE", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"ETs and UFOs in History\" Famot 1977, Volume 2 pp. 110-111", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_9" + }, + { + "date": "460", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 4th spring, 2nd month. The emperor took part in a bow hunt on Mount Katsuraki. Suddenly a tall man appeared, who in face and appearance, resembled the emperor. \"From what place do you come?\" asked the emperor. \"I am the god of visible men. First tell me your royal name and then I will inform you of mine.\" The emperor answered: \"We are the Waka-taka-no-Mikoto.\" The tall man said: \"Your servant is the god Hito-Koto-Mushi. The god who chases away with one word the good and with one word the bad. He joined the emperor until the setting of the sun, when the hunt ended. The god accompanied the emperor to the waters of Kume\".", + "location": "JAPAN, mont Katsuraki", + "ref": [ + "Yves NAUD: \"Les Ovni et les E.T. dans l'histoire, tome 1\" - Famot 1977, tome 2 p. 237, 238", + "Nihongi", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_10" + }, + { + "date": "549", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the Thai Tsing period, under Emperor Won-Ti of the Liang Dynasty, General Heou-King besieged the city of King Thai. The inhabitants of the city used kites to send out calls for help to the nearby villages.", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_11" + }, + { + "date": "575", + "desc": "(Translated from French) When St. Columcille convened the synod of Drum Ceatt (or Drom Ecart), he asked Aedh Mac Ainmuire to release Scandlann Mor, which was refused. During the same night, a pillar of fire was seen above the city. It headed towards the prison where Scandlann Mor was held, stopped and emitted a beam of light that penetrated the cell. The chains that held the prisoner then detached and he heard a voice calling him. An angel came to free him. Following this, Aedh Mac Ainmuire, greatly impressed, recognized the divine mission of which St. Columcille was invested.", + "location": "IRELAND", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des Ovni\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 55", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_12" + }, + { + "date": "585", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"In September, some saw signs, that is to say these rays or domes that one is accustomed to seeing and which seemed to run with speed in the sky\".", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970, p. 56", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_13" + }, + { + "date": "587", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"We saw for two nights in a row, in the middle of the sky, a kind of very bright cloud that had the shape of a hood.\"", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970, p. 56", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_14" + }, + { + "date": "661", + "desc": "(Translated from French) For the year 661, Japanese chronicles cite an intriguing event: \"Autumn, first day of the eighth month. The imperial prince, after coming to bow over the mortal remains of the deceased empress, returned to the Ihase palace. That night, at the top of Mount Asakura, there was a spirit wearing a large hat, who observed the funeral proceedings. All the people present gave loud cries of astonishment.\"", + "location": "JAPAN", + "ref": [ + "Richard D. NOLANE: Autrefois les Extraterrestres - Mythes et réalités\" Presses de la Cité Poche 1993 p.184", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_15" + }, + { + "date": "664", + "desc": "(Translated from French) .. while some nuns were praying in a cemetery near the convent of Berecingum (Barking), a large light descended from the sky, encircled them, then circled the monastery before disappearing high into the sky.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Barking", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p.58", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_16" + }, + { + "date": "10/1/679", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"... a material similar to cotton five to six feet long fell on Ninawa [former name of Osaka].", + "location": "JAPAN, Osaka", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p.58", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_17" + }, + { + "date": "682", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On the third day of the eighth month of the year 682 a great star crossed the sky from east to west above Tsukushi. The term great star seems to exclude a meteor or comet. Eight days later: \"Something appeared that had the shape of a Buddhist baptismal flag, flame-colored. It hovered in the void, headed north and was seen in all provinces. Some said it plunged into the sea off Koshi.\" (Richard D. NOLANE: \"Once Upon a Time Aliens - Myths and Realities\" Presses de la Cité Poche 1993 p.184, 185) On the twelfth day there was a strong earthquake. The next day the vice-governor of Tsukushi reported that he had seen a three-legged bird. On the seventeenth day there was another earthquake. At dawn an arc of the sky was seen in the middle of the sky at the height of the sun. [note from vog: there is nothing supernatural or extraterrestrial about this. This rather rare phenomenon of a complete circular rainbow around the sun, I was able to contemplate in the 60s when I lived in Africa.]", + "location": "Japan", + "ref": [ + "Yves NAUD: \"UFOs and ETs in History\" - FAMOT 1977, VOLUME 2 p. 240, 241", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_18" + }, + { + "date": "Autumn 692", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On the twenty-eighth month, under the reign of Tokama-no-ara-hito-hime, in the night, the planets Mars and Jupiter were seen to approach each other and then move away four times in succession, shining and then fading alternately. (692, Autumn)", + "location": "JAPAN", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p.58", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_19" + }, + { + "date": "729", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \".. the monk Wilfred saw two large comets circling around the Sun...\"", + "location": "FRANCE, Meaux", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p.58", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_20" + }, + { + "date": "746", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \".. dragons were seen several times in the sky, as well as aerial vessels with men on board\". (746-748)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p.58", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_21" + }, + { + "date": "760", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Under the reign of Pepin the Short (715-768), very singular phenomena were publicly shown in France. The air was full of human figures, the sky reflected mirages of palaces, gardens, agitated waters, ships with sails in the wind and armies lined up for battle. The atmosphere was like a great dream. (...) Dreams and wakefulness were confused and several people thought they had been taken away by aerial beings; all that was heard was talk of trips to the land of the sylphs .... madness seized the best minds and finally the Church had to intervene\".", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"ETs and UFOs in History\" Famot 1977, Volume 2 p. 122-123", + "Eliphas Levi in \"History of Magic\"", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_22" + }, + { + "date": "773", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"... a red cross appeared after sunset above England.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p.58", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_23" + }, + { + "date": "776", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"...and on the same day, as they were preparing a new assault against the Christians living in the castle, the glory of God manifested itself above the church, inside the fortress. Those who were on guard outside in the square said they saw the resemblance of two large shields of reddish color, flaming and in motion above the church itself...\"", + "location": "GERMANY, Sigisburg", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 p.58-59", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_24" + }, + { + "date": "793", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Above the former kingdom of Northumbria: ..\" very powerful and terrifying the inhabitants... they were lights like never seen before, like flashes, and red dragons were also seen flying in the air...\"", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p. 61", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_25" + }, + { + "date": "796", + "desc": "(Translated from French) According to the \"Flores Historiarum\" of the Benedictine Roger de Wendover, small globes were seen spinning around the sun.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD, Inforespace n° 22, p. 36", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_26" + }, + { + "date": "800's", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Byzantines, relaying the Chinese and Arabs whose recipe was then transmitted to all of Europe, shot off rockets. They were called \"Rocchetto\" in Italy, a name which the French translated as \"Fusee\", the Germans as \"Rakete\", and the English as \"Rocket\". It became the absolute weapon in the Middle Ages and Charles VII made abundant use of it in the reconquest of the Kingdom. (800's)", + "location": "BYZANTIUM", + "ref": [ + "L'Astronautique\", Pierre Rousseau, ed. Hachette 1965, p. 8", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_27" + }, + { + "date": "810", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Charles himself was the victim of a significant accident during his last expedition in Saxony against the Danish king Godefrid. One day, when he had left the camp and set out before sunrise, he suddenly saw a dazzling torch miraculously descend from a serene sky and traverse the air from right to left. And as one wondered what this phenomenon portended, the horse he was riding suddenly lowered its head and fell, precipitating him to the ground with such violence that the fibula of his cloak broke and the belt of his sword was torn off. When his servants, witnesses of the accident, rushed to raise him up, they found him without weapons, without a cloak, and a javelin was picked up at least twenty feet away which had escaped from his hands at the moment of his fall.\"", + "location": "GERMANY, Saxony", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 p. 61", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_28" + }, + { + "date": "814", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A star like a half braid of straw rose from the ground and its light illuminated the ground. A number of small stars came out of it.", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p.40", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_29" + }, + { + "date": "827", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Eginard further reports that during the expedition to Spain of Pépin Ir, second son of Louis the Pious, strange things happened: \".. in truth this disaster was preceded by terrible apparitions of things in the air. During the night they were sometimes pale lights, sometimes bright and red fires like blood\".", + "location": "SPAIN", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p. 61", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_30" + }, + { + "date": "840", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Before 840.) Agobard (779-840) had conducted an investigation and discovered that missing people claimed upon their return to have visited a country they called Magonia. Being a Christian and a rationalist, he refused to believe it and had even stoned three men and one woman in his presence who claimed to have gone to Magonia in an aerial ship. (Jacques BERGIER: \"Les E.T. dans l'histoire\" - J'AI LU 1970 - p 146) (note from vog: this seems, to say the least, a rocambolesque interpretation of what was really happening with Agobard...) One day, aerial saucers arrived in Lyon from which three men and one woman were seen descending. The whole city gathered around them, shouting that they were magicians sent by Grimaldus, Duke of Berreventum, the enemy of Charlemagne, to destroy the French crops. In vain, the four innocents defended themselves by saying that they were their own and had been carried away a short time before by extraordinary men who had shown them wonders never heard of before, and they had desired to make their own account of what they had seen. The raging populace paid no attention to their defense and was about to throw them into the fire, when the brave Agobard, Bishop of Lyon, alerted by the noise, arrived running and after having heard the accusations of the people and the defense of the accused, declared gravely that both were in error... the men and the woman were released. [note from vog: which also does not seem to be the correct interpretation: Agobard was neither wise nor balanced, he was a kind of fanatic towards unbelievers and heretics, and those \"returning from an aerial vessel\", what else were they?]", + "location": "FRANCE, Lyon", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire\" Famot 1977, volume 2 p. 126", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_31" + }, + { + "date": "12/1/848", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Lances were seen in the sky. Thirty days later, terrifying lances were again seen in the north and east of the sky.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p.40", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_32" + }, + { + "date": "877", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Charles II, the Bald (823 - 877) was one day taken away by a being of dazzling whiteness, armed with a weapon throwing an extraordinary light, like that of a comet. During the journey, the stranger protected the king from certain wild animals by enveloping him in a brightness that so offended these dangerous beasts that they could not reach him. (877 (before...))", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD, Inforespace n° 21, p. 48", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_33" + }, + { + "date": "11/879", + "desc": "(Translated from French) There was one day two suns that fought ardently. And another day of the same month, two suns rose together and fought in the sky, merging into one single star in the eyes of all spectators.", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.47", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_34" + }, + { + "date": "905", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On the third moon and the day I-Cheou at midnight, a great ball of fire appeared at the zenith. It was the size of five bushels. It headed towards the northwest. At a distance of one hundred feet it stopped. Above it, a multitude of small stars were seen, like sparks of a yellowish red. Its tail was fifty feet long and resembled a snake. All the small stars were in motion. Soon after, the ball went out and was replaced by a greenish vapor, like tufts of bamboo, which extended to the zenith and whose color was fading.", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p.41", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_35" + }, + { + "date": "919", + "desc": "(Translated from French) ...\"a flaming torch and brilliant spheres like stars moved here and there in the sky of Hungary.", + "location": "HUNGARY", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"UFOs in the USSR and in the East Countries\" - trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 245", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_36" + }, + { + "date": "927", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the \"Annals\" of Flodoard, a French chronicler, it can be read that in 927 in Verdun and throughout the east of France armies were seen marching in the sky.", + "location": "FRANCE, Verdun.", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p. 61-62", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_37" + }, + { + "date": "10/14/934", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the beginning of the night, a star was seen, as big as five bushels, heading towards the southwest. It had a long tail of about 10 degrees. Its color was red. It instantly changed shape, taking the form of a dragon before becoming two spades that were getting closer. A small star moving east was seen at the same time.", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p.41", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_38" + }, + { + "date": "940", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Armies ravaged the sky.", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p.41", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_39" + }, + { + "date": "940", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On a seen beams of light in the sky on a Sunday night.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p.41", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_40" + }, + { + "date": "950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Approx. date.) On a Sunday when people were at mass, a miracle happened in the town of Cloera. There is a church in the town dedicated to the memory of Saint Kinarus. A metal anchor with a rope attached to it fell from the sky and one of its pointed legs got stuck in the wooden arch that tops the church. People rushed outside and saw in the sky a ship with men on board floating at the other end of the anchor rope, then they saw a man jump overboard and descend the rope as if to go and unhook the anchor. It seemed as if he was swimming in the water. People rushed to grab him but the bishop forbade them to hold him for fear of killing him. The man, once released, quickly climbed back up the rope to rejoin the ship. The crew cut the rope and the ship, rising, disappeared. But the anchor remained in the church as a testimony to this singular event (in \"Speculum Regali\" manuscript \"Konungs Skuggsa\") (Frank Edwards: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse\" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 17- other authors place this event around 1215) ANOTHER VERSION: A ship sailed in the air, everyone saw it. One of the crew of the ship threw a javelin to catch a fish, which people also saw swimming in the air. The javelin missed its target and fell to the ground. The unfortunate fisherman plunged out of the ship and swam to retrieve his weapon. But among the terrestrial spectators, a man had already taken the javelin. The aerial fisherman failed to take it back from him and then said: \"But let it go, for I shall drown\". The man let go and the fisherman swam back up to the ship, where he climbed aboard.", + "location": "IRELAND, Cloera", + "ref": [ + "© 1997 Jeroen Slurf and Jeroen Kümeling.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_41" + }, + { + "date": "7/29/966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At sea a cylinder was observed in a vertical position", + "location": "MEDITERRANEE", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD, Inforespace n° 22 p. 36", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_42" + }, + { + "date": "970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) As for its applications (that of powder) as a propulsion agent, they are placed around 970, at the time of Tai-Sou, founder of the Song Dynasty. At the time, arrows were used with a bamboo tube filled with powder attached; the charge was set on fire just before releasing the bowstring, and the range of the arrow was thus considerably increased.", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 49", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_43" + }, + { + "date": "11/2/979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Throughout the night, beams were noticed in the middle of the sky.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p.41", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_44" + }, + { + "date": "7/29/989 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) ...three round and shiny objects flew over Japan. (989, July 29 (August 3?))", + "location": "JAPAN", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p. 62- Inforespace n° 22 p. 36", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_45" + }, + { + "date": "8/3/989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The three objects shone in an unusual way and came together at the same point in their trajectory.", + "location": "JAPAN", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p.41", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_46" + }, + { + "date": "8/23/1015", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two spherical luminous objects were observed in Japan while they released two stars.", + "location": "JAPAN", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p. 66", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_47" + }, + { + "date": "8/1027", + "desc": "(Translated from French) ..in the month of Redjeb, many stars passed over Cairo and the Nile Delta. They flew with great noise and emitting a bright light.", + "location": "EGYPT, Cairo", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p. 66", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_48" + }, + { + "date": "1034 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A strange ovoid-shaped object of fire color crossed the sky of Europe. It went from south to east and changed direction before disappearing to the west. This fact was reported by the German humanist Hartmann Schaeden in an incunable written in 1493. On this document, which would now be in the possession of the Verdun museum, one can apparently see a representation of the UFO. A kind of cylinder or cigar surrounded by flames, flying over a verdant countryside. (1034 (or 1043?))", + "location": "EUROPE", + "ref": [ + "like a comet???", + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p. 66", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_49" + }, + { + "date": "1067", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"...coming from Normandy, several members of a crew perished at sea in the English Channel... A fire shone and burned superbly in the air. It came close to the ground and illuminated it for some time. Then, it departed, rose very high and then shot into the waters. In many places it burned woods and crops. In Northumberland this fire was seen twice in the year..", + "location": "At sea, in the English Channel", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p. 66", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_50" + }, + { + "date": "7/1096", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"...ten lights arranged in a straight line flew over the Japanese territory...\" (1096, July-August)", + "location": "JAPAN", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p. 66", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_51" + }, + { + "date": "1098", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"Cavalry forces in the sky near Worms\"", + "location": "GERMANY, Worms", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 p. 67", + "Meland 2, no. 5", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_52" + }, + { + "date": "1100's", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Under Emperor Emmanuel Comnene, a Saracen, Georges of Trebizoade (or of Trabson) tries to fly in Constantinople, in the presence of the Sultan of Turkey. He kills himself. (1100's)", + "location": "TURKEY, CONSTANTINOPLE", + "ref": [ + "\"La conquête de l'air, chronologie...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - éd. Marabout Université 1967, p. 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_53" + }, + { + "date": "1104", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"Torches of fire, burning streaks and flying lights were often seen in the sky at that time. There were some that looked like swarms of butterflies or small glowing worms of a strange kind. They flew in the sky and hid the light of the Sun as if it were clouds.\" (Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p.46: Great Britain) Wolfart notes that in Switzerland, in 1104, \"torches...etc.\"", + "location": "Great Britain or SWITZERLAND?", + "ref": [ + "\"Dossiers OVNI\", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Hors série, p.3", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_54" + }, + { + "date": "1123", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In Geoffrey of Monmouth's chronicle there is mention of observations in London of \"ships at anchor between the clouds\".", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, London", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 p.67", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_55" + }, + { + "date": "1125", + "desc": "(Translated from French) For three nights, starting at midnight, a man of fire was said to have run from one birch tree to another. Georg Miltenburger, who lived near a hop field near Railbach, Freienstein district, explained that the figure had first appeared on Sunday night, between 11:00 PM and midnight, quite far from him: he was nevertheless able to count all the figure's ribs. Many other people saw him on the crest of the hills as he ran in all directions. He spat fire from his nose and mouth. (Michel BOUGARD, Inforespace n° 23, p. 35) That year, one night, a man of fire haunted the mountain like an apparition; it was just midnight. The man went from one birch tree to another, setting them on fire, the guard declared that he looked like a bright fire. He did the same thing for three nights, and that was it.", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes...\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.17, citing Raymond Drake", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_56" + }, + { + "date": "1130", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"Two flaming flying dragons\" passed over Prague. (1130 and 1142)", + "location": "CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Prague.", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970 -p. 56", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_57" + }, + { + "date": "1133", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A group of clerics from Laon were travelling from town to town in Wessex, carrying with them the relics of the Virgin Mary, which allowed them to perform miraculous healings. Upon arriving in the town of Christchurch in Hampshire, they were astonished to see a dragon emerge from the sea \"breathing fire from its nostrils\".", + "location": "ENGLAND, Christchurch, Hampshire", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO Files\", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p. 3, 4", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_58" + }, + { + "date": "1138", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A dwarf was captured in the cellar of a German monastery. He was completely black and spoke no language. He was released to see what he would do. He returned to the cellar where he was found, lifted a stone and entered a tunnel that no one was able to follow him into. The tunnel was sealed with a cross and that was the end of it.", + "location": "GERMANY (unspecified)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques BERGIER: \"Les E.T. dans l'Histoire\" - J'AI LU - 1970 - p. 166, 167", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_59" + }, + { + "date": "1160", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Olivier de Malmesbury wants to reenact Icarus' flight; he jumps from the top of a tower; he glides for a distance of 120 steps and breaks his legs upon landing.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_60" + }, + { + "date": "3/9/1170", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 12th century chronicler Ralph Niger recounts that an \"incredibly large dragon\" was observed, leaving the Earth to fly into the air. The air was set ablaze by its action and a house was burned to ashes, along with its outbuildings.", + "location": "ENGLAND, St Ostwyth (Sussex)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO Files\", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p. 4", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_61" + }, + { + "date": "10/27/1180", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Some chronicles report that on that day, a bright object similar to a clay pot took off in the middle of the night from a mountain in Kyushu and headed northeast towards Mount Fukuhara. The object suddenly changed course, flew south and disappeared leaving a luminous trail.", + "location": "JAPAN", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 p.68", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_62" + }, + { + "date": "8/9/1186", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Benedict of Peterborough in his \"Gesta Regis Henrici Secundum\" reports that at the ninth hour of the day (around 2 pm) the sky suddenly opened and both the laity and the clergy of the abbey saw a very long and astonishingly large cross. The apparition lasted until midnight.

Walther of Hemingford, chronicler and canon of Gisburn, also reports the event in his \"Chronica\" but places it in 1189, specifying that the cross was bright and white like silk. William of Newburgh, on the other hand, also places the event in 1189 but in Dunstaple this time, on the road to London and adds \"one hour after noon the Emblem of the Lord and the shape of a crucified man were seen\". But this is not the end of these mysterious crosses. The archives of the Dunstable abbey obviously report the majestic passage of an immense cross, high in the sky, from east to west, but this time the observation was made in 1217.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Dunstable (county of Betford)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.68-69", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_63" + }, + { + "date": "End of 1200's", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Note: this was in chron3, and marked \"End of 13th century\".) In Siberia there were black men who flew on silver plates, leaving long trails of fire behind them. (End of 1200's)", + "location": "USSR - Siberia", + "ref": [ + "Peter KOLOSIMO: \"Shadows on the Stars\" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 315", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_64" + }, + { + "date": "End of 1200's", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Note: this was in chron3, and marked \"End of 13th century\".) The inhabitants of a large village were one day surprised to find, 2 km from their home, a metal ball 3 meters in diameter. The whole population came to admire this strange object, wondering what it could be and where it came from. It certainly had not arrived by road, as there were no traces of wheels on the road or in the fields. If it had fallen from the sky, or been vomited from hell, one should have seen a hole or something. But there was nothing abnormal. The surface of the gray ball was as smooth as a marble. Not so smooth, however, as circles, very regular, as if drawn by a compass, and of various sizes, were engraved on it. The villagers tried to push the thing, to make it roll on itself. Useless efforts: it did not move a millimeter. (...) When Pouchkine arrived, a Cossack of very bad reputation but, despite all his faults, very courageous, the villagers immediately informed him of the presence of the mysterious object. (...) Drawing his saber, he rushed on horseback on it, swearing and defying it to resist him. (...) ... the spectators are ready to go home. But they start screaming in fear: a circle of the ball has split, revealing an eye, a round cyclops eye that stares fixedly at its assailant, who, in turn, laughs and continues to strike, striking so hard that his sabre breaks (...) The peasants flee. Some hide behind the trees. And what do they see? They see Pouchkine and his mount becoming transparent before disappearing completely into the air. Yet they still hear his curses (...) Two days after this great fight, rider and horse, staggering like people who have drunk too much, made their entrance on the square (...) He started to shout that he was going to set fire to the wood and that the horrible thing would roast with everything around it. So everyone ran after him to witness the spectacle, but only witnessed his sad disappointment: the ball was no longer there. (End of 1200's)", + "location": "USSR, Russia, Don region", + "ref": [ + "Peter KOLOSIMO: \"Shadows on the Stars\" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 315, 316", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_65" + }, + { + "date": "1212", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A young boy, Etienne de Cloyes, heard voices urging him to gather fifty thousand children to set up the pathetic Children's Crusade. They left to fight against the infidels and all disappeared. The explanation given is that they were taken as slaves. [note from vog: Keel seems to be blaming other forces for the disappearance of the children...]", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Excerpt from John Keel's book; found in \"Coscon Files\" Internet, 5.1.1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_66" + }, + { + "date": "1218", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1218 both in Cologne and Munster and in Leyde, a formation of three crosses was seen crossing the sky.", + "location": "GERMANY, Cologne and Munster", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.68-69", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_67" + }, + { + "date": "1218", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A blue cross was even seen above Friesland at the same time.", + "location": "NETHERLANDS, Friesland", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.68-69", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_68" + }, + { + "date": "9/1224", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Brother Leon, companion of Francis of Assisi, saw a ball of fire descend on Mount Alverne. The same night Leon found Francis in ecstasy talking aloud to an invisible interlocutor. (September 1224)", + "location": "ITALY, Alverne", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p. 48", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_69" + }, + { + "date": "1232", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ogdai, son of Genghis Khan, was marching south when he came upon the walls of Pien King. There, he had the greatest surprise of his life. The defenders possessed two secret weapons. One was a real thunder that shook the skies, in Chinese: \"chin-tien-loui\", the other, worse, flying fire arrows, not simple arrows dipped in flaming pitch but authentic rockets that their wand allowed them to shoot from a bow. The thunder of the firecrackers and the flashes of the rockets spread terror among Ogdai's horde.", + "location": "CHINA, Pien King, (Honan)", + "ref": [ + "\"Assault on Space\" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 18, 19", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_70" + }, + { + "date": "9/24/1235", + "desc": "(Translated from French) While General Yosistsume was camping with his army, lights appeared here and there in the sky, swirling towards the southwest and leaving trails. The phenomenon lasted until the next morning and at the request of the general, an investigation was immediately launched to shed light on the mystery. The explanation came quickly: according to the scientists consulted, it was a rather rare natural phenomenon, namely \"it was the wind that made the stars move\".", + "location": "JAPAN", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.69", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_71" + }, + { + "date": "1/1/1254", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, monks from the Saint Albans abbey saw in the sky a kind of large vessel of elegant shape and well rigged and of a wonderful color.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, St Albans (Middlesex)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970, p. 56", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_72" + }, + { + "date": "1254", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At midnight, something like a large vessel, high in the serene sky, visible for a long time until it slowly disappeared.", + "location": "FRANCE, Paris.", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970, p. 59", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_73" + }, + { + "date": "1258", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The use of a firework rocket is already reported in 1258 in the city chronicle.", + "location": "GERMANY, Cologne", + "ref": [ + "\"A l'Assaut de l'Espace\" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of la Pensée Moderne, p. 26", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_74" + }, + { + "date": "1260", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Rockets were used in 1260 in Italy to fight against pirates.", + "location": "ITALY", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets of the Future\" - Hans K; Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 12", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_75" + }, + { + "date": "1265", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Albert the Great mentions rockets in 1265 in his work \"De Mirabilis Mundi\". In the following centuries, the rocket gradually gained a place in the warfare technique of the European peoples. (1265,)", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K; Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 12", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_76" + }, + { + "date": "12/6/1269", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Martin Cromer in his chronicles reports that at dusk a strange light, whose shape resembled a cross, brightly illuminated the city of Krakow and its surroundings, like a powerful projector.", + "location": "POLAND, Krakow", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 p.70", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_77" + }, + { + "date": "1270", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first image of a firework display near Nuremberg dates back to 1270. (1270,)", + "location": "GERMANY, Nuremberg", + "ref": [ + "\"A l'Assaut de l'Espace\" Georges H. Gallet, ed. de la Pensée Moderne, p. 26", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_78" + }, + { + "date": "6/3/1277", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Extract from Liou Ying: I get up at dawn and through the window, I see a very bright star crossing the Milky Way. Now I see three bright objects appear in the southern sky, two of which fly away and suddenly disappear from my sight. The one that remains has five unequal lights under it and on its upper part I notice something dome-shaped. The unknown object begins to zigzag, like a dead leaf. At the same time something burning falls from the sky. Soon after the sun rises but its brightness is dulled by the bright object moving quickly in the direction of the north. In the western sky, a green cloud is suddenly agitated by another unknown object, oval, flat, which descends quickly. This object is more than three meters long, it is surrounded by burning flames, it rises shortly after its descent. .", + "location": "CHINA, Baoding (Hebei)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de FRANCE, 1983, p.37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_79" + }, + { + "date": "8/3/1290", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Abbot Henry, prior of the Abbey of Byland, in the refectory, surrounded by his monks, saw \"with great terror\" a huge silver disc pass slowly above them.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN: Yorkshire", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970, pp.56-57", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_80" + }, + { + "date": "1300's", + "desc": "(Translated from French) J. B. Dante (de Perouse) carried out several flat flight experiments. In Venice, at the end of one of them, he fell on the roof of St. Mark's Church and broke his thigh. (1300's)", + "location": "ITALY, VENICE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_81" + }, + { + "date": "1300's", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A little girl disappeared for three days. She was eventually found and she then told that she had been taken by a \"white lady\" who had offered her water to drink in a \"bell\". (1300's)", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Fundao", + "ref": [ + "Masinaigan at aol.com", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_82" + }, + { + "date": "11/4/1322", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Robert of Reading, a Benedictine at St. Peter's Westminster, informs us that \"in the early hours of the night a pillar of fire of the size of a small boat, of pale color, was seen in the sky. It rose to the south, crossed the sky with a slow and majestic movement and departed to the north. At the front of the pillar, a bright red flame burned, throwing out great rays of light. Its speed increased and it disappeared into space... Several witnesses saw as if a collision and heard as if the crash of a terrible battle.\"", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Uxbridge (Middlesex)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.71", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_83" + }, + { + "date": "7/18/1349", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Observation of two objects performing acrobatic exercises while emitting flashes.", + "location": "JAPAN", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.71", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_84" + }, + { + "date": "12/1352", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A kind of powerful beam of light sweeping the sky in the north of England.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.71", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_85" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1355", + "desc": "(Translated from French) According to the \"Chronicon Monachi Leycestrensis\" by Henry Knigton, during the summer of 1355 \"a red banner and a blue one appeared in the sky of Leicester and were also observed in many places in England. They seemed to sometimes approach each other as if to clash. Finally the red banner won over the blue one and threw it to the ground, which everyone saw\". (1355, Summer)", + "location": "ENGLAND, Leicester", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.71-72", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_86" + }, + { + "date": "1361", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A flying object in the shape of a drum and measuring twenty feet in diameter had emerged from a Japanese island and had flown over the entire west of Japan.", + "location": "JAPAN", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.72", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_87" + }, + { + "date": "1368", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the reign of Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty, Commander Qiu Jingsi deployed his troops along the Yellow River. One afternoon, in a \"Platane\" village, a huge luminous object fell into the river, flames were shooting out of the waves up to the camps installed on the water's edge, several warriors were injured. (between 1368 and 1399)", + "location": "CHINE", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"La Chine et les extraterrestres\" ed. Mercure de FRANCE, 1983, p. 41", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_88" + }, + { + "date": "1/8/1388", + "desc": "(Translated from French) ... passage of several very bright objects aligned above the convent of the Franciscan Friars of Ragusa.", + "location": "SICILY: Ragusa", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970, p. 59", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_89" + }, + { + "date": "4/1389", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The same source (Continuation of the Chronicle of Leicester, by Henry Knighton) reports that the following year (1389) in the city of Leicester \"a flying dragon was seen in several places, during April\".", + "location": "ENGLAND, Leicester", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO Files\", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p. 5", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_90" + }, + { + "date": "9/2/1394", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"At the beginning of the month of September, many asud (name given to celestial objects by Professor Marzocchi) appeared in the sky and shooting stars.\" \"On the second day of the month of September, at the second hour of the night, a great asud appeared to men who were on the public square of Forli and to others gathered in other places. It crossed the sky very slowly and stayed in the sky for the time of two Pater Noster and was as long as a step. When it disappeared, the men who were on the square reported that it sent out a smell of burning wood. We have also heard other people who assured that the said asud in fire was travelling through the air in its own way. But then it remained still for a little while in the sky and after that time it gradually disappeared leaving in its place like a cloud and the rest of the vapours had taken the shape of snakes, a thing quite admirable\".", + "location": "ITALY, Forli", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.72", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_91" + }, + { + "date": "1395", + "desc": "(Translated from French) According to Jean Juvenal des Ursins, the following text can be read: In the country of Languedoc, a large star and five small ones were seen in the sky. It seemed as if they were attacking and wanted to fight the large one and followed it for half an hour. And voices were heard in the sky like cries. And afterwards a man was seen who seemed to be made of copper, holding a lance in his hand, and throwing fire, who seized the large star and struck it. And nothing more was ever seen. In some parts of Guyenne, voices and the clanking of armor and people fighting were heard. These things gave people great fear and terror, and not without cause. And because these things happened before the battle of Hungary, some said that this was its meaning.", + "location": "FRANCE, Languedoc", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.73", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_92" + }, + { + "date": "1400's", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jean Muller of Koenigsberg, called Regiomontanus (born in 1436) would have made a flight of an iron eagle before Emperor Frederic IV. (1400's)", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_93" + }, + { + "date": "10/25/1415", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On that day the Battle of Agincourt in the Pas de Calais took place, which saw the victory of the English troops of Henry V over those of the French, who were superior in number. On that day the English archers were considered the real winners, but most of them later claimed that they had been helped by \"fiery beings who moved through the air at great speed and who launched fire rockets at the enemy\". [note from vog: the use of rockets in armies was general... without the intervention of celestial or aerial beings!]", + "location": "FRANCE, Agincourt", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.73", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_94" + }, + { + "date": "1420", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Konrad Keyser leaves us with a description of a rod-shaped rocket.", + "location": "GERMANY, Eichstätt", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K; Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 12", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_95" + }, + { + "date": "1422", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Charles VII was born in 1402 and reigned from 1422 to 1461. To reconquer the kingdom he used countless rockets on the battlefield. It was only later that cannonballs were judged to be more effective. (1422 to 1461)", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 9", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_96" + }, + { + "date": "3/3/1428", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The sky of Forli was again traversed by strange things. Here is what the city archives tell us about it: \"On the third day of March, at half past one in the night for many and many people worthy of faith in all things, was seen in the city of Forli, above the Friars Minor, a very high flame in the shape of a tower and was seen a column that seemed of fire that rose in the air. The people of Forli saw them: many were monks and also those of the plains.\" \"On the same day of March 3, a lamp of fire was seen in the air in Forli that lasted from one hour until three o'clock in the night\".", + "location": "ITALY, Forli", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 p.74", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_97" + }, + { + "date": "1428", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Joan of Arc uses rockets at the Siege of Orleans.", + "location": "FRANCE, Orléans", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_98" + }, + { + "date": "6/10/1430", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 11pm and midnight, one of the most impressive supernatural performances in human history was orchestrated in the city of Jaén. A diverse angelic militia, strong from 400 to 1000 anthropomorphic silhouettes, was materialized, slowly advancing towards the St Ildefonse church, from the first belt of streets outside the city to the main street of Les Cantarerias, along the cemetery to the parish. It was like one of those Catholic processions organized at that time, with crucifixes carried in arms, followed by a score of clerics marching in double file and praying aloud in an incomprehensible jargon for the inhabitants of the city. Then there was a kind of matron, a mature woman carrying a baby of a few months, she was raised above the other characters, and curiously at the time nobody identified her with the Holy Virgin. This character was escorted by a follower who held an open book in front of her. A cortege of 300 boys and girls followed. All this theater gradually faded away in the air, disappearing as incomprehensibly as it had appeared. All this is recorded by a notarial deed bearing all the names of the witnesses on parchment on June 13, 1430 before the provost Villalpando.", + "location": "SPAIN, Jaén", + "ref": [ + "Article by Ignacio Darnaude Rojas Marcos in the magazine \"Investigacion\" No. 23 of Nov. Dec. 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_99" + }, + { + "date": "1449", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was with rockets that Dunois set fire to Pont-Audemer in 1449 before scaling its walls.", + "location": "FRANCE, Pont-Audemer", + "ref": [ + "\"A l'Assaut de l'Espace\" Georges H. Gallet, éd. de la Pensée Moderne, p. 21", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_100" + }, + { + "date": "3/7/1458", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Five stars appeared in the sky. They formed a circle around the Moon and changed color three times before suddenly disappearing.", + "location": "JAPAN, Kyoto", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.74", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_101" + }, + { + "date": "11/1/1461", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On this day of Our Lord, on All Saints' Day, November 1, there appeared in the sky an object shining like a bar of iron, long and wide like half the Moon. It remained motionless for fifteen minutes. Then, suddenly, the strange object began to rise in a spiral, then it turned and whirled like an unwound watch spring and afterwards it disappeared into the sky (Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970, p. 60). That night (All Saints' Night 1461), indeed, he (Sir Jean Du Clercq, advisor to the Duke of Burgundy) witnessed, along with a crowd of stunned Arrageois, a very strange phenomenon. He saw, motionless in the sky of Arras, \"like a kind of iron bar, quite long and thick like half a half-moon\". The sky was clear and the apparition was perfectly visible. It lasted well a quarter of an hour. Then the \"thing\" began to \"corkscrew, twist and twirl like a watch spring in the sky and disappear\"... The emotion was great in Arras and people will talk for a long time about this extraordinary event to which nobody can give an explanation!", + "location": "FRANCE, Arras", + "ref": [ + "Phil..., Mail-list: OVNI-SCIENCES, 1999", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_102" + }, + { + "date": "3/8/1468", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A dark object, making the sound of a wheel, flew away from Mount Kasuga in the middle of the night and flew westward, towards Osaka Bay.", + "location": "JAPAN, Nara", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.74-75", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_103" + }, + { + "date": "8/13/1491", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Facius Cardan saw appear at 8pm, 7 men dressed in silky garments resembling Greek togas. They wore bright shoes and had bright breastplates. Two of them, appearing more noble than the others, were dressed identically. One was tall and ruddy-faced and had two companions, the other smaller and fairer-skinned had three. They were said to be 40 years old but looked only 30. They said they were men made of air, subject to birth and death but could live up to 300 years. When questioned about the immortality of the soul they said nothing survives of the individual that is personal to them. They said God creates the world little by little, so that if he were to stop doing it, even for an instant, the world would perish.", + "location": "ITALY, Milan", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 26, 27", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_104" + }, + { + "date": "Mid 10/1492", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"Two hours before midnight\" Columbus indeed distinguished a light. He called Pero Guttierez and asked him to look: \"It was in fact like a kind of light, like a chain of wax, which rose and fell, gradually approaching the ground\". (1492, mid-October)", + "location": "AMERICA (New World)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 p.77-78", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_105" + }, + { + "date": "1509", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One morning in 1509 the guardians of the temple of Telzatlipoca informed the emperor Moctezuma that in the middle of the previous night, they had been able to observe a smoke that was thickening and that was so white and bright, that it was like being in broad daylight.", + "location": "MEXICO", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.77-78", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_106" + }, + { + "date": "11/8/1517", + "desc": "(Translated from French) According to the Romanian chronicle \"Leptopisetul Moldovenesc\", a great sign appeared in the sky, shining like a human figure, towards the west. It stayed up there for a long time before hiding itself again in the air. (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.78) On November 8th ”A great blue sign shining like a face of a man” appeard in the western sky over Moldavia. It remained quite a long time, at the same place, after which it ”hid itself” in the sky again. (November 8th, 1517)", + "location": "ROMANIA", + "ref": [ + "cf. Letopisetul Moldovcenesc", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_107" + }, + { + "date": "1520", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Under the reign of Emperor Carlos V of Prussia (Charles Quint), two bright Suns were seen at the same time in Erfurt; a burning ray suddenly landed and then departed into the sky where it took a circular shape. (Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970, p. 61) \"A wonderful burning ray of great dimensions suddenly appeared in the sky. It fell to the ground and destroyed several places. Then it turned around, circled and rose into the sky where it remained in the form of a circle\"", + "location": "GERMANY: Erfurt", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 p.78", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_108" + }, + { + "date": "1523", + "desc": "(Translated from French) ...a teacher named Lü Yu lived in the village of Yugiu. One day, when it was raining non-stop, this teacher noticed two ships sailing on the fluffy clouds in front of his house. On these two ships measuring more than ten arms, men two arms long were busy, each wearing a red hat and multicolored clothes. They all held a pole in their hand. The ships moved very quickly. At Lü Yu's house that day there were a dozen scholars who, alerted by Lü Yu, came out of the house and stood next to him to observe the phenomenon. Then, the men in multicolored clothes passed their hand over the mouths of the scholars: their mouths immediately became black and none of the scholars could speak anymore. At that moment, they saw a man, escorted like a mandarin, dressed like a retired scholar, emerge on one of the ships, accompanied by a bonze. Long after, the ships flew away, as if pushed by the clouds, and fell a kilometer away in a cemetery. The ships gone, the scholars felt their mouths become normal again. But five days later, Lü Yu died for unknown reasons.", + "location": "CHINA, Yugiu (Jiangsu)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de FRANCE, 1983, p.42", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_109" + }, + { + "date": "8/1523", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The townspeople saw in the sky each night a star measuring more than ten arms. It always remained suspended in the sky, surrounded by white vapor. It was rectangular, like a saber, and moved slowly from north to south. (August 1523 to October)", + "location": "CHINA, Guiling (Guangxi)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de FRANCE, 1983, p.44", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_110" + }, + { + "date": "1528", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ambroise Paré: \"This comet was so horrible and so terrifying that some people died of fear; the others fell ill. It appeared to be of excessive length and was of a blood-red color; at the top of it, one could see the figure of a bent arm, holding a great sword in its hand, as if it wanted to strike. At the tip, there were three stars. On both sides of the rays of this comet, one could see a great number of axes, knives, swords colored with blood, among which there were a great number of hideous human bundles, with beards and bristling hair.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.79-80", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_111" + }, + { + "date": "1528", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the siege of Utrecht \"a cruel and strange observation was made in the sky, which terrified the citizens and made the enemies believe they were going to occupy the city. It was yellow in color and passed over the city, high in the sky, and was frightening to behold\".", + "location": "NETHERLANDS, Utrecht", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.79", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_112" + }, + { + "date": "1529", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the museum of the small town of Sibiu, Romania, extraordinary documents are available to those who wish to consult them. In 1555 a three-stage space rocket was built running on solid fuel. The author of this invention of a prodigious technique returns to the master of fire, Conrad Haas. The chronology of inventions is found in the Sibiu Manuscript: 1529: Two-Stage Rocket (ignition in both), 1529: Three-Stage Rocket, 1529: Rocket Battery, 1536: Flying House. Experimentation of the principle of ignition in the multi-stage rocket, 1555: Use of delta wings to stabilize rockets in flight. (1529 to 1555)", + "location": "ROMANIA", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"All about Flying Saucers\" ed.; Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p. 26, 27", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_113" + }, + { + "date": "1544", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A fire lance appeared in the sky on Pentecost day. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon this lance fell on a square and on a building with a terrible crash. Nothing remained of the building.", + "location": "FRANCE, Nay (Béarn)", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977, p. 59", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_114" + }, + { + "date": "12/13/1547", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"On the first day of the Ides of December at the third hour of the afternoon, while the weather was splendid and the sky serene, a staff, and a red cross were observed in the air for nearly three hours. And above that one thought to see an eagle taking flight, its wings open...\"", + "location": "ITALY, Rome", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.80", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_115" + }, + { + "date": "6/28/1548", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At Oettingen it was said that the sun disk darkened at the passage of several aerial objects that went here and there in the sky, close enough to the ground to fly over the houses while red flames stayed in the air.", + "location": "GERMANY, Oettingen (Bavaria)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.80", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_116" + }, + { + "date": "1/13/1553", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the time when Sebastian and his allies were preparing troops and weapons for the execution of his uprising in this city and Captain Francesco Hernandez Giron was doing the same in Chaqui, three Suns and two Moons appeared in the sky above the Porco site, in the middle of a circular halo, and inside it two blue and red arcs. Two other arcs of various colors and an admirable comet of blood red color appeared above the rich hills of the imperial city. On Friday, January 13, 52 days before General Hinojosa was assassinated, at 7 o'clock in the morning, a large circle was seen in the sky above Porco, passing through the middle of the natural Sun and it was all white, the size of an empan. It was reddish, tending towards the color of blood and the two others at its sides were very red and made of blood, to the point that their brightness and fire took away the sight of those who looked at them. The two Moons located at the limit were of a kind of white and a little red tending towards the color of blood. The two arcs that appeared were blue and red, the smaller arc was wider than the other. The comet that seemed to be born from the halo was blazing and made of blood, with a formidable head and a tail of the same material. This prodigy was seen from the Porco site and all its surroundings. The comet was seen again seven days later, at dawn, on the hill of Potosi, with two other arcs, one very white that seemed polished silver, the other that was above it, of a red tending towards blood and shining like a fire. One end of this arc ended in a kind of spiral ray of blood color...", + "location": "PERU, Porco and Potosi", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.81", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_117" + }, + { + "date": "6/13/1554", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A large number of spheres and discs flew quickly over the city of Jena. They had sudden changes in speed and took on a red hue as they headed north.", + "location": "GERMANY, Jena, Nebra, Thuringia", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.82", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_118" + }, + { + "date": "1554", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two red crosses appeared in the sky of Nebra and the same day the solar disc was obscured by a cross in Griessisie; many discs were also seen.", + "location": "GERMANY, Nebra (Prussia) and Griessisie (Thuringia)", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les OVNI du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p. 60", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_119" + }, + { + "date": "12/5/1557 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"Many black clouds appeared around the Sun, like those we see when great storms rage. And soon after other clouds of fire and blood emerged from the Sun, and others yellow like saffron. From these clouds came light effects in the shape of large, high and wide hats, and the earth itself appeared yellow and bloody and covered with high and wide hats that took on different colors such as red, blue, green and mostly black... \" (1557, (or 1577?) December 5)", + "location": "GERMANY, Tübingen (Baden-Württemberg)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Autres dimensions\" - trad. Robert Laffont 1989 - p. 32-33, cites Pierre Boaistuau and places this phenomenon in 1577; also cited in 1577 by \"Dossiers OVNI\", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Hors série, p. 5; Christiane PIENS, in \"Les OVNI du Passé - Marabout 1977 p. 60, restores this to 1557", + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.85", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_120" + }, + { + "date": "4/14/1561", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At sunrise the inhabitants of Nuremberg had a very frightening vision... \"In addition to red, bluish or black balls, and circular discs, two large pipes were seen..., in which small and large pipes there were three balls, also four and more. All these elements began to fight against each other\". This battle seemed to have lasted an hour, then, \"as mentioned above, from the Sun and the sky, it fell to the earth as if everything was burning and with a great vapor everything was consumed\". In the middle of these spheres a elongated shape was also observed \"similar to a large black lance\".", + "location": "GERMANY, Nuremberg", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970, p. 61; cites Nuremberg Gazette in \"A Modern Myth\" by C.G. Jung, Paris, 1961", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_121" + }, + { + "date": "12/24/1563", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Shortly before Christmas. Absalon Pedersson Beyer, a Protestant priest, and Christern Ulff as well as a goldsmith, the latter two accompanied by their wives, women and servants, observed a round, black, abnormal cloud passing in front of the moon and covering it. The black cloud emitted a puff of black smoke and the witnesses then heard a whistling sound. The cloud then went back and forth and finally disappeared. All this happened from around 5:30 pm until around 9 pm.", + "location": "NORWAY, Bergen", + "ref": [ + "continued: same witness see 1564 at Easter - Bergen", + "Source: Armand/Holm-Hansen: UFOER OVER NORGE., 1971, 73, collated by Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_122" + }, + { + "date": "1564", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1563, shortly before Christmas - Bergen) The witness was again Absalon Pedersson Beyer, this time accompanied by his wife. They saw a \"sword of fire\" that seemed to touch the ground three times, before rising back into the sky, where it split into three parts. Observation around 6 pm. (1564, Easter)", + "location": "NORWAY, Bergen", + "ref": [ + "continued: 1568, January 2, Bergen", + "Source: Armand/Holm-Hansen: UFOER OVER NORGE., 1971, 73-4, collated by Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_123" + }, + { + "date": "8/7/1566", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Many discs, both white and black, appear in the sky of Basel and move; the whole population sees them. (Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970, p. 61) The \"Gazette of Basel\", written by Samuel Coccius, \"student of Holy Writings and of free arts, in Basel, in the homeland, in August of the year 1566\", reports, in the dialect of the time, that on August 7th of that year, at sunrise, \"one saw in the air many large black balls which moved quickly and very rapidly towards the sun, then they turned around, crashing into each other as if they were fighting; a great number of them became red and fiery, and afterwards they burned and extinguished\". As the period illustration shows, the observation took place in Basel; the image shows the \"Munster\" square, the cathedral, with the Antistitium.", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Basel", + "ref": [ + "UFOs with Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_124" + }, + { + "date": "1566", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Italian historian Fomianus Strada relates in his \"De Bello Belgico decades duae\" that in 1566 armies of the sky were seen in the sky of Flanders in full combat.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Flanders", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.84", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_125" + }, + { + "date": "1567", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A black sphere emerged and covered the entire surface of the sun. It remained visible everywhere throughout the day.", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Basel", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p. 62", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_126" + }, + { + "date": "9/29/1571", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The \"Neue Zeitung\" reported that a dark sphere remained visible for a day, covering the sky as it had five years before.", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Basel", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.85", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_127" + }, + { + "date": "10/17/1571", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Shortly after the naval victory of Lepanto, Pope Pie V observed from his window, like a mechanism that remained still for a few minutes before disappearing.", + "location": "ITALY, Rome", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.85", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_128" + }, + { + "date": "2/13/1575", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9 o'clock in the evening, Cornelius Gemma, a professor of medicine at Louvain, saw two large hoops coming from the north, as well as two arcs and a vast light. One of the hoops had several colors and both were leaning on the west, on the equinox point. The southernmost arc broke near the belt of Orion and a multitude of rays, lances and javelins came out of the breach. Moving, they formed the image of a bloody battle. A red vapor spread in the sky and then became a vivid purple. Meanwhile, a white cloud with a dark spot rose towards the sky. The lances and javelins rose towards the sky and the fire became universal. (February 13, 1575)", + "location": "BELGIUM, Brabant", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_129" + }, + { + "date": "9/28/1575", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Cornelius Gemma, professor of medicine at the University of Louvain, saw in the night a powerful light coming from the sky and which swept the ground with a burning beam. According to the witness the brightness was such \"that one could distinguish a nail on the ground at night\" (1575, 28 September)", + "location": "BELGIUM, Brabant", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.84", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_130" + }, + { + "date": "1575", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Pierre Boaistuau wrote: \"the face of the sky has been so often disfigured by comets with beards and hair, torches, flames, columns, spears, shields, dragons, moons, multiple suns and other things of the same kind... \"", + "location": "SOUTHERN EUROPE", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"The E.T. and UFOs in History\" Famot 1977, Volume 2 p. 119", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_131" + }, + { + "date": "12/21/1578", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"Wonderful and terrible discourse of the signs and prodigies which have appeared in the sky over the city of Geneva on the 21st day of December 1578\" is the title of a pamphlet published by G. Stadius, mathematician of the Duke of Savoy and known astronomer of the time. He describes strange phenomena that would have occurred in the sky of Geneva. It is the description of a \"comet surmounted by a small cross\".", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Geneva", + "ref": [ + "The Saucers at Heidi, cfr GREPI, 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_132" + }, + { + "date": "9/10/1580", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two very large objects were observed in the sky.", + "location": "FRANCE, Valence (Drôme)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni: le premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain LEFEUVRE 1979, p. 34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_133" + }, + { + "date": "1586", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Agrippa D'Aubigné relates: \"A few days after the taking of Tors, the lord of the place took his guest to a garden, a little before sunset, and they saw a round cloud of a horrible color to look at, for which the Latin word subfusca (dark brown) must be used. This cloud seemed like a hat with an ear in the middle, with the colors of an Indian cockerel's throat that the spectator judged to be similar in all respects to the phlegmon that had been torn from him in the aposthume of his plague that he had had in Orleans. This hat with its fateful sign came in and melted near the bell tower...\" [note from vog: I could not find a village called Tors, nor Beauvais in Charente Maritime...]", + "location": "FRANCE, Tors (Charente Maritime)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.85-86", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_134" + }, + { + "date": "9/21/1587", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At vespers it happened in the parish of Carsac, land of Monfort, that in the air, as on the plain of a place called Turnac, on the side of the Midi, facing the West, there appeared a great army equipped and in good order, both on foot and on horseback, making a hundred paces in front and remaining for about two hours, as if preparing to clash. And suddenly they rushed into the skirmish, one among the others: some of them could be distinguished by the color of their clothes which were yellow, and by their banners. During this first battle, from the side of the East, and from the part of the Roc de Carsac, a larger and better formed army of people dressed in white was seen, holding a white staff in their hands.", + "location": "FRANCE, Turnac (Sarlat, Dordogne)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.86", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_135" + }, + { + "date": "5/25/1591", + "desc": "(Translated from French) According to old chronicles, a child, thrown from the tower of the church of Saintes Maries de la Mer, is miraculously supported in the air and lands without any harm.", + "location": "FRANCE, Saintes Maries de la Mer", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_136" + }, + { + "date": "5/1593", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the suburbs of London several witnesses reported having seen a \"flying dragon\" surrounded by flames.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, London", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.86", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_137" + }, + { + "date": "2/13/1606", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It is a \"column of fire\" that is still observed in the southeast of France.", + "location": "FRANCE, southeast", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni: le premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain LEFEUVRE 1979, p. 35", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_138" + }, + { + "date": "5/1606", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Balls of fire had been constantly flying over the city of Kyoto and one night a red wheel had even come to spin and hover above the Nijo Castle. (May 1606)", + "location": "JAPAN, Kyoto", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.86", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_139" + }, + { + "date": "8/1/1608", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On the sea of Genoa were seen the most horrible signs that have ever been spoken or written of! Some were in human figures, having arms that seemed to be covered in scales and each holding in their hands two horrible flying serpents, which entwined their arms and only appeared from the navel upwards, out of the sea, and they threw out cries so horrible that it was a terrifying thing, and sometimes they plunged into the sea and then reappeared in other places far away, howling cries so terrifying that many were made ill from the fear they had. They saw some that seemed to be in female figures. Others had a body like a human, all covered in scales, but the head was in the shape of a dragon. From the first day of the said month, they were ordinarily seen to the great astonishment of all the Genoese. The seigniory had some cannons fired in order to try to make them leave that place. About 800 shots were fired at them, but in vain, for they were not in the least astonished. The churches assembled and, going to the true remedy, made many processions, commanded the youth, and the good Capuchin fathers ordered the 40 hours in order to try to appease the wrath of God, with their salutary remedy. On the fifteenth day of August, on the said sea of the port of Genoa, three chariots were seen, each drawn by six figures all on fire in the semblance of a dragon. And the said chariots were drawn by the said signs which always had their serpents, continuing their terrifying cries and approaching quite close to Genoa, so that the spectators, at least the greater part, astonished, fled, fearing the effects of such a prodigy.

But when they had made the circuit three times along the port, after they had thrown such powerful cries of noise that they made the mountains in the vicinity resound, they were lost in the said sea and since then, none have seen or heard any news of them. This brought great damage to many citizens of Genoa, some of whom died of fear, such as the son of Mr. Gasparino de Loro and also the brother of Signor Anthonio Bagatello, and many women were afflicted and had such fear that they died of it... From the length of the sea of Nice and all along the coast of Provence, both on the marine side and on the plain, it was found to have rained natural blood which ran and tried to redden the leaves and fruits of the trees. At Toulon, most of the houses on the roof were stained with the said blood, and the pavement of the parish church of the said place, at the exit of Mass, was seen to be sprinkled with a horn of real and natural blood. On the eighteenth of the said month, it rained blood in such abundance that it ran along the streets and it seemed as if an infinity of people had been slaughtered at Riliane.

At Lambex, on the twentieth of the said month, in the presence of all the people, it was seen to rain blood so much that none went out of the houses without being stained with the said blood which distilled from the roof of the houses, or else from that which fell from the first rain. In short, along the marine from Nice to Marseille, blood rained on various days... Dreadful things, worthy of memory, happened almost at the same time in the town of the Isle of Martègue, on the twenty-second day of the said month, when two men appeared in the air, each with weapons and shields in their hands, and they fought in such a way that they astonished the spectators, and after having fought for a long time, they rested for a certain time, then returned to battle and their combat lasted two hours. On the twenty-seventh of the said month, they fought on foot and quarreled in such a way that it seemed to some that each of them was armed with a fortress or castle, and after having made a good show against each other, there was a noise as of some shots from a cannon. The noise was so frightful that it seemed to the listeners to be the end of the world, then having continued the said days for seven hours all at once, a thick cloud appeared in the air and covered so darkly that nothing was seen for two hours but clouds and black mists, darkened, smelling like gunpowder, and after the air was purified, none of these chimeras were seen, which had vanished. (August 1, 1608)", + "location": "MEDITERRANEAN: Cannes, Genoa, Marseille, Nice", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.87-88", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_140" + }, + { + "date": "3/4/1614", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was observed the passage of a square object.", + "location": "JAPAN, Kinki", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.89", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_141" + }, + { + "date": "1619", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Herr Christophorus Schere, Prefect of the Canton of Uri, saw near Fluelen, along the Lake of Uri, a long and shining flying object. (Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970, p. 61) In 1619, in Flüelen, an enormous elongated and fiery-colored object was seen near a lake by Professor Christopher Scherer, Prefect of the Canton of Uri: \"Having lingered on the balcony to admire the purity of the firmament, I saw a brilliant fiery dragon emerge from one of the caves of Mount Pilate and quickly head towards Flüelen at the other end of the lake. It was enormous, its tail long and its neck stretched out...It left behind, in flying, numerous sparks...At first I thought I saw a meteor, but then, looking more closely, I was convinced by its flight...that I was seeing a real dragon.\"", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Fluelen (Uri).", + "ref": [ + "UFOs in Heidi, cfr GREPI, 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_142" + }, + { + "date": "2/1/1620", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 7 and 8 PM lightning struck the lead-covered pyramid on the roof of the cathedral. It caught fire, exploded and crashed to the ground with a terrifying noise. People who came to see it then saw in the flames and smoke a demon of either green or blue color, doing its best to stoke the fire...", + "location": "FRANCE, Quimper-Corentin", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU - p. 95, 96", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_143" + }, + { + "date": "4/5/1620", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Palm Sunday. Another pamphlet published in 1620 entitled: \"Horrible Battle Seen over the City of Geneva on Last Palm Sunday...\" recounts: \"Two suns were seen, one red and the other yellow, which clashed with each other... Shortly afterwards a long cloud like an arm appeared from the side of the sun, which stopped near the said Sun, and from this cloud a great number of people dressed in black and armed like soldiers emerged... and then yellow clouds like saffron appeared, from which clouds reflections resembling large high and wide hats emerged and the whole earth was shown yellow and bloody... The sun split in two and everything ended in a rain of blood.\"", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Geneva", + "ref": [ + "Les Soucoupes chez Heidi, cfr GREPI, 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_144" + }, + { + "date": "7/28/1621", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The presence of a cross in the sky of Geneva is still reported on July 28, 1621, a cross that threw flames as if to burn the city and its surroundings.", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Geneva", + "ref": [ + "Les Soucoupes chez Heidi, cfr GREPI, 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_145" + }, + { + "date": "9/12/1621", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"Various small white clouds appeared which, as if in squadrons, separated from each other, came afterwards to join each other with prodigious speed, after which they disappeared, and others presented themselves and, on approach, sent out shapes and forms like lances and arrows against each other, just like squadrons that come fiercely to the shock and, after having fought for a while, were lost and no longer appeared...\" wrote Pierre de l'Estoile. While Jacques Thevenyn, notary, described: \"The night of Sunday, the twelfth of September, between Monday the thirteenth, although we had no moon, nevertheless it was very clear and in the air there were swans of medium size. Around ten o'clock in the evening I saw, being at our door, in the sky like three long white paths, one smaller than the others and they moved. I thought it was the wind but I do not know what it was and on this, I saw like a crown which was not at all closed on the side of the Saint Anthoine Gate and was around it, against which there were several branches that came to merge...\"", + "location": "FRANCE, Paris and Saint-Denis", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.89-90", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_146" + }, + { + "date": "10/12/1621", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On the night of the 12th of October last, around eight o'clock in the evening, with no moonlight at its last quarter, the air, beyond what is natural, began to clear up from the east and continued for an hour and a half or so, making the time as clear and bright as the most beautiful days of summer, which caused great astonishment to the inhabitants of Lyon. Most of them, looking up, perceived things that were entirely strange and beyond the course of nature. Namely, on the large Bellecourt square they saw like a large mountain, on which was the figure of a castle, from which came forth many flashes of light that gave off light in all directions and lost their light in an instant. And this figure of the castle was consumed as these said flashes came out. It seemed to cover the entire quarter of the Rosne gate, Saint Michel, the Saone river, and reach as far as the faux-bourg of Saint George. On the side of the Terreaux square it was seen (by more than four hundred people) in the air, like the shape of a battalion of soldiers on horseback, at the head of which there was a very luminous star, which seemed to lead them, which was larger and brighter than those usually seen in the sky. This star, like a second sun, made all the clouds that presented themselves in various shapes disperse before it, and seemed to want to keep its brightness, but being overcome by its great light, they entirely lost their shapes and were no longer visible. The whole city and surrounding areas were covered this night and others following with various signs and prodigies, like burning lances, which seemed to come from the side of the faux-bourg of La Guillotière, which, approaching the Rosne bridge, dispersed and were no longer visible, and this until daybreak.

In the city of Nismes (...) at the same time previously mentioned by the inhabitants of the said city, principally the night of the thirteenth of the said month around nine to ten o'clock in the evening, on the Amphitheatre there was seen like a great and very resplendent sun, which was surrounded by a number of other luminous torches and seemed to want to go straight to the Roman Tower.. on which there appeared like carts on fire all around surrounded by very bright stars. There also appeared other signs both on the Capitol and on the Temple, which seemed to cover the whole city, which greatly astonished all the inhabitants of the said city and other surrounding areas. In the city and town of Montpellier... there began to appear on it a quantity of burning torches in the form of torches of light from which came a number like lances of fire that went back and forth. This way of doing lasted from nine to ten o'clock at night until three o'clock in the morning when there appeared a great and luminous star with a long tail, other small stars, which seemed to make a large cloud mixed with various flashes disperse, which wanted to cover it and prevent its brightness...", + "location": "FRANCE, Lyon, Nismes, Montpellier", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_147" + }, + { + "date": "3/1636", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Extract from the letter of the Duke of Retz to his friend the R.P. Césarée -Méjanes Library in Aix-en-Provence, manuscript no. 1209) ... the man marain was on a rock on the west side called Arbonne... and appeared to be sitting. The great height of the coast prevented him from judging what was under the water, but what appeared outside was the belly, the navel, the body, the head, the arms and the hands very well proportioned, except for the hands which were extraordinarily large and white inside and the arms which were a bit short. His body appeared to be the size of a barrel of wine and the rest in proportion. His hair down to his shoulders very greasy and whitish, his beard similar and going down to his stomach, his eyes very big and rough, his skin neither white nor tanned, but it had the appearance of being rough. ... but they saw well that the groin appeared wide of more than a foot and that his back was like the top of his hands and arms with a grayish skin without scales. .... instead of legs, two fish tails made like a salmon... sometimes he beat his hands against each other and made a certain whistle that they took for laughter... At the same time that it appeared in Belle Ile, inhabitants who went to Vannes assure that in broad daylight they saw the same thing...", + "location": "FRANCE, Belle-Ile (Morbihan)", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire\" Famot 1977, Volume 2 p. 147-148", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_148" + }, + { + "date": "3/1639", + "desc": "(Translated from French) James Everll saw a blazing light in the sky. It was square or rectangular in shape, 2.5 to 3 meters wide, and moved in a zigzag pattern.", + "location": "USA, Boston", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire\" Famot 1977, Volume 2 p. 152-153", + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p. 65", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_149" + }, + { + "date": "4/1639", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The villagers were offering their condolences to the family of Yuan Yingta, National Defense Minister during the Ming dynasty, who had sacrificed himself on the battlefield while resisting the Man soldiers. Then a luminous thing in the shape of a star, of red, white, yellow and blue color, flew over the funeral procession (...) This bright thing did not land on the ground, but it circled over the village for a very long time, then it rose into the sky. Its lights were seen up to more than five kilometers away.", + "location": "CHINA, Yuan (Shansi)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.45", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_150" + }, + { + "date": "1640", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Spanish Memorial Historica Tome XVI states that in 1640 at the Fort of Kenoque (Knokke), which was a defense of the city of Ypres, the soldiers of the fort saw at the zenith a complete army marching through the flames. Hardly had it been deployed when they saw two others, one coming from the east and the other from the west. According to the text \"these two armies put themselves in battle order and fought against the one coming from the north. The battle lasted an hour and the shots were heard clearly...\"", + "location": "BELGIUM, Knokke,", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.93", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_151" + }, + { + "date": "1/18/1644", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 8 o'clock in the evening, several inhabitants of the Boston area by the sea saw a light the size of a full moon rise above the sea to the northeast. Shortly afterwards, another light appeared to the east. Then the inhabitants witnessed a curious game of hide and seek between the two lights. (...) During this celestial ballet, several people known to be sober and pious who were on the water between Dorchester and Boston claimed to have heard a voice in the sky pronouncing \"in a most terrible manner\" the following words: \"Little, little, come, come\" .... These calls were repeated about twenty times from various directions. A week later, other witnesses saw the same ballet and heard the same calls coming from the depths of the sky.", + "location": "USA, Boston (Virginia)", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire\" Famot 1977, Volume 2 p. 153-154", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_152" + }, + { + "date": "5/1646", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Strange people and animals appeared in the sky of The Hague. While \"coming from the southeast a large fleet of airships with many sailors on board\" approached this unusual spectacle. A gigantic battle followed and at the moment of the disappearance of the phenomenon one saw then \"like a large cloud appear where there was nothing before..\"", + "location": "NETHERLANDS, The Hague", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.94", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_153" + }, + { + "date": "1655", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Inquisition was called upon due to the allegations of a businessman, suddenly appearing in Portugal, who claimed that only a few seconds earlier he was in Goa, east coast of India, in the street, in front of his shop. Finding him with diabolical powers, the Inquisition condemned him to the stake.", + "location": "Portugal", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 72", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_154" + }, + { + "date": "1661", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Antoine de Nantes, a messenger from Goult, suffering from a cruel illness, saw a child of wonderful beauty, hovering above the debris of a halo of fire. And when the divine figure had disappeared, the messenger found himself perfectly restored. A chapel was erected, inaugurated on January 3, 1663; \"miracles multiplied from that day: meteors of fire burst in the shadows on the blessed dome.\"", + "location": "FRANCE, Goult (Vaucluse)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1969, p. 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_155" + }, + { + "date": "8/15/1663", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Extract from the report of the St Cyrille monastery: \"The peasant Levka Fedorov from the village of Mys told me the following: ... from various lands and various domains people were attending mass, ... in great numbers.. and at that moment a very loud noise came from the sky, and many people went out to the courtyard and saw... from the winter side of the brightest sky, not from a cloud, a great fire came out from Roboziero and headed towards the South, along the lake, above the water and had this flame twenty sagènes (1 sagène = 2.13 m) and more on all sides, and a blue smoke was next to it and becoming the flame, on twenty sagènes, two beams of fire as well ... and from the great fire and the two smaller flames, nothing more was seen. After about an hour, the same fire returned again to the lake, from the same place where it had disappeared the first time and went from the south to the west for half a verste (1 verste = 1.066m) and disappeared in the same way. The third time this fire became more frightening than the first one due to its size and then went towards the west. And it stayed on Roboziero, this fire, above the lake, for about an hour and a half and said lake was two verstes long and one across... On the lake peasants were sailing in a boat and the flame of this fire was so hot that they could not approach it. And the lake was lit up to the bottom, to the deepest, in the center of it, this lake, four sagènes and the fish fleeing to the shores, all saw it and under the fire, the water became, due to the flame, as if covered in rust..\"", + "location": "RUSSIA, Belozero", + "ref": [ + "Ion Hobana/Julien Weverbergh: \"Les Ovni en URSS et dans les pays de l'est\" - Kluwer 1972 - translation Laffont 1976 pp. 79 to 87", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_156" + }, + { + "date": "3/23/1665", + "desc": "(Translated from French) There would have been such an abundant fall of blue silk filaments, that entire fields were covered with them. These filaments would have fallen from the sky and clung to the feet of men and animals.", + "location": "GERMANY, Leipzig", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 52 - 1980, p. 3", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_157" + }, + { + "date": "2/8/1672", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At one hour after midday, in the clearest of weather, a star appeared above our heads, about fifteen feet in length. From there it went to fall to the north side, leaving a smoke which formed into two ships, each with two masts and the mizzen and their large sails tight and furled, both having the front facing upwards. The one to the north was larger than the one above. And as they went thus, they separated about four feet apart, in the middle of which formed another ship, appearing larger than the others, all black, showing us the back and turning the front to the north, without any sail but yet equipped with its masts, yards and ropes, as if it had been at anchor. This appeared to us for the space of a large half hour. And then afterwards, having come together, they dissipated, going to the side of the above without leaving any mark...", + "location": "At sea, in the English Channel", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.96", + "Captain Izaac Guiton, Port De Fosse, Nantes", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_158" + }, + { + "date": "12/30/1677", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Pierre Boutard, an officer aboard the \"La Maligne\" noted in the logbook \"on Thursday, the 30th of December 1677 in the morning at 4 o'clock, we saw a star to the northwest 1/4 of west and ending in the southeast 1/4 of east, but bearing a great light that we all believed in our ship that the fire was everywhere, but it was accompanied by more than 200 rays bearing an unequalled clarity, that we were all amazed. We sailed towards the small harbor of Granada around 9 or 10 o'clock in the morning.\"", + "location": "At sea to the west of Granada (SPAIN)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.97", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_159" + }, + { + "date": "12/12/1678", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The \"Journal des Savants\" publishes a letter from Mr. Toynard in which he reports that \"Mr. S. Besnier, locksmith of the Sable, in the country of Maine, has invented a four-winged machine to fly\".", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_160" + }, + { + "date": "1680", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A polish peasant, whose name is lost, attempted a flight in Moscow in the presence of Minister Froecourov.", + "location": "RUSSIA, MOSCOW", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_161" + }, + { + "date": "6/1686", + "desc": "(Translated from French) From chronicler Patrick Malker: ... near the ford of Crosford, two miles below Nanark and particularly at the Hands, on the Clyde River, a great crowd gathered several times in the afternoon. There was a shower of hats, flags, guns and swords. The trees and the ground were covered. Companies of armed men marched in order along the river, companies meeting companies rushed against each other and falling to the ground, disappeared. Others reappeared immediately and marched in the same direction... those who had seen were seized with such fear and such trembling that those who had not seen were troubled... (1686, June and July)", + "location": "SCOTLAND, Crosford, Nanark", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"The E.T. and the UFOs in History\" Famot 1977, Volume 2 p. 151", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_162" + }, + { + "date": "1687", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In his law \"action and reaction\", Isaac Newton gives the explanation of the principle of operation of the rocket.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, London", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets of the Future\" - Hans K; Kaiser, ed. Amiot -Dumont 1954, p. 12", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_163" + }, + { + "date": "Spring 1688", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (notes of Gu-Sheng, chap. 6) between the end of spring and the beginning of summer of the twenty-seventh year under the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing dynasty, my brother-in-law Bixilin went to his home in the mountains 20 kilometers from the city of Kunmin. During his stay, he saw every noon, when it was nice, a large lid young like an umbrella rise slowly from a ridge. This thing threw bright lights that he did not dare to look at directly. It took height and penetrated into the clouds. Soon after it descended, always slowly, to go up and down in the same way. When night fell, the flying object lost the brightness of its yellow color and became paler and blurred. It completely disappeared when the sky became black. (1688, spring-summer)", + "location": "CHINA, Kunmin (Yun'nan)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 36", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_164" + }, + { + "date": "1692", + "desc": "(Translated from French) According to \"Morden's Atlas of Wales\": \"a burning exhalation crossed the sea and set fire to haystacks, wheat fields and barns, close to Harlech. This thing infected the grass but it was not dangerous for men, even for those who were in the middle of it. It always happened at nightfall, most often on a Saturday or Sunday, and it lasted for a few months. The only way to extinguish it and make it flee was to sound a hunting horn or fire shots...\"", + "location": "GRANDE-BRETAGNE, pays de Galles", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.99", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_165" + }, + { + "date": "1/1694", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The priest of Dolgelly reported that \"sixteen haystacks and two barns had been burned by some kind of flaming vapor that is often seen coming from the sea...\"", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Dolgelly (Wales)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" -Delarge 1977 p.99", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_166" + }, + { + "date": "11/4/1697", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A kind of huge, very bright sphere slowly flew over Hamburg and other cities in northwest Germany.", + "location": "GERMANY, Hamburg", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.99", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_167" + }, + { + "date": "1699", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Extract from \"The History of the Diocese of Avignon\" by Abbot Granget: \"Arriving near the oratory which is opposite the chapel of Notre Dame Ste Garde (St Didier, Vaucluse) I saw the sky open, a great light appeared and soon I saw three globes of fire. The one in the middle was raised above the others. Here I said to myself, the lights of which I have been told. Immediately I fell to my knees and I blessed God for such a great wonder. At the same time, two new lights appeared but a little above the place where the chapel is. I advanced to the oratory where the mystery of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is represented. The two globes then joined the one in the middle and disappeared.", + "location": "FRANCE, Avignon", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 p.99-100", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_168" + }, + { + "date": "4/17/1700", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Easter Tuesday. Approximate date. During a procession a luminous cross was seen in the sky. It was approximately 50 cubits long and preceded the procession for nearly two hours. It stopped when the procession stopped and disappeared when the procession entered the church. The weather was warm, without clouds or wind. The cross was almost lying from east to west; the foot was very long. More than a thousand people saw it.", + "location": "FRANCE, Dolus (Oléron)", + "ref": [ + "Pierre VIEROUDY: \"These UFOs that announce the Superman\" - Laffont 1979, p. 35", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_169" + }, + { + "date": "4/3/1707", + "desc": "(Translated from French) William Derham saw an object of pyramidal shape of red color. It emerged about a quarter of an hour after sunset.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Upminster (Essex)", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p. 76", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_170" + }, + { + "date": "2/5/1709", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A great sign appeared in the sky on February 5, a Friday. Two large columns of fire appeared, one to the west, the other to the east and they moved until they formed the letter A. They then joined together and transformed into a rainbow emitting a strong luminosity for three hours before disappearing.", + "location": "ROMANIA", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est - trad. Laffont 1976, p. 287", + "Biblioteca Academici: Manuscris românesc 706, folio 1", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_171" + }, + { + "date": "4/17/1709", + "desc": "(Translated from French) John V. of Portugal granted a pension of 600,000 Reis to R.P. Bartholomeo Lourenco de Gusmao, who proposed an aerial apparatus (type dirigible).", + "location": "PORTUGAL", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_172" + }, + { + "date": "8/8/1709", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Bartholomeo Lourenco de Gusmao's flying machine would have made a flight in the presence of King John V. of Portugal. This inventor is often confused, rightly or wrongly; the chronicles are not very precise, with the experimenter of 1736.", + "location": "PORTUGAL", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_173" + }, + { + "date": "5/18/1710", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 9:45 pm Ralph Thoresby saw an object \"resembling a trumpet\" above Leeds.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Leeds (Yorkshire)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 p.103", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_174" + }, + { + "date": "6/7/1712", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the death of Reverend Mother Teresa of Jesus from the Assumption Convent, there were numerous testimonies saying that at the moment of her death a large pyramidal mass of light descended on the convent, so bright and resplendent that all who saw it in and out of the city were filled with great joy.", + "location": "Spain, Seville", + "ref": [ + "ABC, Opinion, Album de recuerdos, Seville 8.5.99", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_175" + }, + { + "date": "3/1/1716", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The captain wrote at the time: On March 1 at 9:00 PM we were at 45°36' latitude, off the northwest coast of Spain, when a bright cloud appeared towards the east, but not far from the zenith. It split into a large number of luminous rays, each of them resembling the tail of a comet. This luminous body appeared to the northwest of us and continued to shine until the next noon. It was then at a good distance from the ship, just before it suddenly disappeared\".", + "location": "Off the coast of SPAIN", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.103", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_176" + }, + { + "date": "3/6/1717", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In his logbook, the knight de Ricouart, commander of the frigate \"La Valeur\" noted: \"At two o'clock in the morning we were going a little forward, the course to the southeast. We saw pass along the side like the mast of a ship, which was standing two feet above the water.\" (March 6, 1717)", + "location": "Southwest of MARTINIQUE", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.104-Inforespace n° 26 p. 45", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_177" + }, + { + "date": "3/30/1719", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Many people who were walking along the beach saw a column of fire emitting a very bright light, which, approaching the city, exploded with a sound like three shots of artillery and fell defeated in smoke, on the walls, without doing any harm.", + "location": "FRANCE, Dieppe", + "ref": [ + "Pierre DELVAL: \"Contacts of the 4th type\" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 207", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_178" + }, + { + "date": "1720", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Further trials of the same kind were carried out by the Dutchman J.W. He built models of reduced vehicles and presented them in an amphitheatre. However, he did not use rockets, but water vapor; the propulsion mode, the reaction, was nonetheless identical.", + "location": "NETHERLANDS, Gravezande", + "ref": [ + "\"The Future Vehicle Rockets\" - Hans K; Kaiser, ed. Amiot - Dumont 1954, p. 12", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_179" + }, + { + "date": "10/19/1726", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In \"The History of the City of Ath\" written by Gilles Joseph de Boussu, there is mention of phenomena that caused panic in the region. \"On Saturday, October 19, at about seven-thirty in the evening, large clouds of fire rose on our horizon, driven by the south wind towards the north. They seemed to collide with each other in a terrifying way, yet without any noise. The sky, although clear, seemed to be all ablaze. One could also see among these troops of fire, large luminous circles, open at the bottom, which pushed each other, like the waves of a stormy sea. Around eleven o'clock these phenomena passed over the city, which continued far into the night, causing terror and admiration everywhere...\"", + "location": "BELGIUM, Ath (Hainaut)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.105", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_180" + }, + { + "date": "10/29/1726", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around nine o'clock in the evening and for two consecutive hours, one could see in the sky horrible and curious meteors coming among the clouds like flashes and disappearing in the same way. Their aspect was most terrible.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Vilvorde - (Brabant)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.105", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_181" + }, + { + "date": "12/17/1728", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On the 17th another one was seen, having the appearance of a cross, followed by the appearance of a young man on horseback, with a helmet on his head, adorned with feathers, which caused great consternation among the people. On the 18th, in the province of Marca, a violent earthquake was experienced.", + "location": "ITALY, Bologna", + "ref": [ + "Pierre DELVAL: \"Contacts of the 4th Type\" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 210", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_182" + }, + { + "date": "12/9/1731", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A luminous cloud, moving at great speed, disappears beyond the horizon (before an earthquake) (Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 187) Strange globes of light in the sky. (Desmond Leslie and Georges Adamski: \"The S.V. Have Landed\" - J'ai Lu 1971 - p. 31) Strange luminous balls appear in the sky of Florence. An author of the time, Bianchini, adds that they made a loud humming sound and that he was able to distinguish windows.", + "location": "ITALY, Florence", + "ref": [ + "Moustique n° 1508 of 19.12.1954, p. 17, article by Bert Brem", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_183" + }, + { + "date": "1736", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Gusman ascended to the height of the Lisbon Tower (66 m) on board a basket of wicker covered with paper. He descended without any harm.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, LISBON", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_184" + }, + { + "date": "12/5/1737", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 5:00 PM, Mr. Thomas Short was the witness of \"the appearance of a dark red cloud beneath which was a luminous body sending out very bright beams of light. This was nothing like the aurora borealis as the light rays moved slowly for some time and then stopped. Suddenly it became so hot that I had to take off my shirt even though I was outside.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Sheffield.", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.105", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_185" + }, + { + "date": "2/23/1740", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the Toulon harbor a fireball was seen. It then plunged into the sea from where it rose up like a bouncing ball. Having reached a certain height it exploded and spread various fireballs, some of which fell into the sea and others on the mountain. (1740, night of February 23rd to 24th)", + "location": "FRANCE, Toulon", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p. 77, 78", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_186" + }, + { + "date": "9/21/1741", + "desc": "(Translated from French) According to the Wernerian Natural Historical Society Transactions (vol. 5, p.386) it would have fallen between Bradly, Selborne and Alresford over several tens of square kilometers \"like spider webs in the form of flakes or tatters, about 3 cm wide and 15 to 18 cm long\".

Apparently this fall was made in large quantities and twice. After several hours of calm, a second \"shower\" would last from 9 am until dusk. The \"All the Year Around\" (vol. 8, p 254) describes the same phenomenon but specifies that the three locations form a triangle of 13 km side and that the matter fell at great speed.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Bradly, Selborne, Alresford.", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.106", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_187" + }, + { + "date": "12/12/1741", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"Around 12:00 or 13:00 a terrible thunderclap was heard in the direction of the north. It sounded like two very large cannons firing one after the other. But the rumble and echo did not resemble those produced by a cannon shot. Within a 30 km radius, all the houses were shaken.\" Another witness, a canon at Canterbury, was luckier. On the same day, also around 13:00 his house was strongly shaken by what he took for an earthquake. But he rushed out and then saw \"what seemed to be a cloud of storm in the sky and a ball of light that passed very quickly over the eastern region towards the west. It had begun with two loud detonations like cannon shots. It was like a very large shooting star in the middle of the day.\"", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Sussex", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.106-107", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_188" + }, + { + "date": "1742", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jumping from the roof of his hotel, on the banks of the Seine in Paris, the Marquis de Bacqueville made a gliding flight (wings attached to his body), which allowed him to almost entirely cross the river. He landed abruptly on a boat moored to the opposite shore.", + "location": "FRANCE, PARIS", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_189" + }, + { + "date": "8/31/1743", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In his memoirs Girolamo-Giacomo Casanova, barely 18 years old and not yet having acquired the reputation of a seducer that will be attributed to him, wrote: \"From Terni I went to Cirocoli.. and from there to Castel-Nuovo, from where I went to Rome where I arrived on the first of September at nine in the morning. I must not forget to mention here a particular circumstance which will please more than one reader, however ridiculous it may be in the end. An hour after Castel-Nuovo, the air was calm and the sky serene, I saw to my right and ten steps away from me a pyramidal flame of the height of a cubit and raised four or five feet above the level of the ground. This apparition struck me because it seemed to accompany me. Wanting to study it, I tried to get closer to it, but the more I went in its direction the more it moved away from me. It stopped as soon as I stopped and, when the part of the road I was crossing was bordered by trees, I stopped seeing it, but I found it again as soon as the edge of the road became free again. I also tried to turn back, but each time it disappeared and only reappeared when I was heading back towards Rome. This strange beacon did not leave me until the light of day had chased away the darkness.... I had the prudence not to tell anyone about it.\"", + "location": "ITALY, between Castel-Nuovo and Rome.", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.108-109", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_190" + }, + { + "date": "12/16/1743", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mortimer Cromwell, a physicist, was returning home at 8:40 pm when he saw a light towards the southwest from St James Park. It moved in a wavelike motion, and he saw it for 30 seconds. At the front was a bright flame projected backwards, followed by a glowing fire in an opaque capsule, followed by a long tail becoming increasingly darker towards the end. The head of this tadpole-shaped object had an apparent diameter of half a degree, the tail a length of three degrees, and for the thickness 1/8 of a degree.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Westminster", + "ref": [ + "Flying Saucer Review vol. 23 no. 2 pp. 14-15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_191" + }, + { + "date": "1743", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At Peibio, near Holyhead, two farmers working in the fields saw \"a ship with its sails, flying in the air.\" The object came from the southeast, from the direction of Mount Snowdon (Caernarvan) and was heading towards the witnesses. They added that a \"flock of birds gathered to watch the phenomenon and then dispersed in all directions\". According to the farmers, the object must have weighed 90 tonnes and was moving at an altitude of about 40 m. The \"airship\" resembled the old steamships that used to shuttle between Holyhead and Ireland. They could clearly see the bottom of the \"ship\" when it passed almost vertically. The weather was quite cloudy. According to the witnesses, similar observations had already been made in the region ten or twenty years before.", + "location": "GRANDE-BRETAGNE, Peibio (Anglesay - pays de Galles)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.109-110", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_192" + }, + { + "date": "5/27/1744", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Henry Baker shortly after 11pm saw a strange trumpet-shaped object above Somerset House at the moment when this unusual craft emitted a white flame.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, London", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.110", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_193" + }, + { + "date": "6/23/1744", + "desc": "(Translated from French) From two hours before dusk until nightfall above a Scottish hill: \"a troop of armed men\" was observed in the air by 27 witnesses including a magistrate.", + "location": "SCOTLAND", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.110", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_194" + }, + { + "date": "7/4/1745", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Reverend George Costard saw a trumpet-shaped craft at around 8:00 PM above Stanlake Broad.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, London", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.110", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_195" + }, + { + "date": "4/27/1749", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Ruggieri, of Bolognese origin, were famous throughout Europe. Louis XV had them come to his court to organize real pyrotechnic spectacles at Versailles. But it was in London, in St James's Park, that the firework display was fired that has probably never been surpassed in magnificence. King George II had asked Gaetano Ruggieri, assisted by Giuseppe Sarti, to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. He was so impressed that a complete description was published in a special book. (...) The success of these spectacles was such that they became the obligatory complement of all festivities.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, London", + "ref": [ + "\"To the Assault of Space\" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 30", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_196" + }, + { + "date": "4/15/1752", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Preceded by a violent storm and) a strange, 8-sided star.", + "location": "NORWAY, Slavane (Stavanger?)", + "ref": [ + "A strange, sparkling, 8-sided object: cfr UFO-ORIENTERING., 1966, 7, listing of Ole Jonny Braenne", + "Charles Fort: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 187", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_197" + }, + { + "date": "9/1752", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Benjamin Franklin launches the first electric kite in a thundercloud. He feels a shock when touching the apparatus' cable.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 18", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_198" + }, + { + "date": "1752", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Before the earthquake) balls of fire raced across the sky. (Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 187) Spheres of fire emanating from a long, flaming tubular object.", + "location": "SWEDEN, Augermannland", + "ref": [ + "Desmond Leslie and George Adamski: \"The S.V. Have Landed\" - J'ai Lu 1971, p. 31", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_199" + }, + { + "date": "5/14/1753", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First experience in France (second in the world), of an electric kite, by Romas.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 18", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_200" + }, + { + "date": "12/8/1753", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11:45, on a sunny day, Mr. Cracker saw something resembling a child's kite but shining like silver, passing back and forth through the clouds.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Fleet Dorset", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.111", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_201" + }, + { + "date": "12/11/1753", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 5:00 PM in an area stretching from London to Kent, the maneuvers of a kite were preceded by a dull explosion.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Berkshire", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.111", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_202" + }, + { + "date": "1/2/1756", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An explosion shook the sky of Turin, just after the passage of a blue flying object which, during its entire flight, projected flames. It remained visible for 20 minutes.", + "location": "ITALY, Turin", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.111", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_203" + }, + { + "date": "9/13/1757", + "desc": "(Translated from French) John Childs made several flights or gliding descents (with parachute?) from the top of a church tower in Boston.", + "location": "USA, BOSTON", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 18", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_204" + }, + { + "date": "11/26/1757", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A conical object flew over the city at high speed. Before disappearing, this UFO released three satellite-shaped discs.", + "location": "SCOTLAND, Edinburgh", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.112", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_205" + }, + { + "date": "2/24/1759", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10pm a slight tremor like an earthquake was felt: it was a vibratory movement that lasted 2 or 3 seconds. George Thompson went out to observe the sky and saw multitudes of red blood rays converging from all corners of the sky towards a dark point.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Liskeard (Cornwall)", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les OVNI du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p.79", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_206" + }, + { + "date": "6/9/1759", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9 o'clock in the evening, the curate of Captioux who was walking in front of his church with the curate of Loubens, his brother, saw a column of fire going from east to south. It passed behind a wood which hid it from their view. An hour later, a second column of fire was seen rushing into the river, near the mill. That same evening, from the town of Bazas, at the end of the horizon, towards Langdon, a whirlwind of fire was seen.", + "location": "FRANCE, Bazas", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain LEFEUVRE 1979, p. 38, 39", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_207" + }, + { + "date": "10/10/1759", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Objects resembling balls quickly flew in the direction of Essex. One of them emitted a bluish light and made a kind of loop before disappearing on the horizon. (1759, 10 October)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Mendips (Somerset)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.112", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_208" + }, + { + "date": "11/2/1761", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Before the earthquake) a \"huge globe\" was seen. (Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 187) A procession of \"huge globes\" flew over Switzerland. (Desmond Leslie and Georges Adamski: \"The S.V. Have Landed\" - J'ai Lu 1971 - p. 32) A procession of \"huge globes\" flew over Switzerland on November 2, 1761. (November 2, 1761)", + "location": "SWITZERLAND", + "ref": [ + "The Saucers with Heidi, cfr GREPI, 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_209" + }, + { + "date": "12/5/1762", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 8:50 PM a kind of writhing serpent descended slowly above Bideford and remained visible for only a few minutes.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Bideford (Devon)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.112", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_210" + }, + { + "date": "8/19/1763", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Darkness more impenetrable than that of the eclipse of 1748 (Gentleman's Magazine 33-414) (Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 182) In broad daylight it suddenly became as dark as in a furnace. The most astonishing thing is that the darkness was quite impenetrable to the light of candles or lanterns.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, London", + "ref": [ + "Jacques BERGIER: \"The E.T. in History\" - J'AI LU - 1970 - p. 161", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_211" + }, + { + "date": "1766", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In India, rockets retained their favor and developed into a feared weapon. The army of the Prince of Mysore, Haider Ali, counted 1200 rocket launchers.", + "location": "INDIA, Mysore", + "ref": [ + "\"Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 13", + "see 1782", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_212" + }, + { + "date": "6/19/1767", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The beast killed by Jean Chastel with a blessed bullet was very different from a wolf, with reddish fur. The grass did not grow for a long time where the corpse had fallen. (There were a hundred authenticated cases of children being devoured).", + "location": "FRANCE, Gévaudan", + "ref": [ + "Pierre VIEROUDY: \"These UFOs that Announce the Superman\" - Laffont 1979, p. 270", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_213" + }, + { + "date": "9/1767", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Some kind of fiery house approached close to the ground and caused some damage in the town. \"It took the form of a pyramid and suddenly moved forward in the direction of the Erick. It then rushed into this river at great speed and disappeared a little after Blairgowrie (more than 7 km away). This caused considerable excitement... When it passed, this object carried a large cart and transported it several meters away, into a field. A man who was on the main road at that moment was thrown off his horse and knocked out; he remained unconscious for a long time. The object also destroyed a house and the arch of the new bridge in Blairgowrie. After that it quickly disappeared.\"", + "location": "SCOTLAND, Coupar Angus (Pertshire)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 p.113", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_214" + }, + { + "date": "9/1768", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Excerpt from the 6th book of Goethe's autobiography. At the time he was 16 years old and was on his way to the University of Leipzig. The journey was arduous in the pouring rain and on the hills, the travelers had to get down to relieve the effort of the horses. During one of these forced marches, he noticed an astonishing phenomenon: \"Suddenly, in a ravine to the right of the road, I saw a kind of amphitheater, wonderfully lit. In a pipe-shaped space an incalculable number of small lights were placed one on top of the other. They shone so brightly that the eye was dazzled. But what troubled most in this vision was that the lights were not fixed, they jumped here and there, went up and down and vice versa, in all directions. The greatest number of them, however, remained stable and radiated. It was with the greatest reluctance that I consented, when I was called, to move away from this spectacle that I would have liked to examine more closely. The postilion, when I questioned him, declared that he had never had knowledge of such a phenomenon, but that there was an old stone quarry nearby whose excavation was filled with water. It remains to be seen now whether this was a pandemonium of goblins, or an assembly of luminous creatures, I cannot decide. (September 1768)", + "location": "GERMANY, between Frankfurt and Leipzig", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p.113-114", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_215" + }, + { + "date": "10/24/1769", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Observation of \"houses of fire\" flying.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Oxford", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 p.113", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_216" + }, + { + "date": "1772", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The canon Desforges attempts an experiment using his flying chariot at Etampes, but the apparatus refuses to rise.", + "location": "FRANCE, ETAMPES", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 18", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_217" + }, + { + "date": "1777", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Joseph Montgolfier jumps off the roof of his house with a parachute of his own invention.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 18", + "Follow-ups: 1779, December 29th 1782, June 3rd 1785 and October 22nd 1797", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_218" + }, + { + "date": "1778", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Nootka Man - Source: Dark Visions, by John Robert Colombo. John Meares (1756-1809) was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy where he enlisted in 1771. He made, as captain, three voyages from China to Nootka Sound. (...). In these travel memoirs he recounts a story of an extraordinary stranger from the sky, of whom the Nootka Indians spoke. The stranger was dressed in copper, traveled in a copper canoe and that all the stranger possessed was made of metal. The stranger warned the Indians saying that he came from the sky and that one day their nation would be destroyed and all the people killed. Finally it would be the Nootka who would have the last word on the stranger by killing him and stealing all his metal objects. (1778 to 1779)", + "location": "USA, Northwest Coast - Nootka Tribe.", + "ref": [ + "UFO Joe website, collected from the Internet May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_219" + }, + { + "date": "1779", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Joseph Montgolfier re-enacted his experience in Avignon in the presence of the Vice-Legate of the Pope and the Marquis de Brantes. This Avignon parachute allowed a sheep to land safely, even though it had been launched from the top of the Palace tower.", + "location": "FRANCE, AVIGNON", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 19", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_220" + }, + { + "date": "8/28/1781", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In a letter to the \"Journal de Paris\", Blanchard announces that he has been working for twelve years on the realization of a flying machine and that he is now on his sixth operation (let us read: experience). He is experimenting with a sail chariot that many witnesses have seen in Paris.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 19", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_221" + }, + { + "date": "1782", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. 1766) His son, Tippoe Sahib increased the force to 5000 fuseens. They used rockets of 3 to 6 kilos consisting of a 20 cm long and 4 cm diameter iron tube, stuffed with powder and fixed to a long bamboo rod serving as a guide. Their range was around 800 meters.", + "location": "INDIA, Symore", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 13", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_222" + }, + { + "date": "6/4/1782", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First public captive ascent of an aerostat (a hot air balloon) built by the Montgolfier brothers in Annonay.", + "location": "FRANCE, ANNONAY", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_223" + }, + { + "date": "8/27/1782", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ascension of the balloon \"Le Globe\" by Charles and the Robert brothers. It was inflated with hydrogen. The balloon, not having ascended, landed in Gonesse (north of Paris), and was destroyed by the population after having been exorcised by the local priest.", + "location": "FRANCE, PARIS", + "ref": [ + "\"La conquête de l'air, chronologie...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - éd. Marabout Université1967, p. 22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_224" + }, + { + "date": "9/12/1782", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First captive ascent of a hot air balloon in the Faubourg St. Antoine. Rain interrupted the experience. The apparatus remained exposed to the rain for more than 24 hours.", + "location": "FRANCE, PARIS", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_225" + }, + { + "date": "9/19/1782", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the presence of King Louis XVI, the first three aerial passengers in history made an ascent in a hot air balloon: a cock, a duck and a sheep. their return, unharmed, proved that it is possible to breathe at a few tens of metres above the ground. (1782, 19th September)", + "location": "FRANCE, PARIS", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_226" + }, + { + "date": "10/15/1782", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First captive ascent of a man: Pilatre de Rozier rising to 26 metres above the ground, on board of a hot air balloon.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_227" + }, + { + "date": "10/19/1782", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The ascent of October 15 had taken place in a courtyard. On the date of the 19th, Pilatre de Rozier resumed the experience in front of a large crowd. He rose to 60 meters and remained at this altitude for six minutes. He ascended a second time to 80 meters and maintained it for nearly 10 minutes. A third and final ascent on the same day was made in the company of Giroud de la Villette; the altitude reached was 324 feet; the ascent lasted 9 minutes.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_228" + }, + { + "date": "11/21/1782", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First free ascent in human history and first aerial voyage in a hot air balloon: Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes surveyed the city of Paris. The verbal process of this event is signed, in particular by Benjamin Franklin.", + "location": "FRANCE, PARIS", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_229" + }, + { + "date": "12/1782", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Wilcox would have risen, carried by a cluster of balloons.", + "location": "USA, Philadelphia", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_230" + }, + { + "date": "12/1/1782", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of a hydrogen-filled balloon: Professor Charles and mechanic Robert take off from Paris (Tuileries) and land at Nnesle, travelling approximately 40 km in 2 hours. (1782, 1 December)", + "location": "FRANCE, PARIS", + "ref": [ + "\"La conquête de l'air, chronologie...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - éd. Marabout Université 1967, p. 22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_231" + }, + { + "date": "12/29/1782", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Lenormand carries out the first practical experiments with parachute jumps. The parachutists are a cat and a dog. (1782, 29 December)", + "location": "FRANCE, MONTPELLIER", + "ref": [ + "\"La conquête de l'air, chronologie...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - éd. Marabout Université1967, p. 22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_232" + }, + { + "date": "10/18/1783", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Tiberius Cavallo made an exceptional observation from the terrace of Windsor Castle: \"To the northeast of the terrace, in a clear sky and warm weather, I suddenly saw an oblong cloud moving almost parallel to the horizon. Below this cloud one could distinguish something like a luminous object which soon became spherical, brightly lit and eventually stayed stationary. It was then about 9:45 pm. This strange ball first appeared bluish and pale, but its luminosity increased and soon it started moving east. The object then changed direction and moved parallel to the horizon before disappearing to the southeast. I was able to observe it for half a minute and the light it emitted was prodigious. It illuminated any object on the ground. Before its disappearance it changed shape, became oblong and at the moment when a kind of trail appeared, it seemed to split into two small bodies. Barely two minutes later the sound of an explosion was heard.\" The same kind of phenomenon was reported that evening in Deptford (Wiltshire) as well as in Hartlepool.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Windsor", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 p. 115-116", + "Durham", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_233" + }, + { + "date": "1/19/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The gigantic Montgolfiere (23,270 cubic meters) named \"La Flesselles\" rises from Lyon, carrying 7 passengers to 1000 meters in altitude. The six planned passengers were: J. Montgolfier, Pilatre de Rozier, Prince Ch. de Ligne, Marquis de Laurencin, Marquis de Dampierre, Count de La Porte d'Anglefort and Count d'Entraigues. At the last moment, the young Fontaine rushes into the gondola: he can be considered the first stowaway of the conquest of the air. (January 19, 1784)", + "location": "FRANCE, LYON", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_234" + }, + { + "date": "2/22/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) BELGIUM, WARNETON A small balloon, unmounted, diameter 1.50 m rises from Sandwich and lands in Warneton (Belgium) after a three hour ascent. It thus makes the first crossing of the channel.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN: Sandwich (Kent)", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_235" + }, + { + "date": "2/25/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Italy is the second country to witness the ascension of a human being aboard a balloon; the pilot is Paolo Andreani.", + "location": "ITALY", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_236" + }, + { + "date": "3/2/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In an attempt to steer his balloon, Blanchard rises from Paris and lands, unsuccessfully, in Billancourt. He uses oars and a rudder as if on a boat. (1784, 2 March)", + "location": "FRANCE, PARIS", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_237" + }, + { + "date": "4/25/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Guyton de Morveau conducts tests of direction of a balloon, using oars whose pallets have one meter of width.", + "location": "FRANCE, LYON", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_238" + }, + { + "date": "4/28/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Lannoy and Bienvenu present to the \"Academy of Sciences\" of Paris, a reduced model of a helicopter. The device makes a flight in the meeting room.", + "location": "FRANCE, PARIS", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_239" + }, + { + "date": "5/6/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Xavier de Maistre made an ascent in a hot air balloon that he built with the help of some friends.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_240" + }, + { + "date": "6/4/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Bouche makes first ascent in a balloon.", + "location": "SPAIN, ARANJUEZ", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_241" + }, + { + "date": "6/4/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The hot air balloon \"Le Gustave\", named in honor of the King of Sweden, Gustave III, rises in Lyon in the presence of the sovereign. It carries, in addition to its pilot Fleurant, the first passenger of space, Madame Tible.", + "location": "FRANCE, LYON", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_242" + }, + { + "date": "6/12/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Guyton de Morveau makes a 20 km trip, from Dijon to Etrevaux.", + "location": "FRANCE, DIJON", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_243" + }, + { + "date": "6/23/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Piloting the \"Marie-Antoinette\" hot air balloon, Pilatre de Rozier and Proust rise to 4000 meters in altitude.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_244" + }, + { + "date": "6/24/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) American P. Carnes builds a balloon whose ascensional force is too reduced to be able to carry it: it is a 13 year old child, Ed Warren, who, in Baltimore, becomes the first aeronaut of the United States.", + "location": "USA, BALTIMORE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_245" + }, + { + "date": "6/29/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First attempt at parachute jumping in Belgium, by De Groof.", + "location": "BELGIUM", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_246" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Stuver in Vienna makes the first ascent in Austria.", + "location": "AUSTRIA, Vienna", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_247" + }, + { + "date": "7/8/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the \"Courrier d'Avignon\", M. Aries claims to have risen to 70 feet with the help of two wings of cloth.", + "location": "FRANCE, AVIGNON", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_248" + }, + { + "date": "7/15/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Robert brothers, the Duke of Chartres and Collin-Hullin, made an ascent in a balloon (hydrogen) named \"Caroline\". Upon landing, the balloon not deflating quickly enough, the Duke punctured the envelope with the flagpole of a flag.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_249" + }, + { + "date": "7/17/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) P. Carnes in Baltimore conducted the first captive ascent of an adult.", + "location": "USA, BALTIMORE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_250" + }, + { + "date": "8/25/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) J. Tytler launches the first British-built hot air balloon.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_251" + }, + { + "date": "9/14/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Italian Lunardi performs the first ascent in Great Britain and goes from Moorsfield (London) to Ware.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_252" + }, + { + "date": "10/4/1784", + "desc": "(Translated from French) J. Sadler, first English aeronaut, succeeded in an ascension at Oxford.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, OXFORD", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_253" + }, + { + "date": "1/7/1785", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Frenchman Blanchard and American Jeffries make the first crossing of the English channel in the history of aerial locomotion. They cover approximately 50 km in 2 hours and 20 minutes. They would have carried some letters, which would bring the birth of air mail to this first crossing of the \"channel\". (1785, 7 January)", + "location": "THE ENGLISH CHANNEL", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_254" + }, + { + "date": "6/3/1785", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During an ascent made in London, Blanchard carried, for their first air flight, the two youngest passengers to date, the Simonet Sisters, aged 17 and 14. A dog accompanied the travellers. On this occasion, Blanchard tried out a parachute of his own invention: the dog was released from the balloon, it landed without harm.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, LONDON", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_255" + }, + { + "date": "6/15/1785", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Pilatre de Rozier, accompanied by P.A. de Romain, attempts a crossing of the channel on board of an \"Aero-Montgolfiere\", a combination of a hydrogen balloon and a Montgolfiere. A few minutes after taking off, the aerostat returns towards the French coast, catches fire and crashes in Wimereux. Both occupants are killed.", + "location": "THE CHANNEL", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_256" + }, + { + "date": "6/17/1785", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Dr. Potain ascended from Dublin in a balloon with the intention of crossing the St. George's Channel. He advanced far out over the sea, but a contrary wind drove him back to the Irish coast. Some claim that Dr. Potain did not even reach above the sea.", + "location": "IRELAND, DUBLIN", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_257" + }, + { + "date": "6/29/1785", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Italian Lunardi and the British Biggin ascend in London, accompanied by the first British female aeronaut, Mrs Sage. This fact is often contested despite an engraving depicting Mrs Sage and Biggin in the balloon's gondola. It seems that the ascensional power of the aerostat was insufficient. The authentic passengers of Lunardi would have been a dog, a cat and a pigeon. We have not found the name of the one who would be the first female aeronaut of English nationality, if one disregards Mrs Sage. (1785, 29th June)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, LONDON", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_258" + }, + { + "date": "7/13/1785", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First ascent in Holland, in the Hague, by the Frenchman Blanchard.", + "location": "NETHERLANDS, THE HAGUE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_259" + }, + { + "date": "10/3/1785", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Blanchard again, performs the first ascent in Germany at Frankfurt.", + "location": "GERMANY, FRANKFURT", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 25", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_260" + }, + { + "date": "11/20/1785", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It is Blanchard who makes the first ascent in Ghent. (November 20, 1785)", + "location": "BELGIUM, GHENT", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 25", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_261" + }, + { + "date": "6/18/1786", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Pierre Testu-Brissy makes the first night ascension. [note from vog: after reading his numerous tests and flights carried out in the 18th century, I am forced to think that the appearance 100 years later in the USA of the famous \"airships\" is a hoax...]", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 25", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_262" + }, + { + "date": "5/3/1788", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First ascent of a balloon in Switzerland at Basel, performed by the Frenchman Blanchard.", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, BASEL", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 25", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_263" + }, + { + "date": "5/30/1789", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Blanchard makes an ascent in Poland, in Warsaw, the first in this country.", + "location": "POLAND, WARSAW", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 25", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_264" + }, + { + "date": "10/31/1789", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Blanchard made an ascent in Prague, the first in Bohemia.", + "location": "BOHEMIA, PRAGUE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 25", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_265" + }, + { + "date": "6/12/1790", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Report written by Inspector of Police Liabeuf: \"At five o'clock in the morning, some peasants observed an enormous globe that seemed to be surrounded by flames. At first they thought it was a burning hot air balloon, but its great speed and the whistling it emitted intrigued them greatly. The globe descended gently, turned and eventually crashed at the top of a hill, uprooting the vegetation that grew on its sides. The heat emitted by the object was so great that the grass and shrubs caught fire shortly afterwards. The peasants managed to contain the fire which otherwise would have spread throughout the region. In the evening, the globe was still hot and then something extraordinary happened, barely believable. The witnesses of this event are two mayors, a doctor, and three other local personalities who confirm my report, not to mention the dozens of peasants who were also present. The sphere, which was large enough to contain a whole crew, was intact after the flight it had just made. It slowly aroused the curiosity of the people who came from all directions to see it. Then, suddenly, a door opened and a person came out, just like us, but dressed in a strange way with clothes that clung to his body; seeing the crowd, this person muttered some incomprehensible words and fled into the woods. ('but he seemed to have dissolved in thin air,'\"Liabeuf wrote: \"he dissolved like air, Liabuef wrote - cfr John KEEL) The peasants instinctively recoiled, frightened, and ran away. Shortly afterwards the sphere exploded silently, sending debris in all directions; these debris burned until they were reduced to powder. Searches were carried out to find the mysterious man but he seemed to have evaporated into the air and so far no trace of him has been found...\" [note from vog: is there really a report about this somewhere, or is this stuff made up by an author and taken up by others without further ado?]", + "location": "FRANCE, Alençon (Orne)", + "ref": [ + "See OPERATION TROJAN HORSE by John A. Keel, Manor Books, New York, NY, 1970, page 66.", + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 p.116-117, full text", + "Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970, p. 62, summary", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_266" + }, + { + "date": "9/18/1791", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Day of the proclamation of the Constitution; the German de Ste. Croix rises from Paris, carrying a certain number of copies of the \"Declaration of the Rights of Man\". Arrives at 12,000 feet of altitude, in shirt, he reads the text aloud. (1791, 18 September)", + "location": "FRANCE, PARIS", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 25", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_267" + }, + { + "date": "1792", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The British were greatly impressed by the rocket army during the siege of Seringapatam in the southern part of INDIA. \"A single rocket killed three men and wounded four\" reported Colonel Gerrard of the British Indian Army.", + "location": "INDE, Seringapatam", + "ref": [ + "\"Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" Hans Kaiser, Ed. Amiot - Dumont 1954, p. 13", + "\"Assault on Space\" Georges H. Gallet, Ed. de la Pensée Moderne, p. 22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_268" + }, + { + "date": "1/9/1793", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Blanchard makes the first air travel in the United States. He travels from Philadelphia to Gloucester County (New Jersey) in 46 minutes. He carries a letter from George Washington.", + "location": "USA, PHILADELPHIA", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 25", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_269" + }, + { + "date": "6/6/1793", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First parachute drop in the United States: Blanchard experiments with his parachute and releases a dog, a cat, then a squirrel.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 25", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_270" + }, + { + "date": "6/2/1794", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A balloon is used, for the first time, for military observation. The first official one will be on June 26.", + "location": "FRANCE, MAUBEUGE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 26", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_271" + }, + { + "date": "6/26/1794", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (8 Messidor an II) The balloon \"L'Entreprenant\" piloted by Captain Coutelle (French, appointed on April 2nd) monitored the battlefield during the Battle of Fleurus. It stayed in the air for 10 hours, transmitting numerous messages to the ground. General Jourdan took a seat in the balloon in order to make a direct observation of the battle. The balloon had been brought inflated from Maubeuge to Fleurus (approximately 60 km).", + "location": "BELGIUM, FLEURUS", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 26", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_272" + }, + { + "date": "8/24/1794", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Italian Lunardi makes the first ascent in Portugal at Lisbon.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, LISBON", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 26", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_273" + }, + { + "date": "1/27/1795", + "desc": "(Translated from French) ... in the sky of the southeast a big star of the size of a bushel suddenly emerged. Sparkling it descended and rose up to descend and rise three times in a row. Another star repeated the same movement and finally fell before crashing in a village. (1795, 27 January)", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.44", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_274" + }, + { + "date": "1796", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Englishman George Cayley repeats the experience of the French Lannoy and Bienvenu (helicopter).", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 26", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_275" + }, + { + "date": "1797", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The aeronaut Testu Brissy made an ascent on a horse placed as a nacelle under a balloon.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 27", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_276" + }, + { + "date": "10/22/1797", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (1 Brumaire an VI) Frenchman Garnerin makes a parachute jump from a balloon at an altitude of 1000 meters. This is the first successful parachute jump by a man.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 26", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_277" + }, + { + "date": "9/10/1798", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 8:40 pm an object resembling an apothecary's pestle suddenly emerged from a cloud. One of the witnesses added that it seemed to branch out and then split into two half-moons with rays of light. This strange object disappeared after 5 minutes of observation.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Alnwick (Northumberland)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 p.118", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_278" + }, + { + "date": "1799", + "desc": "(Translated from French) William Congreve, aged 29, set out to study war rockets in depth. With the help of his father, Lieutenant General Sir William Congreve, who was in charge of the Royal Laboratory of Woolwich, he was very successful. Soon Congreve produced rockets with a range of about 2000 meters which were tested successfully in front of the Prince Regent, the Prime Minister and the Lords of the Admiralty.", + "location": "GRANDE BRETAGNE", + "ref": [ + "\"A l'Assaut de l'Espace\" Georges H. Gallet, éd. de la Pensée Moderne, p. 22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_279" + }, + { + "date": "11/12/1799", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A large red pillar flew over Hereford from north to south.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Hereford", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 p.118", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_280" + }, + { + "date": "4/5/1800", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A shining body of about thirty meters remained suspended above the city before disappearing with a huge noise.", + "location": "USA, Louisiana, Baton Rouge", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"The E.T. and the UFOs in History\" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 197", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_281" + }, + { + "date": "6/19/1801", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A luminous sphere the size of a full Moon, crossed by a dark bar, broke up into five bright bodies. (1801, night of June 19th to 20th)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Hull", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 123", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_282" + }, + { + "date": "3/22/1802", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the afternoon of the 2nd Germinal of the year X, we saw a wonderful luminous phenomenon. The sky was very clear, especially in the direction of Poniente. At the moment when the Sun was approaching the horizon, on the diametrically opposite side, I then saw five or six beams of light. They were diverging from a hemisphere similar to a large globe, of which half was hidden by the horizon. This half-disk was the same color as the sky, as blue as it, but shone with more splendor (...) The sky became cloudy above Poniente and hid the view of the setting Sun. During this time the luminous phenomenon did not cease. As soon as the Sun had set, it began to diminish in intensity and finally disappeared. (March 22, 1802)", + "location": "ITALY, Poniente", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 123", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_283" + }, + { + "date": "6/24/1802", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First scientific balloon ascent (various measurements in the atmosphere) by Humboldt and Bompland; they reached an altitude of 5878 meters.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 26, 27", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_284" + }, + { + "date": "1802", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Claude Ruggieri launched rockets carrying rats or mice as passengers. these devices were equipped with parachutes that brought their occupants back to the ground, in principle unharmed, at the end of their rocket flight.", + "location": "PARIS, Champ de Mars", + "ref": [ + "\"A l'Assaut de l'Espace\" Georges H. Gallet, éd. de la Pensée Moderne, p. 50", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_285" + }, + { + "date": "1803", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two luminous globes emitting rays of the sun, appeared above a tree to Pierre Mille, to his three daughters as well as to a basket maker of the country.", + "location": "FRANCE, Ornans (Evilliers)", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p.84", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_286" + }, + { + "date": "1803", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Robertson and Lhoest aeronauts reach aboard the balloon \"Entrepreneur\" the altitude of 7,400 m. They suffer from lack of oxygen.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 27", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_287" + }, + { + "date": "8/20/1804", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Biot and Gay-Lussac conduct an ascent to measure the magnetic force; they do not exceed 3977 m. (August 20, 1804)", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 27", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_288" + }, + { + "date": "9/16/1804", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Gay-Lussac makes a new ascent, during which he reaches an altitude of 7016 m. He brings back air samples collected at 6561 m and 6636 m.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 27", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_289" + }, + { + "date": "12/16/1804", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (The 25th of Frimaire, Year xiii) On the order of Napoleon and on the occasion of the coronation of the Emperor, Garnerin launched a balloon from Paris, decorated with the Imperial Crown. Unmanned, at the mercy of the winds, the balloon headed towards Italy, flew over Rome and, on the way, grabbed the Tomb of Nero (!) leaving behind a part of its crown.", + "location": "FRANCE, PARIS", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 27", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_290" + }, + { + "date": "10/8/1806", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening of October 8, ten small vessels (boats) participated. 200 rockets were launched in salves in half an hour, with a range of 800 meters. Many fires were lit in the city but, quickly extinguished, had little military consequences. Indeed, Nelson's victory at Trafalgar over the Spanish and French naval forces had given England control of the sea. (...) The english had considered the use of rockets sufficiently conclusive. See 1807, Copenhagen.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "\"Assault on Space\" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_291" + }, + { + "date": "1806", + "desc": "(Translated from French) There was a presentation as the climax of the show in certain fireworks, the launch of a simple device (...) to which an animal was attached. It must be believed that this material had been seriously improved, since the chronicle states of a launch of this kind in which a sheep would have reached a height of 200 m.", + "location": "FRANCE, Marseille", + "ref": [ + "\"To the Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 53", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_292" + }, + { + "date": "1807", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The English made a terrifying demonstration in Copenhagen. The ships of the English squadron launched 25,000 to 40,000 rockets. The city, set on fire, was almost entirely razed.", + "location": "DENMARK, Copenhagen", + "ref": [ + "\"Assault on Space\" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 23", + "see 1912 London", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_293" + }, + { + "date": "12/22/1807", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The town was overflown by an object shaped like a rocket moving at an altitude of about thirty meters. The UFO flew horizontally from northeast to southwest, like a bird and disappeared before reaching a hill.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Middleton Cheney (Northans)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 124", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_294" + }, + { + "date": "1807", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Signal rockets, whose head contains a small parachute whose deployment is triggered at the top of their course at the same time as an illuminating charge is ignited before slowly descending, maybe white, red or green or a succession of these three colors in 27 possible combinations. In broad daylight this illuminating charge is replaced by a smoke pot leaving a black trace in the sky. These signals remained visible for a long time from very far away. (...) The first tests seem to have been made in England by a Captain Henry Trenrouse on the coasts of Cornwall where frequent shipwrecks occurred.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Cornwall Coast", + "ref": [ + "\"A l'Assaut de l'Espace\" Georges H. Gallet, éd. de la Pensée Moderne, p. 31", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_295" + }, + { + "date": "4/18/1808", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A certain Simondi, secretary of the justice of the peace of this village, was awakened by a loud buzzing. That is when he saw a bright disc rise from the ground at great speed.", + "location": "ITALY, Torre Pelice", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 124", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_296" + }, + { + "date": "5/16/1808", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Acharius observed at 4 o'clock an extraordinary phenomenon. The sun became brick red. At the same time, a large number of dark brown, round bodies, of the apparent size of a hat brim, appeared from the western horizon and passed through the sky, disappearing towards the east. This fantastic procession lasted nearly two hours. Sometimes one of the bodies fell to the ground. Instead of a fall, a film was found which dried up immediately and disappeared. Often, when approaching the sun, these bodies seemed to come closer together in groups of no more than eight units, and then tails of 5 to 8 m in length were seen. When away from the sun, their tails became invisible again. Their substance was described as soapy and gelatinous. (May 16, 1808)", + "location": "SWEDEN, Skeninge", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 221, 222", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_297" + }, + { + "date": "10/12/1808", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A phosphorescent dome appears above Naples (Yves Naud: \"Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire\" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 197) Luminous discs fly over Pinerolo. At the same time, strange lights and noises are reported in the sky of the Swiss Alps and the Tower of Auvergne (Puy-de-Dôme).", + "location": "ITALY, Naples", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 124", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_298" + }, + { + "date": "11/12/1808", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The aeronaut Degen succeeds in making certain corrections to the flight of a balloon, and in directing it in some way.", + "location": "AUSTRIA", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 27", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_299" + }, + { + "date": "1809", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The British artillery fired rockets at Flessingue.", + "location": "NETHERLANDS, Flessingue", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_300" + }, + { + "date": "8/10/1809", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Observation by Sir John Staveley: \"I saw many meteors near the corner of a black cloud from which lights were coming out. They were like dazzling spots of light dancing and passing through the cloud. One of them increased in size until it reached the brightness and size of Venus on a clear evening. But I could not see any body in the light. It moved with great speed and bordered the corner of the cloud. Then it became stationary, lost its brilliance and disappeared. I saw these strange lights for minutes, not seconds. For nearly an hour these glimmers, as strange as it was and in countless points, came out and went back into this dark cloud. No light came from the clouds where these glimmers were playing. At the moment when these meteors increased in size, it seemed as if they were descending towards the ground..\"", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Hatton Garden (London)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 125", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_301" + }, + { + "date": "5/11/1811 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:35am, in the northwest, a light was seen preceded by a whistling sound. At first it was a snake of fire, then the shape changed, becoming a rectangle (horseshoe) and finally two lights at the ends of a curved line could be seen. (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 125) On May 11th, 1811, at 8:35am, in Geneva, many people including members of the faculty of sciences, suddenly saw a flash of light in the northeast. This flash then took the shape of a horseshoe. It was advancing eastward and seemed to be twice as high as the mountains of the Jura. A witness who examined it through a telescope stated that this luminous line was composed of several separate parts. (May 11th (or 15th?), 1811)", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Geneva - FRANCE, Paris", + "ref": [ + "Les Soucoupes chez Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_302" + }, + { + "date": "1812", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In response to the success of rockets, the British Army became interested in this new weapon. The first British field rocket brigade was created in 1812. After a year of training, it participated in the battle of Leipzig and all those that followed.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "\"Assault on Space\" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_303" + }, + { + "date": "3/20/1812", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On the day of the earthquake in Marseille, accompanied by such frightening phenomena that the 7 passengers in the Digne carriage preferred to stop at the bad inn of the Quatre-Tours rather than come to sleep in Manosque. As the carriage approached, this luminous balloon that was hovering on the road split into 4 fires, and then the sight of the passengers became so blurred that they thought they saw four men dancing around them, each enclosed in a lantern.", + "location": "FRANCE, between Manosque and Villeneuve d'Apert", + "ref": [ + "Pierre DELVAL: \"Contacts of the 4th Type\" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 204", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_304" + }, + { + "date": "6/10/1812", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Austrian Degen makes his first flight experiment in Paris, but fails. His apparatus is a \"glider\" fixed to the body of the experimenter.", + "location": "FRANCE, PARIS", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 27, 28", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_305" + }, + { + "date": "1813", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On the battlefield, the British are present with their rocket launcher detachment.", + "location": "Germany, Wittenberg, Danzig, and Leipzig", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, Ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, P. 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_306" + }, + { + "date": "1814", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In Austria rocket battalions were formed that fired projectiles weighing 3 to 6 kilograms at a distance of 1100 meters. These batteries were successfully employed during the campaigns of 1848 and 1859 against Italy.", + "location": "Austria", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_307" + }, + { + "date": "1/15/1816", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Extract from the \"Dictionary of Secret Societies in the West\" under the direction of Louis Pauwels. \"MARTIN de GALLARDON\". Gallardon, in Beauce, is a village of 1800 inhabitants, three leagues to the west of Chartres. On January 15, 1816, at dusk, Thomas Martin, a thirty-three year old farmer, was spreading manure on his fields when he heard someone calling out to him. He turned around and saw nothing. He was very afraid; he was about to take up his pitchfork again when a second call became more insistent. This time he distinctly saw an unusual figure: a small being wearing a top hat and dressed in a light frock coat. The apparition commanded him: - Martin, my friend, you will go to the Tuileries, see King Louis XVIII and you will speak to him in my name... The apparition vanished into the night that was falling. Thomas had a wife and children. At dinner he told them about his adventure. His wife gently mocked him and recommended that he forget it. To fill a pitcher of cider he went down to the cellar and there he saw his \"gentleman\" again who insisted:

- Trust me, Martin, my friend. I am an angel of the Good Lord. And the angel formulated a very secret message, of the highest importance for the king. The next day, at dawn, Martin, a good parishioner, told his priest, Abbot Laperruque. The rector listened to him attentively, for Martin had an excellent reputation (...) Thus, on March 6, under the guidance of a gendarmerie lieutenant, Thomas Martin took the coach and arrived in Paris two days later. (...) Martin was taken to the Tuileries on April 2, and the king immediately granted him a private audience. The monarch and the farmer remained alone, absolutely alone, for almost an hour! A great favor, Louis XVIII escorted his humble visitor.

- This is the end of the reign of the present king. He has no other choice but to leave France. Neither he nor the Duke of Angoulême will return there, and Henri V will not be king. Naundorff will one day see his rights recognized, was Martin's comment. - M.M.Garçon: Vintras (Nourry 1928) - G. Lenôtre: Louis XVIII and the Enigma of the Temple (Perrin 1920) - Revue Flos Florum (very rare edition, Bordeaux, s.d.)

[note from vog: IN REALITY: the epilogue comes from the announcement on the radio and television on April 19, 2000. The DNA of the heart of the child (Louis 17) who died on June 8, 1795 is indeed the DNA of the son of Louis 16 and Marie-Antoinette (University of Louvain (Belgium) and another in Germany) and Naundorff from then on is only an impostor. The \"dwarf\" who would have contacted Martin de Gallardon is just as much... if he ever existed.]", + "location": "FRANCE, Gallardon (Beauce)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_308" + }, + { + "date": "1816", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Englishman Clarke, in his \"Voyages\", reported that he launched a hot air balloon at Enontekiö.", + "location": "NORTH POLE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 28", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_309" + }, + { + "date": "6/13/1819", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On June 13th, at 6 o'clock in the morning, according to the Journal de la Charente of June 19th, 1819, \"suddenly a meteor was seen in the atmosphere. It had the shape of a \"rocket\", its length seemed to be about 1200 toises and it inclined towards the earth. It threw an extremely bright light into the air. A toise is 1.95 meters, so 1200 toises is about 2340 meters! If a real meteor of this size had been seen, it would have been in our atmosphere, therefore too close to the ground to escape the terrestrial attraction. It would have fallen causing a formidable earthquake that would not have gone unnoticed! (June 13th, 1819)", + "location": "FRANCE, Angoulême (Charente)", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde\" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 p. 235", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_310" + }, + { + "date": "8/13/1819", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Professor Dewey, communicating Professor Graves' report, recounts that at the sound of an explosion, a bright light spread over the town of Amherst, illuminating one of the walls of the room where he himself was with his family. The next day, in Professor Dewey's front yard, on the very spot from which the strange light seemed to come, a mysterious object covered with bright yellow down, like that found in drapery factories, was discovered. The down was pushed aside and a pulpy yellowish-fawn substance appeared, which, giving off a very nauseating smell, turned bright red upon contact with the air. It liquefied after a few minutes, becoming red blood (...) (August 13, 1819)", + "location": "USA, Amherst (Massachusetts)", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 51, 52", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_311" + }, + { + "date": "9/7/1820", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A formation of discs flew over the town of Embrun during a lunar eclipse. These objects rotated 90° before disappearing. Report established by astronomer Arago. (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 126) Strange uniform formations arrived in a straight line above Embrun, performed a rotating movement of 90° and moved away in perfect order. Charles de Maingot, a notable, wrote that the \"vehicles\" resembled bells. (September 7, 1820)", + "location": "FRANCE, Embrun (Hautes Alpes)", + "ref": [ + "Moustique n° 1508 of 19.12.1954, p. 17 article by Bert Brem", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_312" + }, + { + "date": "1820", + "desc": "(Translated from French) William Denton (...) claimed to have had contact with inhabitants of Venus. They traveled in a machine shaped like a saucer made of aluminum. They used a telepathic language to communicate with Denton.", + "location": "USA, Massachusetts", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Enigmes du temps présent\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1979, p. 103", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_313" + }, + { + "date": "7/19/1821", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Green in London used gas lighting for the first time to inflate a balloon. (July 19, 1821)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, LONDON", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 28", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_314" + }, + { + "date": "12/16/1821", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A Londoner claims to have seen a \"dome illuminated like the sun\" moving for half an hour above his house. \"The occupants of the craft were numerous: twelve, fifteen or twenty, I do not know exactly. Sparks like snake tongues were coming out of the craft. One of the occupants, who seemed taller than the others, saw me standing on the threshold of my house and made me a sign. I did not understand the meaning of this sign. What did he want to tell me?\" [note of vog: he wanted to say: hello, we are in a balloon...] (December 16, 1821)", + "location": "ENGLAND, London", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"The E.T. and the UFOs in History\" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 201", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_315" + }, + { + "date": "9/21/1823", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, had his first celestial vision.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"The E.T. and UFOs in History\" Famot 1977, Volume 2, pp. 198-200", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_316" + }, + { + "date": "8/12/1825", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Excerpt from UFO Investigator, the magazine of the National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena, Washington. It informs us that in \"The Diary of Andrew Boxam\", published in 1925 by the Bernice P. Bishop Museum of Honolulu, the following passage can be found: \"This morning at about 3:30 (August 12, 1825) the watch on deck was amazed to see that all around them was suddenly illuminated. Turning their eyes eastward, they saw a large, luminous, round body rising about 7 degrees from the water to the clouds, falling out of sight, and then rising and falling again. It was the color of a red-hot cannonball and seemed the size of the sun. It spread such a bright light that a pin could have been picked up from the deck.\" (August 12, 1825)", + "location": "HAWAII - Honolulu", + "ref": [ + "Yvan T. SANDERSON: \"The Invisibles Under the Seas\" Albin Michel 1979 p. 42-43", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_317" + }, + { + "date": "4/1/1826", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A grey object shaped like a torpedo approached the Earth at high speed. [vog note: see January 12, 1836, this is probably the event] (April 1, 1826)", + "location": "FRANCE, Saarbrücken", + "ref": [ + "Desmond Leslie and George Adamski: \"The S.V. Have Landed\" - J'ai Lu 1971, p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_318" + }, + { + "date": "1826", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A luminous cross of 80 feet was seen by 3000 people, 200 of whom provided testimony.", + "location": "FRANCE, Migne-Auxances (Poitou)", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p.86", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_319" + }, + { + "date": "1827", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Englishman Bedford brought perfected rockets to France. (...) Captain Munier modified them by using a faster burning powder. They were used for the first time during the Kabylie campaign, in the battle of Staouelli.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"To the Assault of Space\" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_320" + }, + { + "date": "10/17/1828", + "desc": "(Translated from French) More significant tests of the same kind of launch (of life-saving rockets) were undertaken in 1824 on the Isle of Wight by Captain Dennett. When later, on October 17, 1828, the Prussian Commander Stiehler had successfully conducted a test launch near Memel, the sea-rescue rocket was generally adopted. (October 17, 1828)", + "location": "GERMANY, Memel", + "ref": [ + "\"Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 17", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_321" + }, + { + "date": "7/23/1830", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Reverend Alexander Espline was travelling from Auchtermuchty to Letham when he noticed a peculiar light suspended in the air above Whinny Park, the residence of one James Millie. Approaching the Park, Mr. Espline saw two lights, one smaller and brighter than the other, of a leaden hue, pale as death. Suddenly, the smaller of the spheres emitted a beam of light of extreme brightness, soon followed by a series of flashes from both objects at once. Frightened by this phenomenon, Mr. Espline fled. Two days later the body of James Millie was found, having been murdered and buried at the spot where the glows had been seen. (July 23, 1830)", + "location": "SCOTLAND, Forfar (Angus)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 127", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_322" + }, + { + "date": "3/1832", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A yellow, resinous substance was discovered, stretching like cotton. It fell over an area of approximately 600 m² and up to a thickness of 5 cm. This substance was combustible. In water it took on an amber color and became elastic like natural rubber. The smell was that of oil and wax.", + "location": "RUSSIA, Kourianof", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 52 - 1980, p.3 and 4", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_323" + }, + { + "date": "11/10/1832", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Y. Berghelen saw \"a round disc two meters in diameter, jumping from one side of the canal to the other. As it moved it emitted a dull sound.\"", + "location": "NETHERLANDS, The Hague", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"The E.T. and UFOs in History\" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 202", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_324" + }, + { + "date": "11/14/1832", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A brilliantly lit white cloud appeared in the sky. At 6:00 there was first a powerful beam of light in the night. This light then gathered into an oval shape which remained stationary for more than a quarter of an hour.", + "location": "AUSTRIA, Bruneck (Tyrol)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 127", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_325" + }, + { + "date": "1832", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Englishman Lennox and Frenchman Le Berrier make an ascent in Paris aboard a \"dirigible\" balloon. They use oars to attempt to make direction changes.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 28", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_326" + }, + { + "date": "11/13/1833", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A large luminous body, almost stationary at times, in the shape of a square table. (November 13, 1833)", + "location": "USA, Niagara Falls", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967 p. 226", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_327" + }, + { + "date": "11/13/1833", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 2 o'clock in the morning, in a cloudless sky, a real rain of fireballs began. Many witnesses noticed that among the lightning streaks, there were luminous bodies that remained visible for a long time and almost stationary. Various witnesses collected on the ground a whitish gelatinous substance that quickly sublimated. Phenomenon mainly visible in a quadrilateral delimited on the one hand by the 61st degree of longitude (Atlantic Ocean) and the 100th degree of longitude (Central Mexico) and, on the other hand, by the Great Lakes of Jamaica. (November 13, 1833)", + "location": "MEXICO and ATLANTIC OCEAN", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of S.V.\"-Laffont 1970 - p.63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_328" + }, + { + "date": "1834", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At about seven o'clock in the evening a bolide was seen in the northeast, heading north with some speed parallel to the horizon. It suddenly disappeared, only to reappear two seconds later and split into two parts.", + "location": "GERMANY, Cologne", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p.86", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_329" + }, + { + "date": "1834", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Lennox and Edon create in London the \"aeronautic aerial company\" to ensure a regular service between London and Paris.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 28", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_330" + }, + { + "date": "1835", + "desc": "(Translated from French) John Wise makes his first ascent in Philadelphia. During an exceptional career he will attempt, multiple times and in vain, to cross the Atlantic Ocean. He will be lost in 1879 (the date is not specified) in Lake Michigan, during his 479th or 480th ascent. Wise will then be 71 years old.", + "location": "USA, PHILADELPHIA", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 29", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_331" + }, + { + "date": "7/4/1835", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Richard Clayton carried the mail, for the first time by air, in the United States, to Cincinnati. (July 4, 1835)", + "location": "USA, CINCINNATI", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 29", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_332" + }, + { + "date": "1836", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Spherical lights and the appearance of what the inhabitants described as a lady in white created a great commotion in a part of the city.", + "location": "HUNGARY, Szeged", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\". Trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 245", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_333" + }, + { + "date": "1/12/1836", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"A luminous body representing two-thirds of the Moon seemed to pivot as if on an axis: it had a dark cavity in its center\". [note from vog: Christiane Piens dates this event to 1832...] (January 12, 1836)", + "location": "FRANCE, Cherbourg", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 213", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_334" + }, + { + "date": "11/7/1836", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Green, Hollond and Monkl-Mason aboard the balloon \"Royal Vaux Hall\" rise from London and make the first crossing of the channel of a British crew. They make this crossing at night, thus attributing another first. They will land at Velberg in the Duchy of Nassau.", + "location": "Great Britain, London", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 29", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_335" + }, + { + "date": "8/29/1837", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During this night a meteor was seen or a physical phenomenon. A luminous sphere of about three meters in diameter traveled in the sky. At dawn, the meteor descended and the whole field began to shine with a very bright reddish light. (1837, night of August 29-30)", + "location": "ROMANIA, Tirgu-Néamt and Dorohoi", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\" trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 288", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_336" + }, + { + "date": "11/1837", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man flying, carrying something on his back and making tremendous leaps, flying above those who wanted to catch him. Admiral Codrington offered a reward for his capture.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, London", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU - p. 119", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_337" + }, + { + "date": "2/18/1838", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Miss Scales, passing through the poorly lit alley of the Green Dragon, near a tavern, saw a tall figure hide in the shadows. She hesitated and waited for her sister who had stayed behind. Her sister described him as \"tall, slim, distinguished\"! He had thrown his cape to the side and shone a lantern on the startled girl. She didn't have time to scream, the strange blue flame covered her face and she fainted deeply. Then Jack calmly withdrew...", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, London", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU - p. 119", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_338" + }, + { + "date": "2/20/1838", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A strange being seemingly clad in what would now be called a space suit, frightened the Londoners. At times it was luminous and could jump very high. Named \"Spring Heel Jack\" this character had adventures that are not without strongly recalling much more modern facts. On February 20th Miss Jane Alsop, aged 18, met the \"monster\" at Bear Bine Cottage, where she lived in the small village of Old Ford, near Bow. Having heard a violent knocking at the front door, she went out and saw the most hideous apparition: a figure clad in tight-fitting and glittering clothes, a lamp radiating in the middle of its chest and eyes resembling red balls of fire. She began to scream with all her might. Spring Heel Jack then seized her arm in a metallic hand with fingers like claws and sent balls of fire into the young girl's face. She soon fell unconscious and had still time to see this sad figure fly away into the air.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, London", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 128", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_339" + }, + { + "date": "7/6/1838", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, Inspector Hemer of the Liverpool police was patrolling along the boundaries of Teth Park. Suddenly he saw a large sphere of fire that was stationary at some height above a nearby field. The object remained stationary for two minutes. Then it emitted bright sparks and quickly rose into the sky to disappear. (July 6, 1838)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Liverpool", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 128", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_340" + }, + { + "date": "1838", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A prolonged disk of a kind of hook, as big as the moon but more sparkling: a diagram is drawn of it.", + "location": "INDIA", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 225, 226", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_341" + }, + { + "date": "1839", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Eurriot makes an ascent on board an oblong balloon (dirigible) that he is unable to maneuver, however.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 29", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_342" + }, + { + "date": "1839", + "desc": "(Translated from French) There was a fall of \"sheets\" having the appearance of a \"cotton felt\".", + "location": "SILESIE", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 52, 1980, p.4", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_343" + }, + { + "date": "9/29/1842", + "desc": "(Translated from French) W. H. Phillipps would have made a small helicopter \"a reaction\" rise (steam jets on pallets). [vog note: it was a miniature, in reality.]", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 29-30", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_344" + }, + { + "date": "1842", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Small perfectly hexagonal metal objects fell from the sky after a strange cloud was seen suspended over the city for a very long time.", + "location": "URSS, Orenbourg", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\" trad. Laffont 1976, p. 272", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_345" + }, + { + "date": "1842", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two little girls saw stones falling around them. The stones fell with a strange slowness. The children ran to the family home and returned to the spot with their parents. The stones were still falling, always with the same astonishing slowness. Then, a kind of upward current - a whirlwind - sucked the two little girls who were lifted up but their parents were able to, thanks to the speed of their reflexes, hold them back at the last second to prevent them from being carried away God knows where. The parents were not affected by the suction phenomenon.", + "location": "France, Clavaux (near Gavet) Isère", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués\" - éd. Ramuel 1999, p 159", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_346" + }, + { + "date": "7/16/1843", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At Nantes, a hot air balloon escaped from the ground on its own; the anchor grabbed the young Guerin by the pants and carried him into the air. The ascent ended without harm for the boy. [note from vog: this true story is transformed, among other places, in the United States, into a legend, during the famous affairs, hoaxes or real dirigibles, of the \"air-ships\"s.....] (July 16, 1843)", + "location": "FRANCE, NANTES", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 32", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_347" + }, + { + "date": "1844", + "desc": "(Translated from French) D'Arville is said to have risen aboard a \"pedal-powered\" helicopter (?). He would have thus reached an altitude of around 100 m and the landing was made normally.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 32", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_348" + }, + { + "date": "7/8/1844", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Italian Comashi makes an ascent in a balloon, from Constantinople to Desmirdje Davasi.", + "location": "TURKEY", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 32", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_349" + }, + { + "date": "6/12/1845", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Italian Comashi makes an ascent in a balloon in Constantinople, on the occasion of the marriage of Mehemet Ali Pacha.", + "location": "TURKEY, Constantinople", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 32", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_350" + }, + { + "date": "6/18/1845", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three luminous bodies were seen emerging from the ocean forty meters from the \"Victoria\", a British brigantine 1300 km from Adalia (Asia Minor) and remained visible for ten minutes. The ship was located at 36°40'56\" north latitude and 13°44'36\" east longitude. Professor Baden Powell published a letter from a correspondent from Mount Lebanon who described the same miraculous phenomenon but only cited two luminous bodies, five times bigger than the Moon and with appendages in the shape of sails resembling \"large flags blown by the breeze\". They were visible for an hour. The appendages did not resemble meteor trails, as their glow seemed to come from the bodies themselves. At Adalia 1300 km from the Victoria and at the same time, the Rev. F. Hawlett, cited by Professor Baden-Powell, witnessed the spectacle which he estimated to last half an hour. The phenomenon was also reported from Syria and Malta, in the form of \"two closely linked bodies.\"", + "location": "In the Mediterranean Sea", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 213", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_351" + }, + { + "date": "1846", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Before being able to distinguish the silhouette of a luminous lady, it was first a light at the bottom of the valley that attracted the attention of Mélanie Calvet and Maximin Guiraud. Having approached, they saw a kind of very bright globe that opened to let them see the lady. (Paul MISRAKI - Mame) \"We saw a light open, and inside, the Lady...\"", + "location": "FRANCE, La Sallette (Isère)", + "ref": [ + "Erich ZURCHER: \"The Appearances of Humanoids\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 200", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_352" + }, + { + "date": "6/2/1846", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At noon I went out of my house and saw in the sky a big fireball, bigger than a bowl. It flew from south to north, followed by a multicolored beam of light. Another column of white light followed the beam. The beam and the column had the same length. When the flaming ball passed over my head, a sound like thunder was heard. (June 2, 1846)", + "location": "CHINA, Zheijang", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.73", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_353" + }, + { + "date": "10/26/1846", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A luminous disc moved above Lovel. It dropped a gelatinous and stinking mass. It weighed 55 kilograms and measured 122 cm in diameter [the stinking mass, of course!].", + "location": "USA, Lovel, Massachusetts", + "ref": [ + "(c) 1997 Jeroen Slurf and Jeroen Kümeling.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_354" + }, + { + "date": "1847", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The US Army had 2000 rockets made by the Washington Arsenal. The USA was engaged in a bloody conflict with Mexico. The hale rockets were used during the landing at Vera Cruz and the capture of Chapultepec. The Rocket Artillery batteries were dissolved the following year. (1847,)", + "location": "MEXICO, Chapultepec", + "ref": [ + "\"Assault on Space\" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_355" + }, + { + "date": "9/25/1847", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Dr. Van Hecke experiments with a balanced helicopter aerostat at ground level; he turns his helicopter by hand and rises up to 1000 m in altitude.", + "location": "BELGIUM, BRUSSELS", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_356" + }, + { + "date": "1848", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Stringfellow Flies the First Heavier-Than-Air Machine Powered by Its Own Engine; Wingspan of the Machine, 3.04 m (10 English Feet); Weight 6,629 kg Empty and 3,900 kg with Water and Fuel. The Engine Was a Steam Boiler. The Remains of This Machine Are at the British Museum in London.", + "location": "Great Britain", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_357" + }, + { + "date": "6/22/1849", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Austrian troops attempt to send balloons for bombardment of Venice. Many balloons return to Austrian positions and explode there.", + "location": "AUSTRIA", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_358" + }, + { + "date": "8/8/1849", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At three o'clock, Sir Robert Inglis saw thousands of bright objects, resembling snowflakes in a cloudless sky. But although this deployment lasted only 25 minutes, none of the flakes fell to the ground. Inglis's servant thought he saw some of them had some kind of wings. During the same communication, Sir John Herschel recalled that in 1845 or 1846 his attention had been drawn to large objects crossing the air. Through the telescope he identified them as masses of hay two meters in diameter, but although only a whirlwind could have lifted them, he noticed that the air was quite calm. (Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 173, 174) Thousands of luminous objects are observed by the astronomer Inglis in a clear sky. Some seem to have wings or a luminous halo. (Desmond Leslie and George Adamski: \"The S. V. have landed\" - I read 1971, p. 36) Sir Robert Inglis saw at 3 o'clock thousands of bright objects resembling snowflakes in a cloudless sky. The phenomenon lasted 25 minutes. (Christiane PIENS: \"The UFOs of the past\" - Marabout 1977 - p.87) In 1849, on August 8 at 3 o'clock, the astronomer Inglis, from Gais, saw thousands of luminous discs crossing a clear sky, without interruption for twenty-five minutes. Some had some kind of wings or a crown-shaped glow. His servant saw them surrounded by a ring or a luminous halo.", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Gais", + "ref": [ + "The Saucers at Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_359" + }, + { + "date": "9/2/1849", + "desc": "(Translated from French) F. Arban Flies Over the Alps, the First During an Ascent From Marseille to Turin.", + "location": "FRANCE, MARSEILLE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_360" + }, + { + "date": "10/7/1849", + "desc": "(Translated from French) F. Arban makes an ascent in Barcelona. He takes his wife with him; after a few minutes, he drops her off on the ground, leaves alone and heads over the Mediterranean Sea. He disappears forever.", + "location": "SPAIN, BARCELONA", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_361" + }, + { + "date": "1850", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the expedition charged with finding Sir John Franklin and the members of his mission in the Arctic, Captain Austin had his sleds pulled by kites.", + "location": "NORTH POLE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_362" + }, + { + "date": "11/6/1850", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Clockmaker Jullien maneuvers an aerostat pisciform at the Hippodrome of Paris. The device has a length of 7 meters.", + "location": "FRANCE, PARIS", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_363" + }, + { + "date": "1850 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One evening, near the beach of the Egray river, a group of women had chatted until around midnight and were returning to the village. They had just crossed a bridge when there was a terrible noise and they saw \"a cart with creaking wheels climbing the hill at an astonishing speed, pulled by goblins\". It leapt over the hill and disappeared. (1850 (approx.))", + "location": "FRANCE, Poitou", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 89, 90", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_364" + }, + { + "date": "9/4/1851", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:30 in the morning, the Reverend W. Head (Read?) saw a multitude of luminous bodies pass through the field of his telescope, some moving slowly, others quickly. They seemed to occupy a large area of several degrees. Most of them were going from east to west, but some were going from north to south. Their number was prodigious and they were observed for 6 hours. W. Head had never seen anything like it before. He specifies that two members of his family had seen the objects in question.", + "location": "ENGLAND, London", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 171", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_365" + }, + { + "date": "8/12/1852", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A certain G.F.I. reported: \"At 9:20pm my attention was suddenly drawn to what appeared to be a bright flash of light and turning in the direction from which it came (south-west) I saw a magnificent meteoric light of a shape which I describe below (lenticular). The colour was an intense blue and it occupied at least a quarter of the visible sky, the phenomenon being inclined towards the ground at an angle of 45°. This lasted from 30 to 40 seconds, gradually diminishing in thickness until it became only a narrow beam of light, the length remaining unchanged. Just before it went out the phenomenon began to tremble and undulate. The sky at that moment was very clear and without clouds and a light, fresh wind was blowing from the north-north-west..\" Mr. R.W. Stoke reported the following: \".. Around 7:20pm my attention was drawn to a very bright flash and turning immediately in the direction from which it came, I saw a bright mass of light of about 15° in length in the shape of a diamond. This phenomenon remained visible for nearly ten minutes, gradually weakening..\" (1852, August 12th to 13th)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Holyhead (Anglesey) and Sub-Hamdon (Somerset)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" -Delarge 1977, p. 130-131", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_366" + }, + { + "date": "12/17/1852", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was a red sphere of a size equal to half of the full Moon, with a trail of six to seven times this dimension. It appeared in the center of a huge triangular cloud and it constantly emitted flashes of a very bright red light. A sound resembling a shrill whistle was heard. Having apparently crossed the Channel from southeast to northwest, the object exploded in a bright flash and a solid body was seen to fall into the waves about 800 m from the shore.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, near Dover", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 131", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_367" + }, + { + "date": "10/28/1853", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 4:00 PM an enormous meteor flew over Redford from southwest to northeast. The size of a full moon, with a red hue and surrounded by a bluish halo with yellow spots, the body was followed by numerous small whitish globes. According to all the testimonies it seems that this \"meteor\" flew over the region at a relatively low altitude.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Redford", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 132", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_368" + }, + { + "date": "1855", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In France, the Pyrotechnics School continued its works and during the Crimean War, at the Siege of Sebastopol, the French Fusees Corps, with their 92 mm diameter devices, with a range of more than 6,000 meters obtained excellent results. (...) War rockets would soon be surpassed by the steel rifled cannon.", + "location": "USSR, Sebastopol", + "ref": [ + "\"To the Assault of Space\" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 34, 35", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_369" + }, + { + "date": "2/8/1855", + "desc": "(Translated from French) And here is the journalistic version: \"A great sensation is reported in the villages of Tapshamn Lymphstone, Exmouth, Teignmouth and Dawlish, caused by the discovery on February 8 of an incredible amount of strange and mysterious footprints\" (in the thin layer of freshly fallen snow). Again, there is talk of the incredible multiplicity of footprints found in the very large area limited by the different villages. They were also found in the most unexpected places: gardens enclosed by high walls, open countryside and roofs of houses. In Lymphstone there was hardly a single garden that did not receive this indescribable visit. (...) It is said that the footprints were generally 25 cm apart. \"The footprint of the foot resembles very closely the hoof of an ass and measures 4 cm, sometimes 6 cm.\" (...) the footprints were taken on both sides of the Este (small lake 3.5 km wide). (...) No animal leaves a straight footprint, not even man. Whatever the origin of these traces, they seemed to have raised the snow rather than compressed it. (February 8, 1855)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Devonshire", + "ref": [ + "Charles Fort: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, pp. 246 to 249", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_370" + }, + { + "date": "6/10/1859", + "desc": "(Translated from French) From June 10 to 24: Italian Campaign. Frenchman Godard makes several captive ascensions and one free ascension in a hot air balloon in order to monitor the movements of the enemy troops (Battle of Solferino).", + "location": "ITALY, SOLFERINO", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 35", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_371" + }, + { + "date": "7/1/1859", + "desc": "(Translated from French) John Wise ascends from St. Louis aboard the balloon \"The Atlantic\" and travels 1850 km in 20 hours 45 minutes. He carries a 4.5 kg mail bag. He is accompanied by Mountain, Gager, and Hyde. Towards the end of the journey, the balloon is in difficulty above Lake Ontario: all available ballast is thrown out, including the mail (which will be recovered later) but the journey ends on solid ground in Henderson (Jefferson County). This trip sets a world record for distance. (July 1, 1859)", + "location": "USA, from St Louis to Henderson", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 35", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_372" + }, + { + "date": "1859", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An oblong UFO with red lights and a black center flew over the county.", + "location": "GRANDE-BRETAGNE, Pembroke", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 133", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_373" + }, + { + "date": "1860", + "desc": "(Translated from French) France had a war rocket of 20 kilograms weight and a range of 3200 meters, after having a few years earlier eliminated from its artillery a rocket which, during the siege of Sebastopol in 1854-1856, had not given full satisfaction. (Between 1860 and 1899)", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 15, 16", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_374" + }, + { + "date": "1/16/1860", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The inhabitants witness a true rain of fireballs falling from a cloudless sky. They notice that among these flashing balls, there are luminous bodies remaining visible for a long time and almost stationary. Some witnesses even collect a whitish gelatinous substance on the ground.", + "location": "JAMAICA", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire\" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 207", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_375" + }, + { + "date": "7/28/1860", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The meteorites were collected almost immediately after their fall within a quarter of an hour. (...) The stones were so cold that they numbed the hands of the coolies. Yet they had fallen with a jet of light, a flame of fire three meters long and 60 cm wide. (...)", + "location": "INDIA, Dhurmsalla", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld, 1967, p. 189 and 219", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_376" + }, + { + "date": "11/7/1860", + "desc": "(Translated from French) T.S. Carlincourt Lowe makes a new ascent. This time it is to study the behavior of the balloon equipped with a gondola and a boat (in case of landing) with a view to crossing the Atlantic which the aeronaut still dreams of. (November 7, 1860)", + "location": "USA, PHILADELPHIA", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 35", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_377" + }, + { + "date": "5/9/1861", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The inhabitants of Liège saw a strange reddish sphere the size of a church, spinning like a top in the sky.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Liège", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire\" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 207", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_378" + }, + { + "date": "5/31/1862", + "desc": "(Translated from French) T.S.C. Lowe Perfects a Captive Spherical Observation Balloon.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace No. 54, 1980 source \"Flights through the Ages\" Hart Davis, Mac Gibbon, London 1974", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_379" + }, + { + "date": "6/18/1862", + "desc": "(Translated from French) T.S.C. Lowe employed the telegraph from a captive (June 18th 1862)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace No. 54, 1980 source \"Flights through the Ages\" Hart Davis, Mac Gibbon, London 1974", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_380" + }, + { + "date": "1862", + "desc": "(Translated from French) ... in the night a star was seen, as big as the moon, burning. It had an orange-red color like the fire of a furnace. It emitted such bright lights that one did not dare to look at it directly. When it appeared, a faint, lugubrious noise was heard. It moved at a vertiginous speed towards the north and suddenly stopped. It began to waver, suspended in the air. Suddenly this metal crepe divided into three parts, spitting into the sky thousands and thousands of luminous pearls that flew in all directions, the whole sky becoming multicolored. What a splendid spectacle! When the pearls fell up to three meters above the ground, all the colors immediately extinguished, but the roofs were still lit. (1862,)", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 41, 42", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_381" + }, + { + "date": "4/27/1863", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Henry Waldner had seen a large number of bright bodies moving from west to east, he alerted Dr. Wolf of the Zurich Observatory who was convinced of the reality of this strange phenomenon and informed him of the similar observation made by Signor Capocci of the Capodimonte Observatory in Naples, on May 11, 1845. The shapes were varied, or were they different aspects of the same shapes? Some bodies were star-shaped and had transparent appendages. (Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 172) At the Zurich Observatory, on April 27, 1863, Dr. Wolf sees a large number of bright discs coming from the east. Some have tails, others look like stars.", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Zurich", + "ref": [ + "Saucers in Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_382" + }, + { + "date": "8/11/1863", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A giant bird of metallic appearance flew over the city with a motor noise.", + "location": "CHILE, Copiapo", + "ref": [ + "Pierre VIEROUDY: \"These UFOs that announce the superhuman\" - Laffont 1979, p. 43", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_383" + }, + { + "date": "8/2/1863", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A luminous disc of reddish color, surmounted by a dome of fire, was seen in the sky above Madrid, towards the east. At first it was thought to be the appearance of a comet, but the immobility of the disc made it clear that they were mistaken. It was only after a long time that it began to turn very quickly, in all directions, horizontally and vertically. (1863, August 2 (not 12))", + "location": "SPAIN, Madrid", + "ref": [ + "Charles GARREAU: \"Alert in the Sky: The Abduction File\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p.141", + "Peter KOLOSIMO: \"Shadows on the Stars\" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 316 which says \"August 12\"...", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_384" + }, + { + "date": "Mid 9/1865", + "desc": "(Translated from French) James Lumley, a trapper, saw in the evening a large light in the sky moving quickly in an easterly direction. The light was fully visible for only 5 seconds, when suddenly it split into particles, like a firework. A few minutes later he heard the sound of an explosion that shook the ground in vibrations, while a sound of a tornado was heard. Lumley did not pay more attention to the phenomenon, but the next day he discovered, 2 miles from his camping location, a hole in the forest, with giant trees broken off. Going around the damage he found a large stone embedded in the side of the mountain. This stone seemed divided into compartments and bore curious hieroglyphs. Lumley also found fragments of something resembling glass. The stone in question was examined in Leavenworth, Galena and Cincinnati by Colonel Bonneville. It is thought to be some kind of meteorite. (September mid, 1865)", + "location": "USA, Cadotte Pass", + "ref": [ + "TASK and Jeroen Wierda PUFORI, 26.4.1997", + "The Cincinnati Commercial, October 30, 1865", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_385" + }, + { + "date": "1/1866", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Balls of fire coming out of a very slow cloud moving in the sky.", + "location": "FRANCE, Vence", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 133", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_386" + }, + { + "date": "1866", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was said to find a fiery serpent in Nebraska. It seemed to spit fire and there were illuminated stripes on its sides. The observation was immortalized by a popular song.", + "location": "USA, Nebraska", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 133", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_387" + }, + { + "date": "3/1868", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A strange aerial construction bearing lights and making a great noise flew over the city at low altitude. Those who saw it described it as a giant bird covered in large scales and producing a metallic noise.", + "location": "CHILE, Copiago (see July.. same affair?)", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire\" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 207-208", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_388" + }, + { + "date": "7/1868", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A gigantic bird with wide open eyes, shining like burning coals, covered with immense wings that beat with a metallic sound.", + "location": "CHILE, Copiapo (see also March.. same affair?)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 133", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_389" + }, + { + "date": "7/1868", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A dome, as large as a cart, flew for half an hour above Radcliff.", + "location": "ENGLAND, Radcliff", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire\" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 208", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_390" + }, + { + "date": "7/2/1869", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Inventor Frederick Marrion constructed a torpedo-shaped balloon powered by steam, called the Avitor, and flew it over Shell Mound Park just outside the city. This craft was not very representative of the balloon cohort, but a few other flights were executed that year, including one under an exhibition hangar. (July 2, 1869)", + "location": "USA, San Francisco", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's - A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 2", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_391" + }, + { + "date": "8/1869", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Children, more than other groups of humans, disappear. We are not speaking here of ordinary runaways. In August 1869, 13 children disappeared in Cork, Ireland. No signs of kidnapping or hoax. During the same month there was a wave of child disappearances in Brussels, Belgium.", + "location": "IRELAND, Cork, BELGIUM, Brussels", + "ref": [ + "John Keel: 'OUR HAUNTED PLANET', pp. 202-208:", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_392" + }, + { + "date": "3/22/1870", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Captain F. W. Banner, commander of the \"Lady of the Lake\", took a bearing and recorded in his logbook: \"... the sailors on my ship saw in the sky a remarkable cloud. It had a circular shape with a half circle inscribed divided into four parts, the dividing line beginning at the center of the circle and extending outward, then curving back. The object moved from a point 20° above the horizon to another at 80°. Then it headed NW while it had come from the SE. It was light gray, like a cloud color, much lower than the other clouds, it moved against the wind. It presented itself obliquely to the wind then decided to go straight into the eye of the wind. The shape was visible for half an hour. It disappeared due to the darkness.", + "location": "ATLANTIC OCEAN - CAPE VERDE, Lat. N. 5°47' Long. W. 27° 52'", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 217, 218", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_393" + }, + { + "date": "Spring 1870", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Lars Lillevold's grandmother saw something strange which she later described as a flying object. She also observed someone in the object, who waved at her. (1870, Spring)", + "location": "NORWAY, Alen", + "ref": [ + "Krogh: HESSDALSRAPPORTEN., 1984, 11., THE HESSDALEN REPORT., 1985, 7. and THE HESSDALEN REPORT., 1971, 7, listing by Ole Jonny Braenne", + "First possible CE-3 incident.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_394" + }, + { + "date": "9/25/1870", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The London \"Times\" of September 26, 1870, described a strange object seen as it passed in front of the moon. It was elliptical with some kind of tail, and it took about thirty seconds to go from one side of the moon to the other. (Donald KEYHOE: \"Flying Saucers Exist\" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p. 80) Passage in the sky of an object heading towards the Moon: some kind of ellipse-shaped craft, with some kind of tail that remained visible for about 30 seconds.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, London", + "ref": [ + "Peter KOLOSIMO: \"Shadows on the Stars\" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 316", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_395" + }, + { + "date": "9/23/1870", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 66 Balloons, 100 Passengers, Managed to Leave Paris, Besieged by Prussian Troops (September 23, 1870 to January 28, 1871)", + "location": "Paris-London", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air, Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 38, with Details", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_396" + }, + { + "date": "11/17/1870", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night thousands of English people saw flying saucers above several of their cities. Astronomer Maunder speaks of one of the phenomena he himself observed: \"A large, round, bright and green shape appeared on the horizon in an east-northeast direction, like a rising star, and like a star, but much faster, it crossed the sky in a straight line and at a regular speed. Passing the meridian, exactly under the Moon, it took on the shape of a very elongated ellipse. Some observers spoke of an object shaped like a cigar, a torpedo or a spindle.\" [note from vog: the Paris balloons???]", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN - various places", + "ref": [ + "Peter KOLOSIMO: \"Shadows on the Stars\" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 317", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_397" + }, + { + "date": "1/17/1871", + "desc": "(Translated from French) While the children see and hear the holy virgin, all the witnesses notice in the sky three bright stars delimiting the space of the apparition. These stars were never seen again in the same place.", + "location": "FRANCE, Pontmain (Normandy)", + "ref": [ + "Paul MISRAKI - Mame", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_398" + }, + { + "date": "8/1/1871", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A large red body moving slowly was visible for fifteen minutes. (Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 226) A large round and wide body had been seen above Marseille. (Donald KEYHOE: \"Flying Saucers Exist\" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p 80) An enormous silver-colored machine passes through the sky. (August 1, 1871)", + "location": "FRANCE, Marseille", + "ref": [ + "Charles GARREAU: \"Alert in the Sky: The Abduction File\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p. 142, date of May 3 of the same year", + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 134-135 with the complete timing by the witness Coggia, astronomer", + "Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of S.V.\"- Laffont 1970 - p.64", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_399" + }, + { + "date": "8/23/1871", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the middle of the day a dark gray almost black snake was visible in the sky. According to many witnesses who were able to observe it, it must have been at least 200 m long.", + "location": "FRANCE, Jarny (Moselle)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 135-136", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_400" + }, + { + "date": "10/4/1871", + "desc": "(Translated from French) For more than 100 years, the secret of William Robert Loosley, a carpenter entrepreneur, was kept secret. It was his great-granddaughter who discovered the description of the event among papers in a drawer of the old desk. Wycombe at that time was only a small village. On the 4th of October at 3:15 in the morning he woke up, felt uncomfortable and went out into the garden. A star, brighter than the full moon, passed through the sky, followed by an astonishing thunderclap, as the sky was clear and without clouds. The object stopped in mid-flight, began to sway while descending. It seemed to land in the nearby forest. The next day Loosley went in search of the object. After a long time, as he poked his walking stick into a pile of dead leaves, he saw something strange, metallic, like a container, 55 to 60 cm long, covered with curious bubbles. \"Suddenly something opened with the sound of a well-oiled piece, an eye came out, covered with glass and 2 to 3 cm wide. A few moments later a second eye opened, sending a purple light beam. Then a third one, which made a rod appear a little bigger than a pencil. I didn't want to stay there anymore. As I left, the machine started up, tracing three small furrows in the ground. When I reached the clearing, I noticed that similar furrows crossed and intertwined everywhere. The machine stopped for a short moment, a kind of pincer came out, digging in the ground, and a dead rat came out. It was illuminated 2 to 3 times by the purple light. Then the corpse was sprayed with a liquid before being taken to a closed opening by a panel. In my haste to leave, I lost my cane. The machine swallowed my cane. It followed me, like a sheepdog, forcing me in my flight to follow the path it wanted, close to another metal box, bigger. \"In panic, he looked up and saw a light like a moon that seemed to make light signals. Before being able to determine the sequences, the light disappeared. Loosley then fled to his house running. In the night, unable to sleep, he saw through the window a light descending in the direction of the clearing he had visited during the day. After a moment the light rose and finally disappeared. He got up, put the whole story on paper, and locked the manuscript in his desk. Loosley died in 1893. (1871, October 4th and 5th of)", + "location": "ENGLAND, High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire)", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 82, 83", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_401" + }, + { + "date": "12/7/1872", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The inhabitants saw at 1 o'clock a kind of haystack crossing the space, accompanied like a meteor, by fire, dense smoke and a sound of railway. It was sometimes very high, sometimes very close to the ground. The effect was that of a tornado: trees and walls were knocked down. The object disappeared \"all at once\".", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, King's Sutton (Banburry)", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 185", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_402" + }, + { + "date": "7/1873", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A similar one was observed the next day, above Fort Scott. (flaming object, detached from Mars) (Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970 - p.64) \"Cotton farmers were frightened by a bright object that rushed towards them. This silver snake plunged and gained altitude several times. A team of horses panicked and the driver thrown under the wheels was killed on the spot. (July beginning 1873)", + "location": "USA, Fort Scott (Kansas)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 136", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_403" + }, + { + "date": "10/6/1873", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Failure of W. Donaldson Across the Atlantic in a Spherical Balloon", + "location": "Atlantic Ocean", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace No. 54, 1980 Source \"Flights Through the Ages\" Hart Davis, Mac Gibbon, London 1974", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_404" + }, + { + "date": "11/20/1873 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was broad daylight when a strange object, moving at a very high speed, appeared in the sky, to the southwest of the town. The inhabitants watched it for a moment, not believing their eyes. The only flying machine they knew was the hot air balloon. But this object was terrifying, and the speed at which it moved distorted its silhouette. Frightened farmers hid under their cars. The people of the town locked themselves in their homes. A few brave souls remained in the streets. The mysterious object circled Bonham twice, then moved east and disappeared. Descriptions varied, giving it a round or oval shape and a cigar shape. (Donald KEYHOE: \"Flying Saucers Exist\". Corrêa Paris 1951, p. 78) A luminous disc made 3 laps around Bonham and flew away. (November 20th, 1873 (Summer?))", + "location": "USA, Bonham (Texas),", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"UFOs of the Past\" - Marabout 1977 - p.88 which gives November 20th as the date.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_405" + }, + { + "date": "11/20/1873 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Twenty-four hours after this incident, a similar craft was seen at Fort Scott. Soldiers in panic scattered when it passed over them. It disappeared in a few seconds in the direction of the north. (Donald KEYHOE: \"Les soucoupes volantes existent\". Ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p. 78) An hour later a disc descended over the cavalry troops during a parade at Fort Riley (Kansas) and scared the horses. (Summer (20th November?) 1873)", + "location": "USA, Fort Scott - or Fort Riley? (Kansas)", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p.88", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_406" + }, + { + "date": "7/6/1874", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A kind of giant trumpet 130 meters long, suspended vertically and oscillating gently, is visible for 5 to 6 minutes. (July 6, 1874)", + "location": "MEXICO, Oaxaca", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 226", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_407" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1874", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1874, Newport was the scene of one of the strangest events. Muriel Trevenard, a 16-year-old girl, suddenly disappeared from the third floor of the old Yaquina Bay villa where she was and was never found again. (1874, Summer)", + "location": "USA, Newport, Oregon", + "ref": [ + "continued in 1966", + "UFO Roundup, Volume 5, Number 11.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_408" + }, + { + "date": "2/1875", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"A few days ago we saw something we had never seen before: lights, eight in total, stretching over an estimated distance of 13 km and moving at times horizontally, at times vertically or in zigzag. Sometimes they had a very bright blue color, sometimes they looked more like electric light (...) They disappeared at one point, but they quickly came back, as bright as at the beginning...\" (February 1875)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Pwllheli (Wales)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 138", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_409" + }, + { + "date": "4/1875", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Edward L. Moss was on board the HMS Bulldog, cruising a few kilometers north of Vera Cruz in the Gulf of Mexico, when a line of light appeared on the northern horizon and, without any breath of wind, approached the boat and then passed it in a series of short pulsating lights. (April 1875)", + "location": "At sea, Gulf of Mexico", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 215", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_410" + }, + { + "date": "5/6/1875", + "desc": "(Translated from French) For the first time, mysterious detonations are spoken of, which still perplex scientists and experts today. English people passing near Baarisal, a small village located to the west of the mouth of the Ganges, 70 miles south of Dacca, heard cannon shots that seemed to come from all corners of the horizon.", + "location": "PAKISTAN, Barisal", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire\" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 210", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_411" + }, + { + "date": "12/1875", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Report by explorer G.B. Scott: \"In December 1875, when I was travelling from Calcutta to Assam, crossing the Sundarbans, the weather was calm, the sky clear, no atmospheric disturbances were foreseeable. During the day, the noise of conversations and navigation prevented me from hearing anything else. At night, when we stopped on the banks of the canals, far from the villages and surrounded by miles of marshes, there was nothing to break the silence except the lapping of the water and the fall of stones, and at regular intervals, some kind of cannon shots. Sometimes one, sometimes two or three in a row. They seemed to be fired from far away, but never from the same distance.\"", + "location": "INDIA, Calcutta", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"The E.T. and UFOs in History\" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 210", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_412" + }, + { + "date": "3/3/1876", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Under a completely clear sky, flakes (gelatinous) from 5 to 10 cm² fell in a dense shower on the ground and trees, but limited to a strip of land 100 m long by 50 m wide. (Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 53) It was seen falling from a cloudless sky a substance having the appearance of flesh. Flakes from 5 to 20 cm² fell in a shower covering the ground, trees and fences, in a corridor 50 m wide and 100 m long. (March 3, 1876)", + "location": "USA, Bath Country (Olympian Springs?) (Kentucky)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 52 - 1980 p. 4", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_413" + }, + { + "date": "2/27/1877", + "desc": "(Translated from French) ...a yellow rain of gold fell, the coloring matter of which consisted of four different organisms, with the total exclusion of pollen. These organisms had respectively the shape of an arrow, a coffee bean, a horn and a disc.", + "location": "GERMANY, Peckloch", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 41", + "Monthly Weather Review, May 1877", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_414" + }, + { + "date": "3/23/1877", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The lights that appeared in the sky were described as almost blinding balls of fire, coming from a cloud of one degree in diameter and moving with relative slowness. They were seen for more than an hour heading North and it was said that 8 or 10 years before similar ones had been observed in Vence itself.", + "location": "FRANCE, Vence", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 233, 234", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_415" + }, + { + "date": "3/27/1877", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 22:50, a phenomenon identical to that of Vence four days earlier was observed.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 139", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_416" + }, + { + "date": "3/27/1877", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A bright disc flew at low altitude over the city of Ghent emitting \"a great noise\".", + "location": "BELGIUM, Ghent (East Flanders)", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"The E.T. and the UFOs in History\" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 213", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_417" + }, + { + "date": "4/1877 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A silhouette resembling Spring Heel Jack appeared outside an army post in Aldershot. Two sentinels, very good shots, fired almost at point-blank range and hit him, as he refused to stop at their cries. The creature made a terrible leap and disappeared, leaving no traces of blood on the ground. (Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 84) Great return of \"Spring Heel Jack\". \"..sentries from two guard posts were frightened by the appearance of two bright spectres in the night, as if they were covered in phosphorus (...) The shapes could make leaps of ten meters in length..\" (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 139) A resident sees \"a strange being in tight clothes wearing a shiny helmet rising into the air\". His testimony is confirmed by two sentinels who also saw him and even shot at him, to no avail. This apparition, according to their words, \"paralyzed them with fear\". (1877, April (May 15?))", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Aldershot", + "ref": [ + "Yves Naud: \"Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire\" Famot 1977, volume 2, p. 213 which locates the phenomenon on May 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_418" + }, + { + "date": "Autumn 1877", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The inhabitants of Newport shot at Spring Heel Jack who was flying on the rooftops of the houses. He escaped, apparently without being injured. (Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 84) \"as if he had springs on his shoes because he could jump up to a height of nearly five meters without any difficulty\". (1877, Autumn)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Newport", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 139", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_419" + }, + { + "date": "Autumn 1877", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Spring Heel Jack appears in the locality, guards try to catch him: He jumps out of reach. (1877, Autumn)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Lincoln", + "ref": [ + "continued on September 10, 1904", + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 84", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_420" + }, + { + "date": "9/7/1877", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A light blinking regularly with an interval of 4 seconds flew over the city.", + "location": "USA, Bloomington (Indiana)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 139", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_421" + }, + { + "date": "1/22/1878", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The \"Daily News of Denison of January 25th, gave this report: Mr. John Martin, a farmer who lives about six miles south of our town, told us the strange story as follows: Tuesday morning, while hunting, his attention was drawn to a dark object quite high in the sky towards the south. The particular shape of this object and the speed with which it approached struck him and he made all his efforts to better distinguish it. At the time it was seen, it was roughly the size of an orange and continued to grow larger. Mr. Martin strained his eyes looking at it and turned away for a moment to rest his eyes. When he looked for it again, the object was almost vertical, its dimensions had increased considerably and it seemed to be advancing at a prodigious speed. When it passed vertically, the object was about the size of a large saucer and was obviously at a very high altitude. Mr. Martin thought it looked like a balloon as far as he could judge. It disappeared as quickly as it had appeared and was soon out of sight. (Donald KEYHOE: \"Les soucoupes volantes existent\". Ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p. 78, 79) A luminous disc is seen in the sky of Denison; a witness already uses the term \"saucer\" to describe it. An article from the \"Daily News\" dated the next day confirms it. (Henry DURRANT: \"Le livre noir des S.V.\"- Laffont 1970 - p.64) John Martin was hunting south of Denison on January 22nd when he saw an object descending from the sun, about the size of a large dinner plate. (January 22, 1878)", + "location": "USA, Denison (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" Ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 76", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_422" + }, + { + "date": "1878", + "desc": "(Translated from French) H. C. Russell, an astronomer, and his colleague G. D. Hirst were in the Blue Mountains near Sydney. Mr Hirst was gazing at the moon. Suddenly he saw what Russell calls \"one of the most remarkable facts that must be recorded at the moment, even if no explanation can yet be given for it.\" \"Hirst saw that a large part of the moon was covered by a shadow as dark as that of the Earth during a lunar eclipse. It was almost impossible to resist the conviction that it was a shadow, even if it could not be the shadow of a known body\". (...)", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, near Sydney", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, pp. 178-180", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_423" + }, + { + "date": "5/15/1879", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Captain Evans, a hydrographer of the British Navy, reported that Commander Pringle of the ship \"Vulture\" observed at 26°26' N latitude and 53°11' E longitude, waves of light or aquatic pulsations moving at great speed. He noted that the light waves passed under the Vulture. Looking eastward, it seemed like a wheel spinning on its axis and its rays lighting up, while to the west, an identical wheel moved in the opposite direction. The light waves extended from the surface to the depths of the sea. Commander Pringle thought that the rays came from a single wheel and that the doubling was pure illusion. He estimated that the objects were forty meters wide, spaced one hundred and fifty meters apart, and moved at 80 km/h for 35 minutes at 9:40 PM. After their passage, the boat crossed large patches of a floating substance that resembled \"schools of oily fry\". (May 15, 1879)", + "location": "GULF OF PERSIA", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 215", + "\"Nature\" 20-291", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_424" + }, + { + "date": "8/21/1879", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:30 PM Mary McLoughlin went out to visit a friend. It was raining. Passing by the church she saw several strange silhouettes and something like an altar with a white light, but she didn't linger. On the way back, in the company of Mrs Beirne, she saw three people surrounded by a bright light standing in the grassy meadow. A diocesan commission investigated and found at least 14 witnesses. They had seen lights on the church, a large luminous globe or the apparition of \"saints\".", + "location": "IRELAND, Knock", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 194, 195", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_425" + }, + { + "date": "4/1879", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Albert Humburg, a German immigrant, owned a mine in Sleight's Canyon. He had it worked by the three Ludlum brothers. Henry Ludlum told his brothers he had heard strange noises behind the rock walls of the mine's tunnels while he was working. His brothers replied that it was only the ground settling. But Henry insisted that what he had heard sounded like little cries, murmurs, whistles, and metallic noises. His brothers made fun of him. Henry then wanted to get \"proof\" to convince his brothers. The rest is told by Humburg's daughter, Mrs. Emma Hymas: \"I will never forget that April morning, it was barely 4 o'clock. There was still a lot of snow whose surface was frozen in a crust. Ludlum knocked on our door saying that his brother Henry had gone down into the mine the day before and had not come back up. They had been at the entrance of the mine calling him, but there was no answer. My father left the table and his breakfast, put on his red cape and accompanied the Ludlums. I remember that cape, new and red, which he was no longer wearing when he was found. In the mine there were pockets of bad air but the Ludlums lit fire torches, no doubt to purify them. When they arrived at the mine my father told them he wanted to go to the bottom, to see what was going on. So he got into the barrel that the brothers lowered with the pulley. My father found Henry Ludlum dead. With rope he tied the body to the barrel and gave the signal for it to be raised. About halfway up, the Ludlums heard a growl of a wild animal followed by the sound of a body falling. They started calling out with all their might, but my father did not answer. The barrel was raised, empty. So they quickly left for Paris (Idaho) to call for help. Several people arrived, with horses and sleds, but by then it was afternoon and no one wanted to go down into the mine in the dark. But they lowered a kind of grappling hook with a rope and, being as careful as they could, they managed to grab my father's blue overalls and raise his body. Bob Spence, a lawyer who was also there, thought he saw some signs of life still, but at that time no one knew about artificial respiration. I still clearly remember how my mother left the house with my six-year-old brother, climbing the hill and putting him in our homemade toboggan, to go and tell the Foxes, our neighbors, of my father's death. The men near the mine finally managed to raise Henry Ludlum's body too. The two corpses were taken to the judge's room for some kind of inquiry.\" The mines were never worked again after these mysterious deaths, of which no one ever knew the cause. Humburg's mine is still known today as the \"Hummingbird Mine\" in Peis Canyon 40 km south of Soda Springs in Idaho. (April 1879)", + "location": "USA, Sleight's Canyon (now Paris Canyon)", + "ref": [ + "Folklore from Utah, Wyoming and Southern Idaho, edited by Austin E. Fife, Volume III, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 1958, pages 16-17", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_426" + }, + { + "date": "5/8/1880", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ju Tan, as he was going to work in a field, saw in the air a shining object of different colors. He felt himself carried away through the clouds, in a strange state which did not allow him to struggle or to think, and suddenly felt himself thrown from a great height onto the side of a high mountain. Ju Tan was not injured but terrified beyond words: he did not know this landscape and wondered where he was. He followed a path at random to descend towards the valley. A woodcutter he met on the way told him he was in the province of Guizhou, more than a thousand li (about 500 km) from his starting point. When Ju Tan returned home, eighteen days had passed.", + "location": "CHINA, Xi-Yan (Hubei)", + "ref": [ + "FSR vol. 38 n° 4 winter 1993, Gordon Creighton, taken up by Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: \"Enquiry into E.T. Abductions\" - Plon 1995, p. 300, 301", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_427" + }, + { + "date": "5/1880", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On board the steamer \"Patna\", on a very dark night, around 11:30 PM suddenly appeared in the sky, on either side of the ship, enormous luminous wheels spinning on themselves and whose rays seemed to brush the ship. These rays measured from 200 to 300 m long and resembled the rods of schoolmistresses. And although each wheel must have had from 500 to 600 meters in diameter, one could always distinctly see the 16 rays it contained. Without any other visible light in the air above the water, this phosphorescent glow seemed to glide flat on the surface of the ocean. The appearance of these rays can be almost exactly imitated by agitating from a boat, a lantern horizontally above the water and making it describe concentric circles. The wheels escorted the ship for twenty minutes. Witnessed the phenomenon besides me: Captain Avern of the \"Patna\", Mr. Manning 3rd Officer. Sé Lee Fore Brace (May 1880)", + "location": "At sea, GULF OF PERSIA", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\". - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 211, 212", + "\"Knowledge\" 28 December 1883", + "pseudonym of J.W. Robertson", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_428" + }, + { + "date": "6/5/1880", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Commander Harris of the steamer \"Shahjehan\" saw at ten o'clock in the evening, on a calm sea and a cloudless sky, something so strange that he stopped his ship. He described waves spaced apart with bright light and an unidentified substance floating on the water: it did not illuminate anything but seemed lit up with the rest of the sea, by gigantic luminous rays. \"Wave after wave succeeded in one of the grandest and most solemn spectacles that can be imagined\". (June 5, 1880)", + "location": "At sea, off the coast of Malabar", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 214", + "\"Nature 21-410. Letter to the Englishman of Calcutta, 21.1.1881", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_429" + }, + { + "date": "1880", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A 14-year-old boy saw a luminous balloon descend from the sky and remain suspended above him. The witness then felt as if he was \"drawn\" to the object, but he managed to flee in spite of his fear.", + "location": "VENEZUELA (EAST OF..)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 140", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_430" + }, + { + "date": "Early 8/1880", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A large spherical light accompanied by two stars followed the course of a ravine for three minutes, then suddenly vanished. (Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\" - Trad. Laffont 1976, p. 272) A large circular craft followed by smaller bodies was observed. For three minutes these objects moved along a ravine and they disappeared in complete silence. (Early August, 1880)", + "location": "USSR, Saint Petersburg", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 140", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_431" + }, + { + "date": "8/20/1880", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Excerpt from the \"Bulletin de la Société Astronomique de France\" of 1885, observation by M. A. Trecul, astronomer: \"During a thunderstorm with thunder and lightning, I saw, in broad daylight, emerge from a dark cloud a luminous body, very bright, slightly yellow, almost white, of a slightly elongated shape, having apparently 35 to 40 cm in length, about 25 cm in width, with the two ends briefly attenuated in cone. This body was only visible for a few moments; it disappeared as if it were entering the cloud; but on its withdrawal, and this is what seems to me to be especially noteworthy, it left behind a small quantity of its substance, which fell vertically like a heavy body, as if it had been under the sole influence of gravity. It left behind a luminous trail, at the edges of which sparks, or rather reddish globules, were manifested, for their light was not radiant. Near the falling body, the luminous trail was almost in a straight line (vertical), while in the upper part it became sinuous. The small falling body divided during its fall and soon extinguished when it was about to reach the top of the screen formed by the houses. At its departure and at the moment of its division, no sound was heard, although the cloud was not far away. This fact seems to me to be especially interesting in that it undeniably denoted in the cloud the presence of a ponderable matter, which was not violently projected by an explosion, as in the case of bolides, nor accompanied by a loud electric discharge\". (Henry DURRANT: \"Le livre noir des S.V.\"- Laffont 1970 - p.67... to note that page 65 he tells the same thing with other words and on the date of 20.8.1880) August 25, Bagnères de Luchon. \"During a thunderstorm with thunder and lightning B. Vessiot saw in broad daylight emerge from a dark cloud, a luminous body very bright, slightly yellow, almost white, of a slightly elongated shape, with the two ends briefly attenuated in cones. This body was only visible for a few moments, it disappeared as if it were entering the clouds. But on its withdrawal it left behind a small quantity of its substance which fell vertically like a heavy body which had been under the sole influence of gravity. The small falling body divided during its fall and soon extinguished when it was about to reach the top of the screen formed by the houses\". [note from vog: either it is the same observation, or the same observation took place in two distant places 700 km apart at the same exact time, described with the same words?] (August 20 or 25, 1880)", + "location": "FRANCE, Paris - (or: Bagnères de Luchon?)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 141", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_432" + }, + { + "date": "9/8/1880", + "desc": "(Translated from French) W.T. Smith reported seeing \"a man\" at an altitude of 1600 m above Coney Island.", + "location": "USA, Coney Island (Brooklyn)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 141", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_433" + }, + { + "date": "9/23/1880", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 3:30 in the afternoon on this sunny Sunday, Mr. David Lang, a farmer, vanished from sight in front of five witnesses: his wife, his two children, his father-in-law, and a local judge. The father-in-law and the judge had just arrived in a wagon, and Mr. Lang was coming towards them across the field with his family. Without any warning, Mr. Lang ceased to exist. There was no cry, no sign of distress. Suddenly, he was lifted up and thrown down, disappearing into the ground he had just walked on. All afternoon and all night, searches were conducted throughout the field. The county police on the scene determined that there was no quicksand, no hidden underground cave, nothing... (September 23, 1880)", + "location": "USA, Gallatin (Tennessee)", + "ref": [ + "\"Coscon Files\" on the Internet, 5.1.1997", + "continued in April 1881", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_434" + }, + { + "date": "3/6/1881", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jovis, Allioth and Vivier, departed from Nice in a balloon, were picked up in the Mediterranean Sea. (March 6, 1881)", + "location": "France, Nice", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 41", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_435" + }, + { + "date": "4/1881", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: September 28, 1880) In April, seven months after his disappearance, the children heard their father's voice crying out as if he were deeply buried UNDERGROUND. The voice sounded desperate and tortured: he was calling for help. Gradually his voice became less and less audible until it disappeared. It was never heard again. At the spot of his disappearance, there was a circle of whitened grass 20 feet in diameter. (April 1881)", + "location": "USA, Gallatin, Tennessee)", + "ref": [ + "\"Coscon Files\" on the Internet, refers to a book by Strieber; 5.1.1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_436" + }, + { + "date": "6/11/1881", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The two sons of the Prince of Wales aboard \"La Bacchante\" saw at 04:00, along with the twelve members of the crew, a dull light which they took for a ghost ship.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA at sea between Melbourne and Sydney", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 141", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_437" + }, + { + "date": "8/14/1881", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The aeronaut from Armentières, departed from Montpellier, was lost in the Mediterranean Sea. (August 14, 1881)", + "location": "FRANCE, MONTPELLIER", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 41", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_438" + }, + { + "date": "10/14/1881", + "desc": "(Translated from French) PROFESSOR KING AND J. GEORGE HASHAGEN MADE AN ASCENT IN A FREE BALLOON OF A CAPACITY OF 100,000 CUBIC FEET. THEY REACHED AN ALTITUDE OF 5,000 FEET AND TRAVELED SOUTH-SOUTHWEST TOWARDS PEORIA IN ILLINOIS. At this point the winds caused them to turn back north. They landed in a swamp 70 km north of the Chippewa Falls. (October 14, 1881)", + "location": "USA, Milwaukee, Wisconsin", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's – A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 2", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_439" + }, + { + "date": "11/1881", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At least seven witnesses observed a curious aerial ballet. Nearly fifty lights were seen in the sky and they were arranged like a perfect pyramid near the Moon. The first was first seen in the northeast, while it was moving quickly. It stopped and was soon followed by four others that stopped in turn by aligning on the first. Then the ballet began and dozens of other lights joined those already in place to finally form a triangle that remained stationary for a good half hour in the sky. Finally, each of these lights left the ranks and the phenomenon disappeared in a few seconds. (November 1881)", + "location": "USA, St Joseph (Missouri)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 141-142", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_440" + }, + { + "date": "12/10/1881", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The government balloon \"Saladin\" landed in Bridport, but while its two companions had already set foot on the ground, the balloon suddenly disappeared with Powell on board, as if it had been violently sucked up. The unfortunate aeronaut was never found. The only pieces found in the Channel were a thermometer and a sleeping bag. What is curious is that at the same moment, on the other side of the Channel in Cherbourg, an unidentified flying object was observed. [In reality: the balloon \"Saladin\" rises by Gardner, Powell and Templar, rises from Bath. Gardner and Templar are projected from the Nacelle at the height of the coast. The balloon, with the corpse of Powell, is found in Spain.]", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Bath", + "ref": [ + "\"La conquête de l'air. Chronique...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 42", + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 142", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_441" + }, + { + "date": "2/11/1882", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Baumgarten and Woelfert Experiment with an Electrically Propelled Aerostat. (February 11, 1882)", + "location": "Germany, Charlottenburg", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 42", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_442" + }, + { + "date": "7/20/1882", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Moshaiski (or Mojaiski) Russian Constructor, would have made a flight on board of a \"heavier than air\". Proof was never formally provided; one thing is absolutely certain, the inventor would have ordered engines from Great Britain. The press provided descriptions and schemas.", + "location": "USSR, St Petersburg", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 42", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_443" + }, + { + "date": "11/17/1882", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Astronomer Walter Maunder described in the journal \"Observatory\": a large greenish light disc that moved quickly in the sky. Its circularity was obviously only an effect of perspective, as when passing over the moon it was described as \"having the shape of a cigar\", \"a torpedo\", a shuttle, a spindle. The effect lasted nearly two minutes, the color remained similar to that of the northern auroral lights. \"It seemed to be a definite body, the movement was too fast to be a cloud but nothing could look less like a meteor shower. The object was at an altitude of 60 to 500 km. Phenomenon also observed in Holland and Belgium. (November 17, 1882)", + "location": "GRANDE-BRETAGNE, Greenwich", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 231, 232", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_444" + }, + { + "date": "2/5/1883", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 18:45 a meteor was observed coming from the SSE towards the NO, when after 18 seconds it changed direction towards the SE. On its trajectory it made several deviations, and its brightness changed from that of a star to that of the sun, emitting a light sometimes white, sometimes yellow and throwing sparks at times. It disappeared after 50 seconds of observation.", + "location": "SWEDEN, Arvika", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 45, May 1979, p.30", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_445" + }, + { + "date": "5/2/1883", + "desc": "(Translated from French) …in the night the celestial drums thundered, the sky opened its eyes, a huge bright and multicolored star cast dazzling lights, it was heading from east to west preceded and followed by small stars. Strangely, when the lights reached the ground, a sound like thunder was heard. (May 2, 1883)", + "location": "CHINA, unspecified", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.44", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_446" + }, + { + "date": "7/3/1883", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Morlau (Belgian) and Conta (French) aeronauts take off from Courtrai and head towards Cologne. Above Louvain, the wind changes and pushes them towards the coast. They cross the Channel and land in Bromley (England). They have succeeded, the first ones, in the crossing from the continent to England.", + "location": "Belgium, Courtrai", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 42", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_447" + }, + { + "date": "8/1/1883", + "desc": "(Translated from French) ... a large number of luminous bodies penetrated the solar disk. Mr. Bonilla telegraphed to the observatories of Mexico and Puebla, where they had not been seen. Due to this parallax, Mr. Bonilla located the bodies \"relatively close to the earth\". But in his language of astronomy, whether it was birds, beetles, a super-Tamerlan or an army of celestial Richard-Coeur de Lions \"relatively close to the earth\" meant \"closer than the Moon\". One of these objects was photographed: the document shows a long body surrounded by undefined structures, or by the trembling of wings or of planes in motion. (Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 175) The astronomer Bonilla with his colleagues from the observatory of Zacatecas, noted in the space of two hours the passage of 283 unknown bodies in front of the solar disk. These objects had the most diverse shapes: often spherical, sometimes oval, moving alone or in pairs. A photograph of the phenomenon was published in \"L'Astronomie\" of 1885 p. 347. The following morning Bonilla was able to count the passage of 116 new strange bodies. To what invasion was the Earth preparing? It should be noted that it is manifest that these objects must have traveled at a low altitude since the astronomers installed in Mexico and Puebla were never able to observe them. (Frank EDWARDS, \"The S.V. Serious Affair\" - Trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 34-35) Unfortunately, the application of the optical formula cc' = f² allows to calculate the distance, therefore the dimensions and the real speed of these bodies. And given their appearance and their number, it is simply a flight of migratory birds. (August 1 or 12, 1883)", + "location": "MEXICO, Zacatecas", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 49, JANUARY 1980, p.12 article by Dominique Caudron, SOBEPS; see also on the Oncle Dom website the details of this affair", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_448" + }, + { + "date": "10/8/1883", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Tissandier Brothers succeed in the first ascent on board a motorized airship. They go from Auteuil to Croissy on Seine in 1 hour and 15 minutes.", + "location": "France, Auteuil", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 42", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_449" + }, + { + "date": "10/16/1883", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The fall of the matter occurred in the afternoon, in rainy and windy weather. The witness saw \"floating\" in the sky a thick cloud from which these flakes fell, fraying as they clung to the trees. This \"rain\" lasted about two hours. The matter, when ignited, burned and carbonized. Seen under the microscope it was composed of intertwined filaments, analogous to the threads of the virgin, of which it could be that the aforementioned cloud was an extraordinary agglomeration.", + "location": "FRANCE, Montussan in Gironde", + "ref": [ + "Jean SENNELIER, [cite G. Tessandier]: \"Angel hair fallen from the sky\"", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_450" + }, + { + "date": "1883", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Exceptional year. Astronomer Wolf one evening saw something that obscured a star for 3 and a half seconds. A meteor had been seen in the vicinity, but its trail had only been seen momentarily. The following data is one of the most sensational that I possess, although it is very brief. A dark object was seen by Professor Heis, on eleven degrees of the arc of a circle, and moving slowly across the Milky Way.", + "location": "Throughout the world", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 161", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_451" + }, + { + "date": "3/17/1884", + "desc": "(Translated from French) J.J. Montgomery made a series of flights using a glider of his own construction.", + "location": "USA, OTAY (California)", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 43", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_452" + }, + { + "date": "8/9/1884", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ch. Renard and A. Krebs made the first circuit, the first true voyage in a dirigible, aboard their apparatus named \"La France\". They rose from Chalais-Meudon and returned after a voyage of 23 minutes during which they covered 7 km 500. (August 9, 1884)", + "location": "FRANCE, CHALAIS-MEUDON", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 43", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_453" + }, + { + "date": "11/26/1884", + "desc": "(Translated from French) England embarks balloons, the first, destined for a military operation overseas (Bechuanaland). The expedition arrives at the Cape on December 19.", + "location": "ENGLAND", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 43", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_454" + }, + { + "date": "2/24/1885", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between Yokohama and Victoria at 37° North latitude and 170° East longitude, the captain of the ship \"Innerwich\" was awakened by his second who had seen something abnormal in the sky. (...) The captain saw the sky on fire \"suddenly a large flaming mass appeared above the ship, completely blinding the spectators\" and fell into the sea. Its size can be estimated, according to the volume of water it raised and which rushed onto the ship with a deafening noise, submerging it under a white and roaring foam. The captain declared that the horror of the spectacle defied all description. It is said that this large ball of fire rose near Cape Race at 150 m in height. Captain Moore of the English steamer Siberian declared that the object moved against the wind before disappearing and that he had already seen such apparitions in the same place. (February 24, 1885)", + "location": "At sea, ASIA", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 212, 213", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_455" + }, + { + "date": "8/27/1885", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:30 in the morning, Mrs. Adelina Bassett saw \"a strange object coming from the south in the middle of the clouds\". She called her friend, Mrs. L. Lowell, and both of them, not without some alarm, saw the triangular-shaped object, similar to a canoe sail and with chains hanging from it, seeming to land, then move away over the sea, and finally disappear very high in the clouds. (Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 205) The following observation briefly mentioned a strange round object noticed in the sky above the Bermudas. It was reported in the \"Royal Gazette\" of this archipelago. (August 27, 1885)", + "location": "BERMUDA", + "ref": [ + "Donald KEYHOE: \"Flying Saucers Are Real\" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p80", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_456" + }, + { + "date": "11/1/1885", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 9:30 PM a huge flying disc was observed by numerous witnesses; among them an astronomer. (Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970 - p.67-68) \"An elongated and very bright\" object was visible. It seemed to \"float in the air\". Its dimensions were four to five times larger than those of the full Moon. (November 1, 1885)", + "location": "TURKEY, Andrinople", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 144", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_457" + }, + { + "date": "11/2/1885", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the morning, a very bright flame, initially bluish, then rather green, moved at an altitude of barely six meters around the ferry dock of Sartari. The \"meteor\" remained in the sky for one minute and thirty seconds and disappeared into the waves, without any noise accompanying this immersion. (November 2, 1885)", + "location": "TURKEY, Sartari", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 144", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_458" + }, + { + "date": "11/1885", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A luminous red craft in the shape of a cigar was seen, its color changing from an intense brightness to an almost imperceptible red, and it was huge and seemed to float and stop in the middle of the air.", + "location": "TURKEY, Andrinople", + "ref": [ + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 21", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_459" + }, + { + "date": "3/19/1886", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, a darkness as total as midnight descended upon Oshkosh. This caused general consternation; people ran in all directions in the streets, horses panicked, women and children sought refuge in cellars. (...) This darkness lasted from 8 to 10 minutes, moved from west to east and was followed by almost immediate light. Shortly afterwards it was reported that the same phenomenon had occurred to the west of Oshkosh. (...) (March 19, 1886)", + "location": "USA, Oshkosh (Wisconsin)", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 182", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_460" + }, + { + "date": "5/3/1886", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In February, Maillot presented his 72 square meter kite to the French Society of Aerial Navigation. On May 3, he successfully experimented with his kite.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 43", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_461" + }, + { + "date": "9/12/1886", + "desc": "(Translated from French) H. Herve and Alluard, \"National\" Balloon, lifted off from Boulogne and landed in England only after an unusual duration of ascent: 24 hours 30 minutes, during which they travelled only 300 km. They used submerged deviators, invented by Herve, to change the direction of their balloon several times during this ascent.", + "location": "France, Boulogne", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 43-44", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_462" + }, + { + "date": "11/3/1886", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A white cloud emitting blinding rays of light traversed the sky, maintaining its initial shape the whole time. (Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 226) It was between 8 and 9 PM, a very dark night. Suddenly a white cloud appeared in the sky, sailing towards the northeast, and from time to time this cloud emitted bright rays of light in all directions. The cloud maintained its original shape during the entire observation and in the end disappeared into the night.", + "location": "NORWAY, Hamar", + "ref": [ + "NATURE, 16 Dec 1886, 159; Bullard: MYSTERIES IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER., 1982, 191 and THE AIRSHIP FILE., 1982, 379, cfr listing of Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_463" + }, + { + "date": "3/19/1887", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 37°39' North latitude and 57° West longitude, in the middle of the Atlantic, Captain C.D. Sweet of the Dutch ship \"J P A\" saw, during a severe storm, two objects crossing the sky above his vessel. One was luminous, but the second was dark. One of them, or both, fell into the sea with a rumble and a splash of waves. Immediately afterwards, blocks of ice were seen falling. (1887, 19th March)", + "location": "ATLANTIC OCEAN", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 222, 223", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_464" + }, + { + "date": "8/1887", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Farmers working in the fields saw a boy and a girl come out of a cave with skin the color of green leaves from a tree. They spoke in an unknown language and were handed over to the justice of the peace Ricardo da Calno. They wanted to remove the green color, but it was not makeup, it was the real pigmentation of the skin. They had certain Negroid features and Asian-type eyes. For 5 days they refused the food that was offered to them, finally they ate freshly cut beans. The boy, too weak, died, but the girl survived. The green color gradually disappeared and she then had a normal complexion for a white race being. She learned Spanish and worked as a maid in the judge's house. Questioned, her explanations thickened the mystery: she came from a sunless country separated from a luminous country by a wide river. There was suddenly a whirlpool and a terrible noise that had taken the children and deposited them in the cave. The girl survived 5 years, then died. (Jacques BERGIER: \"Les E.T. dans l'histoire\" - J'AI LU - 1970 - p. 156, 157) IN REALITY: The Barcelona Zoological Museum gave no details and directed the investigation towards a Spanish magazine dealing with non-traditional sciences. Javier Sierra of the magazine \"Mâs Allâ\" conducted an investigation into the case. It turns out that the village of Banjos never existed in Spain and that the only place with a name more or less similar is Banyoles, where the story is not known. He also found indications of a British legend from the 13th century, telling a similar story.", + "location": "SPAIN, Banjos", + "ref": [ + "(c) 1997 Jeroen Slurf and Jeroen Kümeling. UFO nieuwsbrief jaargang 2, nummer 1 et ALFRA, Humanoid research group. ", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_465" + }, + { + "date": "11/12/1887", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Captain Moore of the British ship \"Siberian\" saw around midnight an object of red color rising from the sea. The UFO climbed up to about twenty meters, then, against the wind, it moved towards the ship and stopped a few meters away. After five minutes of observation the sailors saw the object depart towards the southeast and disappear. Total duration of the observation: five minutes.", + "location": "At sea, Nova Scotia (CANADA)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 146", + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 21", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_466" + }, + { + "date": "5/1888", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A wave of \"snakes\" in the sky was observed. They emitted a whistling sound.", + "location": "USA, Darlington County (South Carolina)", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 1977 - p.91, 92", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_467" + }, + { + "date": "5/4/1888", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An object with an oval nucleus and black striped flames, suggestive of a structure. (Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 226) ... an oval disk, advancing at great speed was reported.", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND", + "ref": [ + "Donald KEYHOE: \"Flying Saucers Exist\" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p 81", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_468" + }, + { + "date": "6/1889", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At MATADI, the Belgians are conducting tests of an aerial post using hot air balloons. (June 1889)", + "location": "CONGO BELGE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 44", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_469" + }, + { + "date": "1889", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Major M. A. Waddel was the first European to report in 1889 that he had seen large footprints in the Himalayan snow, to the northeast of the Sikkim protectorate, at an altitude of about 5200 m. However, he did not see the Yeti making these tracks and he had to rely on the word of the porters who assured him that what he was seeing there were the tracks of the Yeti.", + "location": "HIMALAYA", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids...\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.120", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_470" + }, + { + "date": "12/24/1890", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Lerch family had invited about twenty friends to celebrate the holiday. The youngest son, Olivier Lerch, 20 years old, was particularly joyful as his fiancée and her parents were among the guests. Around 10 pm, Mrs. Lerch asked Olivier to fetch some water from the well in the farm's courtyard. He took two buckets and went out. A few minutes later, a horrible scream was heard outside, where everyone rushed. They distinctly heard \"Help! Help! They're taking me!\" and these cries came from above. This lasted for another 5 minutes. Near the well was a bucket, apart from that there was nothing in the courtyard. Afterwards, the well was dredged, but there was no trace of Oliver who never reappeared. (December 24th to 25th, 1890)", + "location": "USA, South Bend (Indiana)", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" - FLEUVE NOIR 1956 - p. 210 à 212", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_471" + }, + { + "date": "1890 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Approximately two years after (note from vog: after May 4, 1888) several aerial bodies were seen hovering above the Netherlands Indies. Most reports say they were roughly triangular, having about thirty meters at the base, and seventy meters on the sides. Some were narrow with a rounded base (...). (Around 1890)", + "location": "Netherlands Indies", + "ref": [ + "Donald KEYHOE: \"Flying Saucers are Real\" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p 81", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_472" + }, + { + "date": "1891", + "desc": "(Translated from French) German engineer Hermann Ganswindt, known as the inventor of the autogyro, the free wheel of the bicycle, a dirigible airship and many other things, presented in 1891 a project for a spacecraft propelled by the reaction of dynamite cartridges. He unfortunately fell into ridicule.", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 40", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_473" + }, + { + "date": "1891", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Otto Lilienthal builds his first glider. The successful test takes place in Grosskreuz.", + "location": "Germany, Grosskreuz", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 46", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_474" + }, + { + "date": "1891", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1891, Californian Thomas Blot wrote a small book in which he recounts his encounter with a Martian who suddenly appears before his eyes at his rural home. This Alien speaks to the man in English and provides him with abundant information about his planet, all of which was obviously false.", + "location": "USA, California", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 89", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_475" + }, + { + "date": "7/19/1894", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At noon a fireball descended at great speed. It suddenly stopped and remained suspended in the atmosphere leaving behind a bright line accompanied by smoke. After five minutes of suspension, at 12:12, a terrifying noise was heard and the fireball headed towards the summit of Mount Crithen. Continuing its march it fell into the sea with a new noise. On the same day and almost at the same time, the fall of fireballs and meteorites was reported in different points of Crete (Candia). An isolated black cloud having exploded, a luminous body having the shape of an inverted cone was seen, which, moving from southeast to northwest, fell into the sea near Heraklion. (...) A fireball, having an apparent length of two meters, passed very close to the prefectural house and descended to a certain point, almost at ground level then, changing direction and moving very quickly, parallel to the ground, disappeared towards the northwest. (July 19, 1894)", + "location": "GREECE, Boiai", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 147", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_476" + }, + { + "date": "8/16/1894", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In North Wales.. a disc from which an elongated flat fish-like orange body was projected, is reported by Admiral Ommaney.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Wales", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 225", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_477" + }, + { + "date": "8/20/1894 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On August 26th 1894, an English admiral reported having seen a large disc, projecting like a tail... (Donald KEYHOE: \"Flying Saucers are Real\" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p 81) C. Maltezos also recounts how at around 8:40pm, while travelling by train from Athens to Phalère, he saw \"a meteorite with the aspect of a large white globe, surrounded by a greenish atmosphere, and moving at a very slow speed.\" (August 20th (26th?), 1894)", + "location": "GREECE, between Athens and Phalères", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 147 which dates it to August 20th", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_478" + }, + { + "date": "6/27/1895", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At night, fishermen saw a luminous object fall into the lake Hesjoen, about 1 km from their position.", + "location": "NORWAY, Alen", + "ref": [ + "FJELD-LJOM, 8 Jul 1895; AFTENPOSTEN, 3 Apr 1990, 3 and UFO, 1/1991, 36, cfr listing of Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_479" + }, + { + "date": "10/16/1895", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Ethiopian army, marching towards Adoua where a battle was to take place, was frightened by the passage in the sky of something of a green color, leaving behind it a long trail of smoke and making a thunderous noise. This is what the Englishman Afework, chronicler and great friend of Negus Menelik, recounts. (October 16, 1895)", + "location": "ETHIOPIA, near Adoua", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970 - p. 68", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_480" + }, + { + "date": "12/16/1895", + "desc": "(Translated from French) M. Vanvinck Reniez presented the sketch of a slow bolide observed that day: of a vaporous appearance, yellow-reddish, it progressively doubled in volume and suddenly disappeared.", + "location": "FRANCE, Audruicq (Pas de Calais)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain LEFEUVRE 1979, p. 40", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_481" + }, + { + "date": "1895", + "desc": "(Translated from French) If we ignore a more than legendary Peruvian, named Pedro E. Paulet, who, according to foreign press information not confirmed, would have already conducted experiments with liquid fuel rocket engines around 1895-1897... (...) (1895-1897)", + "location": "PERU", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 45", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_482" + }, + { + "date": "1/6/1896", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On this anniversary of Joan of Arc, a magnificent meteor, coming from distant regions, crossed the Meuse Valley, stopped above the church of Domrémy, inclined to the left and came to rest in front of the heroine's door. It illuminated the facade for a few moments and disappeared without leaving a trace. The meteor seemed like a star as big as a child's head, it was followed by a luminous trail one meter long, ended by three stars arranged in a triangle.", + "location": "FRANCE, Domrémy", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain LEFEUVRE 1979, p. 40", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_483" + }, + { + "date": "5/6/1896", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A scale model airplane (13 kg) built by Langley, powered by a steam engine, flew in Washington.", + "location": "USA, WASHINGTON", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 49", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_484" + }, + { + "date": "8/20/1896", + "desc": "(Translated from French) CH. Lamson launches a kite carrying a mannequin weighing 68 kg. The rope breaks, but the apparatus glides and gently lands 800 m away.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 49", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_485" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1896", + "desc": "(Translated from French) .. letters from C. N. Crotsenburg, from Crow Agency. The observer was employed in the mail wagons and had long experience with all the phenomena related to his post. One day, as his train was moving north from Trenton, he and another employee saw in the darkness of a heavy rain, a light of round appearance and a pinkish color, which seemed to be thirty cm in diameter, floating 30 m from the ground, then rising \"halfway between the horizon and the zenith\". The wind was blowing hard from the east, but the light continued to go north. Its speed varied. Sometimes it exceeded the train, very considerably, other times it seemed to be lagging behind. The postal employees watched it until they reached Linville, in Iowa. The light disappeared behind the depot of this town and was never seen again. It had not stopped raining. (1896, Summer)", + "location": "USA, Trenton (Montana)", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 236", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_486" + }, + { + "date": "11/17/1896", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Hundreds of people observed a \"mysteriously powered electric arc lamp\".", + "location": "USA, Sacramento", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's – A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 1", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_487" + }, + { + "date": "11/23/1896", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In Oakland it was described as a 45 m long craft with four bright rotors. On Monday the 23rd the mysterious airship was spotted above Oakland, Berkley, Antioch and Chico. The \"San Francisco Call\" of November 1986 published a drawing of the airship while it was hovering above St Mary's College in Oakland. (November 23, 1896)", + "location": "USA, Oakland and surrounding areas", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 156", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_488" + }, + { + "date": "11/25/1896", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the Oakland Tribune it was read: Redbluff, November 26th. Several inhabitants affirmed to have seen the presumed space vessel in their neighborhood last night. It was seen for the first time around 7 pm and was taken for a bright star that moved quickly in the direction of the southwest towards the mountains behind which it disappeared. (vog: this space vessel thus only appeared as a very bright point high in the sky...) Shortly after a telegram from Chico announced that the vessel was passing over that city around 1 am in the night. It was then seen again in Red Bluff. Another telegram from Leesville announced that the object had taken the direction of Red Bluff, but after having made some turns it left from where it had come. Several citizens told us that at first only a light was seen, but that later the body of the egg-shaped object became visible and that it moved quickly in the sky. (...) Charles White, from East Oakland affirms for his part that he saw an aerial vessel last night. Around 6:15 pm it arrived from the direction of San Francisco. It approached quickly and caught up with the ferry-boat that was crossing the bay. It went so fast that it was already above Alameda while the ferry was only docking. Mr. A.B. Parker, ferry driver, confirmed the whole story as well as other passengers. (...) A young electrician from Oakland declared to us on his honor that he had seen the space vessel very close and that he can describe it with precision. The young man is Case Gillson, one of the professor Gillson's sons (..) His testimony is confirmed by other young people (..) Gillson and his friends saw the object twice in the evening of Thursday, at 8 pm and 8:30 pm. The sky was perfectly clear and a strong wind was blowing from the northwest. The aerial vessel moved quickly from the southeast to the north, against the wind. No light was visible, only the now well-known silhouette that was outlined against the starry sky. (...) It was heading towards Lorin at 300 to 450 m of altitude and looked like a large black cigar with a fish tail. If it had propellers, they must have been turning very quickly because Gillson couldn't see them. The body had a length of about 30 m and a kind of triangular panel was attached to it. The surface of the aerial vessel was like made of aluminum that had blackened from the wind and the bad weather. (...) it was moving at an incredible speed\" Why does this machine never appear in broad daylight, nobody knows and so the incredulous will continue to make fun of it until then\". (1896, November 25th and 26th)", + "location": "USA, California", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 156-157-158", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_489" + }, + { + "date": "11/28/1896", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Langley's Steam Airplane travels 1600 meters in 1 minute 45 seconds above the Potomac (Washington) and ends its flight and career in the waters of the river.", + "location": "USA, Potomac (Washington)", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 49", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_490" + }, + { + "date": "1896", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The author Aleister Crowley was mountain walking when suddenly he saw two small men. He waved to them but they did not seem to pay attention and disappeared among the rocks.", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Arolla (Zermatt)", + "ref": [ + "UFOs in Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997", + "Magic without tears by Crowley", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_491" + }, + { + "date": "1/22/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Hugh. D. Wise of the 9th infantry regiment, made a flight with a cellular kite.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 50", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_492" + }, + { + "date": "1/24/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the \"Kansas Semi Weekly Capital\" of March 31st 1897 it is written: The UFO was seen in the morning of Sunday, January 24th 1897. Several people believed that an experimenter was testing an \"airship\" of his invention about 16 km west of the town. This UFO circled for a few minutes before flying off to the north. In the \"Omaha, Nebraska Bee\" of February 2nd 1897 the report is somewhat different: Several inhabitants of Hastings reported having seen an airship or something of the same kind, to the west of the town. It was seen for the last time floating at about 175 meters above the ground, after having stayed stationary for 30 minutes. Then it took a circular flight heading north for 2 miles, returning to the place of its stationary position, where it finally descended in a straight line. It was not seen again until the evening, when it reappeared at an altitude of 275 to 300 meters, stationary a few miles to the west of Hastings. At first glance it appeared like an immense star. On closer inspection it was noticed that the fantastic coloring of the light must have been produced by a very powerful dynamo. At 9:30 pm on Monday, January 25th, the great light was observed circling for several minutes before descending to an altitude of 70 to 80 meters, circling at an amazing speed on an axis of nearly 2 miles. This lasted about 15 minutes, the speed decreased and suddenly the light disappeared as mysteriously as it had appeared. (1897, January 24th and 25th)", + "location": "USA, Hastings (Nebraska)", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Roundup, vol. 2 n° 4 of 26.1.1997, Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_493" + }, + { + "date": "2/5/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The \"Ohama Bee\" newspaper of February 5, 1897 reported that the UFO had reappeared. It was people from a small farm, returning from the temple, who observed it. The thing seemed conical in shape and was 30 to 40 feet long, with a large headlight and six smaller lights, three on each side. On one side the object seemed to have a winged structure as well as a large rudder in the shape of a fan. The witnesses said they heard a buzzing sound as well as the voices of the occupants of this craft. (February 5, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Invale (Nebraska/Kansas)", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Roundup, vol. 2 n° 4 of 26.1.1997, Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_494" + }, + { + "date": "3/26/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Robert Hibbard was grabbed by an anchor suspended from a rope coming from some kind of aerial ship. The unfortunate man was dragged for about ten meters before he could free himself. When the grapple let go, he fell heavily to the ground. (..) He clearly saw a dark object lit up on each side by electric incandescent lamps, coming from the south at an altitude of about 1500 meters. When it reached his height, the object changed direction and descended towards the ground before returning in its original direction, trying to kidnap him with a grapple. \"A magnificent ball of fire was seen in the clouds, shining for a moment before it went out a short time later (The Hudson Post)... [note from vog: see: 1843, July 16 FRANCE, NANTES, true story taken up by the Americans 50 years later to fill their newspapers with fantasy...]", + "location": "USA - Near Sioux City (Iowa)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 52-160-161", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_495" + }, + { + "date": "4/1/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:15 PM thousands of people observed the mysterious light above Kansas City. Flying sometimes at high altitude, sometimes at the level of the daisies, the object moved from west to north, then from south and finally disappeared towards the north. The glow seemed to have the dimensions of a large street lamp and must have been at the height of the clouds. At one point a beam of light came out of it, somewhat like a projector. Its color changed from white to bright red, it moved in various directions, at a regular speed. (April 1, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Kansas City", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 161-162", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_496" + }, + { + "date": "4/1/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) That same night the citizens of Everest (Kansas) followed the maneuvers of the (same?) craft for 80 minutes: \"At one point and for five minutes the airship flew along the lower part of the clouds which were very low in the sky and it was then that the powerful lights it carried were reflected on the cloud masses, thus illuminating the flying object whose every detail could be seen. The basket or gondola must have been between 7.50 and 9 meters long and its shape evoked that of an Indian canoe. Four luminous wings emerged from the gondola, two of them being triangular. A large dark frame was visible immediately above the basket and the witnesses thought it was a balloon inflated with gas. That it was the same source that powered the headlights and the propulsion of the craft seems obvious, since these lights weakened when the object gained speed and became very bright when it hovered at low altitude. One of the witnesses saw a blue glow, others saw it rather white or red.\" (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 161-162) The object was first observed around 9:30 pm by two or three people, but they only saw the bright headlights. A few minutes later, when the object approached, its huge frame was visible. It was like an immense cigar and half the town's inhabitants were watching it. The airship seemed to make erratic movements. Instead of moving in a straight line, it undulated and leaned once to the left, once to the right, but all this apparently under absolute control. The airship came from the north and was observed for a quarter of an hour before disappearing towards the south. The town's inhabitants propose to look at the sky very often in the hope of seeing this phenomenon again, because for some time now it has been appearing often in the early evening and returning very early in the morning. (April 1, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Everest (Kansas)", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Folklore Center - Roundup vol 2 n° 14 of April 6, 97 - Joseph Trainor", + "from: Evening Times of Pawtucket of April 2, 1897", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_497" + }, + { + "date": "4/3/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"Reliable witnesses declared under oath to have seen what they assumed to be an aerial vessel. (...) It had the shape of a cone with lit windows on the side. They could not make out how the craft was propelled...(..) it seemed to be navigating at no more than a few tens of meters above the ground. Sometimes it moved slowly, sometimes it went really fast. Sounds were heard coming from the object. Some said it was human voices, others that it was simply the noise of the machinery.", + "location": "USA, Wesley, Iowa", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 161-162", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_498" + }, + { + "date": "4/5/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) About a hundred inhabitants saw at the same time a round flying object with a diameter of 12 feet. It was night. The object became so bright that people who were sleeping woke up, and a panic began to spread among the population.", + "location": "USA, Omaha (Nebraska)", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 3", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_499" + }, + { + "date": "4/6/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11:00 PM, Mr. Trumbull, the owner of the Arlington Hotel, saw a dark object moving above the town. Soon he saw that the object had a bright light on its front and was using it like a projector, sweeping the sky in different directions. Several other witnesses followed the movements of the craft for a few minutes. The following night it was observed above Belle Plaine (Iowa).", + "location": "USA, Guthrie (Oklahoma)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 163", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_500" + }, + { + "date": "4/8/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An object was seen moving along the railway. It was first spotted in Cedar Rapids (9:00 PM) before disappearing an hour later. The object had a bright and dazzling light that illuminated a metallic hull and wings on either side. It glided through the air emitting a whistling sound.", + "location": "USA, Cedar Rapids", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 163", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_501" + }, + { + "date": "4/9/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The inhabitants saw the ship cross Lake Michigan, heading towards the land, slowly veering northwest and disappearing into the darkness. \"...The main body of the nocturnal flying object must have been 20 m long, it was of pleasant proportions and seemed to be very fragilely constructed. Attached to this body was a searchlight and other lights. Some observers claimed to have seen, at a short distance above this main body, structures resembling wings or sails. These latter must have been 6 m wide.\" Another railroad story took place near Chicago. The driver of an express mail train, Mr. F. L. Bullard, suddenly saw his locomotive overtaken and then passed by \"a dirigible moving at least 240 km/hour\".", + "location": "USA, Chicago", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 163", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_502" + }, + { + "date": "4/9/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One of the most curious describes an incident that began on April 9. In the Midwest, a huge cigar-shaped craft was seen flying at a very high altitude. Short wings protruded laterally, according to astronomers who observed it through a telescope. ... On April 16, the object disappeared from the Midwest. (1897, starting April 9)", + "location": "USA, in the Midwest", + "ref": [ + "Donald KEYHOE: \"Flying Saucers Are Real\" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p 81", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_503" + }, + { + "date": "4/10/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 2000 citizens of Newton observed from 8:00 PM on this Saturday evening of April 10 the mysterious aerial craft that flew over their city for nearly 40 minutes. Heading towards the northwest, it at one point released a kind of \"parachute\" to which a light was attached. That night it was also seen above Eldon (7:25 PM), Ottumwa (7:40 PM), Albia (8:10 PM), Wausau and Fort Atkinson (Wisconsin) and Winemac (Indiana). It was also observed for a quarter of an hour in Galesburg (Illinois). The object had a very bright white light and flew over the city at an altitude of about 1200 m. (April 10, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Newton (Iowa)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 165", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_504" + }, + { + "date": "4/11/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The New York Herald announced the reappearance of a spacecraft above Chicago: \"The famous airship now above Chicago. The city is excited by the appearance of lights moving quickly in the sky. Astronomers are incredulous. They think that these lights come from a star in the constellation of Orion. It is a dirigible balloon, said Max Harmar, secretary of the Aeronautical Association of Chicago.", + "location": "USA, Chicago", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of S.V.\"-Laffont 1970 - p. 68, 69", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_505" + }, + { + "date": "4/11/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Almost 400 citizens of Norman saw a brightly lit craft at low altitude above a lake near Evanston. It navigated in all directions above the city before finally heading west. At the same time it was seen in Niles Center, Schemerville and Kankakee.", + "location": "USA, Norman, (Oklahoma)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 163", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_506" + }, + { + "date": "4/11/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Hundreds of inhabitants saw the craft hovering above Black Lake at 8:35 PM: \"it was a huge dark mass lit up by lights of all colors\". After hovering for a few minutes it departed in a zigzag pattern towards the northwest. That same night the same phenomenon was seen in Milwaukee and above Chicago where a photo was even taken.", + "location": "USA, Holland (Michigan)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 166", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_507" + }, + { + "date": "4/11/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) More than 800 km west of Holland, Mr. Butler observed around midnight a strange flying apparatus. \"At the top there was like a large balloon in the shape of a cigar. It was about ten meters long, three meters wide and it was tilted to the side. Below there was a gondola that looked like those of a Ferris Wheel. There was also a row of windows on the side. (...) The object emitted a sound like a flock of quail taking off. In four or five minutes the airship was out of sight, disappearing to the south.\" (April 11, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Sioux City", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 166", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_508" + }, + { + "date": "4/12/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On Monday the 12th, a huge cigar-shaped craft topped with a dome landed around 2:30 PM on the property of Mr. Z. Thacker, 19 km from Carlinville. Three witnesses, Messrs. Edward Teeples, William Street and Franklin Metcalf, wanted to approach it, but before they could reach the craft, it slowly rose up and majestically flew off to the north. (April 12, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Nilwood (Illinois)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 166-167", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_509" + }, + { + "date": "4/12/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 6:00 PM, several miners saw an unknown flying object 3 km north of Green Ridge and 4 km south of Girard. The night service agent of the Chicago-Alton railway line, Mr. Paul MacCramer, stated that he had gotten close enough to the craft to see a man come out and repair the machinery. Numerous traces of the object were found, which was very elongated and topped with a double dome. The object then took off in a northerly direction, towards the Great Lakes. (April 12, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Girard (Illinois)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 167", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_510" + }, + { + "date": "4/12/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A flying vessel was seen in this town around 8:30 PM. It was coming from the southeast, moving at an altitude of barely sixty meters above the tree tops. Its speed was low, less than 20 km/h. The machine was clearly visible. It was described as having a length of 18 m and with wings that vibrated. An indistinct noise of an engine and music could be heard, as if there was an orchestra in the sky. It moved towards the north and, increasing its speed, it quickly disappeared. Almost the entire population saw it (...) The weather was very cloudy and it had lightly rained all evening, so that no stars were visible. One was also observed above Shermann at 8:00 PM and Williamsville at 8:45 PM.", + "location": "USA, Fontanella (Iowa)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 167", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_511" + }, + { + "date": "4/12/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At least twenty people were observing the maneuvers of an \"airship\" above the Battle Creek sanatorium. The craft had extinguished all its lights. One of the witnesses, Mr. Dixon, stated: \"The upper part of the object had the shape of a cone and suspended from it there was something cylindrical and rather dark. At the back of this last body, there was something like a wheel emitting a buzzing sound which was very clearly heard\". Suddenly there was an explosion. Sparks flew in all directions and the craft began to descend from an altitude of 1500 m to 800 m. A new explosion soon resounded, flames came out of the \"wheel\" and the craft then began to rise again. At the same time, it extinguished the two lights it had lit (one red at the front and one blue at the back) and disappeared from the view of the spectators. (April 12, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Battle Creek (Michigan)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 167-168", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_512" + }, + { + "date": "4/12/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Approximately 40 km east of Kalamazoo, George W. Somers and William Chadburn observed an illuminated object flying overhead at almost the same time. A dull explosion was heard, soon followed by a series of detonations. The next morning, various debris was found scattered 3 km away in Scotts, including a large coil of metal wire likely intended for electrical use. (April 12, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Kalamazoo", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 167-168", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_513" + }, + { + "date": "4/13/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening, Mr. and Mrs. Parks saw a very bright object buzzing overhead their farm. At one point, this body ejected a flaming piece which crashed. Terrified, Mrs. Parks forbade her husband to approach it, but the next morning George Parks and his brother Benjamin returned to the spot and discovered a large aluminum propeller of nearly one meter in diameter. (April 13, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Pennfield (Michigan)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 168", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_514" + }, + { + "date": "4/14/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) While he was feeding the pigs on his farm at 6:00 in the morning, James Mc Kenzie heard a curious noise as if a flock of geese was passing over him. Looking up, he then saw an astonishing giant bird flying towards the southwest at 50 meters altitude. The object had wings and some kind of tail or rudder. It emitted a musical sound and Mc Kenzie distinctly heard a human voice as the bird passed. Something very large and white fell from the craft, but Mc Kenzie had no reaction that day. When he went to look the next day with friends, he found nothing. (April 14, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Casstown", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD - Inforespace n° 36, p. 37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_515" + }, + { + "date": "4/14/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 3 pm in the afternoon an object landed 2 km south of Gas on John Roush's property, frightening the farmers and causing horses and cattle to flee. Six occupants emerged and seemed to take bearings or make some repairs. Before the witnesses could approach, the craft quickly flew off to the east.", + "location": "USA, Gas (Indiana)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 169", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_516" + }, + { + "date": "4/14/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An hour and a half later, 300 km north of Gas, an object shaped like a balloon is said to have landed near Reynolds after having remained suspended in the sky for an hour. A strange 3 m tall figure emerged from it, almost naked, and even injured one of the witnesses of the phenomenon. Around 9 pm the aerial vessel was seen above Weatherford, Corsicana and Fort Worth. (April 14, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Reynolds (Michigan)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 169", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_517" + }, + { + "date": "4/14/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Joseph Singler, captain of the Sea Wing, was fishing with S. M. Davis from Detroit when they saw on the lake what they took to be a boat about 13 m long with a dome-like structure. A man in his twenties wearing a hunting jacket and a cap was fishing from the deck of the object. Near him was a young woman and a ten-year-old child. When the Sea Wing approached the craft, a large colored balloon emerged from it and the whole thing rose to an altitude of 150 m. There it made some turns \"like a falcon\" and eventually flew away into the distance. (April 14, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Cleveland (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 169", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_518" + }, + { + "date": "4/15/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"... Thursday morning they saw a large object moving slowly in the sky towards the north and seeming to want to land. Five people (...) decided to pursue it. They found the craft on the ground about 6 km north of the town and approached it to within less than 700 m. Suddenly the object extended four gigantic wings and rose towards the north, letting out two large stones of unknown composition which were exhibited in the village. There were two strange people on board who tried in vain to hide. Evans and Croskey say that these occupants had the longest beards they had ever seen in their lives.\"", + "location": "USA, Linn Grove (Iowa)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 169", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_519" + }, + { + "date": "4/15/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the same time, a craft landed. Two farmers, Adolph Winkle and John Hull, attested in writing and under oath that they had seen a strange craft land in a field to repair some electrical devices on board. They claimed to have spoken with the occupants, two men and a woman, who revealed to them that the machine had flown from Quincy to Springfield (160 km away) in just thirty minutes. These characters also declared that they would \"make a report on all this to the government when Cuba is free\". ?? (April 15, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Springfield (Illinois)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 170", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_520" + }, + { + "date": "4/15/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Witness William Megiveron recounted how that night he had been awoken by knocks on a window of his house. When he opened his eyes, a strong light blinded him. He immediately got out of bed and went to look outside: that's when he heard a voice above him. This voice explained to him that the glow was coming from an aerial ship that had been hidden behind the clouds since the afternoon. A burst of lead from a duck hunter had then suddenly damaged one of its wings and the occupants had had to repair it immediately. The voice asked the witness to go and get four dozen eggs, sandwiches, and a coffee pot for the crew. After Megiveron had complied, a large bucket containing Canadian coins was lowered for payment. According to the witness the craft must have been at an altitude of 90 m. He could not make out its shape due to the projector that was blinding him. Megiveron repeatedly asked to be allowed on board, but was met with laughter each time. He supposes that the crew must have been drinking as they had also asked for a corkscrew...", + "location": "USA, Pine Lake", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 170-171", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_521" + }, + { + "date": "4/15/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At Dunkirk, railroad workers, including Messrs. French and Willis Mahon, saw at 8:15 PM an airship so close to the ground that they could hear the occupants speaking. They said that \"the thing was as big as a wagon and it had wings that extended on the sides with some kind of engine at each end. In front there was a clearly visible red light and at the back there was a yellow-green lamp.\"", + "location": "USA, Dunkirk", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD - Inforespace n° 36 p. 37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_522" + }, + { + "date": "4/15/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Farmers Byron Rutter and Billy Schneider saw an object dark in shape like a cigar with two pairs of large wings fly over them. Rutter specified: \"It was inclined at an angle of 45°, which made me think it had landed not far away and had just taken off.\"", + "location": "USA, Fair Field", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD- Inforespace n° 36 p. 37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_523" + }, + { + "date": "4/15/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9pm Spencer Bounds, a lawman, was surprised by the glare of a bright light coming from a projector that lit up above him. The surrounding landscape became as visible as in broad daylight. His horse was so terrified that it reared, backed away, and started to act as if it had gone mad, trembling like a leaf.", + "location": "USA, Hillsboro Texas", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués\" - ed. Ramuel 1999, p 149", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_524" + }, + { + "date": "4/16/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the \"Dallas Morning News\" of April 18 and 19 and the \"Houston Post\" of April 20 and 22, a certain E.E. Haydon, witness to the affair, wrote at the time: \"Around 6:00 a.m. the inhabitants of Aurora were surprised by the sudden appearance of the airship (...) It was advancing facing north and very close to the ground. It was quickly understood that part of its machinery was out of service, which is why its speed did not exceed 20 km/h and it was gradually approaching the ground. It sailed over the public park and when it reached the bottom of the town, it crashed against the windmill of Judge Proctor. Immediately there was an explosion, debris flew in all directions, the windmill and a water tank were destroyed, as well as the wonderful flower garden of the judge. The pilot of the aircraft must have been alone on board and although he was terribly disfigured by this accident which cost him his life, it was nevertheless realized that he was not a inhabitant of this world. Mr. T. J. Weems, the officer of the U.S. Signal Service of Aurora and an authority in astronomy, declared that in his opinion it must have been a native of Mars. The papers found on him, probably the account of his travels, were written with unknown hieroglyphs and could not be deciphered. The aircraft was really in too bad a condition to form an opinion about it. It was built in an unknown metal, somewhat resembling an alloy of aluminum and silver and it must have weighed several tons. Today the crowd is filled with a crowd come to look at the accident site. Everyone is trying to find debris from the device to keep as a souvenir. The funeral of the pilot will take place tomorrow April 18 at noon.\" [IN REALITY: Everyone is convinced that it is one of the many hoaxes of the time, this one mounted by the journalists. Some ufologists sought, around 1966, evidence for the veracity of the story, with varying success. However, investigators had to discover that there had never been a windmill there, as certified by the current owner of the site, the local mayor. Obstinate, some wanted to search the cemetery a few years ago to find the bones of the burned pilot... The local council opposes it, of course.]", + "location": "USA, Aurora (Kansas)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 172-173", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_525" + }, + { + "date": "4/17/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Early in the morning of Saturday, April 17th around 6:15 a.m. M.C.T. Smith, on his way to work, stumbled upon a metal piece to which an envelope was attached. Inside was a distress message: \"To whoever finds this: we are 750 meters above sea level, facing north at the time of writing these lines. While testing our airship we got lost and are now unable to control it. Please alert people by telling them that we are somewhere above Michigan. Signed: Arthur B. Coats, Laurel, Missouri C.C.Harris, Gulport, Missouri C.W.Rich, Richburg, Missouri.\" (April 17, 1897)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 172", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_526" + }, + { + "date": "4/17/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Several authorities of the city (including the judge) had discussed for a few moments with the occupants of a curious object. They were called S. E. Tilman and A. E. Dolbear. The latter prevented the witnesses from approaching the machine, even specifying that the capitalists of New York were financing them and that aerial navigation would soon be an established fact to reveal to the public.", + "location": "USA, Stephenville (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 172", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_527" + }, + { + "date": "4/17/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An interesting observation of this flying object was made in the morning. The object had purple, yellow, and green lights. The witness E.T. Kenan described it as \"a trough about twelve meters long, with wings like those of a 16th century windmill(?)\"", + "location": "USA, Sandusky", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD, Inforespace n° 36 p. 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_528" + }, + { + "date": "4/17/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the morning, twelve farmers saw a craft for at least an hour before it landed. A humanoid about 3 m tall, visibly suffering from the heat, seemed to be piloting the craft. Its almost musical voice seemed to be a series of lowing. One of the farmers approached it and received a blow that broke his hip.", + "location": "USA, Williamston (Michigan)", + "ref": [ + "Christiane PIENS: \"Les Ovni du passé\" - Marabout 197 - p.99", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_529" + }, + { + "date": "4/18/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The inhabitants observed a huge flying machine with wings and a projector. It moved quickly in the sky emitting a sound of \"gasoline engine\".", + "location": "USA, Cutler", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD, Inforespace n° 36 p. 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_530" + }, + { + "date": "4/19/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) That morning, early, the town of Sisterville was awakened by whistles from the sawmill. Those who came out of their homes had a curious sight. From an object in the shape of a torpedo, which was crossing the sky, dazzling beams of light were directed downwards, exploring the countryside. The object seemed to have about seventy meters in length, and a diameter of about fifteen. It had truncated wings, as well as red and green lights on the sides. The aerial visitor circled around the town for about ten minutes, then disappeared in the direction of the east. (Donald KEYHOE: \"Flying Saucers are Real\" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p. 82) A gigantic, shining red object coming from the northwest, resembling a huge cigar, shooting at least two spotlights on Sistersville. \"Through binoculars it seemed to be a large cone-shaped object of more than 50 m in length, with large fins on each side\". Thirty minutes later, another object was seen in Longview (Texas). (April 19, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Sistersville (West Virginia)", + "ref": [ + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Flying Saucers are Serious Business\" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_531" + }, + { + "date": "4/19/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 10:30 PM an extraordinary event occurred in LeRoy. The affair was reported by the Farmers Advocate of Yates Center, one of the witnesses being an old settler Alex Hamilton who told the reporter: \"We were awakened by a noise coming from the cattle enclosure. I immediately got up thinking it might be my bulldog playing around. But when I got to the door, to my great surprise, I saw an aerial vessel descending slowly above my cows, two hundred meters from the house. I called Gid Heslip, my farmer, and my son Wall. We grabbed some axes and rushed towards the corral. Meanwhile the flying machine had slowly descended to an altitude of about ten meters. It was there, fifty meters away from us, in the shape of a large cigar that was at least one hundred meters long. Underneath there was a kind of box made of glass panels or some other transparent material, separated by strips of another material. It was brightly lit from the inside and everything was clearly visible. There were three lights: one like a huge projector and two smaller ones, one red and the other green. The largest of them seemed to be able to be pointed in any direction. This kind of gondola was occupied by six of the strangest beings I had ever seen. There were two men, a woman and three children. They were jabbering among themselves, but I was unable to understand a single syllable. Every part of the vessel that was not transparent had a dark reddish hue. We remained speechless with astonishment and fear, when suddenly a noise drew our attention and they immediately turned their projector towards us. Having spotted us, they started some unknown power and a large turbine propeller (about ten meters in diameter) began to buzz quickly while just a moment before it had been turning slowly above the machine. Soon the craft rose as lightly as a bird. When it was about ten meters above us, it seemed to stop and hovered just above a three-year-old heifer that was crying and jumping around like crazy. Going in its direction we found a cable about a good centimeter in diameter made of the same red material and that was tied around the animal's neck with a slip knot, the other end going towards the machine where it was connected by a metal wire. We tried to untie it, but without success. We then wanted to cut it but to our astonishment the machine and the cow rose slowly into the sky and disappeared to the northwest. We went back home but I was so scared that I couldn't sleep. On Tuesday morning I left at dawn on my horse to look for traces left by my cow. Coming back in the evening to LeRoy I learned that Lank Thomas, who lives in Coffee County, about six kilometers west of LeRoy, had found the skin, legs and head of the animal in his field. He had thought that someone had butchered a stolen beast and had brought the skin to town for identification. The fact of not finding any trace on the spot had however seriously worried him. I returned home last night, but I still can't sleep, constantly remembering that cursed thing with its big lights and its hideous occupants. I don't know if they are messengers from the devil or angels, but in any case we all saw them, and my family and I never wish to have anything to do with them again.\" (Frank Edwards: \"Serious UFO Cases\" - trans. Laffont 1967 - p. 18, 19) IN REALITY: Pete.Porro, FIDONET.ORG, GREAT AIRSHIP HOAX Date: 31 Dec 93, which refers to the book: \"UFO's and the Limits of Science\" Ronald D. Story 1981, Pages 39-40. On January 28, 1943, 46 years later, an article in the Buffalo Enterprise published the letter of E.F. Hudson, who was in 1897, editor of the Yates Center Farmer's Advocate. He admitted to having set up the hoax with Mr. Hamilton, they were both members of the \"Ananias\" club (Liars' Club). [note from vog: see also \"L'Atmosphere\", by Camille Flammarion, 1888, explaining the vogue of dirigibles since... at that time, a hundred years already and confirmed in.] (April 19, 1897)", + "location": "USA, LeRoy (Kansas)", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's - A century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 5", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_532" + }, + { + "date": "4/19/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At Belton, the aerial ship damaged a large tent intended for shows and on board were seen \"about ten people talking among themselves but in an incomprehensible way due to the speed of the object\". That same night it was also seen above Richmond (Texas).", + "location": "USA, Groesbeck and Belton", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 178", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_533" + }, + { + "date": "4/19/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the newspapers, the following account was read: \"Mr. J. R. Ligon, local agent of the Magnolia Brewery of Houston and his son Charly observed the famous airship in the evening of Monday, April 19th around 11:00 PM. They saw lights in the farmer Johnson's field and went to the place to see what it was. They then saw four small men circling around a large dark object. Contact was made and the men asked for two buckets of water from Ligon. One of these men said his name was Wilson, he led Ligon and his son to the machine which measured 41 meters long and 6 meters wide. It was powered by four gigantic wings, two on each side. The energy was of electrical origin. The hull of the craft is made of steel and is divided into compartments in which compressed air is injected during flight. The ballast contains water. This is pumped forward to approach the ground or backward when one wants to rise. Wilson further specified to Ligon that this machine was only one of the five machines they had developed and built in a peaceful village in Iowa\". (April 19, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Beaumont (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 175-176", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_534" + }, + { + "date": "4/20/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 10 pm Sheriff H. W. Baylor heard voices and saw a strange light behind his house. That's when he saw three men near a craft. One of the characters gave his identity: Wilson, from Groshen (New York) and asked for news of the previous sheriff, a certain C.C. Akers, whom he had known very well. (??) Here we find the citizen Wilson, alleged \"inventor\" of the airship.", + "location": "USA, Uvalde, (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 178-179", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_535" + }, + { + "date": "4/20/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It is probably from this Tuesday, April 20, that the fabulous adventure of Captain James Hooton, train driver, dates. He had gone that day to Texarkana (Texas) and having free time in front of him, he had decided to go to Homan. He recounts: \"It was about 3:00 pm when I arrived at Homan. Around 6:00 pm, after having spent a good afternoon at my favorite sport, I set off to reach the station. As I advanced in the bushes, my attention was drawn to a familiar sound, that of the whistle of the air pump of a locomotive. I then headed in the direction from which the noise came and there, in a kind of clearing, I saw the object that emitted the whistle. I was more than surprised and immediately understood that it was the famous flying ship that had been seen across the country. There was a man of medium build on board and I noticed that he was wearing dark glasses. He was repairing what seemed to be the back of the ship and as I approached, he was so stunned that he could not speak. (...) While I addressed him a few words, three or four other men came out of what must have been the keel of the flying ship. A close examination showed me that this part was divided into two (...) there were three large wheels on each side, they were metal bars folded in a concave shape. - I beg your pardon, I said, but it seems to me that the noise I hear is very similar to that of the Westinghouse brake. - It is quite possible, I was answered, we use airplanes and compressed air but you will soon know more. I also observed that a tube of about 3 cm section, began to send steam on the wheels and that these began to turn. The machine rose little by little emitting a whistle. It soon accelerated and in less time than it takes to say, they disappeared from my sight\". (April 20, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Homan (Arkansas)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 179, witness drawing p. 180", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_536" + }, + { + "date": "4/21/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, around 1:00 AM, former senator Harris was awoken by a curious noise. Looking outside, he then saw a strange object in the sky, heading west. He immediately got up, dressed, and went outside with binoculars. Immediately he realized it was the wonderful flying ship that had been talked about so much in the newspapers. He could clearly make out its shape as the object drew closer. The mysterious craft slowed and gradually descended until it reached an altitude of a few meters above the ground, very close to the field where Harris was. The latter said there were on board an elderly man, a woman, and two young people. The old man had a long black beard that reached down to his waist. He had black eyes like jet and an expression of great firmness. Having approached, Harris called out to the old man. The latter seemed at first surprised to see someone outside at such a late hour, but he politely answered him. After drinking some fresh water, he said: \"Well, you seem to be a very intelligent man and if you promise not to divulge my secret with the intention of harming me, I will tell you the whole story, except for what concerns the propulsion mechanism.\" After receiving assurances from Harris, he continued: \"..you will surely remember that 26 years ago, what is now called the St Louis Republic was then the St... it became... and later it was the..., about 26 years ago it was exclusively the St Louis Times, an exposition concerning a scientific invention made by a gentleman whose name I cannot mention and thanks to which the laws of gravity were purely and simply defied. He received offers of large sums of money from several syndicates of the country and other offers even came from Paris, London and many other places. Meanwhile he suddenly fell seriously ill and died in a few weeks leaving his invention in secret in a chest. That man was my uncle and he had partly confided his secret to me. Not enough however for me to do something. After 19 years I managed to obtain the original file and since I had a lot of money I then spent seven years experimenting with the flying ship that you see here. I have not yet finished my tests and that is why I continue to fly at night so that I am not spotted. I will try to reach the planet Mars before making this invention public. Weight is not a problem for me. I eliminate all the effects of gravity by placing spires of metal wire around the object. You see on board I have embarked a Hotchkiss cannon of 4 tons and about 20 tons of ammunition. I was preparing to go to Cuba to demolish the Spanish troops if hostilities did not cease, but now my plans have changed and I am going to the aid of the Armenians. To power the weapon you see here it is enough to place the cartridges in a kind of hopper and press a button so that it fires 63,000 shots per minute. No, really, gravity is not my problem. I place my metal wire around this 4-ton gun and I can then pick it up with one hand. Distances are almost no longer important; thus, at 12:10 less than an hour ago, we were above Dallas and yet we traveled very slowly. I will have my breakfast here, do my shopping in Paris and I will be back here for dinner without any inconvenience. The man then saluted Harris, boarded the flying ship and in a few seconds it was gone towards the stars, hidden by the darkness of the night. (April 21, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Harrisburg (Arkansas)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 181-182", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_537" + }, + { + "date": "4/21/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 23:00: John M. Barclay had gone to bed when he heard his dog barking furiously, with plaintive cries in its throat. He went out and saw a curious body, oblong in shape, with wings and other various pieces on each side. There were bright lights that illuminated much more than electric bulbs. When he first saw it, the object seemed stationary less than five meters from the ground; it then made some circles in the sky and finally landed in a meadow near the house. The witness then took his Winchester and went to see what it was. The object had now turned off all its lights. As he was about thirty meters from the craft, he encountered an ordinary mortal who asked him to lower his weapon because no harm would be done to him. Then a conversation ensued.

- Who are you and what do you want? - My name is not important, call me Smith. I would like some lubricating oil and a pair of cold scissors if you can find them, as well as a sharpening stone. Here is a ten dollar bill, go get these items and keep the change for your trouble. - What are you doing here and what kind of device is this? Let me go and see. - No, we cannot allow you to approach any closer, but if you wish and because of your kindness, we will call you one of these days to take you for a ride in the air. Barclay brought back the requested items (except the sharpening stone which he could not get), the man thanked him by shaking his hand. As he was leaving, Barclay asked him where he was coming from and where he was going. The man replied: - From nowhere, but we will be in Greece in two days. He then boarded, there was a sound of a wheel turning and the object took off immediately. It disappeared at lightning speed, as a rifle bullet would add Barclay. (April 21, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Rockland.", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 180-181", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_538" + }, + { + "date": "4/22/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Frank Nichols, a distinguished farmer living about 3 km east of Josserand, was awakened a little before midnight by a humming of machinery. He then saw outside like a strange vessel with bright lights that landed in a cornfield. Nichols went out and approached. Before reaching the ship he was approached by two men with buckets who asked him to take some water from his well. Nichols was invited on board and he spoke freely with the crew composed of six or eight individuals. The machinery was so complicated that in the short conversation that followed, he could hardly understand the mechanism. However, one of the men told him that the problem of aerial navigation had been solved. The hull of the aircraft was built with a new material that had just been discovered and had the property of staying in the air by itself. As for the motive force, it was highly condensed electricity. He was informed that five of these flying machines had been built in a small town in Iowa and that soon this invention would be made public. Others are being built and within a year the use of these flying vessels will be generalized. Nichols will convince any skeptic by showing him the place where the flying object landed.", + "location": "USA, Josserand (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 183", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_539" + }, + { + "date": "4/3/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A landing took place around 8:00 PM. The object landed less than 100 m away from the witness, who preferred to remain anonymous. Inside the object were two characters conversing in a strange language. One of the occupants was of oriental type, while the other spoke English with a British accent. In speaking with the witness they said that the craft was called \"Aeribarque\" (sic) and that they were finishing an experimental flight. They often landed in isolated places or approached cities when they had to get provisions. They demonstrated the electrical equipment to the witness and then asked him to leave. They revealed nothing about the propulsion, but the witness is convinced that they must have used some volatile substance capable of counteracting the Earth's gravitational force. (April 3rd, 1897)", + "location": "USA, between Lancaster and Baltimore", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD - Inforespace #36 p. 39", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_540" + }, + { + "date": "4/23/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On Friday, April 23, 1897, Judge Mc Kinney Bayou was assessing a piece of land when he saw a singular device on the ground. The witness specified that the device was occupied by three men who were speaking a foreign language. According to their appearance, they must have been Japanese. The apparatus was made of aluminum and operated with compressed air. (April 23, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Texarkana (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 183", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_541" + }, + { + "date": "4/23/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In a farm in Burton, a certain Daniel Gray heard a noise that was a mix of a whistle and a rumble. Soon he saw a dark object with flashes of light pass over him. Suddenly he saw an object fall to the ground near him: it was a newspaper from Toronto (Canada) dated October 5, 1896...", + "location": "USA, Burton (near Flint, Detroit)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p.183-184", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_542" + }, + { + "date": "4/23/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) From the newspaper \"The Kentucky Post\" 24.4.1897, page 3: \"Here's The Latest\" Airship Passes Over City Of Newport 'A Mysterious Message' Dropped From The Skies By Captain Pegasus. On Friday, April 23, the airship passed over Newport around 8 o'clock. Mrs. Pilling from No. 18 West Third Street said she saw it. It had the shape of a cigar and carried an intense light. Miss L. Remme, an artist and sister of Ed Remme, the cashier of the German National Bank - living at No. 22 West Third Street, found a small muslin bag filled with sand in her garden. There was also a message written on a piece of paper: \"We passed over Newport at 40 miles an hour. We have traveled 200 miles since 4:30 pm on Friday afternoon. We hope to be in Nashville on Sunday at 3:30. CAPTAIN PEGASUS.\"", + "location": "USA, Newport", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_543" + }, + { + "date": "4/24/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two workers encountered a certain Professor Charles Davidson near a \"cigar\" lying on the ground. According to this \"professor\", the craft had left Sacramento last month and had been travelling around the country since then. On the same day, in Waxaxie (Texas) while they were fishing, Judge Love and his friend Beatty saw a strange machine in the woods. Around it there were five men dressed very warmly. One of them, who spoke English well, explained to the two witnesses that this flying ship came from certain regions of the North Pole where, contrary to what is believed, there is a vast inhabited land. He also explained that his people were one of the ten lost tribes of Israel. As they could not find wood in their inhospitable lands, they had built aerial vessels. According to the character, there were currently twenty of these craft above the United States and Europe, they were all supposed to be at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in Nashville on the 18th and 19th of June.", + "location": "USA, Chattanooga (Tennessee)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p. 175", + "according to the \"Dallas Morning News of 19.4.1897", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_544" + }, + { + "date": "4/25/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Houston Daily Post of April 26: \"Groups returning from church last night noticed a heavy object dragging a rope attached to it. They followed it until, crossing the railroad track, the rope got caught in a rail. Looking up, people saw what they supposed to be an aerial vessel. It was not close enough for them to get a good idea of its dimensions. Lights could be seen in some portholes, and there was a very bright headlight in the front, resembling that of a locomotive. After about ten minutes, a man was seen sliding down the rope. He got close enough for them to see him clearly; he was wearing a blue sailor's suit and was of small stature. He stopped when he saw the groups near the anchor, cut the rope beneath him and the vessel moved off in a north-easterly direction. The anchor is now on display in the blacksmiths' shop of Elliot and Miller and is attracting the attention of hundreds of people.\"", + "location": "USA, Merkel (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p.52-53", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_545" + }, + { + "date": "4/26/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening a lawman saw a luminous object in flight. His horse became scared, panicked and almost overturned the carriage when a very powerful searchlight suddenly lit up. The cigar-shaped object turned off and on several times this beacon before disappearing behind a hill as if wanting to land. As the witness was less than a kilometer from Hillsboro, he saw the craft take off from the ground. It headed northeast at a speed greater than 150 km/h. From time to time it flashed several bright lights. Between the two observations an hour had passed. (April 26, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Aquila (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p.184", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_546" + }, + { + "date": "4/29/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) John Ringer, a police officer, witnessed a curious spectacle at around 10pm: \"I was standing at the corner of 8th Street when my attention was drawn to a string of lights moving across the sky. In front of them was a brighter light, like a projector. Behind it was a row of smaller lights, barely bigger than stars, in a line. It seemed so high up that I couldn't make out the shape of the object. It was all moving quickly towards the southwest and I was able to follow it until it disappeared. Beside me, a dozen people also observed this very strange thing...\"", + "location": "USA, Cincinnati", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD - Inforespace n° 36 p. 40", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_547" + }, + { + "date": "4/29/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On Thursday, April 29th there was a new observation. In the night, around 11:30 PM, a huge illuminated object coming from the north flew over Holton. It is said to have come very close to the ground and many people heard the commotion of passengers on board. During the 55 minutes of the flight, one could hear conversations and music. The craft measured 100 m in length and was followed by a kind of tail of about ten meters, as for its width and thickness, they were close to 30 m. At one point this tail began to spin and the \"beings\" threw overboard a hook that caught one of the witnesses, who was brought back on board. (?) The next day this aerial traveler returned by train from White Cloud. (April 29, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Holton (Michigan)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p.184-185", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_548" + }, + { + "date": "5/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) USA First Great Kite Contest in the United States: 50 Competitors Participated. The Highest Altitude Reached Was 1429 Meters.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 50", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_549" + }, + { + "date": "5/1/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Saginaw Evening News of this day reported the discovery of a shoe of gigantic proportions near the O'Donnel railway line. This curious find was of course supposed to have fallen from an aerial vessel.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p.185", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_550" + }, + { + "date": "5/4/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) From the \"The Cincinnati Enquirer, 5.5.1897\": \"AIRSHIP\" Said To Have Been Seen Passing Over This City Last Night: many people saw around 9 o'clock last night the famous airship. Dr. Louis Domhoff, 112 Garfield Place, made a sketch of the light which had the shape of an egg and was red in color and of which part seemed to be obscured as by a curtain, the beams of light escaping from the center and from each side. The phenomenon arrived from Price Hill and then took the direction of the southeast. The airship could be observed for 5 minutes before disappearing from view and in this time it seemed to have traveled a distance of 20 miles on a zigzag trajectory, going up and down. Bus driver J.C. Gaupel saw it in Monmouth street, also W.J. Klein, attorney living in Mitchell Building, and Fred Porter, from the Methodist bookstore and a lot of other people. (May 4, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Garfield, Cincinnati", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_551" + }, + { + "date": "5/6/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At almost the same time, two policemen, Sumpter and Mc Lemore, observed one of these flying objects on the ground. The newspapers published an affidavit of the two witnesses. It mentions an object in the shape of a cigar and occupants with long black beards. Again, a conversation took place with the witnesses and, as always, it was of a disconcerting banality. \"(...) Our horses refused to move forward. About 100 m in front of us we saw two people moving. A man with a long black beard advanced with a lantern in his hand (...) he and the others, a young man and a woman, were traveling in an aerial ship in the country. It was dark, it was raining, the young man was filling a large bag of water about 10 m from us, while the woman was standing in the shadows. She was sheltered under an umbrella. The man with the whiskers invited us to come with him, to take us to a place where it did not rain. We told him that we preferred to be wet. (May 6, 1897)", + "location": "USA, Hot Springs (Arkansas)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Other Dimensions\" - trad. Robert Laffont 1989, p. 63, 64", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_552" + }, + { + "date": "5/17/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) From the \"The Kentucky Post\" of 18.5.1897, page 5: HE SAW IT, A Covington Man Wants To Make An Affidavit That He Beheld the Airship Hovering Over Eleventh Street \"Mike Sheridan, well known in the city and residing in Eleventh Street, presented himself at Squire Wheeler's office in Scott Street this morning to testify to his observation of the airship Tuesday evening around 11 o'clock. The phenomenon passed over the intersection of Eleventh and Scott Streets. Mr. Sheridan said it was a cigar-shaped machine and, with all sails out, it presented a triangular shape. According to his best estimate, the vessel measured about 5 meters and was at very low altitude, about 15 to 18 meters. Sheridan adds that he clearly heard the engines. The witness is a middle-aged man of temperate habits who does not tend to play tricks on people. He has always lived in Covington and has a very good reputation there. \"", + "location": "USA, Covington (Kentucky)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_553" + }, + { + "date": "7/11/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) S.A. Andree, Strindberg, and Fraenkel ascend in the balloon \"Oernen\" from Spitzberg Island in an attempt to cross the polar cap. They land on July 14 at 82° 55' 7\" N 29° 32' W, 480 km from their departure point and 800 km from the Pole. On August 6, 1930, fishermen on White Island find the remains of the expedition: Andree and Strindberg's notes, as well as the expedition's photographic apparatus. The negatives, developed after more than 30 years, yield some excellent shots. Fraenkel's body is also found a few days later, along with his notes.", + "location": "NORWAY, SPITZBERG ISLAND", + "ref": [ + "\"La conquête de l'air. Chronique...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 50", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_554" + }, + { + "date": "10/14/1897", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At Camp de Satory, Clement Ader attempted in very bad conditions (wind, rain) the first flight of an airplane. The wind blowed with force from behind first, then across. The \"Airplane N° 3\" took off, travelled a distance of 2 to 300 m. then made a forced landing on an unprepared terrain.", + "location": "PARIS, Versailles", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 50", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_555" + }, + { + "date": "1/3/1898", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the \"Comptes rendus\" of the Academy of Sciences, one can read, on the date of January 17, 1989, under the title Meteorology: observation of a double bolide in the sky of Vannes, the account of Commander Georget: \"On January 3, I was returning to my home around 6:30 pm when I saw, to the northeast, at an altitude of 30 to 40 degrees, a luminous bolide of red color crossing the sky at a low speed. It disappeared towards the north in a point...(...) I observed the phenomenon with the \"Soulier\" telescope of 30 mm for a short moment. This bolide was formed of two distinct bodies \"A\" and \"B\" located at the same altitude \"B\" preceding \"A\". Remarkable particularity, the body \"B\" was affected by sudden oscillations which lasted only a few seconds. I counted from 4 to 5 oscillations per minute.\" (January 3, 1898)", + "location": "FRANCE, Vannes", + "ref": [ + "Jean François BOEDEC: \"Les OVNI en Bretagne, Anatomie d'un Phénomène\" ed. Fernand Lanore, Paris 1978, p. 27 and 28", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_556" + }, + { + "date": "11/2/1898", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"Hélène Smith\" upon waking around 6:15, noticed that a strange reddish light enveloped her entirely. A Venusian presented himself, she visited Venus with him, learned the Venusian language, etc. [note from Vog: I studied this Venusian: a mix of French and Yiddish, with syntax completely identical to that of the French language. Book to read: Theodore Flournoy: \"Hélène Smith\", ed. 1900, re-edited by KARDEC] (1898, 2 November)", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Geneva", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Enigmes du temps présent\", ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1979, p.102, 103", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_557" + }, + { + "date": "4/27/1899", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1973, Mr. Tyrode of the \"Lumières dans la nuit\" group met with Mr. A. Houley, then aged 83, who was a witness to the event. \"This Thursday, the two children were playing with a top on the RN 51 in the center of the agglomeration. They were suddenly pulled out of their game by a very bright light that appeared to them in the sky in the direction of the northeast. They looked up and A. Houley was surprised to see a huge red ball, like a sphere of fire of an incandescent red, crossing the street obliquely. It was moving relatively slowly, without any perceptible noise, despite its apparent proximity. They estimated its altitude to be between 200 and 250 m, an altitude that was corroborated by older people, including their teacher, in relation to the length of the visible trajectory. The size was compared to the width of the road, which was 10 m. A. Houley sometimes gives the diameter as equal to five times that of the Moon, which corresponds to this diameter at this altitude. The ball was extended by a short tail of about 5 m. The object was flying at a very regular speed, as if sliding in the air and disappeared from the sight of the witnesses hidden by the houses bordering the road to the southwest. The total duration of the observation was about 9 seconds. (...) A. Houley felt nothing particular when the object passed, but Mr. Bergère felt a general tingling on the surface of his skin, tingling that lasted a good quarter of an hour. He also felt very nervous. After the passage of this phenomenon, the children rushed to their parents to tell them the adventure. They were believed on their word, although no one saw anything positive, but many people noticed the intense light and an old lady \"La Mélie\" was very affirmative and her statements supported the children's story. A. Houley recorded his observation in a notebook and never spoke of this matter again. Hearing about UFOs, he was lucky enough to find his 74-year-old notes. \"", + "location": "FRANCE, Baye (Marne)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p.150-151", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_558" + }, + { + "date": "9/1899", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In January 1996, Jorge Hernandez, dying, insisted on making a declaration to the Catholic priest, Father Joel de Mola, in Nacozari de Garcia. Jorge made an extraordinary confession saying that he was present when the American lawman Dave Mather disappeared in northern Mexico. Jorge added that Mather had been abducted by extraterrestrials. Dave Mather had been a friend of Wyatt Earp and his brothers, of Bat Masterson, of Doc Holliday and Kate Elder at the end of the 1870s in Dodge City, then the wildest of the cities of Kansas. Earps left the city and went to Arizona in 1880, and Mather left for Tucson, Arizona. In August 1899, the farmers of the Sierrita mountains, southwest of Tucson, began to complain about missing cattle. Mather formed a team and went to track down the thieves. Jorge Hernandez, then 14 years old, was part of the team, which was led by an Apache Indian from the San Carlos reservation, and they followed a trail into Mexico. About 80 km southwest of Nogales (Sonora) they saw an \"enormous silver bowl in the sky\". This UFO preceded the pursuers in bursts, always staying about half a mile ahead of them. Mather then suggested spreading out in a fan to try to find out where this \"damned airship\" was going. Jorge soon found himself alone on a path. Suddenly \"a small man with silver clothes\" was facing him, \"threatening\" him with a hollow tube. Jorge's horse reared and whinnied in terror. Jorge ended up on the sand, screaming he immediately fired a shot from his Colt 45, and repeated the shots as fast as he could. The six bullets hit the mark. But the \"little man was flaming like a torch and disappeared.\" Jorge hurriedly ran to find the others and tell them about his encounter. The gringos laughed skeptically, only the Indian believed Jorge and even showed fear. Finally Mather volunteered to go back to the path. He would fire a shot if he met anyone. So the team waited for more than an hour. Then they saw the silver bowl rising from the earth to the sky, then taking off at lightning speed towards the horizon. Finally they set out to search for Mather: they found his horse in a state of extreme nervousness. Mather's Winchester was still in its leather case, the canteen was half full, there was no sign of violence or blood anywhere, but Mather was nowhere to be found. The Indian guide then remarked that there were only the marks of the horse's hooves, but no boot prints of Mather in the sand. Then the Indian mounted his horse and returned to San Carlos without a word of explanation, only saying \"It is the people of the sky\". The team stayed two more days in the area, but Mather remained missing. Father de Mola said in 1996 in a television program that Jorge Hernandez firmly believed until his death that the spaceship had been sent by God.", + "location": "Mexico, northern part of the country", + "ref": [ + "UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 4, Number 19, August 31, 1999; Editor: Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_559" + }, + { + "date": "1900", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Pyrotechnician Karl Muller developed paragrêle rockets. They rose to altitudes of 1000 to 1500 meters and exploded there. In the 1950s, in Switzerland, such rockets were still fired into the clouds when hail threatened. The resulting atmospheric currents caused the hail to transform into snow. Under the effect of a second or third rocket, the snowflakes changed into raindrops. Muller's rockets had a length of 25 to 50 cm, a diameter of 3 to 4 cm and were propelled by ordinary black powder. (...) Each rocket had an effective area of about 1 km².", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Emmishofen", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, pp. 19 and 20", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_560" + }, + { + "date": "7/2/1900", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of the Airship \"L.Z. 1\", the first airship of a long series. Built by Count Zeppelin or under his name by the \"Zeppelin Company\". This \"L.Z. 1\" flew over the Lake of Constance. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a former general, will build other airships which, between 1910 and 1914, will provide regular flights in Central Europe. During the 1914-18 war, more than 100 Zeppelins will be built by the Navy, numbered L.Z = Luftschiff Zeppelin. The balloons are contained in an aluminum structure covered with canvas, they have a Maybach water-cooled inline engine, between January 1915 and August 1919 the Zeppelins will carry out 51 bombing raids on England killing 557 people and injuring 1358 others. (July 2, 1900)", + "location": "Switzerland, Lake Constance", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 52", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_561" + }, + { + "date": "9/23/1900", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The balloon \"The Giant of Berlin\", 8000 cubic meters, rises from the German capital, carrying Berson, Suring, Alexander and Zekeli.", + "location": "GERMANY, BERLIN", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 52", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_562" + }, + { + "date": "9/30/1900", + "desc": "(Translated from French) For the first time a French balloon, the \"Centaure\", landed in Russia (at Bresc-Konyaski) after a 21 hour 34 minute ascent (1237 km). The pilot was H. de la Vaulx, alone on board. (September 30, 1900)", + "location": "From France to Russia", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 53", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_563" + }, + { + "date": "10/9/1900", + "desc": "(Translated from French) H. de La Vaulx and Castillon de St Victor established an official record for spherical balloons: 35 hours 45 minutes, during which they traveled 1925 km from Paris to Korostychev with the balloon \"Centaure\".", + "location": "FROM FRANCE TO RUSSIA", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 53", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_564" + }, + { + "date": "1901", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The two sons of Mauro Pansini, an architect, experienced several astounding experiences. One day when they were in Ruvo around 9 o'clock in the morning, they were found at 9:30 in the morning at the Capuchin convent of Malfatti, 50 km away. Another time they were transported from Ruvo to Trani in the house of a relative, where they were found in a deep hypnotic state. Another day they realized they were falling into a boat moored in the port, where the owner was already present.", + "location": "Italy, Ruvo (Bari)", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, the unmasked invaders\" - ed. Ramuel 1999, p 161", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_565" + }, + { + "date": "9/19/1902", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The cylindrical balloon of the Swedes Unge and Wikander, baptized \"Svenske\", crossed the Baltic Sea.", + "location": "BALTIC SEA", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 55", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_566" + }, + { + "date": "10/28/1902", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the middle of the night, at 03:05, while the ship \"Fort Salisbury\" was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (05°31' south latitude, 04°42' west longitude), the second officer Raymer observed, together with another officer and two other people, an immense object sinking into the ocean. This clearly solid body was estimated to be nearly 180 m long and 30 m wide. Shortly after, the witnesses saw this object moving underwater, with a machinery noise. Two orange lights were lit at the front and two other blue-green lights shone at the other end. After the ship passed over this underwater phenomenon, nothing else was observed.", + "location": "AFRICA, at sea, Gulf of Guinea.", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p.197", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_567" + }, + { + "date": "1903", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Russian physicist Tsiolkovsky exposed and scientifically demonstrated his \"research on the exploration of the universe with reaction devices\". It was the first serious work on interplanetary rocketry. On paper, the cosmic ship was born.", + "location": "URSS, Kalouga", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 9", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_568" + }, + { + "date": "3/17/1903", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Madge Brosius Allyn and her parents observed a large, cucumber-shaped object hovering above their farm at sunset. The object seemed to be self-luminous, with eight windows on each side in two rows of four. The father estimated the length of the object to be 100 feet and the width to be 30 feet. The phenomenon departed in a strange zigzag motion. (March 17, 1903)", + "location": "USA, Helmer (Indiana)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's – A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 6", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_569" + }, + { + "date": "9/13/1903", + "desc": "(Translated from French) E.A. Perkings, President of the Indiana Labor Federation, was observing with his wife and binoculars a strange object gliding through the air over Stratford. There were no signs or numbers on the phenomenon, which also did not seem to have an engine. There was a dome and inside one could see silhouettes. (September 13, 1903)", + "location": "USA, Stratford (Indiana)", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 6", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_570" + }, + { + "date": "1903", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An extraterrestrial 2m10 tall, stout, with long hair, horns and huge bulging eyes, appeared and was chased away by the workers of Iola.", + "location": "USA, Iola, Kansas", + "ref": [ + "A CENTURY OF UFO's - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_571" + }, + { + "date": "1904", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In a meadow a child saw a glowing ball on the ground. He kicked it. It exploded killing 11 cows, but leaving the child unharmed. [note from vog: this seems to me to be a really a case of ball lightning]", + "location": "FRANCE, in the Deux-Sèvres", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 330", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_572" + }, + { + "date": "1904", + "desc": "(Translated from French) For a long time after midnight a farmer was still in his fields with his wagon and it is confirmed that he was not asleep. Suddenly he saw a wheel of fire in front of the Apusendi Mountains descending towards the ground. The wheel approached quickly, spinning around the farmer who remained standing in place without any help. When it was very close to him, it transformed, taking a human form: a creature that examined the peasant for a long time without saying a word.", + "location": "ROMANIA, Transylvania", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est - trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 289", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_573" + }, + { + "date": "2/24/1904", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The report was published by the American \"Weather Review\". In the March 1904 issue, page 115, there is an account of a curious observation made at sea. On February 24, 1904, a mysterious light was seen above the Atlantic by sailors on the American ship \"Supply\". It moved quickly and evidently at a high altitude. The report was signed by Lieutenant Frank H. Schofiels of the United States Navy. (Donald KEYHOE: \"Les Soucoupes volantes existent\" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p. 82) Report drawn from the observations of three members of its crew by Lieutenant Frank M. Schofield, of the American ship \"Supply\" (Weather Review, March 1904- 115): Three luminous objects, of different sizes, the largest having a diameter of 6 suns, appeared at low altitude below the clouds of an estimated height of 2 km. They fled or turned around, rising in one movement from the clouds from which they had come. But this unity of movement does not change their difference in size and their different susceptibilities to the forces of the earth and air. (Charles Fort: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 236) At 6:10 local time, on board the USS \"Supply\", Frank Schofield, future admiral commanding the American Pacific Fleet (in 1930) observes meteors flying in formation. The largest, egg-shaped, passes under the clouds. At this moment its apparent diameter is equal to that of 6 suns. (February 24, 1904)", + "location": "ATLANTIC OCEAN", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Gabriel GRESLE: OVNI, a pilot speaks \"ed. Guy Trédaniel, 1993, p.27", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_574" + }, + { + "date": "8/3/1904", + "desc": "(Translated from French) T.S. Baldwin undertook a flight aboard a motorized airship, the \"Curtiss\".", + "location": "USA, OAKLAND (California)", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, Marabout Université 1967, p. 60", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_575" + }, + { + "date": "9/1904", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First public demonstration of flight with the Wright Brothers at the Bois de Boulogne. (September 1904)", + "location": "FRANCE, Paris", + "ref": [ + "Sciences et Avenir, September 1998, page 80", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_576" + }, + { + "date": "9/10/1904", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: autumn 1877) Last sighting of Spring Heel Jack, who held thousands of spectators in suspense, leaping from roof to roof, jumping a distance of 10 meters in a single bound. After the exhibition which lasted a good quarter of an hour, he jumped beyond a row of terraced houses, and has never been reported anywhere since. (September 10, 1904)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Everton (Liverpool)", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 86", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_577" + }, + { + "date": "1904", + "desc": "(Translated from French) After sunset, two men, Wirt Covert and Arthur Eldert, observed a large dark flying object moving from east to west at low altitude. Each described it as a boat with a flat top and with a mast or something else standing on top. A bright light emanated from windows on the sides of the craft. The object passed between the tower of a church and a row of small hills, rising just enough to avoid collision, before flying away.", + "location": "USA, Dixboro (Michigan)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's – A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 6", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_578" + }, + { + "date": "1904", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Engineer A. Maul developed at great expense a photographic rocket. It rose vertically up to 500 meters and carried a photographic apparatus which then descended to the ground using a parachute. The version that had the most success was built in Austria: The entire apparatus weighed 40 kilograms, the camera weighed 1 kilogram. The altitude reached was 1000 meters. A 6 m long rod was used for flight stabilization. (1904 to 1914)", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "\"Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 21", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_579" + }, + { + "date": "2/5/1905", + "desc": "(Translated from French) T.S. Baldwin, aboard an airship of his own construction, raced against a \"Pope\" automobile over a distance of 16 km. The automobile was beaten by 3 minutes. (February 5, 1905)", + "location": "USA, OAKLAND (California)", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 61", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_580" + }, + { + "date": "4/11/1905", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The \"Figaro\" of April 15 reported that on this date of April 11, the guardians of the La Blanche lighthouse observed a white, illuminated balloon in the sky. They made signals to it and it disappeared.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p.198", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_581" + }, + { + "date": "8/2/1905", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Very early (1:30 am) J. A. Jackson, a well-known citizen of Silsbee, saw a bright light in the sky just above him. As the light drew closer, it revealed itself to be an aerial vessel about 20 m long, with a searchlight at the front and several other lights on board. The mysterious machine seemed to be driven by wings that beat like those of a giant bird. Apparently there was no balloon as is usually the case with dirigibles. Jackson, who was near Wilsie's house, went to wake him up and he was still able to see the lights just before they disappeared. The same night, H. E. Abott, postmaster of Imperial, was abruptly awakened from his sleep by the appearance of a bright light. It looked like a fire in the sky. It was then 1:30 am and one can think that this blinding light was probably the beam of the aerial vessel's searchlight. (August 2, 1905)", + "location": "USA, Silsbee (California)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p.200", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_582" + }, + { + "date": "1905 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An unknown craft passed through the sky of Dresden at the speed of a modern jet from the 1990s. The object made no noise and flew in a straight line at an altitude of barely 40 feet. Witnesses noted that the object was self-luminous in green and red around the edge and had an erect tail. (1905, Unknown Date)", + "location": "Germany, Dresden", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's - A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 7", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_583" + }, + { + "date": "1906", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The tests attempted before the Great War, with a view to using the rocket again for military purposes, did not give any satisfactory results: this was the case with the work carried out from 1906 to 1909 at Krupp in Meppen. [see 1906 to 1914 Sweden] (From 1906 to 1909)", + "location": "GERMANY, Meppen", + "ref": [ + "\"Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_584" + }, + { + "date": "1906", + "desc": "(Translated from French) No more satisfaction in experiences made by Swedish Colonel Unge or experiences by German Navy with Marine Torpedo-rockets. (From 1906 to 1914)", + "location": "SWEDEN", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_585" + }, + { + "date": "5/1906", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Walter Landry was three years old and had just lost his mother. He was told she had gone away and would come back one day. On the day of the funeral, a nurse was looking after the child when she heard him screaming from downstairs. She rushed down and pointing, he said: \"There's Mommy!\" Later he explained that she had tried to take him in her arms. Question: why was this child so scared when he saw his mother, when no one had ever talked to him about ghosts or spirits?", + "location": "USA, Cambridge (Massachusetts)", + "ref": [ + "Jane and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\", Guild Publishing London, 1989, p. 79", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_586" + }, + { + "date": "1906", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness, Jules B., was 18 years old at the time. He was interviewed by Ian d'Aigure, an investigator for the Lumières dans la Nuit (LDLN #129, Nov. 1973, p.24 ref.182) and passed away in January 1977. \"I was 18 years old at the time, it was late in the season and I was an apprentice carpenter in Gouzon. I had just put a window in a property in La Celle and I was returning. I was hurrying because I had stayed a long time talking with the farm girl.. You know what that's like. It was pitch black but the weather was clear. (...)\" So it could have been 10 pm and he was hurrying with a light heart. Suddenly, as he reached the junction of the path leading to the Manaly estate, what was his surprise, his stupor even, to discover a curious assembly of characters. There were 10 or 12 of them, sitting in a circle on the path. The witness passed 10 m away from them. They all looked at him pass in silence, and those who had their backs to him turned around when he passed. They were there, sitting, without saying a word, without talking to each other, otherwise the witness would have heard them in the silence of the night. It was this silence that \"frightened\" Jules B., who hastened to continue on his way without looking back. \"You understand, he said, if they had been normal people, they would have said good evening, nodded or waved to me... But there, nothing. Ah! I can assure you I didn't feel proud.\" The observation was therefore brief, about ten seconds. The witness could not detail the individuals, but he is certain of the following points: they were all men. They were neither too young nor too old. They all seemed to be dressed the same way, in a kind of gray uniform, neither too light nor too dark. Near them there was no source of light, no fire, no object (bag, package) and no vehicle. However, the witness had the impression that the characters were sitting in a circle, on or around some kind of large cloth (or tablecloth) laid on the ground. Apart from this curious impression felt by the witness in front of these curious noctambules, nothing seemed to prove their \"extraterrestrial\" origin. This was pointed out to him. Jules B. interrupted us by saying:

- \"Yes, but then I saw the other one flying!\" Not at all calm, the witness was therefore walking away at a pace close to running. He had barely gone a hundred meters when suddenly he saw a \"Martian flying\" emerge at the level of the trees. The being was flying fast and it almost passed right over his head. He had his body stretched horizontally and his head raised forward (\"Straight ahead as if to see where he was going\"). His legs were stretched and joined. His arms were not visible but the being had like two immobile wings like spread arms (in terms of their size). The being passed quickly and silently, it was just that the witness heard a slight rustling of air. - \"And the funniest thing,\" concluded Jules B., \"is that this 'Martian flying' flew straight to the place where I had seen the others. That's what makes me say they must have all had some kind of rendezvous. But hey! I didn't try to find out more.. I didn't hang around...\" (...) He often took the same path (later) but he never saw anything there again...", + "location": "FRANCE, La Celle-sous-Gouzon", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 200 to 202", + "next: 1930, Toulx Ste Croix", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_587" + }, + { + "date": "10/10/1906", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A large star like a bushel appeared in the east, rose in height and headed west to finally fall into the Helan mountain range. It produced a rumble like a thunderclap. Fires and lights rose very high in the sky and extinguished long after.", + "location": "CHINA, Lingzhou (Yongnin)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 41", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_588" + }, + { + "date": "11/12/1906", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Santos-Dumont struggled penibly in his airship to cover the distance between Saint-Cloud and the Eiffel Tower (Jean-Gabriel Gresle: OVNI, a Pilot Speaks, ed. Guy Trédaniel, 1993, p. 27) (vog: false information, it was a biplane, bad note for the pilot...) First official flight in the presence of commissioners of the Aero Club of France, by Alberto Santos Dumont. On board the 14 Bis equipped with a 50 HP Antoinette engine. It was a canard type biplane with wings at the rear and horizontal tail at the front. (Jérôme Palmade, Sciences et Avenir, Sept. 98, p. 80) 1901, October 19 France, ST CLOUD The inventor and pilot SANTOS-DUMONT, flew with his first hydrogen-filled machine from ST CLOUD to the EIFFEL TOWER and back in 29 MINUTES. He received a prize of 100,000 francs of the time for this feat. [except that this author is wrong about the year, month, etc...]", + "location": "France, Paris", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 6, 7", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_589" + }, + { + "date": "3/14/1907", + "desc": "(Translated from French) S.C. Patterson, second mate of the steamer \"Delta\" reported that he saw for half an hour \"rays that seemed to revolve around a center, like the spokes of a wheel: they seemed to measure 300 m in length.", + "location": "At sea, STRAIT OF MALACCA", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORD: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 215", + "Royal Meteorological Society Journal 32-294", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_590" + }, + { + "date": "4/5/1907", + "desc": "(Translated from French) L. Blériot successfully completes his first flight in a monoplane of his own design. (April 5, 1907)", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, Marabout Université 1967, p. 65", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_591" + }, + { + "date": "6/2/1907", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At ROME, celebrating the Italian Constitution Anniversary: Ulivelli rises from the Ponte-Milvio Square. A very visible flash for the spectators touches the balloon at 900 m altitude. The balloon explodes above the Mediterranean Sea. (June 2, 1907)", + "location": "ITALY, ROME", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 65", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_592" + }, + { + "date": "Early 6/1907", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Just before 10 PM, an oval object about thirty meters long and eight meters in diameter, hovered for a few seconds at low altitude above Bosa. [note from vog: maybe the balloon from the previous item?] (June, early 1907)", + "location": "ITALY, Bosa (Sardinia)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 202", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_593" + }, + { + "date": "7/2/1907", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (around 2 pm) ... a strange explosion occurred in the sky near Burlington. Some witnesses spoke of a torpedo-shaped craft, which was spinning at altitude. Shortly after this observation, a round and luminous object fell from the sky and exploded (Weather Review 1907, page 310). (Donald KEYHOE: \"Les Soucoupes volantes existent\" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p. 82) Bishop John S. Michaud saw a strange luminous torpedo-shaped craft. \"I was standing at the corner of Church and College streets, facing the Howard Bank and looking eastward, engaged in conversation with ex-Governor Woodbury and Mr. A.A. Bluell, when, without the slightest warning, we were startled by what seemed to be a terrific and unusual explosion, evidently very near. Looking up along College Street, I noticed a torpedo-shaped body, a hundred yards away, which seemed to be hovering in the air, fifteen feet above the highest buildings. It was about two meters long and thirty centimeters in diameter, its outer part seemed to be of a dark color, and from it tongues of fire, like red-hot irons, were shooting out. Soon after, the object began to move, rather slowly, and disappeared southward, over the Dolan stores. As it moved, the wall seemed to open in places, letting out intense flames. (July 2, 1907)", + "location": "USA, Burlington (Vermont)", + "ref": [ + "Charles Fort: \"Le livre des damnés\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 230, 231", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_594" + }, + { + "date": "7/27/1907", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An opaque object flew above a ship and was photographed.", + "location": "NORWAY, Drobak", + "ref": [ + "QUFO, v 1/n 13.; Winkler: CATALOG OF UFO-LIKE DATA BEFORE 1947 - PART I., 1984, 35, cfr listing of Ole Jonny Braenne", + "Photograph not seen, possibly first photo incident.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_595" + }, + { + "date": "1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Dr. Igo Etrich flies his first airplane; like Bleriot he is a strong advocate of the tractor propeller and the monoplane. In 1910 he negotiates a license agreement with the Rumpel Company.", + "location": "Austria", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Sequoia Elsevier Brussels 1979 edition", + "See August 1910, Austria", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_596" + }, + { + "date": "1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 1:00 PM and 1:30 PM there was one day a gathering on Marie-Louise Square because a very luminous spherical object, the size of a rugby ball, was moving slowly in the air at a high altitude.", + "location": "BULGARIA, Sofia", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 202", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_597" + }, + { + "date": "1/13/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Englishman H. FARMAN on a \"Voisin\" aircraft completed the first kilometer. He crossed a distance of 500 meters marked on the ground, made a turn in flight, and returned to his starting point. He officially flew 1000 meters, but in reality, around 1500 meters. For the first time, officially, an aviator made a turn in flight. [note from vog: no doubt that to succeed in this exploit, he made many attempts outside the competition...] (January 13, 1908)", + "location": "FRANCE, ISSY LES MOULINEAUX", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 68", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_598" + }, + { + "date": "1/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Employees of the Norwich Transportation Company saw a dark globular object moving quickly against the wind. Its movements seemed controlled. It was twice as big as a bird of prey.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Mousehead (Norfolk)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 202", + "according to the Eastern Daily Press of 28 January 1908", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_599" + }, + { + "date": "3/12/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First Flight of the \"Red Wing\" First Aircraft Built for \"Aerial Experiment Association\". The aircraft is designed by Selfridge and piloted by F.W. Baldwin.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 69", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_600" + }, + { + "date": "4/1/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An ovoid object made of an unknown metal, occupied by two pilots from Mars, makes a forced landing and is unable to take off again. [IN REALITY: probably the first Norwegian hoax and \"April Fool's\"]", + "location": "NORWAY, Notodden", + "ref": [ + "FRI PRESS, Apr 1908, SYN OG SEGN, 1947, 127-8.,BA, 30 Mar 1983.UFO-OBSERVATOREN, 5/1983, 8; cfr listing of Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_601" + }, + { + "date": "4/30/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Moore Brabazon makes the first flight in an airplane in England by an English pilot on a \"Delagrange-Farman\".", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 69", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_602" + }, + { + "date": "5/1/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 8:00 PM and 9:00 PM an object surrounded by a halo, of the apparent diameter of the Moon, was observed. At 9:00 PM a dark \"arm\" appeared above the object and moved obliquely through it before disappearing.", + "location": "FRANCE, Vittel", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 202", + "Cosmos vol. 58 p. 535", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_603" + }, + { + "date": "5/14/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Wilbur Wright piloting his aircraft, carried his first passenger, XH. Furnas, an employee of his company. The flight lasted 7 minutes 29 seconds, the distance covered was 8050 m.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 70", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_604" + }, + { + "date": "5/16/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) S.F. Cody performs the first flight achieved with an airplane built in England. (May 16, 1908)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 70", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_605" + }, + { + "date": "5/19/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On the \"White Wing\", the second aircraft of A.G. Bell for the Aerial Experiment Association, T.E. Selfridge was the first military man to pilot a heavier-than-air craft. (May 19th, 1908)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 70", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_606" + }, + { + "date": "5/22/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) G. Curtiss made his first flight aboard the White Wing and crossed 615 feet, landed, took off without stopping and crossed, in total, 1017 feet in 19 seconds. (May 22, 1908)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 70", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_607" + }, + { + "date": "5/23/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of a \"Voisin\" airplane in Italy by Delagrange. (May 23, 1908)", + "location": "ITALY", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 70", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_608" + }, + { + "date": "5/29/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Delagrange on \"Voisin\" Brings Italy Its First Records: Closed Circuit Distance 12,750 km; Duration: 15 Minutes 25 Seconds, Altitude Reached from 3 to 5 Meters", + "location": "Italy, Centocello", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 69", + "from three to five meters, no more...", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_609" + }, + { + "date": "6/30/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Explosion of a power greater than the atomic bombs on Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Meteor? Black hole (Peter Hawkins hypothesis in the 1970s)? Something else? The discussion is not closed.", + "location": "USSR, Siberia, Tunguska", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_610" + }, + { + "date": "7/6/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Englishman H. Farman on a \"Voisin\" biplane wins the \"Quarter-Hour Prize\": a duration record, he stays in the air for 20 minutes 19 seconds and 3/5; L. Bleriot on a \"Bleriot VIII\" completes a flight of 8 minutes.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 71", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_611" + }, + { + "date": "7/25/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Witnesses said they observed high in the sky \"an elongated gas bag\". Under the sausage-shaped phenomenon was suspended a grating with a \"motor\".", + "location": "USA, Bristol, Connecticut", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p.9", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_612" + }, + { + "date": "Late Summer 1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two young girls of about twelve years old were able to observe one evening a very bright light in the sky. Soon a dark mass appeared in front of the stars: one could distinguish a row of red, blue and green lights. (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 203) I am unable to resist writing about a little incident that happened to me in Duncan, BC away back in 1908 when I was 12 years old. (note de vog: so, this person is writing her story in 1997, when she would be 101 years old? Or did she write it before? All this is not very clear) It is one thing in my life I shall never forget. As we had never heard of UFOs or flying saucers in those days, I have never claimed to have seen one until I heard just recently that an old neighbor of ours, Mrs. Campbell, claimed to have seen a UFO away back in the early days and I think it would have been about the same year that I saw mine. She described it almost exactly the same as mine but like me she didn't tell anyone (..) As I was about to shut the door the whole opening was filled with a flash of very bright light. I jumped back stunned, my eyes on the light. It rose on an angle to about 30 feet, judging by trees in the background, and then it changed to a dark mass with a cluster of red, blue and green lights on it, not bright enough to cast a glow. And then in a changed direction it moved quite slowly for maybe 200 or 300 feet and just disappeared. There was no sound or heat that I remember. I was absolutely in a panic. I ran into the dark house and lay down on the floor under a window so the thing couldn't see me, I suppose - but that's panic! (...) ( 1908, late summer)", + "location": "CANADA, Duncan (British Columbia)", + "ref": [ + "collected on the Internet in May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_613" + }, + { + "date": "8/4/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin made an 11-hour flight aboard the LZ-4. In reality, Zeppelin wanted to make a much longer flight of 24 hours, but engine troubles forced him to land in Mainz for repairs. He made the return journey over a hundred miles and again the engine failed, forcing the airship to land near Echterdingen; however, caught in a storm, the airship was finally damaged. (August 4, 1908)", + "location": "Germany, from Mainz to Lake Constance", + "ref": [ + "\"UFOs - A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 9", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_614" + }, + { + "date": "9/6/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Delagrange held air for 29 minutes 53 seconds 3/5 on \"Bleriot\". (September 6, 1908)", + "location": "France", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 72", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_615" + }, + { + "date": "9/9/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) O. Wright made three consecutive flights. On the first one he stayed in the air for 57 minutes and 31 seconds, which was 57 laps of the circuit. On the second one he exceeded an hour. On the third one he took a passenger, Lieutenant F.P. Lahn. (September 9, 1908)", + "location": "USA, Fort Myer", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 72", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_616" + }, + { + "date": "9/14/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) David Packer managed to photograph this light: the object was large and resembled a Moon. The document was published in \"English Mechanic\" vol. 88 p. 21 but we have not been able to find it (according to Contry Queries and Notes, 1-138, 417). David Packer testified: \"At 8:40 pm in the sky lit by the Moon I observed a bright horizontal cloud in the anterior part of the Great Bear and which was just above a dark cloud masking certain stars. The bright cloud constantly varied in brightness, quickly lit up and then became duller, a bit like the stars that twinkle. Its color was pale white and it remained stationary during the entire observation. At 8:45 pm, a meteor from the Perseids penetrated the cloud, at the eastern end of it and there it burned very brightly releasing a string of small luminous nuclei\".", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Northfield (Worcestershire).", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 203", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_617" + }, + { + "date": "10/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The captain of the fishing vessel \"Superb\" saw, on a clear night, a large star approach the boat. Immediately the ship shone a red light in the direction of the phenomenon and to his great astonishment, it immediately lit a fire of the same color. When a white lamp was lit, the object which had the shape of a \"sausage\", this time responded with a blue colored fire. The observation lasted between twenty and thirty minutes. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2]", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, at sea 60 km from Lowestoft (Suffolk)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 203", + "East Anglian Times of 20.5.1909", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_618" + }, + { + "date": "10/30/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) H. Farman on \"Voisin\" Makes the First City to City Flight in History: He Flies from Mourmelon to Reims Non-Stop, 27 km in 20 Minutes at 75 km/h and at 40 Metres Altitude.", + "location": "France from Mourmelon to Reims", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 72", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_619" + }, + { + "date": "10/31/1908", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Another cigar-shaped craft was reported at low altitude above Bridgewater. (...) It had searchlights that explored the ground. After a few moments it rose almost vertically and the searchlights went out. (Donald KEYHOE: \"Les Soucoupes volantes existent\" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p 82) Before dawn, at three in the morning, John E. Flynn and Philip S. Prophett, workers, were driving a cart pulled by a horse on Main Street (west of Bridgewater) towards the center. Flynn recounts: \"We saw the light, not a searchlight, but a kind of large lantern about 60 to 80 cm in diameter, quite unusual, above the Stanley factory. We stopped to look at it for about ten minutes and saw the light descending more and more towards the ground. Finally, we were able to make out the shape of a balloon. We shouted, but no response came, nor any noise. The balloon descended and the light moved, as if someone was carrying a lantern. Then, slowly, the light rose and went off to the east, a bit towards the southeast. We followed it with our eyes for a long time. Even when I was already back home, I could still see it through the window, for another three quarters of an hour to an hour. I was waiting to see it descend, because at 25 miles it would reach the sea. But it did not descend and continued on a straight trajectory. I noticed this because I was looking at the light between two branches of a large tree: the trajectory was straight. I'm sure it wasn't an ordinary balloon! (note from vog: and why not???) It was turning in a perfect circle above the Stanley factory at about 30 meters altitude and then, this straight horizontal trajectory...\" (October 31, 1908)", + "location": "USA, Bridgewater, Massachusetts", + "ref": [ + "UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 2, Number 41,October 26, 1997, Joseph Trainor", + "The Brockton, Mass. Times for October 31, 1908, \"Mysterious Balloon Over Bridgewater,\" page 1; the weekly Bridgewater, Mass. Independent for November 6, 1908, \"A Mysterious Air Ship,\" page 1; and the New York Times for November 1, 1908, \"Can't Find Strange Balloon,\" page 1. See also THE COMPLETE BOOKS OF CHARLES FORT, Dover Press, N.Y. 1974, page 507.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_620" + }, + { + "date": "1/12/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First Flight of a German Pilot, Grade. (January 12, 1909)", + "location": "Germany, Magdeburg", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 75", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_621" + }, + { + "date": "2/23/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) J.A.D. McCurdy took off from the frozen surface of Lake Mas d'Or on the \"Curtiss Silver Dart\" and landed at Baddeck Bay. (February 23, 1909)", + "location": "CANADA, Nova Scotia", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of the Air. Chronology. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 76", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_622" + }, + { + "date": "2/25/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Bailly, a teacher, noticed a yellowish globe of 20 to 30 meters in diameter going towards him, against the wind, at an altitude of 700 m. Before disappearing, the object turned left, disappearing above a path leading to a disused railway. (February 25, 1909)", + "location": "BELGIUM, Bascoup Road - Anderlues (Hainaut)", + "ref": [ + "J.G. DOHMEN: \"To Identify and the Adamski Case\" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 152", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_623" + }, + { + "date": "3/23/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A police officer, Mr. Kettle, saw an elongated dark object masking the stars. He heard a motor sound and saw a light on the mass which, quite quickly, moved towards the northwest. The same night, Miss Gill, who was returning from the theatre with two friends, also saw a bright light on a dark object moving slowly. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELIN from 1900, July 2]", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Peterborough (Northampton)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 204", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_624" + }, + { + "date": "3/25/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A 10 km east of Peterborough, a machinist A.J. Banyard followed a light heading west. (Michel BOUGARD: \"La Chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 204) On March 25, 1909, at 5:10 am, two policemen (in two different points of Peterborough) saw an object resembling a large, brightly lit cigar flying over the city making a motor noise. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELIN from 1900, July 2]", + "location": "ENGLAND, March (Northampton)", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde\" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 p. 223", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_625" + }, + { + "date": "5/2/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The whole family observed an egg-shaped object, the large end pointed towards the sky, quickly passing between the clouds in the direction of the west. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2]", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Lowestoft (Suffolk)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 204", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_626" + }, + { + "date": "5/7/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 10:30 pm, Egerton S. Free saw a long, sausage-shaped dirigible without lights heading northeast. The next day, the witness's wife discovered a metal piece at the spot where it had been flown the night before. It was a wheel rimmed with rubber, weighing 16 kg and with a diameter of around one meter. On the side of the object was written \"Muller Fabrik Bremen\". It was the perfect calling card and E. S. Free immediately thought of a German spy dirigible. Yet, several weeks later, the wheel was identified as a piece of a target used in British naval artillery fire. The full account of this case was published on May 15 by the \"Evening News\" and the day after the newspapers came out, two men \"speaking a foreign language\" came to inspect the area around the spot where the famous wheel had fallen for at least five hours. [IN REALITY: see also ZEPPELIN from 1900, July 2]", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Clacton-on-Sea (Essex)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 205", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_627" + }, + { + "date": "5/9/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 9:00 PM, Mr. and Mrs. Kelf observed the passage of an object in the shape of a torpedo, equipped with lights, above the city. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELIN from 1900, July 2]", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Northampton", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 205", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_628" + }, + { + "date": "5/9/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11:00 PM, W. Cole saw a projector turn off and on a dozen times in different directions. He then saw a dark, oval-shaped object that stayed visible for 10 minutes before disappearing towards Peterborough. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2]", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Stamfort", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 205", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_629" + }, + { + "date": "5/9/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11:20 PM Miss H. Boville observed to the northeast a very large dark torpedo-shaped object moving slowly towards Shoeburyness. After remaining motionless for a few minutes it rose and quickly departed to the west, in the direction of London. At that moment two powerful searchlights lit up at the ends of the silent object. [IN REALITY: also see the ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2]", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Southend-on-Sea (Essex)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 205", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_630" + }, + { + "date": "5/12/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A farm worker, Fred Harrison, suddenly saw a light illuminating the road for nearly 200 meters in front of him. Looking up, he saw an oval, cigar-shaped object moving sideways against the wind, accompanied by a clicking noise. An hour later, not far away, another witness heard a whistling sound coming from the sky but was unable to determine its origin. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2]", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Terrington March (Norfolk)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 205", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_631" + }, + { + "date": "5/13/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three witnesses saw an oblong shape flying quickly towards the northeast in the direction of Peterborough. The craft, equipped with lights at the front and back, emitted a motor sound. The witnesses were even able to make out a kind of platform at the bottom of the object, on which passengers seemed to be standing. That same evening, an aerial ship was also seen above Sandringtham (Norfolk) and Peakirk (Northants). [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2]", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Kelmarsh", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 205-206", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_632" + }, + { + "date": "5/14/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The crew of the Norwegian ship \"St. Olaf\" which was off the coast of Blyth (Norhumberland) observed the passage of an immense dirigible equipped with five searchlights. It stayed for a few moments above the ship, violently illuminating the deck, then, according to Captain Egenes, it headed towards another boat, illuminated it in turn and then flew off at full speed towards the south. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2]", + "location": "in the NORTH SEA", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 205-206", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_633" + }, + { + "date": "5/15/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 01:00 in the night two witnesses saw a dark object in the shape of a cigar hovering above Newport Bridge. Spotlights illuminated each end of the bridge. After about ten minutes one of the lights went out and the craft flew off towards Stow Hill. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2]", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Newport (Monmouth).", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 205-206", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_634" + }, + { + "date": "5/15/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7:45 PM, Captain Hervey saw a balloon like a cigar heading against the northeast wind towards Lowestoft. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2]", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Broome", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 205-206", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_635" + }, + { + "date": "5/15/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Near Monmouth Oliver Jones saw an aerial craft coming from Usk and Raglan and seeming to head towards Chepstow. The object then turned to its right and slowly departed in the direction of Raglan. This craft, also in the shape of a cigar, was equipped with four headlights at the front and one at the rear. Four other witnesses confirmed this observation which lasted more than an hour and a half. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELIN from 1900, July 2]", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Raglan", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 205-206", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_636" + }, + { + "date": "5/15/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, around 11:30 PM Mrs. Wigg was woken up by a noise of an engine. Through the window she then saw a dark, elongated bottle-shaped object quickly passing at low altitude in the direction of the southwest. Several other inhabitants observed flashes of light and heard engine noises that night. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2]", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Lowestoft (Suffolk)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 205-206", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_637" + }, + { + "date": "5/18/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) This new event seemed to confirm the hypothesis that it was a foreign dirigible come to spy on British territory. Around 11:00 C. Lethbridge was returning home when, on the outskirts of a deserted hill called Cerphilly Mountain, he was confronted with an unusual sight. At the top of the slope, to the right of the road, a large cylindrical object was resting on the ground and near it were two young men dressed as officers and wearing fur. When these characters saw the witness, they argued violently in a foreign language, picked something up off the ground and got into some kind of gondola that was under the machine. It then rose in a zigzag, two spotlights came on and with a terrible noise of machinery the object headed towards Cardiff, more towards the south. As soon as C. Lethbridge had told his story, investigators came to the scene and found a whole series of footprints attesting to the presence of characters in the place indicated by the witness. In addition to these traces, a red label was found attached to a small metal rod. It was a piece of French tire valve that was not yet on the British market at that time. On the label there were instructions written in French. A piece of letterhead from a London stockbroker was also found, where the following text could be read with difficulty: \"... provincial centers ... be assured that we will not ... the fullest confidence ... this letter is fully justified ..\" Of course, the agency in question claimed to know nothing of this document. Around the area, a whole series of scraps of paper and newspaper clippings on the mysterious aerial ships that had been seen in the region for some time were also found. A large quantity of stamps of a pasty material resembling papier mâché and two dozen small pieces of blue paper covered with drawings and inscriptions were also discovered. To close this inventory that a surrealist would not deny, one must also add a kind of polished tin lid. During the investigation, a resident of Cardiff revealed that on May 16 he had seen five strangers inspecting the Caerphilly Mountain area. They went from one corner to another in two carts and took pictures with cameras mounted on the seats of their vehicles. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELIN from 1900, July 2]", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Caerphilly (Wales)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 207", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_638" + }, + { + "date": "5/19/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the morning, around 8:00, a little girl saw what she called a \"big chicken that sometimes flapped its wings\". This strange bird came from the coast and remained motionless for half an hour. Two other witnesses also saw an object in the sky and one of them, examining it through a telescope, noticed the presence of three men on board.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Maindee (Cardiff)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 209", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_639" + }, + { + "date": "5/30/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The airship \"L.Z. 5\" travels 1194 km in 38 h 40 minutes. An accident deprives it of the front part. On a single engine, after a makeshift repair, it returns to its base.", + "location": "Germany", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 77", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_640" + }, + { + "date": "6/10/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Captain Gabe of the Danish steamer \"Bintang\" saw, at around 3:00, a luminous wheel spinning close to the ocean's surface. As the center was close to the horizon, only half of it could be seen, and it remained visible for 15 minutes. The movements of the wheel were not in sync with those of the ship. (June 10, 1909)", + "location": "Malacca Strait, at sea", + "ref": [ + "\"UFOs - A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 10 which places the observation on June 3, 1909, and which insists by saying that 13 days later, on June 16, there was an observation in Vietnam", + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 216", + "\"Scientific American\", 106-51", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_641" + }, + { + "date": "6/16/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first remarkable observation was made in Dong Hoi, Annam, by Mr. Delingette, chief inspector of the local meteorological station. At Dong Hoi, at 04:10, a bolide of elongated shape with truncated ends flew over the city in a west-east direction emitting a bright light. The witnesses, Hoang Nic (from Dong Hoi), Tran Nonh (from Sa Dong Danh), Quyen (from Dong Duong Hoi) and Dan Lui (from the same village) were fishing at sea when, at the same time, they saw an object that remained visible for 8 to 10 minutes before sinking into the depths about 6 km from the coast. [note from vog: a white light that illuminated the tops of the trees, before falling into the sea] (June 16, 1909)", + "location": "VIETNAM, Phu-Lien", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 211", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_642" + }, + { + "date": "7/23/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Students and their teachers saw an aerial ship in the shape of a cigar flying over their school for a few minutes. A thorough investigation was conducted with the young children. When questioned separately, they all described the object in the same way. [note from vog: in reality there was probably great confusion in Oceania, see the date of November 18, 1909, when in small steps a \"Wright\" biplane was brought from England to Sydney - Australia] [vog: shape of a torpedo or airplane fuselage with triangular wings attached, below a rectangular structure and some kind of rotor] (July 23, 1909)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Kelso", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 211-212", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_643" + }, + { + "date": "7/24/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) After nearly a thousand kilometers north of Kelso, in Riwaka a witness observed the following phenomenon: \"The object was first seen in the direction of Urville Island. It then crossed the bay and approached Motueka. It then changed direction and went towards Farewell Split where I lost sight of it. The object zigzagged, rising or descending at regular intervals. The observation lasted twenty minutes. At the same time, near Kaka Point, dozens of children playing on the beach saw a large illuminated object in the sky. The craft flew very low and was \"as big as a house\". (July 24, 1909)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Riwaka", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 212", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_644" + }, + { + "date": "7/24/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening of Saturday the 24th, children playing on the beach saw a large illuminated object in the sky, near Mr. Bates' house. It seemed to be trying to land and its lights were reflected mostly on the roof of the Fitzgerald farmhouse. The object was as big as a house, continued on its trajectory around the rocks. It disappeared shortly after. The following evening the mysterious object was again seen around 8:30 pm by George Smith and his neighbor Poulter. They observed it through binoculars. It glided through the air and flew towards Kaitangata, and began to sway from right to left before disappearing. But around 10:30 pm, the object was again visible, above the sea. Its superstructure was smooth and dark, it had a powerful headlight at the front and two smaller lights on either side. (July 24th and 25th, 1909)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Kaka Point", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Roundup, vol. 2 no. 29 of July 20th, 1997, Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_645" + }, + { + "date": "7/25/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Louis Bleriot, on the airplane \"Bleriot\", achieves the first crossing by airplane of the English Channel, from Calais to Dover. He wins the \"Daily Mail\" prize.", + "location": "CROSSING OF THE ENGLISH CHANNEL", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 78", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_646" + }, + { + "date": "7/25/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At Port Molyneux, the object is said to have even landed and some occupants of Asian type reportedly conversed with the witness. (July 25, 1909)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Port-Molyneux", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 212", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_647" + }, + { + "date": "7/27/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 10:00 in the morning, this Tuesday, Allan Mitchell and his son from Lambourne, accompanied by Alex Riach, were busy working near the mouth of the Pomahaka River when they saw, above the village of Pukepeto, a large body in the shape of a boat floating in the air. It was heading in the direction of the Blue Mountains. It rose and fell in the sky very easily at about 4 km from them. As it approached, the witnesses saw a long stick at its upper part. It continued to zigzag in the sky, then changed direction, turning left, to cross the river. It finally disappeared above Whitelea. That same evening a bright star was seen coming from the south and flying over the town of Broken River near Lyttleton, for almost an hour. (July 27, 1909)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Pukepeto and Lyttleton", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 213", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_648" + }, + { + "date": "7/28/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 2:00 am the witness was awoken by a noise like an earthquake. (...) It sounded like a ship dragging its anchor on the ground or like gears turning without being greased. Then I saw an enormous thing in the sky, all black, with a searchlight. On the same day, other sightings occurred at Kauroo Hill and Maheno. (July 28, 1909)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Dunedin", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 213", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_649" + }, + { + "date": "7/29/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First Flight of an Airplane in Sweden by the Frenchman Lagagneux on \"Voisin\".", + "location": "Sweden, Stockholm", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 78", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_650" + }, + { + "date": "7/29/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) That same evening, on the west coast, the passengers of the Hokitika train observed a similar phenomenon as they approached Greymouth. It was a light that moved in a wavy motion in the sky. When the train arrived at Nelson Creek station, the passengers who had gotten off the platform to better observe the phenomenon's movements, saw that it came very close to the cliffs on the coast's edge, then continued on its way, still rising and falling regularly, in the direction of Port Elizabeth, moving against a strong wind. (July 29, 1909)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Greymouth", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 213-214", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_651" + }, + { + "date": "7/30/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 5:00 in the Waikaka Valley, a few kilometers north of the town of Gore: \"Two lights crossed the fog and then an object was seen, narrow in shape like a ship, with two figures on board. The craft approached very close to a dredge on the river, circling around for several minutes. Sometimes it flew very fast, sometimes very slowly, and it seemed to be having fun flying like a fly, diving up into the sky at will. The object disappeared into the fog leaving a yellowish halo, reappeared for a moment towards Otakarama, and then vanished.\" (July 30, 1909)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Waikaka", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 214", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_652" + }, + { + "date": "7/31/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the morning of this Saturday, July 31, while he was feeding his horses, a farmer heard a sound like that of a wheel spinning violently. The animals became scared and it was then that the witness saw above him an aerial vessel about 45 m long with lights at the front and back. (July 31, 1909)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Greendale", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 214", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_653" + }, + { + "date": "7/31/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 10:30 PM, a couple observed the maneuvers of an aerial craft, illuminated by various lights and equipped with wings. (July 31, 1909)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Gore", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 214", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_654" + }, + { + "date": "7/31/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The \"Morning News\" of Wilmington, in its August 1, 1909 edition, reported the observation of a high-altitude airship that caught the eye due to the intense light it carried. Those who saw the craft say it had the shape of a balloon, with wings on either side, and carried a cigar-shaped gondola. The sound of an engine could be heard distinctly. (July 31, 1909)", + "location": "USA, Middletown, Goshen (Delaware)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's – A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 11", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_655" + }, + { + "date": "8/3/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man saw a grey UFO shaped like a torpedo. The craft was occupied by three occupants. (note from vog: see November 18, 1909 Sydney) One of them addressed the witness in an unknown language. (August 3, 1909)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Waipawa", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 345", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_656" + }, + { + "date": "8/5/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) I very distinctly saw, around 11:30 PM, a large craft flying above the river. It came from Aramoho and disappeared towards Castlecliff. It was moving at an altitude of 60 m and two large wings were easily discernible, emitting a whistling sound. Its speed was at least 150 km/h. There was a powerful light at the front and two others on the sides. Already at 6:45 PM, children had seen a similar object heading towards Mosstown.\"", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Wanganui", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 215", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_657" + }, + { + "date": "8/22/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Great Champagne Week or Reims Aerial Meeting (Airplanes!). There were 36 registered aircraft, 36 pilots. (August 22-29, 1909)", + "location": "France, Reims", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 79", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_658" + }, + { + "date": "9/1/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was seen again in Dargaville, Invercargill, across the whole island. \"An object resembling an aerial vessel was observed above Gore around 4:30 PM. It was moving in a wavelike motion towards the Tapanui Hills and gradually disappeared behind the horizon above Kelso. The witnesses were two well-known people from Gore and their account is authentic. They described the object as a cigar with some kind of vehicle attached to it, but they were unable to see any occupants. It remained visible for a few minutes before disappearing at a high speed. Other inhabitants of the town also observed the curious craft. Between 5:45 PM and 6:00 PM it was also seen above the eastern hills of Otaraia.\" (September 1, 1909)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, everywhere.", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 216", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_659" + }, + { + "date": "9/24/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A large, elliptical-shaped flying machine with wings flew over Gothenburg at an altitude of 100 m. It was 18:00, but earlier in the day a similar object had passed over Grason and Osthammar, coming from the northeast and disappearing to the west. (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 216) IN REALITY: THE ZEPPELIN Z. II AIRSHIP COVERED 230 KM IN 4 H 10 MINUTES", + "location": "SWEDEN, Grason, Osthammar, Gothenburg", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquête de l'air. Chronologie.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, éd. Marabout Université 1967, p. 79", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_660" + }, + { + "date": "11/18/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A Wright biplane was brought to Sydney. The team consists of Tait Impresario, Defries Pilot, Marc Pourpe Mechanic. (November 18, 1909)", + "location": "Australia, Sydney", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 79", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_661" + }, + { + "date": "12/22/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 1:15 a.m. a very large UFO flew over the two cities. Among the witnesses were Mr. and Mrs. William S. Forsythe of 85 Evergreen Street, Providence, R.I. \"The Forsythes were decorating their Christmas tree when Mrs. Forsythe's attention was drawn outside and she looked out the window. There were two strange red lights. She called her husband and both of them watched. The two lights had a variable trajectory, sometimes closer to the ground, sometimes rising to gain altitude, but constantly heading south. Despite the great speed of the phenomenon, the couple had a glimpse of a shape bearing the lights. Whatever it was, they were convinced it could only be an airship. They watched until the lights were no longer visible due to their distance on the horizon. The next morning, they told their observation to anyone who wanted to hear it. (December 22, 1909)", + "location": "USA, Providence and Pawtucket (Rhode Island)", + "ref": [ + "See the Providence, R.I. Journal for December 22, 1909. Ufo Roundup vol. 2 n° 49 21.12.1997, Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_662" + }, + { + "date": "12/23/1909", + "desc": "(Translated from French) When the conductor of the \"Evening Limited\" train took out his pocket watch and shouted \"All Aboard!\" at Boston's North Station that evening, he had no idea that the train was about to go on an adventure with a UFO. The heavy steam locomotive Belching was spewing black smoke. Near the town of Ayer, 48 km northwest, a cigar-shaped UFO descended from the sky to the west to meet the train. The powerful beam of the craft illuminated all the train cars and this lasted until they arrived in Fitchburg. During the stop in the station, the object was lost from sight, but as soon as they left, the journey resumed together. (The Fitchburg, Mass. Sentinel for December 24, 1909.) Police Inspector Frank Metcalf (Springfield, Mass.) was among the passengers. All he could see of the airship was the powerful beam. All the passengers were very interested in the thing and regretted not having a closer view of the airship. (December 23, 1909)", + "location": "USA, Boston (Massachusetts)", + "ref": [ + "The Springfield, Mass. Union-News for December 25, 1909.; Ufo Roundup vol. 2 n° 48, 14.12.1997, Joseph Trainor.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_663" + }, + { + "date": "1/1/1910", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The pilot's license is established. During the year 1909 16 licenses were awarded: 9 French, 3 American, 1 Brazilian, 3 English.", + "location": "France", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, pp. 81-82", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_664" + }, + { + "date": "1/12/1910", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The inhabitants saw at 9:00 a huge whitish object in the shape of a cigar moving slowly at 50 km/h above their city. The witnesses distinctly heard the sound of the engines and spotted a series of small blue flames at the lower part of the object and along its entire length. Before leaving in the direction of the nearby mountains, it circled around the city for some time. At 9:15, 120 km from Chattanooga, the people of Huntsville saw a similar object, very fast in the sky. (January 12, 1910)", + "location": "USA, Chattanooga (Tennessee), Huntsville (Alabama)", + "ref": [ + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse - trad. Laffont 1964 - p. 24, 25", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_665" + }, + { + "date": "1/13/1910", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The mysterious craft returned to Chattanooga around 11:00. Even a man was seen on board the craft, taking about twelve minutes to fly over the city in a northerly direction, disappearing into the mist of the Tennessee River.", + "location": "USA, Chattanooga (Tennessee)", + "ref": [ + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse - trad. Laffont 1964 - p. 25", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_666" + }, + { + "date": "1/15/1910", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A large, very white flying machine was observed. Even three or four occupants were seen on board the object, equipped with a powerful searchlight. It passed from north to south at an altitude of 300 m.", + "location": "USA, Paragould (Arkansas)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 218", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_667" + }, + { + "date": "1/1910", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11pm, the priest, the mayor, a policeman and other people saw an object shaped like a cigar hovering around thirty meters above Invercargill. A figure then appeared at a side door and they heard him shout some words in an unknown language. The opening quickly closed, the object accelerated and it was lost from sight. (January end 1910)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Invercargill", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 218", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_668" + }, + { + "date": "3/21/1910", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Houdini, the Great Music Hall Star, nicknamed the \"King of Handcuffs\" for his spectacular escapes on stage, bought a \"Voisin\" airplane and made a 7 km flight in 7 min. 45 sec. in Melbourne. This is the first officially recorded flight in Australia.", + "location": "Australia, Melbourne", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 83", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_669" + }, + { + "date": "6/27/1910", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Doctor Harris saw an intensely black object 400 km long and 50 km wide, standing out against the lunar disc \"it looked like a crow perched on the moon, as close as possible\". Clouds interrupted the observation. \"I can't help but think,\" wrote Doctor Harris, \"that a strange phenomenon had just occurred\". [note from vog: in their books, authors Michel BOUGARD and Antonio RIBERA repeat this data in 1912, June 27. Ribera reduces the measurements to 400 m x 50 m and Bougard cites 400 km and 80 km... : in science fiction, Nelson Bond exploited this information in 1960, by publishing \"And Lo! The bird!\"] (June 27, 1910)", + "location": "ENGLAND", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 162", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_670" + }, + { + "date": "7/1910", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Sailing from the coast of Normandy to the English Channel, the witnesses on a fishing boat saw, in broad daylight, a huge object falling from the sky into the sea, resembling a black bird. (Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 165) The \"Weekly Dispatch\" of July 10th reported the observation of the crew of the French fishing boat \"Jeune Frédéric\" off the coast of Normandy. These sailors saw a large black object shaped like a bird that plunged into the ocean, immediately emerged again before falling again and disappearing without a trace. (July 1910)", + "location": "FRANCE, at sea", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 219", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_671" + }, + { + "date": "7/1910", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three fishing boats sailing off the coast of Florida reported that they had observed a large black pear-shaped object illuminated by the Moon and swaying above the coast.", + "location": "At sea, off the coast of Florida", + "ref": [ + "Jean PRACHAN: \"Le triangle des Bermudes base secrète des Ovni\" - Belfond 1972 - p. 102", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_672" + }, + { + "date": "8/1910", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the military two-seater aircraft Etrich Taube, 115 km/h, ceiling 3000m. End of production in 1915. (August 1910)", + "location": "Austria, Various Licenses", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_673" + }, + { + "date": "8/12/1910", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Captain Breyer of the Dutch vessel \"Valentijn\" saw at midnight, in the south of the South China Sea, a rotation of flashes. \"It was like a horizontal wheel, turning quickly above the water\" and producing in the crew \"a deep feeling of unease\".", + "location": "South China Sea", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967 - p. 216", + "Danish Meteorological Institute", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_674" + }, + { + "date": "8/17/1910", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Day laborers were sawing trees when they saw in the sky a device they took for a balloon. Suddenly the balloon ignited and what seemed to be a gondola detached and fell into the forest. It was to be searched for in vain in the days following the incident.", + "location": "GERMANY, Dassau", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 219", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_675" + }, + { + "date": "8/30/1910", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:45 PM a long dark object flew over Manhattan Island. Hundreds of people saw it approach Madison Square, make a turn, and then disappear. It should be remembered that at this time aviation was still in its infancy. In 1910 there were 36 licensed pilots and the few aircrafts were well known. The following night it was seen again around 9:00 PM, still above Madison Square. (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 219) There were already more than 200 licensed pilots and many others had to prove themselves by making numerous flights before obtaining a license. Also, on August 20th, 1910, at Sheepshead Bay (New York) Lieutenant J.E. Fickel fired at a ground target from an airplane in flight, using a '30 caliber rifle (August 30th and 31st, 1910)", + "location": "USA, New York, Manhattan Island", + "ref": [ + "Conquête de l'air. Chronologie...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 85", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_676" + }, + { + "date": "10/1910", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1907, the wealthy American adventurer Walter Wellman ordered a dirigible balloon from Paris. He named it \"AMERICA\". He set off from Atlantic City towards Europe in October 1910. The propulsion of the balloon was underestimated. Wellman traveled around a thousand miles without being able to control the balloon to direct it against the winds above the Atlantic. After a three-day flight, it finally fell into the ocean near a British warship.", + "location": "Atlantic Ocean", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 8", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_677" + }, + { + "date": "11/14/1910", + "desc": "(Translated from French) For the first time an aircraft takes off from a ship: Ely on \"Curtiss\" from SS \"Birmingham\".", + "location": "USA, HAMPTON ROADS", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 87", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_678" + }, + { + "date": "11/1910", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Graham White, invited to visit President Taft of the USA, traveled there by airplane and landed in the street in front of the Federal Government palace. (November 1910)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 87", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_679" + }, + { + "date": "1/15/1911", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Attempted air bombing by Myron S. Crissy and P. O. Parmalec on \"Wright\" Airplane.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 88", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_680" + }, + { + "date": "1/18/1911", + "desc": "(Translated from French) E. Ely on biplane \"CURTISS\" taking off from San Francisco, landed at 11:01 AM in the bay on the platform set up at the back of the battleship \"PENNSYLVANIA\". At 11:58 he took off again and returned to his departure aerodrome. (January 18, 1911)", + "location": "USA, SAN FRANCISCO, Selfridge Base", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 88, 89", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_681" + }, + { + "date": "2/14/1912", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First ascent of the airship \"L.Z.11\" \"Victoria Louise\". This Zeppelin would make a total of 384 flights (838 hours) until October 31, 1913, carrying 8135 passengers. It was dismantled on October 1, 1915. (February 14, 1912)", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 95", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_682" + }, + { + "date": "2/1912", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater Reconnaissance Bomber BE-2 (Blériot Experimental), maximum speed 113km/h, ceiling about 3048m, delivery to the armies February 1913. Built by at least 22 firms whose total production far exceeds the 3535 copies that have been traced. (February 1912)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_683" + }, + { + "date": "3/10/1912", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Italian Airships \"P.2\" and \"P.3\" (Engineer Forlanini) flew over Turkish positions and dropped some bombs. On april 13 they each accomplished a 13-hour mission above Turkish positions.", + "location": "TURKEY", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 95", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_684" + }, + { + "date": "4/8/1912", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Charles Tilden Smith saw in the sky \"something different from anything I have ever seen before, although I have for many years studied the sky in all its aspects.\" He saw two stationary spots on clouds that were moving rapidly. They were in the shape of a triangular fan and of various sizes, but kept the same position while cloud after cloud passed beneath them, and this for a half hour. (April 8, 1912)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Chisbury (Wiltshire)", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 206, 207", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_685" + }, + { + "date": "6/7/1912", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First test shooting of an aircraft with a Lewis machine gun by Ch. de Forrest Chandler on a \"Wright B\" piloted by T. D. Milling at College Park. (June 7, 1912)", + "location": "USA, COLLEGE PARK", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 96", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_686" + }, + { + "date": "7/2/1912", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The \"Akron\" Airship of the Goodyear Tire Company was flying for the first time in 1912 and every flight was well documented and supported by adequate advertising. Unfortunately, the airship exploded a few minutes after taking off again on July 2 in Atlantic City. (July 2, 1912)", + "location": "USA, Atlantic City", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 9", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_687" + }, + { + "date": "10/7/1912", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Commissioning of the Zeppelin Type L airship, 158 m long, 14.78 m in diameter, with a volume of 22500 m3. Maximum speed 84 km/h, ceiling 3500 m, range approximately 1290 km for this early type, armed with 2 or 3 Parabellum machine guns of 7.92 mm and about 1000 kg of bombs. (October 7, 1912)", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_688" + }, + { + "date": "10/12/1912", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man driving on the track saw a strange humanoid creature drinking water from a creek. Was it a \"Yahoo\" or a \"Yowie\" as the Aborigines call it?", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, between Bombala and Bemboka (New South Wales)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing 1989, p. 307", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_689" + }, + { + "date": "12/3/1912", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, an aerial vessel with four occupants came to hover over Portsmouth. After staying stationary for fifteen minutes above the city, it departed back to the north from where it had come.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Portsmouth", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 221", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_690" + }, + { + "date": "1912", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The theoretical and practical research undertaken by Robert Hutchins Goddard on rockets dates back to 1912. His first publication \"A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes\" published in 1919, summarizes the results of his previous research in achieving a high altitude rocket.", + "location": "USA, Worcester (Massachusetts)", + "ref": [ + "\"Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 43", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_691" + }, + { + "date": "1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater reconnaissance aircraft with the possibility of shooting and dropping bombs Morane-Saulnier L. 115km/h, ceiling 4000m, range 450 km. In April 1914 the Morane-Saulnier N will come, 165 km/h, range 225 km, small fighter line very simple. From the A version, very modern parasol fighter, 1121 units will be built. (1913,)", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_692" + }, + { + "date": "2/1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the Farman Longhorn, training, utility and bombing and reconnaissance, max. speed 95 km/h, ceiling 4000 m. In October 1931 the FARMAN F 220 will also make its first flight, heavy bomber with a crew of 5 men. It will remain in service until 1945.", + "location": "FRANCE, VARIOUS LICENSES", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_693" + }, + { + "date": "4/8/1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A strange shadow was observed on clouds in Fort Worth. (...) It seemed to be caused by some vast object hovering without moving above the clouds. Although the clouds moved, the shadow stayed in the same place. Then it narrowed and faded, as if the object had risen vertically. The Weather Review of this year No. 4-599 gave an account of it. (Donald KEYHOE: \"Les Soucoupes volantes existent\" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p 83) The shadow in the sky of an invisible object, supposed to be a cloud, moves with the setting sun. Two observers saw a triangular object crossing the sky with a considerable parallax for 6 nights in a row. It was very close to the ground. (April 8, 1913)", + "location": "USA, Fort Worth (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "Charles FORT: \"The Book of the Damned\" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 207, 208", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_694" + }, + { + "date": "5/17/1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The 3 children were tending to their sheep. It was noon. They saw a flash of light in the sky and a luminous figure appeared near a tree.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Cova da Iria-Fatima", + "ref": [ + "\"Intervencao Extraterrestre em Fatima\" by Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_695" + }, + { + "date": "5/18/1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Several people, including the 3 children, observed the fall of \"angel hair\".", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Cova da Iria-Fatima", + "ref": [ + "Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_696" + }, + { + "date": "5/23/1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Again a fall of angel hair was observed.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Cova da Iria-Fatima", + "ref": [ + "Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_697" + }, + { + "date": "5/1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the Sikorsky Ilya Mourometz, heavy bomber and transport aircraft, biplane, 4 to 7 crew members; 137 km/h, Ceiling from 2000 to 3200 m, Autonomy 349 km. FIRST FOUR-ENGINE AIRCRAFT IN THE WORLD, Wingspan 29.80 m, Length 16.80 m. (May 1913)", + "location": "USSR, Kiev", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, Author Bill Gunston, Edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_698" + }, + { + "date": "5/24/1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) New fall of angel hair.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Cova da Iria-Fatima", + "ref": [ + "Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_699" + }, + { + "date": "6/17/1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The three children had another contact with the entity they call \"Saint Virgin\". Before she appeared there was a thunderclap, and when she left there was a sound of a rocket. (June 17, 1913)", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Cova da Iria-Fatima", + "ref": [ + "\"Intervencao Extraterrestre em Fatima\" by Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_700" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the summer of 1913, I was a schoolboy. One afternoon, the sky was dotted with a few clouds after a light rain. Suddenly, in the southeast sky, three rings were noticed, each three or four times the size of a full moon. They constantly emitted red and blue lights. Arranged in a perfect triangle, they remained motionless for a few minutes. Later, the three rings lined up and flew slowly in single file. The schoolboys shouted and our teacher came out to see what was happening. Then we went to class and we did not know how the three rings disappeared. Two days later, at night, villagers were returning from the fair passing through the mountain pass 2 km from the village: they all saw a shiny thing on the ground. It looked like a grain mill, had a diameter of 3 or 4 m. They were all scared, stepped back and took another path to go home. (1913, Summer)", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.74", + "continued in 1919 in Beijing", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_701" + }, + { + "date": "7/17/1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Third contact of the 3 children with the entity, who announces that it will perform a miracle in October to convince everyone.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Cova da Iria-Fatima", + "ref": [ + "\"Intervencao Extraterrestre em Fatima\" by Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_702" + }, + { + "date": "7/1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the single or two-seater Avro 504 at 504N, maximum speed 132 km/h, ceiling 3950 m, production ended around mid 1933. (July 1913)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN-USSR", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_703" + }, + { + "date": "8/1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the Royal Aircraft Factory FE2 two-seater combat aircraft: 130 km/h, ceiling 2743 m, last delivery end of 1916. (August 1913)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_704" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the middle of the afternoon, three strange \"electric\" lights were observed above the Wabash River valley. These lights sometimes flew very slowly (6mph) and sometimes at very high speed. They seemed to be controlled in a \"rotary\" movement and among the maneuvers observed, there were right-angle turns, and following the terrain, \"jumping\" merrily over trees and other obstructions on their route. (1913, Summer)", + "location": "USA, Lafayette (Indiana)", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 13", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_705" + }, + { + "date": "Late Summer 1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) François Zatloukal was travelling from Brno to Zidenice when between 9:00 PM and 10:00 PM he observed in the clear sky six large red stars that were turning without noise, mixing with each other, following the direction of the clock hands, along an ellipse whose apparent diameter was about one meter with arm outstretched. The witness observed this phenomenon for eight minutes, then left before it ceased. (1913, late summer)", + "location": "CZECHOSLOVAKIA, Moravia", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\" - translation Laffont 1976 - p. 264", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_706" + }, + { + "date": "Autumn 1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the Sopwith Tabloid reconnaissance biplane, 7.70m wingspan, 6.20m long, 148 km/h, ceiling 4600m, range 510 km. In December 1915 the STRUTTER, a multi-purpose combat aircraft, was released, in February 1916 the other single-seater PUP, in May of the same year the TRIPLANE, single-seater scout etc... Tommy Sopwith with the pilot Harry Hawker then became the famous Hawker Aircraf and then the Hawker Siddeley group. (1913, Autumn)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_707" + }, + { + "date": "Autumn 1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A luminous ball emitting a whistling sound, came from the south, straight towards the witnesses and passed between them and the large one at 10 meters. The object had the size of a football and was at 5 or 6 meters from the ground. It then rose up to disappear behind a hill. The witnesses were P.O. Moller, Tor Flatum and Gunn Berget. It was around 8 pm and the whole observation took about 40 seconds, during which the ball traveled a distance of about 10 km. (1913, Autumn)", + "location": "NORWAY, Auggedal", + "ref": [ + "UFO REPORT FORM, 31 Mar 1965, cfr listing of Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_708" + }, + { + "date": "9/17/1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On August 17, 1913 the 3 children were contacted, in the same way as the previous month. On September 17, thousands of people saw the \"sphere of light\" used by the entity to reach the meeting place. According to the general vicar of Leira, the entity arrived in an \"airplane of light\", an immense globe, flying east at a moderate speed immensely luminous. A few other witnesses saw an entity come out of the globe which, after a few minutes, left in the direction of the sun. (September 17, 1913)", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Cova da Iria-Fatima", + "ref": [ + "\"Intervencao Extraterrestre em Fatima\" by Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_709" + }, + { + "date": "1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the armed two-seat Scout Vickers EFB-1 biplane, 113 km/h, ceiling 2743m, range about 386 km or 4 hours of flight. On November 30, 1917 came the VIMY type, heavy three-seat bomber and then several others until 1957.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_710" + }, + { + "date": "1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) W.L. Shelley was returning from church with his parents, uncle, aunt and two cousins. They saw in the perfectly clear sky a strange object flying in the air from north to south. The UFO was not moving very fast and the witnesses were able to observe it for a good minute. It was black, about thirty meters long and seemed to have a particular structure at its base. The altitude was estimated at 1000 m. Shelley's uncle then thought, although no movement of wings could be seen, that it must be some kind of large tropical bird!", + "location": "USA, Winfield (Kansas)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 224", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_711" + }, + { + "date": "1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the single-seat reconnaissance fighter Fokker E. The young Dutchman Anthony Fokker built his first plane in 1912, a single-seat with a large dihedral and no lateral control. The English disdain it and Fokker offers it to the Germans, where it is built in large numbers and undergoes considerable evolution.", + "location": "GERMANY-NETHERLANDS", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_712" + }, + { + "date": "1913", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the heavy bomber Quadriplace Aproni CA-1, maximum speed of 151 km/h, ceiling 4100 m. From transformation and improvement it will become the CA-133 type used as a bomber and colonial transport in 1932, the CA 135, medium bomber with 5 seats in 1935 with 3 turrets for machine gunners.", + "location": "ITALY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_713" + }, + { + "date": "1/1/1914", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Inauguration of a Regular Service, by means of \"Benoist\" Hydroplanes between St. Petersburg and Tampa in the USA. Pilot: Tony Jannus. Jannus will receive his Transport Pilot's License on August 10, 1914.", + "location": "USA-USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 103, 108", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_714" + }, + { + "date": "1914", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the Voisin I biplane, two-seater, with a propeller propulsion of 120 km/h, ceiling of 2980m, range of 330 km. (1914, beginning)", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_715" + }, + { + "date": "2/23/1914", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the single-seat reconnaissance aircraft Bristol Scout Type 1, maximum speed of 161 to 177 km/h depending on the engine, ceiling 4267m", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_716" + }, + { + "date": "1914", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater reconnaissance and bombing Caudron G, with a machine gun on a mobile mount at the front of the observer, speed 131 km/h, ceiling 4260 m. End of production in 1918", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_717" + }, + { + "date": "6/23/1914", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On \"rumpler\" the pilot Basser held the air for 18h 12 min.", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 104", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_718" + }, + { + "date": "6/26/1914", + "desc": "(Translated from French) W. Landmann on \"Albatros\" establishes new flight duration record: 21 hours, 48 min. 45 sec. (June 26, 1914)", + "location": "GERMANY,", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 104", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_719" + }, + { + "date": "6/1914", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One fine morning in June, around 4:00 a.m., Gustav Herwagen opened the door of his home in Hamburg. He then saw in a nearby field a shiny object in the shape of a cigar with illuminated windows. Next to this craft there were four or five dwarves, no taller than 1.20 m and wearing light-colored clothing. As soon as the witness approached them, these characters entered the object, a door closed and the craft took off silently, vertically. (June 1914)", + "location": "GERMANY, Hamburg", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 224", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_720" + }, + { + "date": "8/14/1914", + "desc": "(Translated from French) After a boat ride several people rested on the shore of Georgia Bay on Lake Ontario. A little girl saw a deer on the shore and the animal was facing the lake. The child looked in the same direction and remained silent in surprise. After a moment she called her parents. A spherical object with a platform at the base rested on the lake about 16 feet from the shore. Two small men were busy around a colored pipe, green. Their clothes seemed luminous, their size did not exceed 3'3 '' feet. They wore a kind of box-shaped helmet. Then three other small beings with tubular objects were engaged in an enigmatic task before disappearing? Shortly after, the first two put their pipe into an opening on the side of the device. At a height of 20 feet above the lake, the device tilted and took off at a lightning speed. (Jean FERGUSON: \"All about Flying Saucers\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p.187) William J. Kiehl and seven other people observed an extremely unusual phenomenon at Georgia Bay on Lake Huron. At 150 m from the shore, an object shaped like a flattened globe at the top and carrying a kind of square structure at the base was resting on the water. Two human creatures, 1.20 m tall and dressed in tight-fitting purple-green clothes, were standing on a kind of bridge encircling the device. These beings manipulated a green pipe that plunged into the water. After a while three other small characters appeared at the upper part of the globe. They were dressed this time in khaki and wore, like the first two, a kind of square mask to the shoulders. Meanwhile, the other two had recovered their pipe, pushing it through a kind of hatch. As one of these beings had not yet had time to enter the interior of the object, it suddenly rose from the surface of the lake, forcing the unfortunate to cling energetically to a chromed ramp and it quickly disappeared from the sight of the witnesses. (August 14, 1914)", + "location": "CANADA, Georgia Bay", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977, p. 224", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_721" + }, + { + "date": "8/14/1914", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Hundreds of witnesses saw for days a mysterious unidentified flying object, carrying a powerful projector. This incredible aircraft was visible in Williston and Fraserburg on August 14, in Vryburg on the 18th, in Vredenburg and Hopefield on the 19th, in Cape Town on the 20th, again in Vryburg on the 29th (with flashes of light) and above Graaff-Reinet (all night). On September 2 it was seen again in Vryburg, on the 3rd it was the turn of Taungs and Pokwani to be visited. It was reported in the Transvaal at Warmbaths on September 6, it flew over the village of Utrecht on the 11th and Vryburg on the 13th. It was spotted one last time above Port Shepstone on October 27, 1914. (August 14 to October 27, 1914)", + "location": "SOUTH AFRICA", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 225", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_722" + }, + { + "date": "9/17/1914", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It is reported from the town of Alta that in the evening of Thursday, between 9 and 10 o'clock, a very strange luminous phenomenon was observed by several people and in various districts of the town. The sky was completely covered by low clouds. It was pitch dark when a light point, shining like a big star, appeared in the east of Elvebakken. The phenomenon passed over Bosekop, disappeared behind Skoddevarre, reappeared at Kvaenvik where, after various maneuvers, it disappeared in the direction of Talvik. The white light partially changed from red to blue. On board the SS \"Sina\" the phenomenon was observed with binoculars. Most of the observers obviously thought of an airplane. But only one person seems to have heard the sound of an airplane, without however observing the light. The phenomenon moved at various altitudes and generally at a slow speed, except at the moment of its disappearance. [note from vog: for me this is probably an airplane, this is not strictly speaking the observation of a UFO, or is it?] (September 17, 1914)", + "location": "NORWAY, Alta", + "ref": [ + "MORGENBLADET, 24 Sep 1914, 2.; Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 37, cfr listing of Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_723" + }, + { + "date": "10/22/1914", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"From Knaplund, (near) Saltstrømmen, it is reported that last night, around 9 pm, an \"airship\" was seen, flying east. There were about ten witnesses, who heard at the same time a quite considerable noise. The object had the shape of a cigar and was clearly visible in the night sky. Our correspondent has collected the names of several adults who observed this phenomenon.\" [vog: do you get the impression that it is a UFO? not me.] (October 22, 1914)", + "location": "NORWAY, Bodo", + "ref": [ + "MORGENBLADET, October 23, 1914, 4.; Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 38, cfr listing of Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_724" + }, + { + "date": "11/21/1914", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A Mindlandet (Tjolta) it was seen Saturday night, a kind of glider flying above the Skjaervaer lighthouse, which it illuminated with its projector. The glider, which was then about 700 m high, descended to 400 meters, height from which it sent a beam of its projector towards a passing ship at sea. Then it descended even further. More than 20 people were watching it\" (November 21, 1914)", + "location": "NORWAY, Tjolta", + "ref": [ + "the text says it well: a kind of glider ...", + "MORGENBLADET, 25 Nov 1914, 2; Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 38, cfr listing of Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_725" + }, + { + "date": "1914", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Explorer Lt. Colonel P.H. Fawcet, in the region near Bolivia, reported: \"I whistled and a huge creature, covered in fur like a dog, ran to its 'barn', took a big stick and came towards us, dancing on one foot then the other, until it was less than 3 meters away. It made growling noises like \"Eugh! Eugh!\" and stayed there, dancing. Suddenly the whole forest around us was filled with these hideous human-simian creatures, all growling \"Eugh! Eugh!\", dancing like the first one and holding sticks in their fists. (note from vog: 70 years before Disney's long animated feature...). The situation seemed delicate for us. I tried to talk to them kindly in Maxubi, but they paid no attention to what I said. Human language seemed not accessible to them.\" Fawcet ended the situation by shooting first on the ground, then in the air. The creatures then threw their sticks at them and the intruders (the explorers) had to retreat. The local population was aware of the existence of these creatures and called them \"Maricoxis\".", + "location": "BRESIL, Cordilheira dos Parecis", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 197", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_726" + }, + { + "date": "11/1914", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater reconnaissance aircraft, Aviatik Type I. Maximum speed 105 km/h, ceiling approx. 2500 m. (November 1914)", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_727" + }, + { + "date": "End of 1914", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the Nieuport XI (the XVII in 1916, the 298 in June 1917) single-seater biplane reconnaissance fighter, 156 km/h, ceiling 4600m, range approximately 230 km. (1914, end of year)", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_728" + }, + { + "date": "Autumn 1914", + "desc": "(Translated from French) D. S. Ionescu was then 14 years old. One evening, while the family was seated in the garden, they all saw an object of the apparent size of a football, glowing red, moving from east to west at about thirty meters. At the back there was something like an exhaust pipe, whose breath violently shook the tops of the nearby trees. From this kind of tube also came a trail of sparks about ten meters long. A week later the same phenomenon was seen again, this time emitting a characteristic whistle. It flew over various houses, disappearing suddenly. After lingering above one of these dwellings, a lady was found there covered in burns. (Autumn 1914 or 1915)", + "location": "ROMANIA, Bujoreanca.", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\" - trad. Laffont 1976, p. 291", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_729" + }, + { + "date": "6/1915", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the three-seater reconnaissance and escort fighter Caudron R-11. It already had a relatively aerodynamic line, speed 183 km/h, absolute ceiling 5950 m, used by the French aviation, more than 500 copies were built. (June 1915)", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_730" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1915", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A dark object, bell-shaped, descended from the sky to the west and landed. Two humanoids appeared from the back of the object, during the landing phase. They walked towards a road, then turned around and headed towards the witness. One of the humanoids stopped and smiled at the witness, Bjarne Westvand. The boy, aged 6 at the time, said that the humanoid was the same size as him, about 1 m tall. He had long dark hair, flowing in the wind. His skin was gray and he had a big head compared to his stature. The two creatures wore tight dark brown clothing. They then went behind the hill and shortly after the bell-shaped object rose and quickly disappeared into the sky (1915, Summer)", + "location": "NORWAY, Sulitjelma", + "ref": [ + "RAPPORTNYTT, 4/1981, 3, cfr, listing of Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_731" + }, + { + "date": "7/1915", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater reconnaissance aircraft Airco DH-2, speed 150 km/h, ceiling 4420 m. 100 of them were built in 1915-1916, total production 450 units of which 300 served in France and the others in the Middle East.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_732" + }, + { + "date": "7/13/1915", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Tuesday, at 12:30, four ladies left the Fredheim hotel for a walk on the road going north. At the Valsted farm, they suddenly heard a loud engine noise, so they thought a car was coming. They moved to the side of the road to let the vehicle pass, but to their surprise, no car ever arrived. However, the two ladies who were a bit ahead of the others then saw, for a short moment, an airplane above their heads towards the northwest. One of the ladies, the wife of an officer, who saw the machine, is sure that it was an airplane. But here begins the most singular part of the observation. The two women only had the opportunity to see the plane for a short moment, where the engine seemed to have stopped while the craft descended in a dead leaf, slowly, towards Volbufjorden. That is what they both saw, and in their opinion the plane was crashing. The commander of Ostre Slide was immediately alerted, and with four men he went to investigate, organizing a search from Skogene just outside Rognagardene, to the fjord, without finding any debris. The next day the men were posted on either side of the fjord while the entire Volbufjorden region was combed. At the end of the day the commander gave an interview to the reporters, noting that they still had not found anything of the mysterious plane. (July 13, 1915)", + "location": "NORWAY, Ostre Slidre", + "ref": [ + "VALDRES, Jul 1915.; MORGENBLADET, 16 Jul 1915, 4; Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 40, cfr listing d'Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_733" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1915", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the summer of 1915 a flying man was reported above Cabeco. (1915, Summer)", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Cabeco", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 226", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_734" + }, + { + "date": "8/1915", + "desc": "(Translated from French) FIRST FLIGHT OF THE TWO-SEATER BOMBER HAVILAND (AIRCO) DH-4, 219 km/h, ceiling 6096 m. End of US Army service in 1932. The DH 9, DH 10, Mosquito, Hornet/Sea Hornet, Vampire, Venom, Canada Caribou, Canada Buffalo complete the HAVILAND range, with the last deliveries then dating back to 1972.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, AMERICAN LICENSE", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_735" + }, + { + "date": "8/20/1915", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Friday night, around 10:10 PM, a terrible storm was raging above the Ostlandet fjord. The witness was in his house, looking out the window towards the fjord. Suddenly he saw a dark object appear on the horizon, somewhere near Rauer. And this \"cloudy\" mass (what he thought it was) was crossing the sky at an incredible speed, which made him think it was not a cloud at all. He took his binoculars and went out into the garden. He observed through the binoculars, the most beautiful Zeppelin he had ever seen. It was hovering above Christianiafjord. He saw that a bright light was in the center of the huge body. After a minute of observation, this lamp went out, and immediately the craft turned and \"floated\" southward, where it disappeared into the dark night. (August 20, 1915)", + "location": "NORWAY, Christianiafjord", + "ref": [ + "artifact, assuredly", + "GJENGANGEREN, Aug 1915.; MORGENBLADET, 25 Aug 1915, 4.; Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 42, cfr listing of Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_736" + }, + { + "date": "8/21/1915", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the Dardanelles campaign, the Allied forces were facing the Turkish army in the Gallipoli peninsula. On August 21, a British battalion, the 5th Norfolk Regiment, came to reinforce the Anzac troops (Australian and New Zealand army corps). The attack took place at Coast 60, an elevation of terrain in the south of Suvla Bay. According to the campaign book, the fifth regiment was suddenly enveloped in an unexpected fog, on which the rays of the sun were reflected. The glare was so bright that the artillery observers were dazzled. From that moment, the 250 men were never seen again. \"This cloud gave the impression of being solid. A group of 22 men could observe it from their trenches dug about 2,500 m away. After changing position, this singular cloud completely covered a dry torrent bed and we could perfectly distinguish its sides and ends. Its color was light gray, like that of the other clouds. The troop, 400 men, then marched towards Coast 60 and, when they reached the level of the cloud, they plunged into it, never to come out again. After an hour, when it had absorbed the regiment in its entirety, the cloud rose and joined the others perfectly motionless, despite a south wind blowing at a speed of 6 to 7 km/h. The entire formation flew towards the north, towards Bulgaria. The indicated regiment was declared missing or destroyed and when Turkey surrendered in 1918, the first thing England demanded from Turkey was the return of this regiment. Turkey replied that it had never taken this regiment prisoner or even been in contact with it and that it did not know of its existence\" (August 21, 1915)", + "location": "TURKEY, Gallipoli", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 226-227", + "extract from Fred Reichart's journal", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_737" + }, + { + "date": "12/18/1915", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the heavy night bomber Biplan with a normal crew of three men Handley Page HP-11, 30.48m wingspan, length 19.16m, speed 156 km/h, ceiling 2590m, was supplied to Wing No. 3 RNAS in September 1916.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_738" + }, + { + "date": "1/1916", + "desc": "(Translated from French) AEG KI, GIV, and GV Plane: first flight. Twin-engine, max speed 145 km/h, ceiling 4000m. In production until end of 1918.", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_739" + }, + { + "date": "1/13/1916", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man saw six lights in the sky: one green, one red and four white and he thought he saw a body carrying these lights. After a moment, the four white lights went out and a beam, like that of a projector, was directed downwards. The phenomenon appeared in the south-southwest, flew first towards the east, and finally disappeared towards the southeast. Several people observed it, including the entire rescue team based in Dyfjord, and not one doubted having seen a gigantic \"airship\". (January 13, 1916)", + "location": "NORWAY, Dyfjord", + "ref": [ + "here again, no feeling of strangeness... .", + "FINNMARKSPOSTEN, Jan 1916.; MORGENBLADET, 15 Jan 1916, 2.;Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 41; listing by Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_740" + }, + { + "date": "1/19/1916", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Captain Bergfjord of the SS \"Ofoten\" ship claims that upon his approach to the port of Ofotenfjord, he saw a Zeppelin above Rolvaer flying at an altitude of approximately 500 m.", + "location": "NORWAY, Rolvaer", + "ref": [ + "MORGENBLADET, January 19, 1916, 2.; Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 41; listing of Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_741" + }, + { + "date": "1/31/1916", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Local time: 8:45 PM, pilot: Sub Lieutenant J. E. Morgan. Flying at 5000 feet he saw a row of lights resembling windows covered by light shutters, like those of a railway carriage. Believing it to be a German Zeppelin, he fired his Webley Scott at the object, which quickly rose and disappeared.", + "location": "ENGLAND, near Rochford", + "ref": [ + "Source: THE GERMAN AIR RAIDS ON ENGLAND, 1914-1918, by Capt. Joseph Morris - London 1925, page 81, cfr Thomas E. Bullard", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_742" + }, + { + "date": "3/15/1916", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A plane was clearly seen flying above Vesteralen. It arrived at a dizzying speed from the sea, first made a complete circle, then was above the Boroy area and finally directly above Stokmarknes. Both on its arrival and on its return flight, the lights it carried continuously changed color, red, blue, white and it seemed like some kind of code. It was 11 pm when this phenomenon appeared and many people observed the unknown visitor, as it was also well lit by the moonlight. (1916, March 15,)", + "location": "NORWAY, Vesteralen", + "ref": [ + "NY TID, Mar 1916.; MORGENBLADET, 24 Mar 1916, 4.; Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 41, listing of Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_743" + }, + { + "date": "4/1916", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Deperdussin works under the name of Spad Firm and in April 1916 the armed monoplane Spad VII makes its first flight. 192km/h, ceiling 5334m, autonomy 360 km.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_744" + }, + { + "date": "4/16/1916", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The students of Stavanger Folkeskole, aged 9 to 11, saw a black cloud appear in the sky, followed by a red light at the back. The appearance seemed so divine to them that they all believed they saw an angel and a cross. A little later a message appeared written in the sky. (April 16, 1916)", + "location": "NORWAY, Stavanger", + "ref": [ + "STAVANGER AFTENBLAD, Apr 1916, Mar 1917, Mar 1918, 19 Dec 1942, Apr 1943. iorth: LEBESBYMANNEN., 193-?, 45-8. OMVEND DERE FOR JESUS KOMMER SNART., 198-?.UFO, 1/1989, 22-3. Listing d'Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_745" + }, + { + "date": "4/20/1916", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The SS \"Faljir\" of The Nordre Bergenhus Company was overflown and passed at 2 o'clock in the morning at Stafjorden, west zone of Svanoen, by a Zeppelin. It was illuminated and the sound of its engines was heard clearly. The craft disappeared in the direction of the north. (April 20, 1916)", + "location": "NORWAY, Stafjorden", + "ref": [ + "MORGENBLADET, April 23, 1916, 4. Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 41. Listing of Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_746" + }, + { + "date": "5/1916", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the two-seat reconnaissance aircraft Halberstadt, not very remarkable but fitting in with the times: 170 km/h, ceiling 5000 m. (May 1916)", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_747" + }, + { + "date": "5/1916", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater Armstrong Whitworh FK4 reconnaissance bomber; maximum speed 153 km/h, ceiling 3960m. First flight May 1916, delivery to the armies end 1916, end of production 1918.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN and NETHERLANDS", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_748" + }, + { + "date": "6/24/1916", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"At around 11pm, an airplane was seen above Ulrikken. It was a biplane, observed by several people. It flew at such a high altitude that it could only be clearly seen through binoculars. It seemed to be heading towards the sea.\" (June 24, 1916)", + "location": "NORWAY, Bergen", + "ref": [ + "BERGENS AFTENBLAD, Jun 1916. MORGENBLADET, 27 Jun 1916, 2. Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 42. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_749" + }, + { + "date": "7/1916", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the four-seater maritime patrol Curtiss H Series (Large America), first in England, then in the USA at the end of the year. It reached 137 km/h, ceiling 3292 m; last delivery in October 1918.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, USA", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_750" + }, + { + "date": "1916", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the Felixstowe flying boat, 29.15m wingspan, 14.10m length, max. speed 154 km/h, ceiling 2926m, endurance: 6 hours.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_751" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1916", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the two-seat reconnaissance Hansa Brandenburg airplane, 170 km/h, ceiling around 5000 m. Improved versions were built until 1926 in Finland and Norway under the designation A-22 (1916, Summer)", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_752" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1916", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One day in the summer, Roy Gish, between 10 and 11 o'clock in the morning, observed an elongated oval craft at a distance of one mile. The object stopped dead in the air, hovering for a few seconds, before continuing its route passing over the witness's house. \"It seemed as solid as a machine part\" he said, with a dark gray surface, an estimated length of 40 feet and 8 to 12 feet wide. In a few seconds then the craft left like an arrow and disappeared in about ten seconds, in a cloudless sky. (1916, Summer)", + "location": "USA, Rensselaer (Indiana)", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 13, 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_753" + }, + { + "date": "9/9/1916", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater Bristol fighter types 14-17, max. speed 201 km/h, ceiling 6096 m, out of operational inventory in 1938.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_754" + }, + { + "date": "11/21/1916", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater day bomber Breguet 14, maximum speed 180 km/h, operational ceiling 6000m; production stopped around 1926. (November 21, 1916)", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_755" + }, + { + "date": "11/22/1916", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the experimental S. E. 5A Scout from the Royal Aircraft factory, single-seater reconnaissance, 193 km/h, ceiling 5181m, range 483 km. It is undoubtedly the best warplane ever presented by the firm, easy to fly, dives and climbs quickly, enormous maneuverability, only one flaw: very fragile French engine (Hispano-Suiza). (November 22, 1916)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_756" + }, + { + "date": "1917", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1917, Elizabeth Klarer was 7 years old. With her older sister, she observed a comet coming towards the Earth at great speed and a round metallic disc spinning around the comet and forcing it to deviate from its objective.", + "location": "SOUTH AFRICA", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued 1937", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_757" + }, + { + "date": "2/16/1917", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First Flight of the Naval Reconnaissance Bi or Triplane Fairey Campania, for which the Cunard Line's Campania ship was bought by the British Navy, was converted into an aircraft carrier. It had a large wingspan (18.75m) and very light floats, takeoffs were made on the ship's deck through a droppable cart (...) Later there would be Fairey Fox, Hendon, Battle, Swordfish, Barracuda, Firefly, Gannet etc... (February 16, 1917)", + "location": "Great Britain", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_758" + }, + { + "date": "4/14/1917", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An unidentified object was flying at 2:30am above the Pascataqua River, alerting the vigilance of three guards of Company L of the Sixth Massachusetts National Guard. They were posted near a point connecting Kittery (Maine) to Portsmouth (New Hampshire) in order to prevent German sabotage. When the craft descended near the bridge, the three men shot at it and the craft quickly disappeared from the area. The incident was notorious, as it occurred in the area of the Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard, the most important base on the East Coast. (April 14, 1917)", + "location": "USA, Pascataqua (Massachusetts)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's - A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_759" + }, + { + "date": "5/1917", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the Albatros D.V. Reconnaissance Monoplane. Max. speed 187 km/h, ceiling approx. 6250 m, test flight spring 1917, delivery to the armies from May 1917, full production until 1918.", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_760" + }, + { + "date": "6/1917", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater fighter Pfalz D-III, 165 km/h, ceiling 5200 m.", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_761" + }, + { + "date": "6/1917", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater reconnaissance fighter Siemens-Schuckert, 180 km/h, ceiling 8100m, range 322 km. Delivery completed in 1919.", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_762" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1917", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater fighter hannover, 165 km/h, ceiling 7500 m. (1917, Summer)", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_763" + }, + { + "date": "1917", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the first junkers j-10, single-seater fighter. it flew at approx. 155 km/h with a ceiling of 4000m. In the Junkers series other types were built until 1942. (1917,)", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_764" + }, + { + "date": "1917", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (UFOWEB: The Red Baron is said to have shot down a UFO in 1917.) Bonn, Germany: The flamboyant fighter pilot known as the Red Baron not only shot down 80 enemy aircraft during World War I but he was also the first human to shoot down an extraterrestrial craft. This is what former German Air Force pilot Peter Waitzrik claims, who says he saw, to his surprise, the fighter pilot shoot at a UFO, which had orange undulating lights, above Belgium in 1917. Then, two of the occupants of the downed UFO, came out of their spacecraft and ran into the woods, apparently never to be seen again. \"The Baron and I made a full report on the incident back to Headquarters and they told us never to mention this\".

The 105 year old former pilot recently spoke to a reporter. \"And except to my wife and my grown children, I never said a word. But that was 80 years ago, so what difference would it make now?\". He recounts that he and Baron Manfred von Richtofen, nicknamed the Red Baron, were flying on a morning mission above western Belgium during the summer of 1917 when a UFO suddenly appeared in the blue sky, directly above their Fokker triplane. \"We were terrified because we had never seen anything like this before, the United States had just entered the war, so we assumed it was something they had sent. The Baron immediately opened fire and the thing fell like a rock, shearing the treetops as it crashed into the woods. Then two little bald-headed guys came out and ran away\" Waitzrik says he assumed the silver, glinting craft was some kind of enemy invention until the \"flying saucer\" panic began in the 1940s and convinced him his colleague had shot down a UFO. \"This thing must have been about 40 meters in diameter and looked exactly like those flying saucer shaped spacecrafts everyone has seen during the last 50 years.\" he says, \"so there is no doubt in my mind that it was some kind of spacecraft from another planet, and those little guys running into the woods were not Americans but some kind of extraterrestrials\" \"You know, sometimes I wonder what happened to those guys\"", + "location": "Belgium, in flight", + "ref": [ + "Source: Sighting/ Jim Hickman Translation: Thierry Mallet (Mush) – THEM", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_765" + }, + { + "date": "10/13/1917", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At noon. Miracle or flying saucers? Everyone will have already read the account and the various hypotheses put forward on various occasions.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Fatima.", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's – A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_766" + }, + { + "date": "10/1917", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater reconnaissance aircraft Albatros D.III, maximum speed 175 km/h, ceiling 5500 m.; delivery to the armies from December 1916, end of production beginning 1918.", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_767" + }, + { + "date": "10/13/1917", + "desc": "(Translated from French) John Boback, 17 years old, observed a flying saucer. The young man was walking along the railway when he saw in a field 30 m away from him, an object in the shape of a disc with a platform and rows of lights. After nearly two minutes the craft rose with a shrill sound, slowly, while silhouettes were visible behind what seemed like illuminated windows.", + "location": "USA, Youngstown (Pennsylvania)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 228", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_768" + }, + { + "date": "11/1917", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the Martin & Handasayde single-seater fighter under the name Martinsyde F-4 Buzzard, 209 km/h, ceiling 7320m, range approximately 650 km. At the armistice, 52 aircraft were delivered.", + "location": "USA/Great Britain", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_769" + }, + { + "date": "1/1918", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A red, cigar-shaped object, without engine or wings, silently passed from southwest to northeast. (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 228) It measured between 100 and 150 feet long. The witnesses were military personnel from the base. One of them, Edwin Bauhan, estimated that the object had descended 500 feet and that everyone could see that there was neither engine nor windows, and that it did not resemble the dirigibles they knew well. The object emitted absolutely no sound. It left the area gaining altitude and disappeared in a burst of flames. (January 1918)", + "location": "USA, Waco (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_770" + }, + { + "date": "5/13/1918", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During a pilgrimage, there was a new fall of a substance, described this time as \"white balls\". (May 13, 1918)", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Fatima", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 55, 1981, p.4", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_771" + }, + { + "date": "7/16/1918", + "desc": "(Translated from French) As reported in the \"Seattle Times\" on July 16th, 1918, \"mountain demons\" attacked a dam that a prospector had built on a stream near Mount Laurence near Kelso, in the state of Washington. The \"demons\" were half-human, half-monster. Their size was between 2 and 2.5 meters. They had the power of hypnotism and ventriloquism. In addition, they could disappear at will or become invisible (July 16th, 1918, before)", + "location": "USA, Kelso (Washington)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids...\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p. 113", + "sic", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_772" + }, + { + "date": "10/2/1918", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The unmanned aircraft, \"The Bug\" true guided missile, successfully completed several flights in Dayton.", + "location": "USA, Dayton", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p.131", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_773" + }, + { + "date": "11/11/1918", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Chinese pilots showing unparalleled skill and daringness fly above Beijing. They fly between the chimneys of the Grand Hotel, then at 5 meters above the crowd on the road. (November 11, 1918)", + "location": "CHINA, BEIJING", + "ref": [ + "Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 132", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_774" + }, + { + "date": "1/22/1919", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 10:10 pm that night, Thomas Hills Harrison had just gone to rekindle the fire in his greenhouse when, heading towards the house, he saw through the living room window his father pointing out a light near the chicken coop, about fifty meters away from the witnesses. Harrison adds: \"All the apple trees in the orchard were lit up and cast long shadows in all directions. The night was very dark, particularly quiet and even the chickens were silent when I opened the gate. As soon as I crossed it I could clearly see the luminous globe that remained stationary about 1.40 meters above the ground. At first I thought it was my neighbor Robinson, but not receiving any response to my call, I headed towards this fluorescent light, the size of a tennis ball, perfectly spherical and beautiful to look at, like a pearl out of proportion. I circled it several times, getting closer to less than 2 meters. For about ten minutes I kept staring at it. Finally I decided to pick up a stick that was lying on the ground to touch it and see what would happen. At that moment, as if he had understood what I was going to do, the globe started moving very slowly. I got even closer. The limits of the sphere were not clear, it was like a cottony aura. When it met the fence, the globe fell to the ground as if it were exploding. It quickly regained its normal size and began to climb the trellis in a truly impressive silence. The glow sank about ten meters into Robinson's garden and then returned in my direction at a fast speed this time, suddenly turning to the right. I ran in its direction, I saw it climb the fence again, but I quickly realized that my pursuit was hopeless. When it reached a hawthorn bush, the globe leapt about ten meters high into a gap in the branches. The light stayed there for about three minutes, then disappeared from my view. Thinking that everything was over I went back to the house when I realized that the farmer Shepperd's land was violently lit up. That's when I saw the same glow making the return trip in my direction and at a fairly fast speed. When it was a few meters away from me I felt my hair stand on end for a short moment. The sphere went to the left and stopped in Robinson's garden. I went to knock on Robinson's door and the two of us saw the light globe go north-east, completely crossing the field over a distance of two hundred meters towards Bolsover Road. Then it made several circles around the tops of the roofs of a row of houses in Club Row, finally rising into the sky and disappearing eastward. It was then 10:50 pm. (January 22, 1919)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Shuttlewood (Derbyshire)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 232-233", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_775" + }, + { + "date": "Late Summer 1919", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One evening, young Harry Anderson (13 years old), his family and friends, went for a ride in his father's new Ford Model T. Around 10 pm, returning towards Eau Claire, the engine made some dissonances. Father Anderson stopped on the south emergency lane of Highway 25. \"There's no more oil,\" he said to his son, handing him a can in his hands, \"go see if we can borrow some from a farm\". Swinging the can in one hand, Harry went off on the dark road. A road sign told him he was just outside of Barron, 5 miles west of Rice Lake. He saw the roof of a farm in the horizon and took a shortcut to get there. The farmer filled the can and Harry returned to the car. Suddenly he saw about twenty little men, coming towards him, walking in single file. They had bald heads and white skin, wearing short leather pants, held up by suspenders on their shoulders. Stunned, Harry hid behind a tree and from there observed the scene. He heard snippets of their conversations, sounding like childish rhymes:

\"We won't stop fighting Till the end of the war In Nineteen-Hundred and Ninety-Four. Sound off--one, two Sound off--three, four Detail, one, two, three, four One--two...three--four! The little column kept walking and disappeared into the woods. Harry remained petrified and his heart still pounding for several minutes. (1919, late Summer)", + "location": "USA, Rice Lake, Wisconsin", + "ref": [ + "Fate Magazine for November 1978, \"Encounters with Little Men,\" page 85", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_776" + }, + { + "date": "11/12/1919", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The departure of the two-engine biplane CEAOU from Farnborough, which several weeks and 16 landings later, will link Australia. They pass through France, Italy, Greece, Crete, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Pakistan, India, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Timor Island and finally Australia. 75 years later, on board an identical biplane entirely rebuilt, 3 people repeat the same feat with the CEAOW", + "location": "FROM ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA", + "ref": [ + "Source and reportage: National Geographic 1994", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_777" + }, + { + "date": "1920", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A mother and her daughter heard music, like that produced by a harp and went (to see) towards the window. They saw in the sky a red object becoming smaller and smaller, and the music decreased likewise. When the object had gone, the music was no longer heard.", + "location": "NORWAY, Oslo", + "ref": [ + "RAPPORTNYTT, 3/1980, 1.Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_778" + }, + { + "date": "1920", + "desc": "(Translated from French) J. Algret, a farmer, clearly remembers that one evening he observed one of these UFOs, one meter in diameter, without any shine, flying close to the ground at a dizzying speed. The phenomenon moved over a distance of about 300 m and according to the witness, it was a \"red moon\".", + "location": "FRANCE, Beddes (Berry)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 234", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_779" + }, + { + "date": "1920", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An infirmier from Brest was on Rue Traverse when a passerby pointed out to him an enormous red ball, two to three times bigger than the sun, followed by a black cigar-shaped mass. It was 6 pm, it was summer, and the sky was clear. The objects were moving in the direction of the street towards the south.", + "location": "FRANCE, Brest", + "ref": [ + "Jean François BOEDEC: \"Les OVNI en Bretagne, Anatomie d'un Phénomène\" ed. Fernand Lanore, Paris 1978, p. 29", + "M. Pierre Gestin, investigator of Gepa", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_780" + }, + { + "date": "1920", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ten people watched four discs move in the sky of Texas. These objects moved quickly, one behind the other, emitting a soft orange glow. From time to time blue or green reflections were visible. Each of the discs was composed of two large silver plates about ten meters in diameter and the whole disappeared in the direction of Austin. (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 234) It was around 3 o'clock in the morning when the fisherman C..B. Alves saw four luminous discs. He said they were less than a hundred yards from his boat and looked like two silver plates placed side by side. Each seemed to measure 25 feet in diameter and in the center they were 10 feet thick.", + "location": "USA, Texas", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_781" + }, + { + "date": "1920", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Fishermen saw an egg-shaped UFO, blue in color, descending near Mount Pleasant.", + "location": "USA, Mount Pleasant (Iowa)", + "ref": [ + "A CENTURY OF UFO's - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_782" + }, + { + "date": "1920", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two planes were flying over the strait looking for a missing schooner. They saw unusual lights in the sky. One of the planes was approaching to identify them. The plane disappeared into a cloud and never came out. No trace of the schooner either. [note from vog: prelude to the Valentich case…?]", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Bass Strait (Victoria)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 310", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_783" + }, + { + "date": "10/1920", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At night, around 7:30-7:33 PM, H.B. Rage observed a light so strong that all the shadows of the trees stretched out on the ground to his feet. He observed a kind of red light ball, about the size of a small pea at arm's length, which came out like a red beam of light towards the ground, as if it were a searchlight looking for something. Finally, everything went out. The sky was quite clear, with some scattered clouds, without wind. The red searchlight had illuminated a very large area on the ground. (October 1920)", + "location": "NORWAY, Stavanger", + "ref": [ + "following the next case...", + "UFO REPORT FORM, 27 Dec 1964.UFO-NYT, 5/1966, 188. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_784" + }, + { + "date": "1921", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Paul Villa was born in 1916, and was allegedly instructed by extraterrestrials from his fifth year, that is in 1921", + "location": "USA, New Mexico", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "following 1953", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_785" + }, + { + "date": "1921", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the afternoon, M. B.G., 8 years old at the time, on a stroll along the banks of the Canal du Nord, suddenly saw two beings emerge from the willows, wearing a kind of flexible diving suit. They dragged him forcibly towards a kind of \"tank\" and hoisted him into the machine. He started to cry. An opening appeared in the ceiling of the cabin and in a few moments he was outside, on the ground. He had to walk for part of the afternoon to find his way back.", + "location": "FRANCE, between Arleux and Péronne", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 46, 47", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_786" + }, + { + "date": "2/22/1922", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Early in the morning William Lamb had gone hunting in the Hubell area. Around 5:00am he suddenly heard a piercing sound at the same time a dark object appeared in the sky, blocking the very bright stars of this winter morning. Just as suddenly the UFO lit up and landed in a hollow in the ground. Just before the craft took off, the witness distinctly saw a man flying about 2.50m high come out and take a few steps in the snow. Lamb followed his footprints but without result. Voices were heard inside the unknown craft. (February 22, 1922)", + "location": "USA, Hubbell (Nebraska)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 234", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_787" + }, + { + "date": "5/1922", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater bomber Breguet 19, max. speed 220 km/h. ceiling 7000 m; end of production in France in 1928, in other countries in 1930.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_788" + }, + { + "date": "9/9/1922", + "desc": "(Translated from French) John Morris, a lifeboat rescuer at Barmouth Life Boat, and William James were on a quay in Barmouth looking out to sea. Suddenly they saw a kind of aeroplane falling into the water. They immediately jumped into a motorboat and raced to the spot, in vain, as they found nothing. The investigation that followed was inconclusive, as no aircraft had been reported missing at the time of the event.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Barmouth (Wales)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 234", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_789" + }, + { + "date": "1922 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness, then aged 15, saw a strange silhouette coming onto the bridge where he himself was walking. This creature passed barely 4 m away from him: it was about 2 meters tall and walked like a monkey. (1922, exact date unknown)", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Estoraos-Viana do Castello", + "ref": [ + "collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing by Victor Lourenco", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_790" + }, + { + "date": "6/1923", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: Evansville Courier (Indiana, USA) 12.8.1998) Title: \"Illinois Man Convinced He Saw a UFO 75 Years Ago\" Byline: Len Wells. 75 years ago Norman Massie was driving a pair of horses in the prairie near his Mount Erie home, when he looked up and saw what he believes today to be a spaceship. (...) Massie, now 85 years old, was ten at the time. He is a retired university math professor today, and he said nothing of the event since his father asked him to keep it to himself. That is what he did until 1990. \"I opened the gate to let the horses into the prairie. I got them through and I was closing the gate and behind me in the field there was an object surrounded by lights,\" said Massie. I got close to it, about 50 feet. I was there and I watched the five men who were on board.\" Massie describes them as being about four feet tall, with blond hair. \"I was close enough to hear them talking,\" said Massie. \"One of them was sitting in a chair and the others were calling him 'commander'. The other four were going back and forth in the craft. I didn't know what it was until the end, when I heard one of the men shouting to the commander that 'the repairs were done'. \"The machine was metallic and it was on three legs. The top part was dome-shaped with holes in it. It looked like melted glass.\" Massie said the encounter lasted only five minutes. \"In one minute they were hovering, the legs telescoped into the body and it went straight up to 200 feet then went west at the speed of a rifle bullet.\"... (June 1923)", + "location": "USA, Mount Erie, North of Wayne County (Illinois)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_791" + }, + { + "date": "6/1923", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater fighter-bomber Curtiss Hawk, first version 386 km/h, ceiling 8300 m. This family of aircraft will undergo a huge evolution and will be used by the armies outside the USA for more than 20 years.", + "location": "USA,", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_792" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1923", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Four young children, Sextina Guerra, Valter Paiva, Mariana Lopes and Anita Becker were returning home at nightfall when they heard a curious noise in the sky, as if gears were turning up there. The noise got closer and the witnesses then saw a brightness that quickly increased in intensity. Against the starry sky, a triangular shape, like a ship's sail, stood out clearly (its apparent diameter was 1.50 m) passing through all the colors of the rainbow. Nearly ten other people were able to observe the phenomenon until it rose into the sky and disappeared on the horizon. (1923, Summer)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Sao Joa de Porto Alegre.", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 235", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_793" + }, + { + "date": "7/1923", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Volosnikov, on the steamship sailing on the Vyatka River, near his village, saw in the evening an object resembling a flying moon. He watched it for two or three minutes. The object then turned to the right and disappeared. Comparing his notes and documentation with what he had seen, the witness concluded that it must have been \"an evil spirit\". (Excerpt: Felix Zigel and FSR) At dawn on the Vyatka River, Mr. Volosnikov, a passenger on the steamship, observed for three minutes an oval object flying above a nearby village before turning at a right angle and disappearing into the distance. (July 1923)", + "location": "USSR, Sosnovka", + "ref": [ + "\"UFOs - A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_794" + }, + { + "date": "5/13/1924", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During a pilgrimage, \"petals of roses were observed falling from the sun in great quantity.\" As they approached, they vanished.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Fatima", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 55 - 1981, p. 4", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_795" + }, + { + "date": "7/24/1924", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The British headquarters sent Lieutenant Pilot W. T. Day and Co-Pilot Pilot D. R. Stewart on a surveillance mission over the Mesopotamian desert, which was only supposed to last a few hours. The plane did not return. It was discovered the next day in the desert, with enough fuel for the return. It was not damaged. Apart from the landing marks, there were no other tracks leading to or from the plane: no human, animal, or mechanical tracks. The tracks of the two pilots, side by side, were visible for 40 yards and stopped in the sand, without any change of direction or return.", + "location": "Iraq, Baghdad", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 104, 105", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_796" + }, + { + "date": "Late 8/1924", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An entity was looking through the windows as if it was looking for someone it knew by sight. The witnesses were generally women, some of them said they had fainted when it shone an object on them. It left behind a strange and foul smell. (1924, late August)", + "location": "USA, Mattoon (Illinois)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU p. 121", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_797" + }, + { + "date": "1924", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Albert Ostman, a prospector, recounts: \"It happened in the middle of the night. I was half asleep when, all of a sudden, someone grabbed my sleeping bag and lifted me off the ground. I tried to reach my hunting knife, but I couldn't. The beast - if it was a beast - carried me on its shoulder, like a sack of flour, and it walked on two legs. I was scared to death and I couldn't move.\" Ostman was thus carried for many hours. It was only at the first light of dawn that he was thrown to the ground and taken out of his bag. That's when he saw an incredible thing: a group of creatures surrounding him and talking in an unintelligible way. (...) \"It was like a cross between a man and a monkey. These hairy creatures, with prominent muscles, were taller and bigger than men. There was even one that was almost 8 feet tall. They kept me prisoner for six days and I could only escape because one of them got terribly sick after swallowing the contents of my snuff box. He caused an awful commotion in the group.\"", + "location": "Canada (British Columbia)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids...\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.121", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_798" + }, + { + "date": "Late Summer 1925", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the summer of 1925, my mother, who has since passed away, saw on a clear evening two bright objects flying towards each other and collide with a metallic sound. Then the lights went off in opposite directions. She asked my father what it could have been? He replied \"wandering stars?\" Probably my father had Phil Klass as a teacher! (1925, late summer)", + "location": "USA, near Warren (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "Patricia Mason: Cleveland Ufology Project, on the Internet in May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_799" + }, + { + "date": "10/1925", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the two-seat acrobatic Armstrong Whitworth Siskin airplane, maximum speed 251 km/h, ceiling 8230 m; put into service in the army in March 1927, end of production March 1931. It was followed in 1936 by the AW-38 WHITLEY type, and in 1941 by the AW-41 ALBEMARLE type. Last deliveries in December 1944. (October 1925)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_800" + }, + { + "date": "1925", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man suddenly had the biggest surprise of his life. Returning home he came face to face with a being 1.20 m tall and wearing a green-colored uniform. The character had rigid arms and legs, he had something like a disk in his hands and was standing on a flat object that allowed him to move. The witness approached within two meters of this amazing apparition, but no words were exchanged between him and this entity.", + "location": "SPAIN, La Mancha (New Castille)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 236", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_801" + }, + { + "date": "1925", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two young men saw an object made of two discs, face to face, connected by feet, in a paddock. The object shone and had oval windows. They returned to the site a few days later, but there was nothing to see anymore.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, near Moorea", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 311", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_802" + }, + { + "date": "1/1926", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Acrobatic pilot Bert Anacosta saw \"six manhole covers\" flying.", + "location": "USA, between Wichita, Kansas and Colorado Springs, Colorado.", + "ref": [ + "Source: PROJECT DELTA, by Dr. Richard Haines, page 152.", + "Sometimes the date of 1922 is mentioned, but 1926 is the one in all Finch's documents", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_803" + }, + { + "date": "3/16/1926", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The American physicist Goddard launched a liquid fuel rocket. It travelled 26 metres at 96 km/h. (\"Astronautics\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 10) This liquid fuel rocket, the first in the world, was only a small engine, which covered a distance of 60 metres in 2.5 seconds, but the fact that the apparatus had taken off constituted a turning point in the history of rocket development. (\"Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 46) It was a strange and fragile engine three metres high. The combustion chamber (60 cm) suspended at the top of a kind of lyre made of two thin tubes bringing liquids from two reservoirs located at the lower part of the device, so as to be kept approximately 1.5 m from the nozzle. (...) It took off with a roar, described a high trajectory and travelled a distance of 56 metres in 2.5 seconds. An average speed of 95 km/h, calculated, proudly, its builder.", + "location": "USA, Auburn (Massachusetts)", + "ref": [ + "\"Assault on Space\" - Georges H. Gallet - ed. of Modern Thought, p. 58", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_804" + }, + { + "date": "7/24/1926", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two Junkers G.23 from Deutsche Lufthansa. German Pilots: Schnabel and Polid, Russian pilots: Kosloff and Kudrjanzeff, expedition leader R. Knausz, meteorologist: Seikoff. 20,000km in 140 hours of flight. Study trip in view of the creation of an airline. (July 24th to September 26th, 1926)", + "location": "Berlin-Moscow-Beijing and Back", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 176", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_805" + }, + { + "date": "8/5/1926", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"... something remarkable! We were at our camp, in the Koukounor district, not far from the Humboldt chain. In the morning around 9:30, some of our caravaners saw a remarkably large black eagle flying above us. Seven of us began to observe this unusual bird. At the same time, another of our caravaners noticed \"there is something far above the bird\". And he expressed his astonishment. We all saw, in a direction from north to south, something big and shiny reflecting the Sun, like a huge oval moving at great speed. Crossing our camp, this thing changed direction, from south or southwest. And we saw how it disappeared into the intensely blue sky. We even had time to take our field binoculars and clearly see an oval shape with a shiny surface, one side of which shone in the Sun\". (Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970 - p.74); (August 5, 1926)", + "location": "USSR - Mongolia, Koukounor", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"UFOs in the USSR and Eastern Countries\", trans. Laffont 1976, p. 273 - they place this in August 1927", + "he cites Nicholas Roerich, Altaï-Himalaya, New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1929", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_806" + }, + { + "date": "Late 9/1926", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Colin Murphy, a pilot providing air mail transport, had a close encounter one night in September, around 11 pm. He was 70 miles from Salt Lake City where he had taken off when a huge, luminous object flew past his small DH-4 biplane, a survivor of the First World War. It was a cylinder-shaped object, without wings or engines, measuring about 90 feet long and 8 to 10 feet in diameter. Three times this strange object approached the small plane. Each time it was less than 50 yards away and the engine of the plane began to sputter. Finally Colin had no other alternative than to make a forced landing in a sheep meadow. Quite frustrated by the turn of events, Colin got out of the cockpit and looked up. The object shot away like a bullet and disappeared in a few seconds. (September, late 1926)", + "location": "USA, near Salt Lake City", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's – A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 15, 16", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_807" + }, + { + "date": "1926", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Farmer Ian Brunescu, who was leading his horses to a pasture, saw, around 01:00 in the middle of the night, like a lightning spear as big as the full moon. The object stayed for about ten minutes above the nearby meadows, then came to rest vertically in front of the witness. During this phase, which lasted from 3 to 4 minutes, the witness clearly saw a boat shape that was 3 m long and one or two meters wide. The center of the body was darker than its ends. Soon the device took the direction of Arapasul de Jos, and made a curve above a small wood 3 km from Cirta and then suddenly went out. The UFO emitted a whistle and when it passed, the surroundings were lit up like in broad daylight.", + "location": "ROMANIA, Colun (Judetul Sibiu)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 236-237", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_808" + }, + { + "date": "11/1926", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Henry Thomas, the young son of a policeman, had been put to bed early. He wanted to play with his friends who were outside. He sneaked out of the house to join them. They began a game of hide-and-seek in the alleys. Seeing a back door ajar, Henry entered the yard in the hope of finding one of his friends hidden there. In the yard were three normal-sized people, looking through the back window of a house. The trio was dressed in strange costumes, which seemed to be made of gray-silver rubber tubes, and were wearing black boots. They looked like 'skinny' versions of the \"Michelin Man\". They wore on their heads \"transparent dome-shaped helmets\". Tubes came out of them to tanks that the creatures carried on their backs. (note from vog: this description really makes me think of people who have put on diving suits for one reason or another...) The men turned to face the boy. They had pale bulb-shaped faces, dark and slanted eyes, almost no nose and no visible mouth. Henry had the impression that they were benevolent despite their frightening appearance. One of them made a gurgling sound and all three began to move towards the terrified boy.", + "location": "ENGLAND, Bolton (Lancashire)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO Files\", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p. 7", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_809" + }, + { + "date": "Early 1927", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater general purpose Westland Wapiti I, 225 km/h, ceiling 6280m, range 580 km. There will be 512 examples for the RAF and 500 for other users, including South Africa which built under license. Metal structure versions, arctic version, ski, floats, 80 Wapiti flying in India survived in 1945. From 1969 the WESTLAND company mainly focused on the construction of helicopters (1927, beginning of the year)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "Sea King, Scout and Wasp, Wessex, Lynx in collaboration with Aérospatiale of France.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_810" + }, + { + "date": "2/8/1927", + "desc": "(Translated from French) By Pinedo, Del Prete and Zachetti, on the hydroplane Savoia-Machetti S.55 \"Santa Maria\" from Roosevelt (Texas) to Santa Maria II from New York to Rome. (February 8th to June 16th, 1927)", + "location": "ATLANTIC CIRCUIT", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 184", + "Summary of the dashboard in the cited book.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_811" + }, + { + "date": "2/19/1927", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Uruguayan Dornier-Wal takes off from Marina di Pisa to attempt a round-the-world trip. The crew consists of brothers Taddeo and Gianco Larre-Borges, Ibarra and Rigoli. They reach Casablanca for Dakar, but have to land north of Cape Juby. The crew is kidnapped by the Moors. The aircraft is spotted three days later by French pilots Mermoz and Ville. Guillaumet and Riguelle also spot the seaplane, land and examine the wreckage. The prisoners are released a few days later for ransom by two other French pilots, Reine and Antoine. (February 19, 1927)", + "location": "URUGUAY, SOUTH ATLANTIC CROSSING", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 184", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_812" + }, + { + "date": "5/20/1927", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Charles Lindbergh on Ryan \"Spirit of St. Louis\" first non-stop link from New York to Paris in 33h 30m of flight and record of straight-line distance with 5809 km. He won the Orteig Prize ($25,000).", + "location": "USA (New York) - FRANCE (Paris)", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p.187", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_813" + }, + { + "date": "7/1927", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A group of children who were tending sheep said that \"God was walking in the sky\". Nicholae Balcescu received from Gheorge Achimescu, an agronomist engineer, this testimony: \"While it was very nice and there was no wind, I saw a cylindrical object 15 to 20 m long and 3 to 4 m in diameter pass over the village at an altitude between 200 and 300 m. It was heading from west to east, standing vertically in the sky. Its color was smoke gray, it was not lit. It moved in total silence. Young shepherds who were tending sheep outside the village followed this strange object with their eyes and were convinced that they had just seen God in the sky...\"", + "location": "ROMANIA", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 237-238", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_814" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1927", + "desc": "(Translated from French) This town is located about 20 km south of Lipetsk. Early in the afternoon, engineer I.V. Surkov saw a milky white disc in the sky to the north. It was twice the size of a full moon, and flew slowly to the east. The weather was warm, and there were many cumulus clouds in the sky. As it approached one of these clouds, the disc \"disappeared\" into the cloud, which reappeared when the disc had passed through it. This happened with each cloud on the object's trajectory. The observation lasted more than half an hour. (1927, Summer)", + "location": "USSR, Solovyevka", + "ref": [ + "Felix Zigel and FSR", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_815" + }, + { + "date": "7/1927", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One evening in the month of July 1927 or 1928 we saw with many other witnesses, a radiating cylinder flying in the direction of the east. It passed over the village at a fantastic speed without emitting the slightest sound. This object was bigger than the full moon. Yellow in color, its light illuminated the streets so brightly that it seemed like the middle of the day. It exploded in the air with a projection of red sparks (July 1927 or 1928)", + "location": "ROMANIA, Piatra-Olt", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"UFOs in the USSR and in the Eastern Countries\" - trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 293-294", + "Petre Eremencu", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_816" + }, + { + "date": "1927", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The airship LZ 127 Zeppelin flew over the region of the Pierres-Jaumâtres for a long time. At the same time, higher up in the sky, there appeared aircrafts of the same shape, which seemed to be escorting it. [note de vog: IN REALITY: this zeppelin was built in ... 1930. It made trips between Germany and Russia in 1931. It therefore does not belong to those that France received in sharing on November 11, 1918: France receives the LZ 113 (LZ 83), LZ 121 Nordstern which will become \"Méditerranée\", LZ 114 (L 72) which will become \"Dixmude\"... THEREFORE, the story would be made up from scratch]", + "location": "FRANCE, Creuse", + "ref": [ + "Pierre VIEROUDY: \"Ces OVNI qui annoncent le surhomme\" - Laffont 1979, p. 53", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_817" + }, + { + "date": "Autumn 1927", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A peasant was suddenly awoken in the night by a deafening noise. He jumped out of bed, wondering what could have caused such an infernal racket. The neighing and stamping of hooves on the other side of the wooden partition made him immediately understand where he had to run. The man, thinking of a thief, went out into the courtyard, grabbed his pitchfork and opened the stable door. His two horses, terrified, pushed him, threw him to the ground and galloped off into the fields. Furious, covered in manure, he got up, took a lantern and went back home where he found all the neighbours gathered, alarmed, carrying lights and sticks. The aspect of the stable was astounding. The shack was crossed in all directions by silver wires of various thicknesses, from the ceiling to the walls, from the walls to the floor. And these wires were so strong that it was difficult to cut them, even with an axe, to penetrate the centre of the room. In the middle of the ceiling there was a large hole. It looked as if an enormous rock had gone through the roof, yet looking on the ground there was no trace of stones or pebbles of any kind. But what did all these brave people see when they looked around them? A horrible, terrifying, and undoubtedly living \"thing\" was hanging from a bundle of hay: a whitish mass the size of a pumpkin. It contracted and expanded in sequence like an open heart. The \"thing\" started to move, it turned around to advance towards those who, rooted to the spot, were looking at it. As it turned, it showed that its entire mass resembled a human face. From this monster, which was nothing but a head without a body, long tentacles stretched out towards those who were watching it, their teeth chattering. Those who were too scared ran away screaming prayers. The bravest threw themselves on the abominable thing and managed to reduce it to an amorphous, sticky, bluish-white mass. (1927, Autumn)", + "location": "USSR, near Omsk", + "ref": [ + "Peter KOLOSIMO: \"Shadows on the Stars\" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 340, 341", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_818" + }, + { + "date": "11/1927", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Tests of model aircraft powered by a powder rocket were carried out from various sides, including by the \"Gesellschaft Fur Raketenforschung\" in November 1927 in Obernigk. (November 1927)", + "location": "GERMANY, Obernigk (Silesia)", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 69-70", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_819" + }, + { + "date": "1927", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two brothers saw a UFO in the shape of a curved disc pass above their heads. It illuminated the entire valley and eventually landed. The next day a circle of scorched grass was found at the spot.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, near Fernvale (New South Wales)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 308", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_820" + }, + { + "date": "12/1927", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Testing of model airplanes powered by rockets.", + "location": "GERMANY, Erzgebirge", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 70", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_821" + }, + { + "date": "1927", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Flying near Scottsbluff, the pilot Barney Oldfield was surrounded by \"manhole covers\" flying.", + "location": "USA, Scottsbluff, Nebraska.", + "ref": [ + "A CENTURY OF UFO - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_822" + }, + { + "date": "3/12/1928", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Valier succeeded in interesting the industrialist Fritz von Opel, automobile manufacturer, in his tests. March 12, 1928 is the significant day when, for the first time in history, he made a vehicle propelled by rocket carrying a man (the former racer Kurt c. Volkhart). The test, which passed unnoticed by the public, was undertaken on the special track of the Opel firm in Russelshim near Mainz. (...) The rockets were supplied by the engineer Sander, from Wesermunde.", + "location": "GERMANY, Rüsselsheim", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 66", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_823" + }, + { + "date": "1928", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Floyd Dillon, 17 years old, was driving a car on a dirt road about 15 km from Yakima. It was 4 o'clock. As he reached the top of a small hill, he saw the craft appear in the sky. It was flying 20 m above the ground and moving slowly. The object looked like a metal hexagon, topped with a dome of dull olive color. It was about 7 m long and 2 m high. Dillon could see rivets along a vertical section and a window of one meter by 75 cm, embedded in the metal frame. In this window he observed the head and torso of a man dressed in a dark blue uniform who \"could pass for an Italian in this world\". The object moved slowly, without stopping, while the occupant looked intensely in the direction of the car. Then the object turned on itself, crossed the road and suddenly moved away at a terrifying speed. (April/May 1928)", + "location": "USA, near Yakima (Washington)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Confrontations\" - Laffont 1991, pp. 185-188", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_824" + }, + { + "date": "6/1928", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the first day biplane bomber Hawker, Hart series. (There will be subsequent series Fury (Biplane and Monoplane), Typhoon, Tempest, Hurricane, Meteor, and Hawker Siddeley Sea Hawk, Hunter, Javelin, Vulcan, Sea Vixen, Buccaneer, Harrier, Hawk, Nimrod). The 1928 type had a max. speed of 170 km/h, ceiling around 5000 m. (June 1928)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_825" + }, + { + "date": "6/25/1928", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the Boeing F4B/P-12, single-seat pursuit fighter, cruising speed 241 km/h, ceiling 8320 m, mass production since May 1929, last delivery on February 28, 1933. Remained in service until the end of 1945, and in 1976 some were still flying. (June 25, 1928)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_826" + }, + { + "date": "7/11/1928", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first world flight with a human on board by rocket, from the top of the Wasserkuppe. The pilot was F. Stamer, an enthusiast of gliding flight. He used a \"duck\" type glider from the Rhon-Rositten test institute, in which two Sander slow combustion rockets with a thrust of 12 and 15 kilos were mounted. The launch was made at Sandow, in the manner of gliders. The two rockets were then to be electrically ignited one after the other. It was finally the third attempt, the first two having failed, which carried the aircraft to approximately 1300 meters in an approximate time of 60 to 80 seconds. (July 11, 1928)", + "location": "GERMANY, Wasserkuppe (Rhön)", + "ref": [ + "\"Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 70", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_827" + }, + { + "date": "8/1928", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One night in August 1928, I was taking the air outside with the villagers. The moonless sky was starry, there were no flashes of lightning. Around 8 o'clock, we saw above the Dabi mountain range, an enormous and very long white snake heading towards us. Silver, this flying snake, head raised, flew over the mountains and the countryside and came straight towards us. But as it flew just above my head, the snake extinguished all its lights and disappeared mysteriously. My observation lasted five minutes and the witnesses number in the hundreds. The white snake was at a few thousand meters altitude, people were gaping at this phenomenon. The head and tail of the flying object were luminous; it looked very much like a snake standing straight up in the sky. It measured more than 200 m and moved without twisting. Its apparent diameter measured more than one meter.", + "location": "CHINA, Jonhong (Anhui)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 75", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_828" + }, + { + "date": "11/1928", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A UFO round like an upturned saucer flew over the area emitting powerful light rays that scared the livestock. (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 238) Two brothers accompanying the livestock near Milton, saw a craft shaped like an upturned saucer, flying at very high speed, at less than 20 feet altitude. The object had 4 or 5 lights on its belly, bright enough to light up the whole area. The passage of the object was accompanied by a sound resembling the passage of air through a tube. (November 1928)", + "location": "USA, Milton (North Dakota)", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's – A century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 16", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_829" + }, + { + "date": "1928", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Leo Bentz, a former car manufacturer, stated that he and a friend had witnessed, in 1928, at Griffith Park, a confidential demonstration of an aerial craft model, in the shape of a saucer. The inventor was George De Bay, who was looking for new principles of aerial propulsion. He had drawn the plans of a craft that was to move through the air like a flat stone, or rather like an overturned saucer, and use the principle of vacuum for its propulsion, which required ten times less energy than was being spent at that time for airplanes. It is thought that De Bay went to the USSR", + "location": "USA, Griffith Park, California", + "ref": [ + "to be verified if possible...", + "F. Scully: \"The Mystery of Flying Saucers\", ed. Del Duca, Paris \"Les Editions Mondiales\" 1951, p. 171, citing the \"Los Angeles Examiner\" of July 5, 1947, title \"A test of \"flying saucer\" took place in California in 1928\"", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_830" + }, + { + "date": "1928", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Testing of Aircraft Propulsion by Rocket by the \"Rhön-Rositten Company in 1928 and by Engineer Rudolf Kollmorgen from 1929. The latter, with a fully metallic scale model, with a span of 3 meters, reached speeds of 360 km/h during very short tests. Most of the scale models could not withstand the propulsive force of the rockets: they would deteriorate in flight or be destroyed upon landing. (1928, 1929)", + "location": "Germany", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 70", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_831" + }, + { + "date": "6/15/1929", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11:00 PM, Lévis Brosseau was returning home. \"When I reached the top of the hill, just before the fork in the road, I saw a large blackness on top of the rocky hill you can see there. A kind of black cloud with a yellowish opening inside... like you could see a flash of lightning through it. I thought a storm was coming and I urged my horse on, as I didn't want to get caught in the rain. When I got to the stable, at the bottom of the valley, I quickly unhitched him and led him by the bridle towards the small bridge that crossed the stream at the time, to take him to the pasture that started around here. (..) So I was climbing the hill, when, when I emerged here, I saw on the left my yellowish light in the middle, like dandelions... then blackness all around and I heard a confused noise... At that moment, my horse started to get agitated and to neigh, raising his head. I was still climbing, looking at this black mass with a large yellow circle in the center. And it seemed to be resting on the ground, about 150 feet from me. I said to myself: \"tell me... it's stopped!\" And I vaguely distinguished in the night four or five little guys who seemed to be running around... in a radius of about twenty feet. I heard their high voices confusedly and I thought \"Well! The little Legaults went fishing with the little Browns - it was the time of the bullhead in the lake - That's funny! Why did they pass by here? They always used to pass by the small bridge...\" When I opened the gate... my horse took off like an arrow... At that moment I no longer saw the little guys. But the black mass suddenly rose from the ground with a sound of a centrifugal machine, a purring of a cream separator: \"iiiii...\" It passed over me, at about fifty miles an hour, at the height of the barn, not very high since it caused a displacement of air and a slight trembling of the earth. (...) It seemed round to me and then, passing over me, it spoke inside. It spoke in a small voice, then a loud voice... As if someone was answering themselves \"\"u... A ...u... A...\" (...) It spoke loudly. Then I followed it with my eyes, it was going towards Lac des Journalistes and towards the village. (...) It was round and quite large, about fifty feet, and the luminous circle with the squares about fifteen feet in diameter. (...) In any case it was lighting me up. It was yellowish, a bit like the sun. And then, there were \"things\" all around. Let's say, every three feet, it was almost like what they show us on television [note from vog: like a lattice of diamonds on the black border] (June 15, 1929)", + "location": "CANADA, Fermeneuve (200 km from Montreal)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 239-241", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_832" + }, + { + "date": "7/17/1929", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Goddard used a new propulsion rocket again. The fuel used was gasoline and liquid oxygen. The rocket carried a camera and a barometer, and both devices returned to the ground unharmed, supported by a parachute. Around this time, Colonel Lindbergh, the famous aviator who first crossed the Atlantic, intervened in favor of Goddard's tests. He obtained a donation from Guggenheim (King of Copper) which allowed Goddard to continue his research near ROSWELL (New Mexico) in more favorable conditions. On the new experimental field an workshop was erected and, in the vicinity, a tower 7 meters high was built to serve as a test bench. About 25 km away was a second tower, 20 m high, serving as a launch tower. (July 17, 1929)", + "location": "USA, Auburn, Massachusetts", + "ref": [ + "\"Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 47", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_833" + }, + { + "date": "8/1929", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The \"Coldwater\" of the South Atlantic Steamship Line was more than 650 km off the coast of Virginia. One of the sailors of the ship, Thomas Stuart, recounts: \"A luminous object appeared in the sky. It seemed very large, like a gigantic airplane. It was moving at a speed that I estimate to be 160 km/h in the direction of the Bermudas\". At that time there was no transoceanic flight.. (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 239-241) (note from vog: except e.a.... the world tour in 4 stages, with crossing of the North Atlantic, by the airship \"Graf Zeppelin\" (...) departure on August 8th 1929 at Lakehurst, arrival Friedrichshaven on the 10th, departure on the 15th arrival in Tokyo on the 19th, departure on the 23rd arrival in Los Angeles on the 26th, departure on the 27th and return to Lakehurst on August 29th....", + "location": "At sea, Atlantic Ocean, 650 km off the coast of Virginia", + "ref": [ + "\"La conquête de l'air. Chronologie...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, éd. Marabout Université 1967, p. 214, 215", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_834" + }, + { + "date": "9/30/1929", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Fritz von Opel took off from the airfield to attempt a flight with rockets, causing a great sensation among the public. After two failed preliminary attempts, he succeeded in the afternoon of the same day in a flight of 1500 meters. The take-off already took place with the help of a rocket. The aircraft was driven by a set of rockets ignited two by two and reached a speed of 120 km/h. (...)", + "location": "Germany, Frankfurt", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 71", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_835" + }, + { + "date": "1930", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An object in the shape of a blue diamond passed slowly through the sky, emitting flashes and moving without sound towards Phici and Larisa.", + "location": "GREECE, Mouzaci", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 242", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_836" + }, + { + "date": "2/1930 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Summer (so January, February, southern hemisphere) UFO sighting: \"a massive plate of shining metal, with each movement, a great flash of light came out from each side.\" This thing was observed for 40 minutes. At the end of this time it rose up quickly and disappeared. (Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 351) From 11 january to 24 february the English Greet and board commanding a squadron of 4 Fairey III F, left Cairo for the Cape. On 15 January they participated in manoeuvres at Entebbe, on 21 at Tabora. They arrived at the Cape on 1 February and left again on 4 February accompanied by 4 Fairey of the South African Air Force. Return to Cairo after a journey of 17600 km. (1930, February (approximate date))", + "location": "SOUTH AFRICA, PieterMaritzburg (Natal)", + "ref": [ + "\"La conquête de l'air. Chronologie...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 222", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_837" + }, + { + "date": "Late Autumn 1930", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1906: La Celle sous Gouzon) Jules B. was returning to the village by the road. It was between 9 pm and 10 pm. The witness saw a small being cross the road, about forty meters away from him. The character was walking at the normal pace of a man, but his legs were motionless, vertically stuck together and he was sliding on the ground. When he arrived on the other side of the road, this strange little man instantly vanished in place. (1930, late autumn)", + "location": "FRANCE, Toulx-Sainte-Croix (Creuse)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 243", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_838" + }, + { + "date": "1930", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Howard Menger, aged 8 (born February 17th 1922) often observed disks in the sky with his classmates.", + "location": "USA, High Bridge, (New Jersey)", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"The Enigma of the E.T.\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 145", + "Continued in 1931, June-July", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_839" + }, + { + "date": "1930", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Suddenly, in the evening, in the paternal house of Beryl Hickey, appeared a small bald entity, with large ears, a wide slit mouth without lips, globular eyes, shining all over its body as if it was greased, with small hands and well-formed little pink feet, like those of a baby, about 50 cm tall. Her father, who was a very religious man, thought it was the devil. He threw a net over this creature to evacuate it outside. It started to scream like a mouse. It was forbidden to Beryl to talk about this event to anyone, but she nevertheless confided her secret to a friend. This one reminded her of it when they left the movie \"ET\". (Janet and Colin BORD: Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 147) Small humanoids appear in a farm in Mandurah and ask for water. The terrified farmer shot them with gunfire", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Mandurah", + "ref": [ + "A CENTURY OF UFO - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_840" + }, + { + "date": "5/21/1930", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A child's balloon rises from Caterham. It will be found on June 4, 1930 in New York.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Caterham", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 225", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_841" + }, + { + "date": "12/12/1930", + "desc": "(Translated from French) R. H. Goddard rocket test, altitude 600 meters.", + "location": "USA, Mescalero, Roswell", + "ref": [ + "Ref. GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 248", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_842" + }, + { + "date": "End of 1930", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: Ufo Roundup vol. 3 no. 15 of April 12th) The Spanish magazine \"Enigmas\" published by Iker Jiminez, devotes an article to Ribera. The famous Spanish ufologist Antonio Ribera claims to have had contact with an extraterrestrial at the end of 1930, when he was ten years old. Today, Ribera, 78 years old, claims that it happened in his bedroom in Barcelona. A very powerful green light, coming from nowhere, appeared. The young Antonio Ribera then saw \"an entity of small size, corpulent, and quadruped\". He could not distinguish arms, chest, or legs. He was not really scared, but was dazed and very curious. This extraterrestrial explained to the boy that space travel had now reached the point of coming to \"calm contact\" with selected humans. Ribera, who has written more than 40 books, claims that he was chosen, received knowledge, and had to instruct the population.... (1930, end of year)", + "location": "SPAIN, Barcelona", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_843" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1930", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the age of 8 or 10, living with his father (his mother having passed away), Mr. J.R. had gone out to attend to a natural need about ten meters from the house, on the other side of the courtyard, behind a hedge of privet, on the edge of a small stream. He was partially hidden by the hedge and when he stood up he saw in the courtyard, 5 or 6 meters away from him, a small man about 50 to 60 cm tall (much smaller than him) who was coming in his direction. He seemed to be wearing some kind of gray uniform. When he saw the young witness, he turned around and ran away at full speed through the vegetable garden and disappeared into the night. (1930 or 1932, Summer)", + "location": "FRANCE, Valence \"Eperviers\"", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet..\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 642", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_844" + }, + { + "date": "2/2/1931", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Oberth in the USA had a project for a transoceanic mail rocket. But it was demonstrated by the Austrian engineer Friedrich Schmiedl that mail rockets could also be used conveniently for short distances, for example for the supply of mountain villages with difficult access. On February 2, the first mail rocket named \"V7\" left the vicinity of Graz (between Hochtrotz and Semriach) carrying 102 postal shipments. They were franked with regular postage stamps but private \"rocket stamps\" and special seals were also added. After the rocket landed, the official postal services took charge of the transmission and delivery of the letters to the recipients. (...) But an official and regular postal service by rockets was never organized. (\"Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 72, 73) The service lasted for several years and it must be noted that Schmiedl's rockets functioned remarkably. They were only simple powder rockets 1.7 m long and 25 cm in diameter with three stabilizing fins at the rear. The total weight of 30 kg included a bit more than 20 kg of propellant. The mail carried was lodged in the penetration cone at the front. Their parachute never failed to open and not a single letter was lost. (February 2, 1931)", + "location": "AUSTRIA, Graz (Steiermark)", + "ref": [ + "\"Assault on Space\" Georges H. Gallet, Ed. de la Pensée Moderne p. 53", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_845" + }, + { + "date": "1931", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the 5-seat reconnaissance bomber, Amiot 143, produced in series from 1935, cruising speed 270 km/h, ceiling 9000 m.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_846" + }, + { + "date": "2/21/1931", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of a Winkler rocket, test failed, altitude 3 meters it was the first liquid fuel rocket in Europe.", + "location": "GERMANY, Dessau", + "ref": [ + "Ley 1958, p. 145", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_847" + }, + { + "date": "1931", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of Weiss Manfred Solyom's Budapest prototype, 320 km/h, range 675 km, two-seater tactical reconnaissance aircraft. (1931,)", + "location": "HUNGARY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_848" + }, + { + "date": "3/14/1931", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first liquid fuel rocket powered by methane and liquid oxygen, designed by engineer Winkler, took off from Dessau. (\"Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 78) It deviated from the vertical and remained below 500 meters.", + "location": "Germany, Dessau-Grosskühnau", + "ref": [ + "Ley 1958, p. 145", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_849" + }, + { + "date": "1931", + "desc": "(Translated from French) in May in SARDINIA (Italy) in June in MELLE (Belgium, near Ghent) Various witnesses observed silent luminous balls or grayish ovoid objects.", + "location": "end of March in CANNES (France)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 243", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_850" + }, + { + "date": "Late 3/1931", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness, who was driving a bus, suddenly saw on the road a kind of mound with a \"luminous cascade\" that split in two to reveal the \"virgin\". She was tall, 1.8 m, and stood in the middle of the road like someone waiting. The clothing was tight, long and white, with a wide blue belt, a panel falling on the side. The apparition had a veil on her head, not covering her eyes. The features of the face did not move, she simply extended her arms towards the witness, then she rose from the ground and merged into a round cloud that was next to her. It left silently and at full speed. It took an ovoid shape and disappeared in less than forty seconds, leaving behind a luminous trail. It was observed during its passage over Nice (1931, late March)", + "location": "FRANCE, Cannes", + "ref": [ + "Erich ZURCHER: \"Les apparitions d'Humanoïdes\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 209", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_851" + }, + { + "date": "4/15/1931", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The experiments of engineer Teinhold Tiling conducted around 1931 deserve special attention. Tiling built powder rockets in the shape of torpedoes, which were automatically piloted and equipped with wings. During the ascent, the wings were folded into the tail and held in place by a locking device. At the peak of its trajectory, after the propellant charge had been burned, a timed rocket released the locking device. The wings then unfolded and brought the rocket back to the ground in a gliding flight. With his models, Tiling would have reached a maximum altitude of 800 meters. The horizontal range must have been close to 8000 meters. He conducted hundreds of tests with models and organized countless days of rocket flight for the public. (April 15, 1931)", + "location": "GERMANY, Osnabruck (Lower Saxony)", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 72", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_852" + }, + { + "date": "4/1931", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Engineer Reinhold Tiling had secretly designed (but with the hidden support of the German government) powder rockets with a pair of retractable wings, in the body of the rocket. An automatic device triggered at the top of the trajectory, which the rocket then extended in a gliding flight, considerably increasing its range. From April 1934 he made numerous successful public demonstrations, notably on a lake near Osnabrück. But in Berlin a gust of wind caused one of the rockets to deviate and fall among the spectators. (April 1931)", + "location": "GERMANY, Berlin (Tempelhof airfield)", + "ref": [ + "\"To the Assault of Space\" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_853" + }, + { + "date": "5/7/1931", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1930, the municipal administration made available to the Junkers factories the terrain of an old shooting range, which was converted into the first world rocket launching site (Raketen-Flugplatz). Klaus Riedel built a simpler liquid fuel rocket, of the tractive type, designed for only 1 kilo of fuel. In order to distinguish it from the others, it was called \"Repulsor\". The first Repulsor took off on May 7 from the Raketenflugplatz. Further work allowed them to soon reach altitudes of a thousand meters.", + "location": "Germany, Berlin Reinickendorf", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 75", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_854" + }, + { + "date": "5/23/1931", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of Repulsor No. 2, fuel-oxygen, altitude 60 meters, range 600 m.", + "location": "GERMANY, Berlin, Reinickendorf", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 148", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_855" + }, + { + "date": "6/1931", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of Repulsor No. 3, test, altitude 450 meters.", + "location": "GERMANY, Berlin, Reinickendorf", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p 150", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_856" + }, + { + "date": "6/10/1931", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the afternoon Sir Francis Chichester saw a \"flashing\" boat when he flew in his \"Gypsy Moth\" plane. He published his observation for the first time in 1932.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Tasman Sea", + "ref": [ + "THE OZ FILES, William Chalker; THE LONELY SEA AND THE SKY, Sir Francis Chinchecster ed.Pan, London, 1964, page 185.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_857" + }, + { + "date": "6/1931", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Howard B. Menger, 9 years old and his brother, Alton Menger, 7 years old, saw two flying saucers in broad daylight. \"It was in the meadows, one of those hot days of June or July that I began to have different sensations, difficult to explain. It was at this moment that we began to see saucers in the sky. My brother and I saw these bright lights in the sky and one day one of them landed in the field where we were playing. The object had the shape of a disc and measured about 3 meters in diameter. Curious and intrigued, we approached it. Meanwhile, we saw in the sky another bright light hovering as if to observe us. With our hearts pounding but courageous, we kept advancing and when we were about 25 meters from the disc on the ground, the one in the sky suddenly disappeared. We tried to be brave but the disc on the ground began to vibrate and then, in a dazzling flash and at an incredible speed, it flew away.\" (1931, June or July)", + "location": "USA, High Bridge (New Jersey)", + "ref": [ + "Howard Menger: \"From Outer Space to You\" Saucerian Books, Clarksburg, W.V., 1959, pages 20 and 21.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_858" + }, + { + "date": "8/1931", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater fighter PZL P-11, 360 km/h, ceiling 11000m, and range (in cruise speed without combat) 810 km. The P-23 series (three-seater bomber) flew as early as August 1934, and the Karàs series in June 1936.", + "location": "POLAND", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_859" + }, + { + "date": "8/1931", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of Repulsor 1 s, test, altitude 990 meters, assisted landing by parachute.", + "location": "GERMANY, Reinickendorf, Berlin", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 150", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_860" + }, + { + "date": "1931", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1931, an English pilot reported having seen a strange \"object\" in the sky. At that time, this isolated phenomenon did not attract the attention of the public...", + "location": "ENGLAND", + "ref": [ + "nor really ours...", + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde\" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 p. 222", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_861" + }, + { + "date": "1931 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"The farmer from Dizonnanches will tell you that once, returning from the fair of Saint Cirgues, on horseback, with his wife on the saddle, between 8 and 9 o'clock, when they arrived at the Devil's stream, not far from Paradise, they saw a light like that of a large lantern descending along the stream, carried by a large cauldron, which ran without noise, but quickly, quickly, like a hare. And suddenly it went to get lost in the Clape of the Loire, not far from there.\" (1931?)", + "location": "FRANCE, St Cirgues en Montagne", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet..\" éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 642", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_862" + }, + { + "date": "11/19/1931", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One of the rockets launched from Wandergooge on the East Friesland Islands had exceeded 9500 m in altitude. (November 19th, 1931)", + "location": "Netherlands, Friesland", + "ref": [ + "\"A l'Assaut de l'Espace\" Georges H. Gallet, éd. de la Pensée Moderne, p. 37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_863" + }, + { + "date": "End of 1931", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater fighter Avia 34, maximum speed 400 km/h, ceiling 10600m. In August 1933 it was followed by the type 534 and remained in service beyond 1938. (1931, end of year)", + "location": "CZECHOSLOVAKIA", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_864" + }, + { + "date": "1/1932", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the 4-5 seat medium bomber Martin 123, 342 km/h, ceiling 7500m, range with bomb load 1250 km, nose turret, rear gunner's cockpit. In 1956 152 of these planes were delivered. There were smaller siblings, the Maryland (three seat bomber), the Baltimore (light four seat bomber), the Marauder (five seat bomber) the Mariner (patrol and anti-submarine seaplane with a nine man crew, followed by the Marlin seaplane", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "1948", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_865" + }, + { + "date": "3/20/1932", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the single-seat day fighter Boeing P-26, cruising speed 322 km/h, ceiling 8350m. Some of these planes were still in service with the Guatemalan Air Force until 1955.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_866" + }, + { + "date": "4/19/1932", + "desc": "(Translated from French) R. H. Goddard launched a rocket, testing gyro control by gas pressure, which fell back the same day.", + "location": "USA, Mescalero, Roswell", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 248", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_867" + }, + { + "date": "6/19/1932", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater fighter Dewoitine Series D-500, 360 km/h and ceiling at 10790m., entire structure in light alloy and working coating, last deliveries beginning 1938.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_868" + }, + { + "date": "7/1932", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of the \"Mirak II\" rocket by Germany. (1932, July and August)", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "\"The Conquest of the Air. Chronology...\" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 246", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_869" + }, + { + "date": "10/1932", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Five young Canadians were approaching the entrance of the town around 7:00 PM when they saw a figure of about 3 m tall crossing a nearby cemetery. He was wearing a white suit and walking at a good pace. Taken by panic, the driver of the car immediately accelerated while the being had come within 2 m of the vehicle, not seeming to be at all concerned by the presence of the witnesses.", + "location": "CANADA, Joliette (Quebec)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 244", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_870" + }, + { + "date": "11/29/1932", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Beginning of the thirty apparitions. Around 6:45 PM Mrs. Hennicken, Jacquemin, Dubois and Delruche, who were children at the time, observed an elongated object surrounded by stars and emitting no sound. The object, which was white in color, stopped above an embankment of the railway. This phenomenon occurred during the \"miracles\" (cf. Notre Dame de Beauraing) - which is still a pilgrimage site today. (List by Daniel BUKENS, Remicourt, Belgium) The witness was praying on the spot, when suddenly she saw a red luminous ball 1.5 meters in diameter. It burst and, inside, the Virgin Mary immediately appeared.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Beauraing (Namur)", + "ref": [ + "Erich ZURCHER: \"The Apparitions of Humanoids\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 200", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_871" + }, + { + "date": "1932", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater fighter Fiat CR 42, 350 km/h, ceiling 9000m, range 850 km. Last deliveries in October 1939. In the meantime the Fiat CR-42 FALCO had taken over in 1932, the last ones were delivered in 1942. Etc...", + "location": "ITALY, SPANISH LICENSE", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_872" + }, + { + "date": "1932", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. 1930, same location, same person) Howard Menger, aged 10, encounters in the woods a beautiful and luminous woman who indicates his mission on Earth, making him glimpse future wars and destructions on our planet.", + "location": "USA, Hogh Bridge (New Jersey)", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: The Enigma of the E.T. - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 145", + "continued in 1942, USA, Juarez, New Mexico", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_873" + }, + { + "date": "1932", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Observation in broad daylight by pilots LTC Peter Grunnet and LT Tage Anderson, of the Royal Danish Air Force. \"One of the earliest observations by Danish aviators took place in 1932 when 8 H.E. planes were sent to the east coast of Greenland for a photogrammetric survey. At that time, the planes were not equipped with heating and the aviators did not yet have an insulating suit. So the strongest and bravest were sent. Lt. Col. Peter Grunnet had Lt. Tage Anderson as co-pilot, who later became commander-in-chief of the RDAF and who died in 1961. Wrapped in long parkas and numb from the cold, they saw their breath condense in front of their faces. At that moment they were flying over a glacier, shining like a mirror. Suddenly they saw a second shadow added to that of their plane in this \"mirror\". \"I looked back and saw something incredible,\" said Anderson. A mile behind them they were followed by a flying object on the same route. Then Grunnet made a turn to get a better view of the unknown plane. \"It did not look like anything known at the time,\" said Grunnet, \"it was hexagonal in shape, flat, apparently made of aluminum or another metal, without openings, without anything, all smooth, no bolts or rivets. I had a strange feeling, as if something or someone in this unknown object was hostile to me. I cannot explain this feeling. It was only in the following years that I realized that this object was in the shape of a saucer.", + "location": "GREENLAND, east coast", + "ref": [ + "\"THE SAGA UFO REPORT\" for October 1977, article \"UFO Crisis over Greenland\" by Rufus Drake.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_874" + }, + { + "date": "1932", + "desc": "(Translated from French) After a period of laboratory work, Goddard continued his rocket launch tests in New Mexico in September 1934. He turned his attention to the development of an automatic guidance device to ensure his rockets an impeccable vertical ascent. His rockets weighed from 26 to 35.5 kg approximately and reached extreme speeds of 1126 meters/second. (1932-1934)", + "location": "USA, Roswell (New Mexico)", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 47", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_875" + }, + { + "date": "1932", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A young boy saw a small disk, about 30 cm in diameter, hovering close to him. The disk made a faint buzzing sound and was surrounded by a white mist. The boy became ill and had huge blisters on his hands. (Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 309) ... The boy grabbed the object but had to let go, he was severely burned on his hands. (1932 or 1933)", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, near Nambour (Queensland)", + "ref": [ + "Does this sound suspiciously like a ball of lightning, or what?", + "A CENTURY OF UFO - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_876" + }, + { + "date": "1933", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Alert by Tsiolkovsky on the work of the American Goddard, the USSR launches its first liquid fuel rockets.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 11", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_877" + }, + { + "date": "1933", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Frank Smythe recounts this adventure: \"Strange, to say the least. It was, most likely, a hallucination due to the lack of oxygen which affects not only physical faculties, but also mental faculties. I was descending towards Camp IV when chance had me look up. I saw two black objects floating in the blue sky. Their shape was that of observation sausages, except that one of them seemed to have short fins. Gliding, motionless, they seemed to swell and deflate alternately, as if they were breathing. I stared at them, dumbfounded, with extreme interest. I had the feeling that my brain was functioning normally, but to test myself, I looked away. The objects disappeared from my view, but when I looked back, they were still there. A second time I looked elsewhere, but this time, to test my mental faculties, I identified by name various details of the landscape. And yet, when I looked for them again, the objects were still visible. A few minutes later, a fog drifted across the north-east shoulder of Everest, above which they were suspended. It thickened, gradually masking the objects, and they disappeared from my view. A few more minutes passed and the fog dissipated. I looked again, expecting to see them, but they had vanished as mysteriously as they had appeared (...)", + "location": "HIMALAYA, MONT EVEREST", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 244-245", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_878" + }, + { + "date": "7/5/1933", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, four Hawker Fury I biplanes flying in formation, encountered an enormous circular light above them. It descended into the middle of their formation. The engine of the plane piloted by Capt. Niger Tompkins of the RAF, failed, forcing him to make an emergency landing. Then it was the turn of the plane piloted by Bruce H. Thomas. The light passed so close that not only was he forced to land, but he had his hands and face burned, as if by a radiating heat.", + "location": "ENGLAND, Sussex", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's – A century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p 16 ", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_879" + }, + { + "date": "1/1933", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 18 apparitions between January and March, of an entity which the witnesses took to be the Virgin Mary. (1933, January to March)", + "location": "BELGIUM, Banneux", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 311", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_880" + }, + { + "date": "5/1933", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Model of rocket copied from the Germans, but heavier, the Rocket 2 of the Aluminium Company of America, launched towards the sea at the entrance of the Port of New-York, would have approached the speed of sound, a few weeks before those of Dr. Goddard. (...) The Following Tests Were Very Disappointing", + "location": "USA, New York", + "ref": [ + "\"To the Assault of Space\" - Georges H. Gallet - Ed. of Modern Thought, p. 62, 63", + "Insufficient Cooling e.a.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_881" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1933", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man observed a faint violet light in a field between Chrysville and Morreston. Advancing towards it, he realized it was an ovoid object 3 m in diameter and 2 m in height, with an opening resembling a safe door. The witness pushed the door and found a cavity filled with a violet light and various instruments while an ammonia smell filled the air. (1933, Summer)", + "location": "USA, between Chrysville and Morreston (Pennsylvania)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 245", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_882" + }, + { + "date": "1933", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the northwest of the region made up of hills and marshes, many lights were observed at night. Two men and a woman approached as close as possible to the area around midnight, the rest of the way being done on foot. They then saw that the light came from an oval object topped with a dome, resting on stilts. Through the central door there was a back and forth of about a dozen shapes that went up and down a kind of ladder. These beings were small, dressed in silver uniforms and their activity was carried out in an impressive silence. The orange-tinted light illuminated the entire region. After half an hour of observation, the witnesses returned to the truck. A few nights later, the witnesses had the opportunity to return to the scene. The UFO was not present. But there were traces: 6 squares of 45 cm on each side, spaced 2.5 to 3 m apart, 5 to 7 cm deep, forming a rectangle in the center of which was a circle of burned grass.", + "location": "CANADA, Nipawin (Saskatchewan)", + "ref": [ + "John Brent Musgrave in FSR Vol. 22 n° 6 of 1976", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_883" + }, + { + "date": "10/1933", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater fighter Polikarpov I-15, 360 km/h, ceiling 10000m, range 720km. The Polikarov I-16 model (seen from the side resembling a large cylinder with a rounded tail) flies from December 1933, 360 km/h, ceiling 9000m, range 800 km. It was originally a single-seater fighter", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_884" + }, + { + "date": "11/1933", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater fighter Arado AR-68, max. speed 310 km/h, ceiling 7400m, probably ended production in 1937.", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_885" + }, + { + "date": "1/1/1934", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Listeners heard in their speakers conversations giving information about mysterious flying objects (...) The conversations were broadcast on the Umeä radio program's wavelength. This pirate radio was heard by other people in Norbyskar, Hedesunda, Nordmaling and Halsingtuna that month on bands of 230-275m. In some cases the ghost speakers spoke a disjointed Swedish.", + "location": "SWEDEN, Umeä", + "ref": [ + "this author is not yet devoid of fantasy, he will tell us more...", + "J.A. Keel: \"Mysterie Aeroplanes of the 1930s\" FSR July/August 1970", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_886" + }, + { + "date": "1/23/1934 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Norwegian cargo ship \"Tordenskiold\" was leaving the port of Kabelvag to return to Tromsö. On the way, as Captain Sigvard Ulsen confirmed, the crew suddenly saw an aircraft approach with a powerful searchlight that swept the deck. The object was dark gray, without any markings, and on board what could only be interpreted as an airplane, there was a pilot wearing a cape or anorak, he had large glasses and a kind of hood on his head. After making a complete circuit around the ship in about twenty seconds, the aircraft disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared. (1934, January 23 (28?))", + "location": "NORWAY (at sea)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 247-248", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_887" + }, + { + "date": "2/7/1934", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening, an unknown aircraft crashed or made a forced landing in the Fager mountains during a snowstorm. The valley population followed the descent of the aircraft on the mountain. The next morning, the aircraft was motionless on the snow and two men visible next to it. A little later the aircraft attempted to take off twice without success. Eight inhabitants of the valley climbed the slopes with difficulty and discovered two parallel tracks in the snow near the point where the aircraft had been spotted. These tracks were 75 m long and 80 cm wide and were accompanied by footprints. But the aircraft remained untraceable. (February 7, 1934)", + "location": "NORWAY, near Tromso", + "ref": [ + "Pierre VIEROUDY: \"These UFOs that announce the Superman\" - Laffont 1979, p. 54", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_888" + }, + { + "date": "4/1/1934", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Five witnesses suddenly saw a very large airplane descend in the moonlight towards the surface of the water, stopping its engines. Instead of landing, it began to make large circles, allowing the spectators to observe the presence of eight propellers. The windows of the cabin were brightly lit.", + "location": "SWEDEN, Altenfjord", + "ref": [ + "Pierre VIEROUDY: \"These UFOs that announce the Superman\" - Laffont 1979, p. 54", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_889" + }, + { + "date": "7/14/1934", + "desc": "(Translated from French) After spending the afternoon of July 14th on various sports activities, Paul Faiveley had returned to his room around 11:30 pm. As he was reading a few pages before going to sleep, he realized he had lost a small wallet containing the remainder of his savings for his stay in Great Britain. He immediately went out, heading towards the nearby swimming pool's bath cabins, in the hope of finding the precious object in the one he had occupied in the late afternoon. Relieved to have recovered his money, he was returning home when suddenly the sky seemed to light up and the witness clearly saw the silhouette of his body outlined on the slope of the terrain. He stopped and turning around, he saw almost vertically a dazzling disc moving slowly in a sky of exceptional purity. After a few seconds the phenomenon stopped, and then he was surrounded by a blue glow. For two minutes he remained thus motionless, then the blue ring began to fade, while the disc changed from white to a golden yellow, then to a bright red. At this moment the object started moving very slowly. It quickly accelerated, keeping this red hue and projecting yellow and bright spots. In about ten seconds the phenomenon had disappeared, rising into the sky towards the south-southwest.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Ringwood (Southampton)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 248", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_890" + }, + { + "date": "Autumn 1934", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight (monoplane) of the three-seat medium bomber Dornier DO-17, 355 km/h, ceiling 5100 m. This aircraft was named \"flying pencil\". The DORNIER family of aircrafts then gave other types of bombers, fighters and three-engine reconnaissance seaplanes (1934, Autumn)", + "location": "GERMANY, YUGOSLAV LICENSE", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircrafts, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "DO-24 first flight in July 1937", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_891" + }, + { + "date": "10/7/1934", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the Tupolev Type SB 1, 410 km/h ceiling 9500 m, range with load 1200km, with maximum fuel 1600 km. Built in large quantities in the 1930s. Of the type SB 2, medium bomber three-seater, more than 6000 will be built. The heavy bomber TB 3 has been flying since December 1930, with a crew of 10 men at the start, later reduced to 6 men. The TUPOLEVs will have a long line of series.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_892" + }, + { + "date": "End of 1934", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the bomber 4 or 5 seats Savoia-Marchetti S.M.-79 SPARVIERO, 430 km/h, ceiling 7000m, autonomy with bombs 2000 km. Firing from the glazed nose in front of the cockpit, glazed firing post dorsal behind the cockpit, glazed firing post at the back. (1934, end of year)", + "location": "ITALY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_893" + }, + { + "date": "1934", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Peoria Rocket Association, under the direction of engineer Ernest Loebel, was also involved in the development and testing of liquid propellants. It had a well-equipped test site in Cleveland and was able to develop a reliable rocket engine during numerous tests. For cooling, it was surrounded by a spiral-shaped tubing through which oxygen passed before being injected into the combustion chamber.", + "location": "USA, Peoria (Illinois), Cleveland (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "\"Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 81", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_894" + }, + { + "date": "12/1934", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of aggregate 2 \"Max\", first shot, altitude 2000 meters.", + "location": "GERMANY, Borkum (island)", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 201", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_895" + }, + { + "date": "12/1934", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of aggregate 2 \"Moritz\", 2nd shot, altitude 2000 meters.", + "location": "GERMANY, Borkum (island)", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 201", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_896" + }, + { + "date": "1935", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Guggenheim allowed Goddard to continue his works, at the Mescalero Ranch where a large workshop was built for him and his four collaborators. In 1935 his rockets reached 2500m in altitude and exceeded 1100 km/h in speed. (...) His devices, 3m to 4.50m long, weighing 30 to 40 kilos, were launched from a 18m high tower. They had a gyroscopic stabilization system for correcting the trajectory. The oscillations disappeared while the rocket gained speed on its trajectory.", + "location": "USA, near Rosswel", + "ref": [ + "\"Assault on Space\" - Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 63, 64", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_897" + }, + { + "date": "2/1935", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the medium bomber 4 or 5 seats, glider towing and missile launcher. 415 km/h, ceiling 5000m. Machine gun turret in the nose fairing, in the dorsal turret, in the ventral gondola. This is a twin-engine version with elliptical wings, whose bomber version flies secretly, will make its appearance a year later as a civil aircraft. (February 1935)", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_898" + }, + { + "date": "3/1935", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Lucien Aerts was able to observe from his home, at the corner of Koolstraat and Dageraadstraat, an enormous object made of aluminum that shone in the darkness. This device had the shape of an overturned basin and was stationary at 70° elevation above a large neighboring building. What is more extraordinary is that from the back of this disc two dwarfs dressed in metal then appeared, floating in the air. These characters seemed to inspect the perimeter of the object and carry out some repairs. According to the witness they were wearing a kind of cubic-shaped helmet and they moved in jerks like automatons or robots. After a few moments the two beings disappeared behind this windowless craft which flew off to the southeast.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Mechelen", + "ref": [ + "J.G. DOHMEN: \"A Identifier et le Cas Adamski\" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 153", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_899" + }, + { + "date": "Spring 1935", + "desc": "(Translated from French) After the test flights of this bomber Henschel HS-123 Monoplane, it was presented to the public on May 8th, 345 km/h, ceiling 9000m. The HS-129 version flew early 1939, 408 km/h, ceiling 9000m. (1935, Spring)", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_900" + }, + { + "date": "3/28/1935", + "desc": "(Translated from French) R. H. Goddard's rocket, gyro stabilization test, altitude 1400 meters, range 3900 meters.", + "location": "USA, Mescalero, Roswell", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 248", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_901" + }, + { + "date": "5/31/1935", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The greatest altitude was reached by a rocket launched by Goddard: IT WAS 2250 METERS.", + "location": "USA, Roswell (New Mexico)", + "ref": [ + "\"Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 48", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_902" + }, + { + "date": "Early 9/1935 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Flight of the Messerschmitt BF 109, single-seat fighter, but often fighter-bomber, 570 km/h, ceiling 8000m, normal autonomy on internal tanks around 700 km. Many other versions until 1941. (1935, beginning of September?)", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_903" + }, + { + "date": "1935", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the consolidated Vultee patrol sea plane Model 28 Catalina, crew of 7 men, maximum speed 134 km/h, ceiling 5550m. The two 825 hp engines are placed very close to each other on the wing, itself placed on a pylon above the fuselage. Last delivery in 1946.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_904" + }, + { + "date": "4/1935", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater with two cockpits and fixed landing gear, civil training North American NA-16, 341 km/h, ceiling 7338m, range 1400 km. It will have a numerous family in single-seater, two-seater and in 1940 the fighter bomber Mustang will come out.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_905" + }, + { + "date": "Early 4/1935", + "desc": "(Translated from French) As twilight appeared, around 7:30 pm, a certain Mora was in his property in Aznalcazar when he saw a large, round, and very bright object descend towards the ridge of Cerro de Torres, about 500 m away from him. The UFO stopped very close to the ground and some small beings then circled it several times. This strange apparition would forever mark the witness, who saw it as a supernatural vision that God had kindly granted him the favor of, and until his death he often recalled the adventure he had experienced one April evening in 1935. (April, early 1935)", + "location": "SPAIN, Aznalcazar (Seville)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 250", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_906" + }, + { + "date": "7/28/1935", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First high altitude bomber flight with six to ten men crew, Boeing B-17 Fortress, cruising speed 293 km/h, ceiling 10670 m, final delivery to the army in April 1945, but the B-17E model was the first plane of the 8th Bomber Command and started its day-time strategic bombing missions on Germany or occupied Europe as early as August 17, 1942. It was soon replaced by the B-17F model, built in 3405 copies. The Boeing factory in Seattle alone produced 16 copies per day, the total production of B17 reached 12,731 copies! (July 28, 1935)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_907" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1935", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ms. Isabele Walmsley was working as a nurse and one night she was suddenly awoken by a loud noise, like a roar mixed with a whistle, passing over her home. A few days later one of her neighbors told her that he had seen a huge light passing over her house that night. (1935, during the summer)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Timaru", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 250", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_908" + }, + { + "date": "1935", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the four-seat bomber and torpedo launcher Ilyouchine II-4, first of a long line of increasingly performing Ilyouchines. The first one reaches 410 km/h, its operational ceiling is 10,000m.", + "location": "URSS", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_909" + }, + { + "date": "1935", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the LETOV S-328, two-seat reconnaissance bomber and utility aircraft, max. 280 km/h, ceiling 7200 m, range 700km.", + "location": "CZECHOSLOVAKIA", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_910" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1935", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Witnesses saw a UFO land and saw several small entities dressed in silver suits going up and down a ladder. Square imprints and burned areas were discovered the next day and photographed. (1935, Summer)", + "location": "CANADA, Nipawin (Saskatchewan)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 320", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_911" + }, + { + "date": "10/1935", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the first heavy bomber Douglas B-18, with manually retractable nose, dorsal and ventral turrets. It flew at 349 km/h, ceiling 7265m. In December of the same year the military DC 3 (370 km/h, ceiling 7000m) made its first flight. It was followed on October 29, 1938 by the Douglas DB-7 and derivatives up to... today. It had been preceded in July 1935 by the Douglas Dauntless, a two-seat dive bomber, biplane silhouette, with very wide wings. (October 1935)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_912" + }, + { + "date": "10/1935", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the blue, cloudless sky, shone a kind of motionless silver-colored disk. The camera was soon in position but, upon sighting, Ichac had to admit that the object was too small: only a vague overexposed spot would be seen. (...) The disk was rigorously motionless. It remained so for several tens of minutes. (...) Nobody saw it leave. At one moment it was there, the next it was gone. (\"Lueurs sur les Soucoupes volantes\" - Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME 1954, page 122) In the chronicles of the French student Pierre Ichac, travelling in Ethiopia, one can read that he observed, together with other witnesses, an object in the shape of a disk hovering above the sands near Addis Ababa.", + "location": "ETHIOPIA, Addis Ababa", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's – A century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p 17", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_913" + }, + { + "date": "1935", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Theresa-Maria Vanucci was 17 years old when she saw, in a place called \"Giuncaia\", around 5 o'clock, a globe of light containing a woman.", + "location": "ITALY, Chiarotorre", + "ref": [ + "Erich ZURCHER: \"Les apparitions d'Humanoïdes\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 200", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_914" + }, + { + "date": "1935", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Beginning of multiple tests for rocket launching. After the V-1, the V-2 officially emerged on October 3rd, 1942.", + "location": "GERMANY, Peenemunde Island", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 11", + "see this date", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_915" + }, + { + "date": "2/1936", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Tests of particularly large flying models, equipped with liquid fuel rocket engines, were undertaken by Willy Levy on the frozen Greenwood Lake. The two models were made of aluminium, measured 4 m in length and were called \"Gloria\". Their wings, slightly V-shaped, were placed in the middle of the rocket body and had a wingspan of 5 meters. A 30° inclined catapult was provided for launching.", + "location": "USA, Greenwood (border of N.Y and N.J. states)", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 81", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_916" + }, + { + "date": "3/5/1936", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the first of the supermarine Spitfire series, 580 km/h, internal tank range 637km. This is the first fighter aircraft with working skin built in Great Britain.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_917" + }, + { + "date": "4/25/1936", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Winner of an Army Air Force three-seat fighter program, the Potez Series 63 is a two-seat day and night fighter, 440 km/h, ceiling 10,000m.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_918" + }, + { + "date": "5/1936", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the light attack biplane Misubishi KI-15, 450 km/h, ceiling 8600 m, it was followed in November 1936 by the Ki-21, heavy bomber with 7 seats while the AM began in 1935, followed by the A6M Zero-Sen in 1939 and so many others.", + "location": "JAPAN", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_919" + }, + { + "date": "7/2/1936", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Professor Goddard carried out the first international rocket mail link between the USA and Mexico. (\"Rockets, vehicles of the future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 86) a rocket was launched from the American side, then another from the Mexican side, each carrying 300 letters.", + "location": "USA (McAllen, Texas), Mexico (Reynosa)", + "ref": [ + "\"Assault on Space\" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 54", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_920" + }, + { + "date": "7/15/1936", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The night was advanced and the heat was stifling. After midnight, all the members of my family were sleeping, except my father who was still taking the cool air on the balcony. The night was calm and the sky was pitch black. Suddenly the sky, facing my father, became as bright as day and one could even count the tiles of the roof of the kiosk \"Sinfengting\" perched on the crest of the Yushan mountain, to the west. Between the kiosk and the balcony, there was 400 m. Suddenly, in the northwest sky, a small black ball appeared, heading east at great speed. When the black ball was above Bailangcang Street, 130 m from the balcony, it stopped and remained 20 m from the ground. My father looked at it carefully and he noticed that its diameter was 1.5 m. Then the ball began to open from the bottom, very widely, and to spew out a thick, blood-red liquid. This liquid was going straight down, but my father did not know if it touched the ground because the roofs opposite prevented him from seeing well; The red blood column was very large and measured about 3 m wide. Surprised, my father called my mother, who came out to see this unusual spectacle, but when she arrived on the balcony, the blood column had already shrunk, becoming as thin as a bamboo. Suddenly the red liquid disappeared and the lights went out. Everything sank into darkness. My father's observation lasted three minutes (July 15, 1936)", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.76, 77", + "no trace the next day", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_921" + }, + { + "date": "8/1936", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater bomber Aichi D3A, average speed 450 km/h, ceiling 9500 m, production ended in 1944.", + "location": "JAPAN", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_922" + }, + { + "date": "10/15/1936", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the single-seat interceptor fighter Nakajima KI-27, 460 km/h, ceiling approximately 10500m, range 625 km. It was the most maneuverable military aircraft of the time. It was them who shot down 90% of the 1252 Soviet aircraft downed in 1939 after the Nomonham incident. The three-seat bomber Nakajima B5N followed quickly as well as other versions.", + "location": "JAPAN", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_923" + }, + { + "date": "Winter 1936", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ms. E. E. Loznaya was 15 years old at the time. One morning, on her way to school she saw, flying quickly through the air, a humanoid figure dressed in black. It was at mid-height and its clothes covered it completely. In place of the head something like a square helmet, it had massive, square arms, very close to the body. She saw neither hands nor feet, but noticed on its back something oval, like a backpack. In place of the face, the surface was entirely black and as it passed near her it made a rumbling noise. It was less than 30 m away from her. Frightened, she looked around for help. In that short period of time the flying man had disappeared. (1936, Winter)", + "location": "KAZAKHSTAN, Pavlodar", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 148", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_924" + }, + { + "date": "1936", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An object landed on the road, blocking two cars coming in opposite directions. One of the witnesses was 37 years old at the time. Neither of the two drivers ever attempted, either during the incident or afterwards, to make contact with each other. The object on the road eventually rose up and disappeared into the sky. The witnesses were approximately 20 meters away from the phenomenon. (1936/1937)", + "location": "NORWAY, Gjersjoen", + "ref": [ + "I would have liked to read what this object was like, its shape, its color, its dimensions...", + "Letter from Eldbjørg Fjeldberg, 16 Nov 1976. Listing from Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_925" + }, + { + "date": "Late Spring 1936", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Richard Keller and his family saw on a Sunday afternoon, in very cloudy weather, ten or twelve UFOs. At about 5° south they had been watching for 10 minutes the maneuvers of \"airplanes\" which suddenly converged as if to a signal towards a point below the clouds. They placed themselves one above the other, rose in a spiral through the clouds. During the previous 10 minutes, some had been hovering, motionless, others were flying in all directions in an area of perhaps 150 m in diameter. They were all identical to each other in size, shape and color. (1936 or 1937, late spring)", + "location": "USA, unspecified", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979, p. 118, 119", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_926" + }, + { + "date": "1937", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1917) Elizabeth Klarer flies in a sports plane over the Drakensbergen, when a blue glowing object flies towards her aircraft, turns and moves away. Later Elizabeth Klarer will work for the British secret services in the context of aerial phenomena \"Foo-Fighters\", \"Spirit Hunters and Various Lights. [note from vog: never read this anywhere else, the author \"Mitarbeiter\" = collaborator (anonymous) seems to be the only one informed of this state of affairs... ]", + "location": "SOUTH AFRICA, Drakensbergen", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued 1954", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_927" + }, + { + "date": "1/1/1937", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At noon, Howard S. Behr, LTC, USAF, was flying south at an altitude of 3000 feet. An object shaped like a gondola and of the appearance of metal from a revolver or pistol crossed his path. At that time he was making a private flight in a civilian Curtis Wright Sedan.", + "location": "USA, border between North Carolina and Virginia.", + "ref": [ + "CUFOS files. Credit: Jerry Clark.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_928" + }, + { + "date": "2/11/1937", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 9:00 PM the fishing boat \"Fram\" left the port of Kvalsik. Not far from the port there is a cape covered with high hills that must be circumnavigated to reach the open sea. As the ship was making this maneuver, the crew saw what looked like a giant airplane resting on the water. Believing the craft to be in distress, the captain of the \"Fram\" headed in its direction. Immediately the red and green lights that illuminated the object went out and a cloud of smoke surrounded it. When it dissipated, the craft had disappeared. (February 11, 1937)", + "location": "NORWAY, near the port of Kvalsik", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 251", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_929" + }, + { + "date": "3/1937", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In March and April 1937 the telegraph of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo carried strange stories about a huge simian monster, the \"mapinguary\", emerging from nowhere and spreading terror throughout the regions near the Araguaia River. At Barra do Garcas, 500 km east of Cuiaba, the monster made descents on the fazendas and ranches roaring in the night like the father of a thousand devils coming out of hell. The farmers said \"We all stayed inside all night, trembling with fear to find dozens of yellow cows (of Spanish origin) dead in the pampas, their tongues widely out of their mouths. Of course, the jaguars were already there to devour them. But there were large footprints resembling feet of at least 46 cm long.\" Along the Aracargas River: \"Night was falling and again we heard that roar coming from the darkness. Our nerves gave way, and at dawn, a whole band of panicked Brazilians took their gear to go to the nearest civilized post.\" There were even reports from distant regions 240 km away like Ponte Branca. \"No dead animal bore any marks of a possible struggle with what had come out of the dark Mato Grosso to kill them.\" This wave of terror lasted three weeks making the headlines of the newspapers of Rio and Sao Paulo. Then everything returned to normal. (1937, March and April)", + "location": "BRAZIL, region of the Rio Araguaia", + "ref": [ + "\"O Globo\" of Sao Paulo of 28.3.1937; \"Secret Cities of Old South America\" by Harold T. Wilkins, copyright 1952, reprinted 1998 by Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton, Illinois, pages 304 and 305.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_930" + }, + { + "date": "4/1937", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two customs security agents were near the Capodichino airport at around 2 o'clock in the morning when a cry was heard: \"The guard! Let's run!\" probably coming from smugglers who were leaving the area. One of the customs agents G.R. (29 years old) was pointing a beam of light from his electric torch in the direction of the voice to discover a disc-shaped object \"like the moon\" quickly approaching the ground. It had the shape of two plates overturned one on the other, with a diameter of about 25 m and a height between 4 and 6 meters. The object was heading towards Vesuvius, flying over the airport, and dragging a white-bluish luminous tail accompanied by a kind of low humming. The object was illuminated by itself, with a kind of opaque white-silver luminescence not dazzling. The lower part was more rounded and had a small turret at its base, while the upper part had something dark and hard to define. On the entire surface there were three rows of portholes from which a faint light from white to pink was coming out. The lower part seemed to be the only one rotating. The observation lasted about thirty seconds.", + "location": "ITALY, Naples, San Pietro a Patierno", + "ref": [ + "letter from the witness to the CISU, report of the SOLARIS group, cfr CISU, archives D. n° 37001", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_931" + }, + { + "date": "5/1937", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the medium bomber CRDA CANT-Z 1007 Alcione, four or five seats, maximum speed 448 km/h, ceiling 8100 m, with 4 machine guns distributed in the dorsal turret, the ventral turret and the two side bays at mid-fuselage. Manufactured in series in 1939 and put into service the same year.", + "location": "ITALY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_932" + }, + { + "date": "6/1937", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One evening in June, around 11:00 PM, Mr. and Mrs. Barbot, accompanied by their daughter and son-in-law Mr. Bénéteau, were driving on the road that connects Xanton to Chassenon. Suddenly, coming diagonally from their right, the four witnesses saw an enormous luminous mass, as big as two hay carts and of a yellow-greenish hue. Mr. Barbot stopped the car and the witnesses who got out were then literally blinded by this intense light that surrounded them for a second and continued its route at great speed following a perfectly straight trajectory. The next day Mr. Barbot noticed that his headlights were not working anymore: the bulbs were burned out.", + "location": "FRANCE, Vendée", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 251-252", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_933" + }, + { + "date": "7/15/1937", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the six-seat reconnaissance seaplane blohm UND VOSS BV-138, maximum speed 275 km/h, ceiling 5,000m, delivery to the Army type A1 in January 1940, type C1 in January 1941.", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_934" + }, + { + "date": "7/29/1937", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the Lockheed Model 414 Hudson, reconnaissance bomber and utility aircraft. Nose gun turret with 4 portholes on each side (2 upper, 2 lower), two dorsal turrets, speed 397 km/h, ceiling 7468 m, range 3150 km. From the same firm, various other models come out one after the other (July 29, 1937)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "with variants of the C130 HERCULES..", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_935" + }, + { + "date": "8/1/1937", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater Boulton Paul P-82 Defiant fighter, with dorsal turret, max. speed 488 km/h, ceiling 9300m, series production July 30 1939, delivery December 1939.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_936" + }, + { + "date": "8/1937", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, the crew of a barge on a route to Deer Island, saw a \"pack of electric lights\" approach the boat. Two of the lights came really close, one of them making a tour around the boat, the other remaining stationary in the air for three minutes, before leaving the area.", + "location": "USA, near Penobscot Bay (Maine)", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's – A century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p 17", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_937" + }, + { + "date": "8/1937", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the two-seat tactical bomber Sukhoi SU-2, 455 km/h, ceiling 8800m, range with 400 kg of bombs: 1200km.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_938" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1937", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Henri Houck recounts his adventure thus: \"It was during a beautiful summer night in 1937, I was returning home to the northwest of Anderlues. Taking a shortcut leaving the road behind me, I entered a narrow path bordered on one side by hedges and brambles, and on the other by a barbed wire fence. The difficult path was barely 80 cm wide. Raising my head and looking at the end of the path, I suddenly saw a light shining above the passage... At first I took it for a cigarette butt, but soon I saw that it was not, as it was too big. I was very intrigued and I approached. During my advance, this thing began to swell, reaching the size of a football. I was only one meter away from it when this luminous sphere deformed, lengthened and flattened, completely blocking the passage. It remained motionless about 50 cm from the ground. I could have jumped over this form with well-defined edges, tinted white and orange.. But suddenly, a sudden feeling of insecurity overwhelmed me and I hurried back. \" Henri Houck, very tall, of very robust physical constitution, feared neither God nor devil yet... Arriving near the road he turned around, the worrying phenomenon had disappeared. (1937, Summer)", + "location": "BELGIUM, Anderlues (Hainaut)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 252", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_939" + }, + { + "date": "10/1937", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater fighter Bloch MB-152C, maximum speed 520 km/h, ceiling 10,000m. 593 Blochs were built until the end of the capitulation in 1918. At that time, the founder of the company changed his name: Marcel Bloch became Marcel Dassault.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels edition 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_940" + }, + { + "date": "End of 1937", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Vergani was involved in the construction of a house in Quarta Legua near Galipolis. One day, between 12:00 and 15:00, Vergani, along with six work companions, his wife and their child, had his attention drawn to a group of about ten shapeless objects in the sky. These bodies had the color of samambaia leaves (very light brown), with an apparent size of about one meter and they moved in a wavy motion. At the beginning of the observation the formation was 200 m away from the witnesses. At one point the objects approached the ground, one of them seeming to even land behind a fold in the terrain while the others continued on their way. Vergani and some masons went to the presumed landing site but found nothing. The objects moved silently and were not shiny. (1937, end of year)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Galipolis (Rio Grande do Sul)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 253", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_941" + }, + { + "date": "1/1938", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the classic single-seater fighter or embarked brewster F-2A Buffalo, with four machine guns: two in the fuselage and two in the wings, max. speed 483 km/h, practical ceiling 9300m. End of production in 1942.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_942" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1938", + "desc": "(Translated from French) When Malcolm B. Perry (22 years old) got off the Metropolitan Transit Authority bus (currently the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority - MBTA) at Somerville Avenue at midnight, he was returning from a date on the other side of the Boston River. The night was beautiful, with the smell of vegetation after a light rain. Some small clouds were being pushed west by a light wind, it was a full moon night. The streets were quiet. As he was walking, Perry suddenly felt a strange chill, as if he was being watched by eyes he could not see. He looked over his shoulder: there were only houses and street lights. He stopped and listened for footsteps: he heard nothing. He started walking again and again this strange feeling came over him. That's when he looked up at the sky, where to his surprise he saw a flying object barely a few meters above him. \"At first the object was behind me and near the moon. I was walking east to west and the object was flying in the same direction (from the Bunker Hill monument to Cambridge). I thought it was a Navy dirigible and I kept walking without worrying about it. Looking again to my left, I saw it flying steadily west. I started looking more closely, expecting to see a gondola or propellers, but there were none. This balloon was flying against the wind, always at the same slow pace. Its shape was well defined and it looked like a 50 cm school ruler held at arm's length. The craft seemed much thinner than a conventional dirigible. The two ends were pointed and there were four rectangular portholes on the side that I could see. An orange light was coming from these portholes. That's when I saw the dark silhouette of a person looking out at me. \"What a person! Tall, gaunt, almost skeletal, with a long head, drooping shoulders, and thin arms hanging down. The entity seemed to be leaning on the edge of the porthole to look at him. Because of the orange light in the background, Perry could not see the details of the face. \"I had a terrible urge to wave to him, but I resisted the temptation, just looking around the street to see if anyone else was there to share this strange vision. Unfortunately, there was no one. Again I looked at the craft and behind the other portholes there must have been people: I could see them changing places and coming to look out the porthole in turn. That's when the craft disappeared into a cloud and I never saw it again. The next day I looked through the newspaper to see if anyone had reported the sighting of this unusual object, but nothing of the kind was published. So I decided not to tell anyone about it.\" (1938, Summer)", + "location": "USA, Boston (Massachusetts)", + "ref": [ + "Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective by Gordon I.R. Lore Jr. and Harold H. Denault Jr., Prentice Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1968, pages 135 to 137.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_943" + }, + { + "date": "2/5/1938", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Militias with orders to defend the position, in the midst of a civil war, saw at around 7 o'clock in the morning, in a clear sky, a kind of object in the shape of a Mexican sombrero clearly defined and having the appearance of matte aluminum. Despite the distance of the object its outline was well defined, and the sun reflected off its surface. It was at an altitude of about 200 meters. All eyes (at least 65 men) were fixed on a row of windows in the center which curved to the sides, following the shape of the object. On its base was like a \"photographic lens\" which seemed to suggest a certain depth and was darker. A kind of dark vapor was escaping all around the perimeter. (February 5, 1938)", + "location": "Spain, Penon de la Mata (Granada)", + "ref": [ + "ABC, Seville, 1980, 1981 \"UFOs in Andalucia\", by Manuel Ramirez, No. 62", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_944" + }, + { + "date": "7/1938", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the three-seat reconnaissance and close support aircraft Focke-Wulf 189 UHU, 350 km/h, ceiling 7300m. Last deliveries in August 1944. This aircraft appeared strange, it was the \\\"flying eye\\\" discovered by the Allies in 1941. Already on July 27, 1937 another aircraft of this brand, the FOCKE-WULF FW 200 CONDOR made its first flight, with a forward dorsal turret, a ventral gondola. This aircraft established an impressive series of records on the air routes from New York to Tokyo. (July 1938)", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_945" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1938", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Sverre Brevik was 21 years old at the time. The night was warm and he couldn't sleep, so he went outside for some fresh air. Suddenly he heard a sound like that of a generator spinning faster and faster. The whole area was illuminated. The noise became unbearable, causing him a headache. He then saw, at about twenty meters away, a bluish object rising from the ground. The object was surrounded by a reddish halo and had, around its perimeter, openings from which blue and whitish-bluish light was emitted. He remembers that the smell was horrible: it reminded him of burnt rubber. His eyes and throat were irritated. The object rose without making any noise, then fell back softly. It measured 20 to 25 meters in diameter and 2 to 3 meters in height. The witness felt like he was being watched. The object then rose again, spinning in the sky and illuminating a large part of the area with the lights coming from its perimeter. Suddenly, it disappeared to the north. Ten years later, the witness observed a similar phenomenon. (1938, Summer)", + "location": "NORWAY, Herne", + "ref": [ + "HJEMMET. UFO-NYT, 4/1970, 159-60. Liljegren: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF REFERENCES TO UFO INCIDENTS DURING WORLD WAR II., 1987, 2. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_946" + }, + { + "date": "1938", + "desc": "(Translated from French) While the Civil War reigned in Spain, Franco's troops had implemented \"propaganda rockets\". These were rescue rockets at sea, whose hollow head carried large quantities of propaganda tracts on extremely thin paper. Above the enemy lines, a detonating charge of grain powder caused the explosion of the rocket head and scattered the tracts over a large area.", + "location": "SPAIN, Madrid", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 93", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_947" + }, + { + "date": "7/25/1938", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 8:30 PM, still in the midst of the civil war, military personnel at the front made an astonishing observation. As they were descending a talwag at night, a lieutenant accompanied by his aide were suddenly illuminated by a dazzling white light. Believing it to be the beam of an enemy projector, they attempted to escape as quickly as possible, but as soon as they did the light went out. It was then that they made out an object about 60 m away from them, dark in color and lenticular in shape, estimated diameter of 10 m, height of 5 m, seeming to be suspended 2 m above the ground. It looked like two plates joined by their edges and separated by a slightly darker line of section. Suddenly, without a sound, from the center of the lower part of the object a column with a platform descended and touched the ground. On this part, the witnesses thought they could make out the presence of small figures. One of these beings raised its arm and a bluish light beam was projected in a circle that reached the witnesses. Immediately, without knowing if it was fear or the action of this new light, the two military personnel felt a sensation of cold. Soon the beam went out, the platform went back up and a few seconds later sparks of various colors shot out from underneath the craft. The witnesses then had the impression that the two plates were spinning in opposite directions. Immediately the object was surrounded by an intense white light and it disappeared, moving away at great speed. (July 25, 1938)", + "location": "SPAIN, Guadalajara", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 254", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_948" + }, + { + "date": "End of 1938", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the small single-seater fighter I.A.R. 80 with a wingspan of 10m and a length of 8.16m, maximum speed 550 km/h, operational ceiling 10500m, 950 km range. 250 of these aircraft were built, half of which survived until 1949. (1938, end of year)", + "location": "ITALY,", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_949" + }, + { + "date": "10/30/1938", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Actor Orson Welles reads and tells on the radio the drama \"The War of the Worlds\" based on the book by H.G. Wells. It was a total success: for many listeners the imaginary piece became a reality and in panic thousands of Americans fled their homes out of fear of the invasion of extraterrestrials.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_950" + }, + { + "date": "Autumn 1938", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two people reportedly saw at this time an astonishing \"frog-man\" one meter tall, with a round head, no neck and some kind of hump on the front of the body. The mouth was only a straight slit and the eyes were very narrow, almond-shaped. The skin was olive-colored, tending towards brown, but the hands were normal. The creature moved by nodding its head up and down, while the legs seemed to hesitate to move. As soon as it felt pursued, the thing accelerated so quickly that its feet became invisible. After 100 m of running, this creature completely disappeared. (1938, Autumn (or 1939))", + "location": "ESTONIA, Juminda", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 254", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_951" + }, + { + "date": "1938", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In England, an inventor, Harry Grindell Matthews, proposed rockets capable of \"launching an aerial minefield in the sky around London and other cities.\" He envisaged 76 mm rockets, 3.50m to 4.50m long with gyroscopic stabilizer and fins. At a predetermined altitude they were to launch a series of parachutes to each of which would be suspended 300 m of metal wire intended to entangle in the propellers of attacking aircraft. This project was not carried out.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "\"Assault on Space\" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_952" + }, + { + "date": "1938", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The boy Bonifacio is said to have met several times at the top of a mountain, a \"lady\". On the day and time set by her for the meeting, small things were seen falling from above, which flew away in the wind. It looked like snow. People ran to catch it, but it disappeared between their fingers. (1938,)", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Baiao (Alto Duro)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 55 - 1981, p. 5", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_953" + }, + { + "date": "1/1939", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the long-range escort aircraft (at first) Kawasaki KI-45 Toryu, 540 km/h, ceiling 10000m, range 2000 km.", + "location": "JAPAN", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_954" + }, + { + "date": "Spring 1939", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The British War Office was preparing a serious war machine which proved to be among the most effective weapons of the war and whose secret was not revealed until 1944. This first rocket was developed after seven years of experimentation by Dr. Alwyn Douglas Crow, director of ballistic research at the Woolwich Arsenal. His tests were carried out in Jamaica. Modestly called UP (Non-Rotating Projectile) it was ready just in time for the Blitz of the summer and autumn of 1940. About 1.20m long and 76mm in diameter, they had the explosive power of an anti-aircraft shell of 94mm. Propelled by a tubular charge of cordite pellets, they were fired in salvos of six, by means of a crude launching device called the \"Z Gun\" or \"Mattress\" (1939, Spring)", + "location": "JAMAICA", + "ref": [ + "\"Assault on Space\" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 38, 39", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_955" + }, + { + "date": "8/27/1939", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Since April 1936 working on the construction of a reactor (...) the test flight, at the factory, of this first German reaction aircraft, the HE 178, took place on ASugust 27. The aircraft was only for experimental purposes.", + "location": "GERMANY, Rostock", + "ref": [ + "\"Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" -Hans K. Kaiser, Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 117, 118", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_956" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1939", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A most strange event occurred in the city of Essen. At rush hour, all that was electric or mechanical stopped - cars, buses, trams, motorcycles, clocks. (...) At the most anxious moment of this stoppage which lasted ten minutes, no car could give the slightest honk. (1939, Summer)", + "location": "Germany, Essen", + "ref": [ + "Leonard STRINGFIELD: \"General UFO Alert\" ed. France - Empire, 1978, p. 105", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_957" + }, + { + "date": "Late Summer 1939", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A military transport was leaving the San Diego (California) airbase for a routine flight to Honolulu. Three hours later, various distress calls from the plane were received, then silence. Later the plane was found, having made a forced landing. When the base personnel entered the aircraft, they found the crew dead, including the pilot (having survived long enough to land). Author KEEL continues: \"each body showed large gaping wounds and those who touched the outside of the plane were affected by a mysterious skin infection. One of the most unusual aspects was that the charges of the 45 automatic weapons were missing, and the shells were found on the ground. An odor of rotten eggs pervaded the plane. [note from vog: wow! so many shells fired plus the smell of some corpses... Jerome Clark and John Keel, inspired by an old fiction story in a 1939 magazine to establish this incredible story... Flying Saucer Review] (1939, late summer)", + "location": "USA, San Diego (California)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_958" + }, + { + "date": "11/10/1939", + "desc": "(Translated from French) After the fall of Nanking, a regiment of three thousand men commanded by Colonel Li Fu Sien was sent to stop the advance of the Japanese. The regiment completely disappeared and its radios stopped transmitting. Weapons and traces of campfires were found.", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "Jacques BERGIER: \"Les E.T. dans l'Histoire\" - J'AI LU- 1970 - p. 151, 152", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_959" + }, + { + "date": "Autumn 1939 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Berit Clemmensen and Dagveig Berntsen - both aged 12 to 13 at the time - were walking home together on a dark and damp evening. A strange light illuminated the area around them for a few seconds. It was a peculiar light, unlike any they had seen before. They felt as if they were \"trapped\" in the light and could not determine its source or from which direction it was coming. They were both excited and scared, but the phenomenon did not last long. They remember that it was raining and there was a kind of fog. (1939 (1940?) Autumn)", + "location": "NORWAY, Roskeland/Osteroy", + "ref": [ + "UFO, 1/1992, 11; 2/1992, 9. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_960" + }, + { + "date": "1939", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An English tourist visiting near Wu T'ai, a sacred Chinese mountain near the Himalayas, observed a formation of luminous balls in the sky. John Blofeld saw countless fiery spheres moving a few tens of meters away from him. The inhabitants of the region were not particularly surprised, as such phenomena occurred relatively frequently in the country, most often between midnight and 2:00 a.m.", + "location": "CHINA, Wu T'ai", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p. 256", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_961" + }, + { + "date": "1939 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) German engineer Andreas Epp declares: \"I absolutely do not believe in the 'saucers' that come to us from Mars or Venus, but on the other hand, I believe in mine, those that I have built myself, or those that I intend to build. (...) The idea of making engines resembling two overlapping plates, the hollow part inside - was exploited by the military aeronautical offices. (...) Italian, Russian, German, and English technicians built kinds of bombs launched by means of special catapults. These weapons appeared during the Spanish Civil War. They were quickly stopped using because of the lack of precision of their shots. (...) Andreas Epp imagined a plate with eight propellers for suspension and two jet engines for flight, while Schriever and Habermohl built a vehicle consisting of a central pilot cabin, surrounded by a wide and flat ring. This ring rotated at a fantastic speed. It was made up of segments to which the desired inclination was given by maneuvering the device. Miethe and Belluzo invented flying saucers 42 meters in diameter, the edges of which were equipped with adjustable reactors. [continued on February 14, 1945 - Prague] [invention that all this, there were no more German saucers than Congolese rockets...] (1939-1940?)", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Peter KOLOSIMO: \"Shadows on the Stars\" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 323, 324", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_962" + }, + { + "date": "1939", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First flight of the Petlyakov PE-2, attack bomber, speed 504 km/h, ceiling 8800 m range with normal load of 830kg of armament 1200 KM.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, Author Bill Gunston, Edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_963" + }, + { + "date": "1939", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1939 the USSR attempted to launch liquid-fueled rockets. These rockets had two stages.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 11", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_964" + }, + { + "date": "1939", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In his book Dana Howard claims to have had a first sighting (of the Venusian extraterrestrial: Diane) in 1939. [followed in 1953, USA, unspecified location]", + "location": "USA, unspecified location", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 78", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_965" + }, + { + "date": "1940", + "desc": "(Translated from French) M. B. was awoken by an intense light that illuminated his room. Going to the window, he saw a luminous globe moving slowly and silently to the north of the village. The size of a full moon, the object then moved in various directions, stopping from time to time. The inside of the globe was dotted with multicolored luminous points. It remained visible for about half an hour.", + "location": "FRANCE, Toulx-Sainte-Croix (Creuse)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p.257", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_966" + }, + { + "date": "1/8/1940", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Note from vog: brief summary) L. Hormidas and Damase Landry were around 2:30 in the afternoon and -60° Fahrenheit on an expedition, snowshoeing through the snow. First they saw a nearly white wolf come out of the pine forest, the wolf stopped and sat on the snow looking at the pine forest from where it came. It was less than 35 meters away from the witnesses. Six small men, all the same, dressed in dark green, with slanted eyes and yellowish faces, came out of the woods. The wolf was bristling. The small men didn't seem to see the witnesses. They turned towards the wolf and pointed at it. They spoke very quickly among themselves. One of them advanced, up to a few feet from the wolf, raised his hand while pronouncing words. The wolf threw itself at the small man and tore him apart: limbs, entrails, all of it fell on the snow. No steam or vapor rose from the killed being, the 5 survivors didn't move and watched. Their breath didn't make any vapor either. Damase threw a dead branch towards the wolf which left howling. One of the small men took out a kind of bag from his clothing and started to gather the scattered pieces of the small creature killed. L. Hormidas, unable to take it anymore, vomited from disgust. The 5 small men left towards the pine forest. The two witnesses put on their snowshoes and followed them. It was easy: they left very small marks in the snow. They arrived at a big hollow in the ground, free of snow, and the tracks stopped there. On their way back to the scene of the drama, Damase found a small gelatinous rubber piece of the same color as the creatures' clothing. He wanted to give a piece to Hormidas, but he was unable to, even with an axe, cut it in two. (1940, January 8th to 10th)", + "location": "Canada, near Lake Abitibi", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Enigmes du temps présent\" éd. Leméac, Ottawa, 19 79, p. 75 à 82", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_967" + }, + { + "date": "5/16/1940", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. and Mrs. Delsa, ambulance drivers, returning from a mission, in an ambulance, were driving along Quai St Léonard at around 2:00 a.m. \"The night was dark, the blackout being in effect. That's when I saw in the sky a luminous shape like two overturned plates, very large, followed by a long tail of fire. The object must have been about 300 meters high and its diameter was twice that of the full moon. Seeing this thing rushing straight towards us, I screamed in fear and asked my husband to accelerate. At that moment the object deviated from its trajectory, the trail disappeared and it seemed to pause. I didn't know what to think anymore, I was trembling all over. The phenomenon soon resumed its initial trajectory and the luminous trail reappeared. It disappeared in the south, towards the center of Liège. My husband had stopped the ambulance to try to calm me down because I had started to cry out of fear. I beg you to believe that that night I did not close my eyes.\" (May 16, 1940)", + "location": "BELGIUM, Liège", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p.257-258", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_968" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1940", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the middle of the afternoon, a 15 year old boy was going to the watering hole with some cows, when he suddenly saw three curious characters advancing from the northeast. They were dressed in a dark green one-piece suit that even covered their neck and a good part of their face. The face seemed to be protected by a glass plate. From the shoulders to the feet there were two thick bulges of about ten centimeters. The three beings were of normal size but they were progressing by slightly swinging their arms in the manner of robots, the witness specified. At about thirty meters from the young Dane, they suddenly turned south and disappeared behind a hill. Our witness then rushed to this place and saw a shiny hemispherical object on the ground: near him, the three characters. Suddenly, without seeing any door open, the witness noticed that these characters had disappeared. The object emitted a sharp whistle like the one produced by quickly spinning a metal rod at high speed. The UFO rose slowly and after 6 to 7 seconds it took the direction of the southeast where it disappeared. (1940, Summer)", + "location": "DENMARK, Jutland", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p.258", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_969" + }, + { + "date": "1940", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Walter and William Gunn were observing at around 10:30 PM, a luminous object rising from a hill about 350 m away from them. With an apparent size equivalent to a full moon, this body seemed to be the lower part of a much larger dark mass on which two or three small lights were also visible. With a regular noise, it rose at an estimated speed of 80 km/h above the witnesses, brightly illuminated some nearby barns and disappeared between the mountain peaks.", + "location": "CANADA, Dalesville (Québec)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p.259", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_970" + }, + { + "date": "1940", + "desc": "(Translated from French) M. Bracoval was suddenly woken from his sleep in the middle of the night. More than two thousand people in the bush were thus awakened by the noise that echoed for 60 km around. For the next half hour, it was as bright as day. What is more curious is that all the clocks and watches stopped at the precise time of the phenomenon and many of them never worked correctly again. The next day, bush runners were dispatched, but nothing abnormal was detected. (November/December 1940)", + "location": "ZAIRE (then Belgian Congo), Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977 - p.259", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_971" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1940", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Edvardsen and her friend saw 3-4 luminous objects in the sky to the northeast. It was late afternoon on a summer day. These objects were as big as barns, and moved like flying insects. Their color was described as that of the head of a lit cigarette. The distance of the witnesses from the phenomenon was about 300 to 400 meters. (1940, Summer)", + "location": "NORWAY, Sandefjord", + "ref": [ + "Letter from Arne Foss, 22 Oct 1977. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_972" + }, + { + "date": "1940", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Author: Warren P. Aston) Case Udo Wartena, unpublished until 1997. Landing of a large vessel and conversation of two hours with humanoid beings explaining their mission, personal details, the propulsion system capable of going faster than light.", + "location": "USA, Montana", + "ref": [ + "Mufon Ufo Journal n° 353, p. 16, Sept. 97", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_973" + }, + { + "date": "2/1941", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A nurse went to an isolated village to treat a man who had been shot in the leg. While she was treating the wound, two men appeared, dressed in white robes as if they had come from a theater scene, and assisted her. When she looked up to thank them, they had disappeared. Several Aborigines witnessed this phenomenon.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Wearyan River", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 309", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_974" + }, + { + "date": "6/22/1941", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The propaganda staffel reported that the Nebelwerfer Batteries (smoke launchers) had fired 800,000 rocket-shells in the first twenty minutes of the German attack on Russia. However, the advance guard tanks which had reached the terminals of the Moscow Tramways were crushed under a prodigious deluge of rocket-shells from the \"Stalin Organs\".", + "location": "GERMANY-RUSSIA", + "ref": [ + "\"Assault on Space\" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 41", + "Rocket launchers = multi-tube howitzers.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_975" + }, + { + "date": "Spring 1941", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The beginning of the story of contactee Arthur Matthews, born in 1892, who met Nicola Tesla in the city of Quebec, on St Joachim Street. The extraterrestrials chose him as a friend of Tesla to visit him and take him to their planet. This happened every two years until 1961. (...) (1941, Spring)", + "location": "Canada, Lac Beauport, Quebec", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Enigmes du temps présent\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1979, pp.107-115", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_976" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1941", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Irene Skram and her cousin, and independently the husband of the cousin and a friend, saw a silver disc around 11 o'clock in the morning, while the whole company was outside, admiring the plantations. The disc was rising from the ground to 300 m from the witnesses, to the northeast of their position. Turning slowly on itself, it was rising gently up to about 100 m, altitude from which it seemed to descend again somewhat. It was followed by three opaque trails in the shape of a thin spiral.

These things were falling towards the ground, detaching themselves from the disc. The two women then saw the disc disappear. But the two men, being at another point of the property, were heading towards the place where the \"trails\" had fallen, at about a hundred meters from the house. They found at this place, only three heather cocks, stunned, but still alive. Knowing that their neighbors were raising birds, they went to ask if they were missing three? It was the case. The witnesses did not talk about the flying saucer with the neighbors. The saucer had been seen for about two minutes, it seemed to have 10 m in diameter. The \"trails\" each had a length of about 12 to 15 meters, and were separated from each other by 5 to 6 meters. (1941 (or 1942) Summer)", + "location": "NORWAY, Maroy/Nordhordland", + "ref": [ + "Ole Jonny Brænne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_977" + }, + { + "date": "Autumn 1941", + "desc": "(Translated from French) People had gone to the cinema. The evening was calm, the sky clear and well starred. Suddenly they saw a luminous phenomenon to the west, flying towards the northwest, at very high speed. The phenomenon looked like a huge ball of fire and at first, they thought it was a bolide. But then, the phenomenon slowed down and seemed to hover above Osterfjorden - in reality, from their position, the witnesses overlooked the phenomenon and saw it below them. It was visible for about half a minute, no sound was heard. [note from vog: Peenemunde is not so far away, is it?] (1941, Autumn)", + "location": "NORWAY, Skar/Osteroy", + "ref": [ + "UFO, 2/1992, 9. Listing of Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_978" + }, + { + "date": "1941", + "desc": "(Translated from French) They found footprints of mountaineers that mysteriously stopped in the center of a triangle of 13 m side formed by three holes in the snow.", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Alps", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p.259", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_979" + }, + { + "date": "1941", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Concepcion Cuenca, widow of Contador from Seville, was 13 years old in 1941. Walking with her father and brother on the road between Belmez and Valsequillo at 5 o'clock in the morning, they were suddenly illuminated by a light that seemed to be in the air. The intensity and brightness exceeded anything she had seen as light since. The phenomenon lasted only a second in total. All three intrigued, yet none made any comment as they continued on their way.", + "location": "Spain, between Belmez and Valsequillo (Cordoba)", + "ref": [ + "investigation by Ignacio Benvenuty Cabral, Seville", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_980" + }, + { + "date": "1941", + "desc": "(Translated from French) German aviator Hannah Reisch saw a UFO flying at an altitude of 20,000 meters while she was on a test flight with an aircraft that would become the future Messerschmitt 163 Komet.", + "location": "Germany", + "ref": [ + "A CENTURY OF UFO's - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_981" + }, + { + "date": "1941", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Austrian inventor, Victor Schauberger, who lived from 1885 to 1958, is said to have built the first saucers for the Third Reich. The first models had a diameter of 1.50 m and weighed 135 kg. More advanced models followed, with a saucer designed for a crew of three as early as 1945-1946. At the liberation (end of the Second World War), the Americans seized both the work and the person of Schauberger, who was forced to work on a military base in Texas until his death. [note from vog: this is what is called voluntary and anonymous disinformation] (1941-1942)", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Nazi Flying Saucers - no named author - document on the Internet in 1996", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_982" + }, + { + "date": "2/25/1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At precisely 2:00 am, diners at the Trocadero Club in Hollywood were surprised to see all the lights go out while sirens screamed the alarm throughout and around Los Angeles. Searchlights began to scan the sky, anti-aircraft batteries opened fire. In the following hours more than 1400 shots were fired at a single unidentified object, slowly passing through the sky. It resembled a blimp or a balloon. It was the 65th Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) Regiment from Inglewood and the 205th Anti-Aircraft Regiment from Santa Monica that were shooting. The \"cigar-shaped white\" object received some bullets, but continued its imperturbable flight towards the east. Ground observers would have counted up to 25 silver UFOs. The editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Peter Jenkins, wrote: \"I clearly saw the V-formation of 25 'silvery planes' (silver planes) slowly passing through the sky towards Long Beach.\" The Chief of Police of Long Beach, J.H. McClelland, also looked at the sky. He did not see the \"planes\" but younger people assured him that they saw them. A veteran of the army was looking through Carl Zeiss binoculars and in the beam of the searchlights, he counted nine. The objects passed from one searchlight beam to another, from one salvo to another, without flinching and continued towards Redondo Beach and Inglewood, then towards Santa Ana and Huntington Beach. \"The shots were so loud that we could not hear the sound of the engines of the 'planes'. At 2:21 a.m., Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt declared a ceasefire. (February 25, 1942)", + "location": "USA, Los Angeles", + "ref": [ + "BEYOND EARTH: MAN'S CONTACT WITH UFOs by Ralph Blum, Bantam Books, New York, April 1974, page 68. The Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and the Long Beach Press-Telegram for February 25, 1942. All newspaper quotes taken from \"The Battle of Los Angeles, 1942\" by Terrenz Sword, which appeared in Unsolved UFO Sightings, Spring 1996 issue, pages 57 through 62.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_983" + }, + { + "date": "2/26/1942 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 3:00am, the crew of the Dutch Royal Navy warship \"Tromp\" could observe \"like a large aluminum disc\" which was approaching at a great speed - estimated at 6000 km/h - of the ship, it circled around it and then moved away towards the open sea. For three hours it circled at altitude above the cruiser and finally disappeared at a very high speed. (Henry DURRANT: \"Le livre noir des S.V.\" - Laffont 1970 - p.84). (1942, February 26 (or 6?))", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, TIMOR SEA", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's, a century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 18, which places the date at 6.2.42", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_984" + }, + { + "date": "2/1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Slavomir Rawicz had just escaped from a Siberian camp with six of his companions and was trying to reach India. He crossed the Himalayas between Bhutan and Sikkim. For more than two hours the seven escapees stopped to observe two strange creatures. \"They were at least 2.50m tall; one of them was smaller (...) Their heads were rather square without apparent ears. The chest seemed powerful and the arms long reaching down to the knees. In profile, the neck fitted directly into the shoulders (...)\".", + "location": "HIMALAYAS", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids...\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p. 121, 122", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_985" + }, + { + "date": "3/14/1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Report of observation from the secret air base of Banak, addressed to the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe in Berlin. At 5:35 PM the watch post gave the alarm; the men went to their combat posts, the pilots to their aircraft. Through binoculars, the observers saw an engine approaching silently. Hauptman Fischer (an engineer in civilian life) took off in a Messerschmitt 109 (fighter) to intercept it. At 3,500 meters altitude he approached it, observed it, and gave a description by radio: it was an enormous streamlined body, without any support plane, without any visible opening; its length was about 100 meters and its diameter about 15 meters; at one end (front?) a group of rods resembling radar antennas. The aerial whale, as Captain Fischer immediately nicknamed it, maintained itself horizontally; suddenly it rose vertically at great speed and disappeared. The pilot concluded that it could not be a machine made by human hands. Report signed by Captain Fischer, countersigned by the base commander. When Hermann Goering in Berlin took cognizance of it, he concluded that the harsh solitude of the Far North had played a nasty trick on his pilot. [IN REALITY: the whole affair would be nothing but a HOAX for the needs of the author... OVNI PRESENCE, 28/Dec 1983, 30/Jun 1984. Liljegren: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF REFERENCES TO UFO INCIDENTS DURING WORLD WAR II., 1987, 8. Listing by Ole Johny Braenne]", + "location": "NORWAY, Banak (Finnmark)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"Le livre noir des S.V.\" - Laffont 1970 - p.84", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_986" + }, + { + "date": "3/25/1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Commander-pilot Roman Sobinski was returning from a bombing operation above Essen (Germany, Ruhr). Passing above the Zuiderzee north of Holland, his tail gunner signaled him an orange-colored luminous disc that was following them. After various maneuvers to get rid of it, the order was given to the gunner to shoot: several projectiles seemed to penetrate the luminous circle, but without result, although the object was at a good range (about 150 m). Finally, the flying disc disappeared at great speed.", + "location": "NETHERLANDS, above the Zuiderzee", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970 - p.76", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_987" + }, + { + "date": "4/4/1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One fine morning, the weather station's sub-officer observed an object directly above him, like a small, bright point of aluminum white. About forty people were able to observe the phenomenon. One of the witnesses recounts: \"Observed more precisely with our field binoculars and with the theodolite's telescope, the \"planet\" looked like a small moon or a five franc coin. It had pale, metal white reflections and seemed to be suspended at an altitude of 5 to 6000 m. Apparently it stayed still, but a prolonged examination with the theodolite revealed that it was moving in a slow rotation: we were thus able to observe three rotations in eight hours. The next morning it was still there, always directly above us and we began to get used to it, thinking it was some lost star or a new satellite captured by the Earth's attraction. At dawn of the third day, everything had disappeared...\" (the author cites Aimé Michel:", + "location": "ALGERIA, Ouallen (Adrar-En-Ahmet)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977- p.260-261", + "\"Glimpses of Flying Saucers\" - Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME 1954, pages 122, 123", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_988" + }, + { + "date": "1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of a V-2 No. 1, inert model.", + "location": "GERMANY, Peenemunde", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_989" + }, + { + "date": "1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of V-2 No. 8, for training of the team.", + "location": "GERMANY, Peenemunde", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_990" + }, + { + "date": "6/13/1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first ascent of an \"A4\" (\"V-2\"). 14 meters long, diameter of 1.75m, 1000 kilograms of explosives, 3000 kilograms of fuel in the upper tank, 6000 kilograms of liquid oxygen in the lower tank, turbo pump running at 4000 revolutions for a power of 500 to 600 HP, total weight 12,000 kg, launch engine with a thrust of 12,000 kg. The rocket, slightly oscillating, rose up and disappeared into the low cloud layer. For several seconds more the roar of the rocket engine was heard. Then suddenly it stopped and a few moments later the rocket reappeared, without tailfins, swaying horizontally, after which it sank into the sea with a terrific explosion.", + "location": "GERMANY, Peenemunde Island", + "ref": [ + "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" -Hans K. Kaiser, Amiot-Dumont 1954, pp. 100 to 108", + "Following on from August 16, 1942", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_991" + }, + { + "date": "Late 6/1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Or early July (or 1943). On this day it was hot and Mr. and Mrs. Bonardi had taken the afternoon to rest not far from a wheat field where some peasants were busy. Around 4:00 pm, the witnesses suddenly had their attention drawn to a bright light filtering through the foliage of the undergrowth. At the same time they felt a wave of heat. Soon an oval object of dark blue color topped with a dome of silver gray like aluminum appeared. On the dome there were two vertical tubes, in the center of which a more slender antenna could be distinguished. The witnesses clearly saw portholes and a tripod arranged at the base of the object. Astonished by the appearance, the peasants stopped working. The object was then about fifty meters from the Bonardi, hovering a few tens of cm above the ground while emitting a fan noise while turning on itself. Suddenly lights came out of the portholes at a regular rhythm: \"as if they were sending us Morse code\" said the witnesses. When they were about twenty meters from the strange object, Mrs. Bonardi heard a muffled sound, like murmurs of conversation. The peasants were getting more and more agitated. The UFO continued its slow course at the edge of the grass, then suddenly it took off vertically and disappeared into the sky. At the place of the almost landing a circle of about 1.50 m in diameter was found, where the grass was trampled in all directions. The object must have had dimensions between 2 m and 2.50 m. The duration of the observation was 6 to 10 minutes. [note from vog: I would almost put my hand in the fire that it was a helicopter...] (1942, late June)", + "location": "FRANCE, Cussey-sur-l'Ognon (Haute-Saône)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p.261-262", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_992" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (After the Japanese attack of February 19th 1942.) A major of the Royal Australian Air Force noted in his report: \"We were given orders, after the Japanese attack on Darwin, to patrol the Bass Strait where fishermen had reported mysterious nocturnal lights. At around 5:50 PM, at the very beginning of twilight, we were flying a few kilometers east of the Tasmanian peninsula, when suddenly, from a bank of clouds, a strange craft emerged. It was bronze and shining and must have been 45 meters long and 15 meters in diameter. There was something like a beak or a spur at the front and the surface of the object seemed to vibrate. At the top there was a dome or a cupola from which flashes of blue and green light emerged. The other end of the craft ended in a fin. It circled around us, turning very sharply, and I was then surprised to see, at the front of the dome, a white circle inside of which I thought I recognized the image of a grimacing cat. (note of vog: in my opinion, this story should be taken with a grain of salt. The pilot must have known, for example, the Martin Marauder, Martin Mariner and other planes - which had emblems - shark heads, cats and others, on their noses... ) Then this damned craft flew parallel to us for a few minutes. It then suddenly made a U-turn, presenting four fins on its ventral side. It left at an incredible speed and plunged into the Pacific, disappearing under the water which was stirred by regular waves. As if it were a submarine! No, it is not possible that the Japanese could have such craft, nobody could have built such a mysterious amphibious bird!\". (1942, Summer)", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Tasmania", + "ref": [ + "See FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED by Harold T. Wilkins, Citadel Press, New York, NY 1955, pages 224-255.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_993" + }, + { + "date": "8/12/1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 10 in the morning, with a beautiful sky containing high altitude fluffy clouds, Stephen J. Brickner, Sergeant of the Marine Division, was cleaning his rifle when the alarm was sounded. He immediately entered his foxhole sitting, facing the sky. He heard the formation before he saw it, but did not recognize the sound which resembled some kind of echo in the air. A few seconds later the formation of silver objects passed overhead. The sergeant was very excited, it was only his fifth day at the front in the war against the Japanese and he immediately thought that they were Japanese planes. It was a formation of 150 flying objects not in a V formation, but in straight lines of 10 or 12 objects, one behind the other, their speed slightly higher than that of the usual Japanese planes. This formation quickly disappeared out of sight. None of these objects had wings or a tail and they seemed to sway slowly, shining in the sun like silver.", + "location": "Tulagi Island (Solomon Islands) west of Guadalcanal", + "ref": [ + "Jeroen Wierda - Pufori - The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII - 19.5.1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_994" + }, + { + "date": "8/16/1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. June 13, 1942) At the second launch, in very clear weather, the ascending trajectory of the A4 could be clearly followed up to several kilometers in altitude. But this test failed prematurely. The horizontal range was 10 kilometers.", + "location": "Germany, Peenemunde", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" -Hans K. Kaiser, Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 108", + "Following October 3, 1942", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_995" + }, + { + "date": "9/1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (end of summer) Albert Lancashire was on guard near the radar post. The night was dark and the soldier was standing in front of his guardhouse about thirty meters from the sea. Suddenly a light lit up in the sky at 100 meters altitude and began to move above the water. All around there was a dark cloud and Albert Lancashire wondered what the Germans had invented again. He immediately went back into his guardhouse to try to observe without being spotted. The yellow light seemed to roll over itself. Soon a second light appeared less than a meter above the witness's head. That's when the story becomes \"incoherent\". Albert Lancashire followed a kind of beam of light and found himself on board an aerial vessel. There he met a crew of people with a human appearance whose captain had jet black hair and wore thick glasses. The witness was invited to lie down on a table above which shone a very soft blue light. He saw one of these beings dressed like a doctor approach him with a smile. Lancashire remains convinced that he must have undergone some medical examination at that moment, but he no longer remembers the details of the events. All he remembers is that he found himself back in his guardhouse shortly after.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Newbiggin-on-Sea (Northumberland)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p.262-263", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_996" + }, + { + "date": "10/3/1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. August 16, 1942) The rocket that would become the V-2 was officially born this day. Indeed, today was the final test. It presented itself as a steel rod, 14 meters long and 12 tons in weight. Propulsion was obtained not by the ignition of powder, but by that of alcohol mixed with liquid oxygen. The nozzle was fed by a complex system of pumps and turbines, and the rocket, guided on its trajectory by an equally complex set of gyroscopes and electronic devices. This day it rose to an altitude of 92,000 meters before falling 192 km from its point of departure (\"Astronautics\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 12). Meanwhile, series production was also undertaken, which in the end amounted to around 400 examples per month in the underground factory of \"Mittelwerk\" in Niedersachswerfen near Nordhausen. (...) In the autumn of 1942 two examples of the other rocket (Rheinbote, test model of 800 kilos) were dropped from an airplane at 6,000 m altitude and then automatically directed during their flat flight; the A9, which was to result from these tests (failed) did not reach the stage of its realization.", + "location": "Germany, Peenemunde Island", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 109 to 113", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_997" + }, + { + "date": "10/1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 8:50 PM, James L. Toft and another person were able to observe a fusiform object topped with a dome. It was equipped with lights at each end and seemed to be heading towards the ground. At the presumed landing site, a circular charred surface and footprints were found.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Radway Green (Cheshire)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 263", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_998" + }, + { + "date": "11/9/1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 6, TEST, RANGE 14 KM, VERTICAL, HEIGHT 67 KM.", + "location": "GERMANY, Peenemunde", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_999" + }, + { + "date": "Mid 11/1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the middle of the afternoon, 4:00 PM, Adriano Paris, a librarian, was observing along with other witnesses an object the size of a bicycle wheel in the sky of Bergamo. The UFO was not luminous but it emitted an infernal noise. It moved in a zigzag above the city and disappeared towards the village of Seriate 5 km away. On the cloudy sky, the witness clearly saw two pincers at the front of the object. (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 263) Adriano and D. Paris were walking in one of the streets of the old city, when they observed a strange flying object, a few centimeters above the ground, passing along the sidewalk in the street at great speed and causing panic among the pedestrians. The thing was round and flat, in the shape of a pincer head and it flew in undulating motion. It seemed to come from the center and head east, disappearing from their view at the end of the street. On the same date there were other observers of the same kind of phenomenon. (1942, towards mid-November)", + "location": "ITALY, Bergamo", + "ref": [ + "CISU, archives dossier 4201 - sources Ufo in Italia I, 73, GDM 10, 114, 8 and Ufo Info 12, 48, 17", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1000" + }, + { + "date": "11/1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) C.J.J. (known identity of Leonard Stringfield) was a member of a squadron patrolling the bay as part of submarine defense. The rear gunner, in the plane, suddenly saw a massive, wingless object appear behind the plane. He alerted the crew, as well as C.J.J. who was in the turret. The thing was visible for 15 minutes and Sergeant M.F.B. took photos of it with a K-20 camera. The object gained altitude, made an abrupt 180° turn and disappeared. Only one of the photos was successful and according to C.J.J. it was clear and perfect. To this day, this photo remains classified top secret.", + "location": "At sea, Gulf of Biscay", + "ref": [ + "Jeroen Wierda - Pufori - The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII - 19.5.1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1001" + }, + { + "date": "1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An object like a flame moved horizontally near the Prentov bridge which spans the Koselska river. A certain Péro Krstanovski who was returning from Bitolj to Ohrid at that time, suddenly saw his team of horses become agitated at the appearance of the phenomenon. As soon as it disappeared, the horses regained their calm.", + "location": "YUGOSLAVIA, Rasanac", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 263-264", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1002" + }, + { + "date": "1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Sergeant Dick Wylie saw a bright object dive into the sea and reappear ten minutes later.", + "location": "USA, South Coast, on a small island offshore", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 264", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1003" + }, + { + "date": "1942", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. 1932, High Bridge - same person) In Juarez Menger meets a man with blond hair, who presents himself as \"from his People\". Then he sees a man in khaki uniform, who tells him he will have many extraterrestrial contacts (Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, Janar 1998) Howard Menger is doing his military service. He sees UFOs in the sky, then is approached successively by two men, one of whom is military. They declare to him, like the woman met in 1932, that they come from another planet whose inhabitants formerly gave to the Aztecs secrets, lost with their civilization, concerning the use of sound and light.", + "location": "USA-MEXICO: Juarez", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"L'énigme des E.T.\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 145, 146", + "continued 1944", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1004" + }, + { + "date": "1/25/1943", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 11, TEST, RANGE 105 KM, TOO STEEP RANGE, ROLLING.", + "location": "GERMANY, Peenemunde", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1005" + }, + { + "date": "2/17/1943", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF V2 No. 12, TEST, RANGE 196 KM, RANGE TOO LOW.", + "location": "GERMANY, Peenemunde", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1006" + }, + { + "date": "3/18/1943", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 18, TEST, RANGE 135 KM, TOO STEEP RANGE, ROTATION", + "location": "GERMANY, Peenemunde", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1007" + }, + { + "date": "5/14/1943", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 22, TEST, RANGE 250 KM, FAULTY STOP SWITCH.", + "location": "Germany, Peenemunde", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1008" + }, + { + "date": "5/26/1943", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 25, TEST, RANGE 27 KM, COMBUSTION STOPPED AFTER 40 SECONDS. LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 26, TEST, RANGE 265 KM. ALSO LAUNCH OF F1-103 (V1) TEST, SHORT BALLISTIC SHOT, CRASH", + "location": "GERMANY, Peenemunde", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 227, and Walter Domberger", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1009" + }, + { + "date": "5/27/1943", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 24, TEST, RANGE 138 KM.", + "location": "GERMANY, Peenemunde", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1010" + }, + { + "date": "6/11/1943", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 29, TEST, RANGE 238 KM.", + "location": "GERMANY, Peenemunde", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1011" + }, + { + "date": "6/29/1943", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 38, TEST, RANGE 3 KM, FALL ON AIRFIELD. LAUNCH ALSO OF V2 NO. 40, TEST, RANGE 236 KM, IMPACT NOT OBSERVED", + "location": "GERMANY, Peenemunde", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1012" + }, + { + "date": "6/1943", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One afternoon, at 3 or 4 o'clock, it was very nice, no clouds in the sky. Having heard a buzzing, we thought that enemy planes (Japanese) were flying over our depot. We went out to see. In the sky, we saw a square object reflecting the sunlight falling. We thought that this object had been dropped by an airplane, but we saw no plane in the air. The buzzing was getting closer and stronger, and the square object was also getting bigger and brighter. (...) It was 1000 m from the ground and remained suspended for a certain time. We clearly saw that the lower part of this square was flat. Each side measured more than a third of a meter/ The height of the object was about 10 cm. (...) No wing, no rudder, no propeller. The object was made of one piece, without opening or porthole. After a moment of suspension in the air, it began to rise straight up into the sky. The noise diminished as it rose. Finally there was only a bright spot (...) My observation lasted almost two hours. (1943, June or July)", + "location": "CHINA, Kuangsi-Guishou", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.81, 82", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1013" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1943", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Delmeire, 41 years old at the time: \"I was coming back from work which ended at 7 pm and I remember it was still light. For more than a minute I saw a very bright, red and round object with a shape of a beer barrel. It had an apparent diameter of one meter. It passed about 1 km from me at an altitude of about twenty meters. At first I thought it was an airplane, but it made no noise. As it passed near the roofs it lit them up with an intense light. It left in the direction of Courtrai, towards Wevelgem (1943, Summer)", + "location": "BELGIUM, Herseaux (French-Belgian border)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 264", + "West Flanders", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1014" + }, + { + "date": "8/1943 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) J.V. and his friend, then aged 12 or 13, were looking for shells (after an air attack, while the adults were still in the shelters) and saw a silent and circular object descending to a hundred meters in altitude and 500 or 600 meters away from them. They ran towards the thing, but the fear of being \"shot down\" (it was war) made them stop at some distance. Meanwhile, the object that seemed to be on the ground (hidden by a fold in the terrain) rose vertically, silently and in a fraction of second it was at 1000 meters altitude. There, at this altitude, were 6 or 7 other balls, the size of a fist held out, which seemed to be waiting for the object that had descended. Together they then disappeared at a higher altitude. More than 50 years later, the witnesses are still stunned by the silence and speed of these objects. Their color was a dirty gray, their diameter 8 to 10 meters, the total height 2 meters, of which 1 meter for the rounded upper part. (1943, August (supposed date))", + "location": "BELGIUM, between Valmeer and Z.Z. Bolder (Limburg)", + "ref": [ + "personal doc. of vog - identities of the witnesses known", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1015" + }, + { + "date": "8/15/1943", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Alias Carlos Allende: The Mystery Man Behind the Philadelphia Experiment The key figure in the bizarre saga of the Philadelphia Experiment is a man known as Carlos Allende, who claimed to witness the teleportation of the USS Eldridge at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on August 15, 1943. Allende reported his experiences to a UFO book author, and his story became one of the most popular unexplained legends of the 20th century. But who was Carlos Allende? ParaScope is pleased to present this classic article from FATE Magazine, in which Robert A. Goerman revealed the elusive individual to be Carl Allen, a \"master leg-puller\" from Pennsylvania who single-handedly fabricated the Philadelphia Experiment myth. (in brief: the affair was invented by the author Carl Allen, or Carlos Allende (his pseudonym) and the Philadelphia teleportation affair never took place) First 'Philadelphia Experiment' Crew Reunion 'It Never Happened' By Lacy McCrary The truth is out here. It is in a hospitality room of a boardwalk hotel, with some old salts sitting around white-clothed tables laughing at reports that their ship was involved in a top-secret World War II experiment. Sailors who served on the USS Eldridge, the ship that legend says vanished briefly in 1943 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, met here this week for their first reunion in 53 years and spent part of their time joking about the so-called Philadelphia Experiment. The Eldridge, they said yesterday, may well have been invisible to Philadelphia because it was never in Philadelphia. The ship's log and several veterans who were on the ship from its launching on July 25, 1943, at Port Newark, N.J., say it called on many East Coast ports, but never Philadelphia. Two movies, two books and several Web sites have kept the myth about the Eldridge alive. As the story goes, the destroyer escort was surrounded by a greenish fog, disappeared for a few minutes, then reappeared. But none of the veterans believes it. (…) The legend says the ship became invisible on July 22, 1943, but ship records and the veterans say it was not launched until July 25. The second experiment, in which the Eldridge was sent to Norfolk and back to Philadelphia, was supposed to have occurred on October 28, 1943. The ship's log says it was at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on that date, but did spend two days in the Norfolk Navy Yard in November 1943.", + "location": "The Philadelphia Teleportation Affair", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1016" + }, + { + "date": "9/1943", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was very early, 04:00 this morning when René Navarro Ocampo was driving in his car on the road from Rosario to Cordoba. As he passed near Oncativa he suddenly saw an object on the road about 500 m from his vehicle. The object looked like an immense disk, wider than the road and it emitted a light of a bluish-green color. As soon as René Ocampo's car approached, the object began to whistle a bit like a fan. The disk then rose to an altitude of 1000 m and then, turning abruptly at a right angle, it disappeared quickly behind the horizon. When he arrived at the place where this object had been stationed, the witness saw in the beam of his headlights a small metallic body that sparkled on the ground. It was a kind of \"paperweight\" about 10 cm long. Curiously, it was cold, while the witness expected to find an object overheated by the presence of the UFO. This amazing unexpected gift was analyzed in various laboratories, but the results of these studies have not filtered down to us.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Oncativa (Laguna Larga)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 264", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1017" + }, + { + "date": "9/1943", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A UFO with a dome flew at 5 to 8 meters above the ground. A white light was emanating from it.", + "location": "CHINA, Qing Nian (Hebei)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 322", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1018" + }, + { + "date": "9/1943", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A UFO in the shape of a disc was observed near Pouchkino by Spanish volunteers of the Azul Division, who were fighting with the Germans on the German-Russian front. While they were in a fort, sheltered from an air battle between German and Soviet aircraft, soldiers Jésus Aria, Pas and Tomas Carbonell noticed an object discoidal that flew around the area somewhat like a spectator of an air conflict and that had to disappear at a fantastic speed. (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 265) The Spanish troops of the Azul Division saw a UFO in the shape of a \"basin\" hovering close by during the battle.", + "location": "USSR, Pouchkino", + "ref": [ + "A CENTURY OF UFO - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1019" + }, + { + "date": "10/14/1943", + "desc": "(Translated from French) As the 384th Group had just passed the Initial Point, the fighter attacks suddenly ceased. The pilots wondered, as did all the crew members, where they were now and all the men questioned later were categorical in declaring that at that moment there were no enemy aircraft above them. It was then that the pilots and the gunners of the upper turrets, as well as several men of the crews in the Plexiglas nose of the planes, reported on the route they were following like a string of saucers approaching the Fortresses. The exclamations that burst out drew general attention to this phenomenon and everyone on board the aircraft began to discuss it animatedly. The discs in question seemed to be silver, and measured three centimeters thick and nine in diameter. They were easily visible and descended slowly fluttering in a regular string. At that moment the impossible happened: B-17 No. 26 was quickly approaching one of these strings. The pilot tried to avoid hitting it, but his maneuver failed. As he declared at the debriefing, his right wing crossed this string without any effect on the engines or the aircraft body. The intelligence officers tried to learn more and he then added that he had heard one of the discs hit the tail but that no one on board had seen or heard an explosion. He also said that at about 6 meters from the discs, his men and he had seen a number of small bodies of varying sizes in a string from one meter to one meter twenty long.", + "location": "GERMANY, Schweinfurt (in flight)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 265-266", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1020" + }, + { + "date": "12/18/1943", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A report states that an object was successively reported by the bases of Helgoland, Hamburg, Wittenberg, Neustrelitz. The timing between these bases gives it an average speed of over 3,000 km/h. It was observed above Hamburg by a patrol of two Focke-Wulf 190 fighters, at 12,000 m around 11:15. The object was a cylindrical body with a nose cone at the front, a large hole at the back with a panel. It seemed to be composed of a large number of rings, whose surface seemed convex. Reported on the ground, followed for a few kilometers, it disappeared at great speed.", + "location": "GERMANY, various cities.", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"Le livre noir des S.V.\" - Laffont 1970 - p.84-85", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1021" + }, + { + "date": "12/1943", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Some friends were at the table when they saw a light appear above the port. Fearing sabotage, they rushed into their cars, in the direction of the phenomenon. At some distance from the port, the three cars stopped and could not be restarted. So they got out of the vehicles and continued on foot towards the light, which seemed to have the shape of a bell, of orange color, blurred. As they approached, the witnesses then heard a whistle, like air escaping from a compressor. A moment later the object descended to 3 to 6 meters above the water, before catapulting itself at a dizzying speed, without acceleration. At the end of the observation the object took on a color of deep blue. The four witnesses, after the disappearance of the phenomenon, discovered depressions in the snow, in the shape of craters, 4.50 m in diameter and 90 cm deep. All around these craters, the snow had melted over an area of 15 to 16 meters. (December 1943; Norway, Oslo (Oslofjörden))", + "location": "At around 10:30 pm, a secretary and three of her friends approached a small fjord. Suddenly, the engines of the cars stopped abruptly and the passengers had to continue the rest of the journey on foot. That's when they saw an orange object with blurred outlines, but resembling a church bell. There was a hissing sound and the UFO rose up, taking on a very dark blue hue. It hovered for a few moments then crossed the fjord at great speed. In the snow bordering the small lake, a depression of 1.50 m in diameter and 1 m deep was found. (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 266)", + "ref": [ + "AUSTRALIAN FLYING SAUCER REVIEW, 7/1968. Phillips: PHYSICAL TRACES ASSOCIATED WITH UFO SIGHTINGS., 1975, 5. RAPPORTNYTT, 4/1979, 4-5. Bertelsen: UFO-80., 1980, 66. Liljegren: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF REFERENCES TO UFO INCIDENTS DURING WORLD WAR II., 1987, 11. Listing of Ole Johnny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1022" + }, + { + "date": "1943", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Miss Vandevoorde, a nurse, was leaving the Tombeek sanatorium during the day to enter the Rosière wood. From a clear spot, she saw an aerial object coming from the direction of Brussels, having the shape of a priest's hat. It was moving quickly, going up and down as if it was looking for something. The disc was topped with a dome shining like aluminium. When it was closer, it appeared as big as two full moons. Below it, 4 white lights side by side, and she heard a faint buzzing. It was moving away towards the town of Wavre", + "location": "BELGIUM, Tombeek (Brabant)", + "ref": [ + "J.G. DOHMEN: \"To Identify and the Adamski Case\" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 155", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1023" + }, + { + "date": "1943 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One evening, around 8 o'clock, a mother and her 6-year-old child were looking out the open window to see the father returning from work. The child saw a figure coming, which seemed to float instead of walk. The mother didn't see anything. But the child, in panic, almost had a nervous breakdown when he saw the figure pass in front of the window. The mother immediately closed the shutter to calm him down. (1943, unspecified)", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Famalicao-Braga", + "ref": [ + "\"Jornal de Noticias\" - Joaquim Fernandes", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1024" + }, + { + "date": "1943", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCHES OF V2s No. 14, 15 and 17: STORAGE TESTS. LAUNCHES OF V2s No. 27, 32, 35, 37 and 39 WITH EXPERIMENTAL EQUIPMENT. (1943-1944)", + "location": "GERMANY, Peenemunde", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1025" + }, + { + "date": "1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. 1942 Juarez) Howard Menger meets a being dressed in a pink tunic, who informs him of his upcoming trip to Japan, to Okinawa. He warns him against the experience of an atomic bomb.", + "location": "USA, unspecified location", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued 1945", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1026" + }, + { + "date": "2/12/1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At Kummersdorf Test Center, the launch of an experimental rocket in the presence of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, SS Reichsführer Himmler, Heinz Kammler, SS Gruppenführer and Dr Engineer, and senior officers. The tracking camera records the departure. After development and printing of the film, demonstration and critique screening in front of the authorities. Stupefaction: a spherical body, which nobody had seen on the ground, rises at the same time as the rocket, accompanying it by spinning around it. It was thought to be a new type of enemy device and information was requested; but agents of Admiral Canaris in Great Britain reported that similar phenomena were occurring over British bases, and that the Allies believed that these were new devices coming from Germany. [note from vog: IN REALITY and to my knowledge there were no launches yet at Kummersdorf, at that date.... ]", + "location": "GERMANY, Kummersdorf", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of S.V.\" - Laffont 1970 - p.85", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1027" + }, + { + "date": "2/1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The pilot of a RAAF Beaufort bomber flying at 4500 feet, saw a black shadow flying alongside him, at only 100 to 150 feet away. Flames were coming out of the end of this thing. For 18 to 20 minutes the radio and other onboard instruments of the bomber refused to work. This ended when the UFO accelerated and disappeared.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Bass Strait (Victoria)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 310", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1028" + }, + { + "date": "6/6/1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The USS George E. Badger is anchored off. Gunner Edward Breckel is on watch and sees in the sky an object of dark cigar-like shape, 5 miles from their position. This UFO visible for 3 minutes flew too slowly at 5 m above the water and had no wings. (1944, 6 June)", + "location": "FRANCE, off the coast of Normandy", + "ref": [ + "The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda UPORI, 19.5.1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1029" + }, + { + "date": "1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) E.L., a First Class Carpenter's Mate in the Headquarters Company of the 112th Construction Battalion, approached a saucer on the ground near Kaneohe Beach on Oahu. Diameter: 50 feet, metallic, igloo-like, with a completely glassed dome above a one-foot high golden-colored screen, inside of which something was rotating.", + "location": "HAWAII, Oahu", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1030" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Madeleine Arnoux wrote: \"The facts date back to 1944 during the summer. I was then 13 years old and I went by bicycle every week to a farm a few km away to get some \"supplies\". So I left Toulon-sur-Arroux on the charming RD 42, bordered by woods in the direction of the hamlet called \"Verger\". Just before arriving there, I got off to pick wild berries that I knew I would find there. At this place, a dirt road leaves the road and goes to the right through the woods. So I advanced on this path, slowly, looking for fruits. Automatically I raised my head... further, a few hundred meters away, the path rises a bit and forms a pronounced curve to the right to disappear from view in the woods. Right at this place \"the thing\" was stopped. I remember it was very hot, stormy and the sky was quite cloudy. So, there, something was stopped along the woods and beings were standing close by. Now I think the device could have been the size of one of our small current cars (like a Volkswagen) of metallic gray, dull color. I do not remember observing any openings. The beings who were standing next to it must have been less than 1 m tall and were wearing brown jumpsuits. They made no gesture in my direction and for my part I was frozen in place. How long did this mutual observation last? I cannot say but I remember the oppressive atmosphere, further aggravated by the stormy weather and my impression of not being able to move.. Suddenly I could react and wanted to take my bike that lay a few meters away. The time to bend down and, raising my head to look again at the strange apparition, there was nothing left. ... \" (1944, Summer)", + "location": "FRANCE, Toulon-sur-Arroux (Saône et Loire)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 267-268", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1031" + }, + { + "date": "8/10/1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Captain Alyanb Reida, in command of his B 29, observed on August 1 during a bombing raid on the oil installations of Sumatra, a strange gray and oval flying machine that left behind a grayish-bluish trail and followed him for several minutes. (S. DELLO STROLOGO: \"What Governments Hide About UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1975, p. 31, which says August 1. In fact it is August 10) \"Shortly after midnight, we were returning to Ceylan, after a bombing mission to Palembang in Sumatra. At that moment my co-pilot signaled me an object passing us at 500 m, at that distance it appeared as a spherical object, 5 to 6 feet in diameter, and of a very intense and luminous red-orange color. It seemed to have a halo. This thing seemed to vibrate or pulse constantly and I thought it was a radio-guided thing to locate us, so I made evasive maneuvers constantly changing direction at 90° at 200 feet of altitude. This thing was always behind us, in each maneuver, for 8 minutes. Finally it left, abruptly turning at an angle of 90°, accelerating and disappearing from our sight.\"", + "location": "ASIA, between CEYLAN and SUMATRA", + "ref": [ + "The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda UPORI, 19.5.1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1032" + }, + { + "date": "Late 8/1944 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the Battle of Brest, the witnesses were two men from the 175th Infantry Regiment, entrenched a good kilometer outside the city. They waited for the Germans to launch the counterattack, the night was clear and peaceful. \"I saw this thing flying at the speed of a Piper Cub, in a straight line, silently. I tapped the sergeant Ness's shoulder, signaling him to look at the sky. Seeing this, the sergeant stood up in the trench, forgetting the war. Me too. We were so shocked that we forgot everything. It looked like a railway wagon, rectangular, but five times as big as a wagon. It had no wings, no propellers, no tail on the three sides we saw. It crossed the sky at less than 90 mph. We could follow it with our eyes for a long time before it disappeared in the distance over the sea. For a brief moment the object obscured the entire surface of the moon. Neither the American nor the German antiaircraft opened fire..\" (1944, late August (July?))", + "location": "FRANCE, in flight, above Brest", + "ref": [ + "The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda UPORI, 19.5.1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1033" + }, + { + "date": "8/31/1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the early morning hours, a resident woke up feeling ill and went to the bathroom to vomit. He asked his wife if she could give him a glass of water, but the woman was unable to get up, she was like paralyzed. In another block of Mattoon a woman was woken up hearing her daughter coughing. She got up and could barely walk. The next evening, September 1, Mrs. Bert Kearney, who was sleeping in bed with her three-year-old daughter, was pulled from her sleep by a peculiar smell. \"First I smelled a very strong sweat smell that made me nauseous,\" she said. \"I thought it might be coming from the garden. But the smell got stronger and I felt my legs and lower body gradually becoming paralyzed. I was scared and I screamed.\" Mrs. Kearney's neighbor searched the garden and the neighborhood to detect the source of the foul gas. Without result. The police did the same with a negative result. But at midnight, when Mr. Kearney returned home from work, he had a fleeting vision of what was called \"the Mattoon Mad Gasser\". According to Mr. Kearney, the stranger was very tall, dressed in dark clothes and wearing a cape. At the moment Mr. Kearney saw him, the stranger was standing on the window sill, and upon seeing Kearney the stranger fled, pursued by Kearney who could not catch him. On September 5 the police had received four more calls for \"gas attacks\". Each time the people said they had first felt something nauseating that paralyzed them for a period ranging from 40 minutes to an hour and a half. On the night of the 6th there were three new victims. At 10 pm Mrs. Ardell Spangler smelled a fetid odor, felt her throat dry up and had nausea. Shortly after midnight Mrs. Laura Junken experienced something similar and Fred Goble told his neighbor Robert Daniels at 1 am that he had just seen \"a man running out of his house\". Richard T. Piper, eminent criminologist, told reporters that it was one of the strangest cases in years. The last attack took place at the home of Miss Frances Smith, director of the Columbian Grade School, on September 7. At the moment the smell entered the house, she heard an outside buzzing sound of an engine and she said she thought the madman was using machinery to disperse the noxious gas. This was the last attack, the prankster never showed up again. (1944, August 31 to September 7)", + "location": "USA, Mattoon (Illinois)", + "ref": [ + "MYSTERIOUS AMERICA by Loren Coleman, Faber & Faber Inc., Winchester, Mass. 1983, pages 192 to 200; The Mattoon, Ill. Journal-Gazette for September 2, 1944 and also the Decatur, Ill. Herald for September 8, 1944.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1034" + }, + { + "date": "9/1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) François Panes saw around 5:00 PM a kind of shining cigar above the Kamensko forest. The witness, who was 18 years old at the time, initially took the object for a German dirigible, but after observing it for nearly 15 minutes, he quickly changed his mind. [Note from vog: the sketch looks like a mushroom seen from the front, with the stem cut off quite close to the cap]", + "location": "CZECHOSLOVAKIA, Blovice", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\" - translated by Laffont 1976 - pp. 264-266", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1035" + }, + { + "date": "9/1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A soldier from the First Canadian Army, Carson Yorke, was about to observe a UFO phenomenon. At the moment the Germans were sending their V-2 missiles to the city, this soldier recounts: \"I had gotten out of my vehicle and was looking at the sky. I then saw a luminous globe heading towards the front. It could have been between 90 cm and 1.20 m in diameter. It was made of a material like smoked glass and let out a very soft white light. It was moving at about ten meters in altitude. As soon as it was out of sight, five other similar objects arrived. So I alerted other people so they could see this strange spectacle. We were not impressed, knowing at the time that the Germans had several new weapons; we thought we had seen one of a particular type that night..\" (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 270) Carson Yorke, then corporal of the First Canadian Army (...) The object was clearly not pushed by the wind but was directed and was advancing at 30 mph at about 40 feet (15 meters). When it disappeared from view, others emerged from the front line, there were five in total. (...) Later I questioned people and at least five other people also saw these objects.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Antwerp", + "ref": [ + "The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda UPORI, 19.5.1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1036" + }, + { + "date": "9/1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) German soldier Erich Immel was entrenched with five comrades near Epinal. They were waiting for the arrival of the Allied troops when they saw above the railway wagons an object white and silver like aluminum, with a diameter slightly less than 2 m. Approaching the soldiers, the UFO took an oval shape. Feeling threatened (what was this new secret weapon of the Allies?), the soldiers opened fire on the object which became luminous like the sun.", + "location": "FRANCE, Epinal (Vosges)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 270", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1037" + }, + { + "date": "10/1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Carolina Vivaldi was awoken in the early hours of the morning, around 4:10, by a strange noise, a kind of \"blap-blap\" and a strong red light illuminating the open window of her bedroom. She sat up on the bed and noticed that the whole landscape was illuminated by this light. She had a feeling of warmth. From another part of the village, Mrs. Giuseppina Mazzoldi observed a luminous sphere that was advancing in leaps in the sky on a trajectory that led it from Riva to Lake Loppio, at an altitude of a hundred meters. The ball descended towards the lake, stayed there for a moment motionless, then resumed its leaping route towards the north.", + "location": "ITALY, Nago Torbole", + "ref": [ + "CISU, archive file no. 4401, sources: investigation by the Bolzano UFO group, etc.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1038" + }, + { + "date": "10/20/1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 6:20 in the morning, Mrs. Helen Paquette and Mrs. Nellie Carlin were terrified when they saw a low-flying, bright brown object approaching them that looked like a saucer. The craft had dark markings like welding marks and on the side a rectangular opening of 30 cm by 15 cm was emitting crackling sparks. Above this part, the witnesses noticed a frosted window that was letting out an orange glow. The disappearance of the phenomenon was sudden, the UFO rising like a bullet into the sky.", + "location": "USA, Saint-Paul (Minnesota)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 271", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1039" + }, + { + "date": "11/23/1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Lieutenant-pilot Edward Schluter, of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron of the US Air Force, had taken off from the base in Dijon and observed (on a night patrol above the Rhine) a true formation of about ten luminous discs moving together at a frightening speed. The formation, reported from the ground, was tracked on radar by Lieutenant Radarist Donald J. Meiers, and on board by Lieutenant Intelligence Service F. Ringwald, observer. (Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of S.V.\" - Laffont 1970 - p.76) FRANCE, Vosges: The sky was clear that night and the American radars had detected no enemy presence in the sky of the Vosges that they were currently flying over. About 30 km from Strassbourg, Lieutenant Ringwald saw towards the west a linear formation of 8 or 10 red fireballs moving at great speed.", + "location": "Germany, between Hagenau and Neustadt", + "ref": [ + "Charles GARREAU: \"Alert in the Sky: The Abduction File\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p.188", + "Michel BOUGARD: \"The Chronicle of UFOs\" - Delarge 1977- p. 271", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1040" + }, + { + "date": "11/23/1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source GESAG, GS 1049) Letter written by John V. Crisp, part of the entourage of a British officer, wrote these notes during his stay at The Cottage, West-End, Essendon, Hertfordshire, England. The notes were transmitted to the authorities through the US Embassy in London: \"On November 23, 1944, the men of the British anti-aircraft unit located a B-17 Flying Fortress, a few miles southeast of Brussels, approaching their firing site. It had the landing gear out and was losing speed quickly. The British immediately called the Troop Commander and almost at the same time the B-17 landed in a plowed field, near the machine guns, bouncing on the uneven ground 30 yards from the anti-aircraft position. At the last moment the tip of a wing touched the ground, sinking into it and making the plane spin. The propeller of the nearest engine was thrown into the air, but the other three engines were still running. The shooters waited to see the crew come out and welcome them, but no one came out. They were about to go around the plane and did not notice any sign of life. It was at this point that the Troop Commander called me to the operations room at Erps-Kwerps near Kortenberg. In 20 minutes I was on site and I examined the B-17. I had never had anything to do with planes, but finally I could enter through an entrance under the fuselage. The plane was empty of occupants yet there were signs of presence everywhere. I sat in the pilot's seat to stop the three engines that were still running, which I succeeded in after several attempts. On the navigator's dashboard the logbook was open and the last words written were \"Bad Flack\" (note of vog: two possible translations \"bad flak jacket\" or \"bad anti-aircraft fire\"). With curiosity I traced the route that should have taken the plane from the Ruhr (Germany) to Hertfordshire (England) and I wondered what had happened to the crew. We all started searching systematically and our most extraordinary find was in the fuselage where we found a dozen parachutes neatly folded and ready to use. This made the question about the crew even more mysterious. The Sperry (to follow the bombs) was still in the nose, having suffered no damage and its cover was neatly folded next to it. Behind the navigator's dashboard was the Code book giving the numbers and letters of the day for identification. Several pilot's fur-lined jackets were in the fuselage with some chocolate bars, some of which were partially eaten. No damage could be found on the B-17 except for the landing. So I went straight to the 83rd Tactical Air Force at Everberg to give them my report and the B-17 logbook, several navigation maps, but the story of the landing of an empty B-17 of occupants remained a mystery to this day. The crew was never found. (Martin Cardin, Cape Kennedy, Florida, \"Flying Forts\" Ballantine Books Inc. Ed. 1968, pages 10-12). .", + "location": "BELGIUM, southeast of Brussels", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1041" + }, + { + "date": "11/27/1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Lieutenants Henry Giblin and Walter Cleary were on a mission above the Mannheim region when, above Speyer, they saw an enormous orange glowing ball moving at a speed of 400 km/h barely 500 m above their aircraft. The radars remained silent..", + "location": "GERMANY, Mannheim", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 271", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1042" + }, + { + "date": "11/1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Document from June 8, 1967, declassified by the FBI) This paper concerns an individual born on May 3, 1924 in Austria, who immigrated to the USA on January 7, 1952 and was naturalized as an American in 1958. This person was a member of the Luftwaffe in 1943 on the Russian front. At the end of 1944 he was assigned as a test pilot on a top-secret project in the Austrian Black Forest. He was said to have observed an engine in the shape of a saucer 21 feet in diameter, controlled by radio, with several reactors arranged around the outside. The apparatus had a dome in its center, which did not move. He took a photo of the engine in full flight at 7000 m altitude (copy of the negative is attached to the document). He also took a photo of an engine parked in a hangar (copy attached). This engine was designed and built by a German engineer, Mr. ... (...) He gave the following details regarding the fuel and engine: Mixture of N2H4O in methyl alcohol CH3OH rather than in an oxygenated mixture like H2O2; 2 rocket engines 7 m x 1.3 m, smooth flight, speed 2000 m/second.", + "location": "AUSTRIA, Black Forest", + "ref": [ + "unverifiable, even the supposedly declassified document is not named or reproduced...", + "UECDDS 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1043" + }, + { + "date": "12/4/1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the night, a U.S. Air Force pilot landed in Laredo. He showed unmistakable signs of fear, let's call him Lieutenant Fogle. He reported that near 20 km from the Laredo airfield, a light blue object had almost collided with his F 51. At the last moment, the object diverted from its course, narrowly avoiding the aircraft, and disappeared at a terrifying speed. Greatly disturbed, Fogle saw the thing shoot vertically, describe a circle as if it was again rushing towards him. The pilot quickly turned off his position lights and made his aircraft descend in a spiral. The mysterious machine descended to nearly 700 meters, circled above the Laredo airfield, gained altitude and finally disappeared into the night. (December 4, 1944)", + "location": "USA, Laredo, Texas", + "ref": [ + "Donald E. KEYHOE: \"Le dossier des Soucoupes Volantes\" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.12", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1044" + }, + { + "date": "12/22/1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two pilots from the 415th Fighter Squadron based in Dijon, Lieutenants David MacFalls and Edward Baker, were flying over Hagenau at an altitude of 3000 m. When they were 32 km north of Strasbourg and 26 km west of the Rhine, the pilot made this communication: \"It is 18:00. Two very bright lights have left the ground and are heading towards us. They are following us for now.\" They were two orange spheres that remained in the wake of the plane for two minutes. Then suddenly, these lights left the aircraft and disappeared. Two nights later, on the eve of Christmas 1944, MacFalls and Baker made the same encounter again. (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 272) \"December 23. More Foo-Fighters were in the air last night...In the vicinity of Hagenau saw 2 lights coming toward the A/C from ground. After reaching the altitude of the A/C they leveled off and flew on tail of Beau (Beaufighter---their aircraft, Ed.) for 2 minutes and then peeled up and turned away. 8th mission---sighted 2 orange lights. One light sighted at 10,000 feet the other climbed until it disappeared. (December 22-24, 1944)", + "location": "GERMANY - Hagenau", + "ref": [ + "Source : microfilm roll containing the Unit History and War Diary of the 415th was obtained from the U.S. Air Force. Frames 1613 and 1614. cfr Just Cause", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1045" + }, + { + "date": "12/28/1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (415th Bombers) The first patrol saw two sets of three red and white lights, one appeared on the right side, the other straight ahead, at an altitude of 1000 to 2000 feet. When (the pilot) Beau put the throttle forward for interception, the lights went out. Nothing on the radar at the moment. Then lights were seen suspended in the sky on a slow erratic trajectory. They were orange in color, appearing singly or in pairs. These lights were observed 4 or 5 times by the patrol.", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "Greenwood, Barry; Just Cause, no. 32, p. 1, June 1992.:Source: microfilm roll containing the Unit History and War Diary of the 415th was obtained from the U.S. Air Force. Frames 1613 and 1614.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1046" + }, + { + "date": "12/1/1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) FIRING OF 24 PRIVATE \"A\" ROCKETS BETWEEN 1 AND 16 DECEMBER. (1944, December 1 to 16)", + "location": "USA, Barstow, Camp Irwin (California)", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, p. 250, Galcit Report", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1047" + }, + { + "date": "1944", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Vega oil refinery had just been destroyed by bombing, when, late in the afternoon, an elongated yellow object came to hover over the devastated region. The UFO was not luminous and left a kind of whitish trail behind it. According to witnesses, the object moved four times faster than the planes they were used to seeing above the city. For 15 minutes various witnesses including engineers Farmacke and Zmeuranu saw this UFO circle the stricken area then depart in the direction it had come from.", + "location": "ROMANIA, Ploiesti", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 266-267", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1048" + }, + { + "date": "1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1944, Howard Menger) Howard Menger sees the saucer again with the woman from his very first observation. She tells him she is 500 years old [note from vog: see beginning of April 1946, by another author, who seems to be a bit confused about Menger's itinerary and curriculum] (1945, After the War)", + "location": "USA, High Bridge, New Jersey", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1049" + }, + { + "date": "2/14/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1939-1940? Germany) We know, with certainty (note from vog: yes? do you swear to tell only the truth without exaggeration?), that Schriever and Habermohl tried their flying saucer for the first time in Prague on 2.14.45 and that in 3 minutes it reached a height of 12400 meters at a horizontal speed of 2000 km/h. According to the engineers, the speed could have been increased to more than 4000 km/h. It is impossible to make any hypotheses about what was said about these saucers after their tests because all the observations, notes etc... that remained in German offices were sequestered by the Allies when they entered Germany. It is not doubtful that much was expected from them because the Reich had not hesitated to unlock the millions necessary to have materials that could withstand extraordinary speeds and staggering temperatures. (...) [note from vog: I have not found any serious documentation on this subject...] (February 14, 1945)", + "location": "CZECHOSLOVAKIA, Prague", + "ref": [ + "Peter KOLOSIMO: \"Shadows on the Stars\" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 324", + "continued 1949, north of Mexico", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1050" + }, + { + "date": "2/17/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) - Mission No. 560, from 17:55 to 19:15: \"West of Massa at 5-6000 feet altitude, a red ball was observed on a curved trajectory. At first it rose, then it went out and was lost from sight in the valley south of Massa. At the beginning the ball emitted sparks. It was not identified by the Mosquito Mark XXX as a Jet A/C. No other air traffic in the La Spezia - Parma area.\" - Mission No. 562, from 20:10 to 23:10 hours, GCI patrol Leghorn to La Spezia: \"At 20:45 a sparkling light was observed by the Mosquito Mark XXX at a distance, at least 20 miles, too far away to intervene. It seemed to move near La Spezia and was seen for 45 seconds. At 21:30 a white reddish flashing light was seen at a distance of 6 to 8 miles, still near La Spezia, at an altitude of 10,000 feet and traveling towards the NE. It was chased at a speed of 280MPH for a minute and a half. The light took an erratic trajectory and went out. At 21:40, the same light, or another identical one, was observed 10 miles south of La Spezia, flying first towards the north, then towards the east, at 9000 feet altitude. The pilot approached it up to 5 miles, suspecting it to be an Ack Ack trap. At 21:55, 10 miles south of La Spezia another (or the same) one headed towards the city and was chased by the pilot. It went away 10 or 15 miles north of La Spezia, the speed of the plane, 300 MPH, was insufficient to catch up. Information taken: no Ack Ack operation at La Spezia. However, at 22:50, 5 miles south of Pisa, an identical light was seen at a distance of 10 miles. It was chased for about two and a half minutes on its course towards the north. At 10,000 feet, it disappeared beyond the mountains.\" (February 17, 1945)", + "location": "ITALY, Central Po Valley", + "ref": [ + "source CPT C. S. Miller, A. C., Adjudant. cfr Archives Nationales", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1051" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (or March?) 14 members of the crew of the USAf Delarof saw a dark spherical object emerge from the water. The thing made a turn in the air around the boat before flying away. (Marcel J. Lefèvre - 1968 - Brussels) This event is mentioned as dating from the summer of 1945, then again in March 1945, by: (Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 169, 306) 1945, Summer: At sea, off Adak. The incident was observed by members of the crew of the U.S. Delarof, loaded with ammunition and supplies for Alaska. The witness, author of the report, recently interviewed was Robert S. Crawford, now geological consultant to the Indiana Soil Testing Laboratory of Griffith, Indiana. Crawford is a graduate of the University of North Dakota and, while he was studying, he reported his observation to Professor N.N. Kohanowski, Department of Geology, also advisor to the NICAP ... The Delarof incident occurred in the summer of 1945 while Crawford was serving on board as a military radio. The boat, returning to Seattle, was off after Adak. The sun was setting and Crawford was standing on the starboard side, near the radio cabin, when he heard crew members shouting. He turned around and saw a large round object that had just emerged from the sea. (Several crew members even saw the UFO appear under the sea, about a mile from the Delarof.) The unknown craft, silhouetted darkly against the setting sun, rose almost vertically for a few moments, then curved its flight to come horizontal and began to circle the boat. All the observers were convinced that it was a very large object. Comparing it to the width of a finger held at arm's length, Crawford estimated that it must have been 45 to 75 m in diameter. Turning around the Delarof, the object was within easy reach of its guns. But the gunners did not shoot, while watching for any sign of hostility. The UFO made two or three turns around the boat, flying regularly and without any noise. All the witnesses estimated that it was self-propelled; otherwise the strong wind would have visibly affected its movements. After several minutes, the flying object disappeared towards the south or south-southwest. Suddenly the crew saw three flashes of light coming from the place where it had disappeared. (1945, Summer)", + "location": "AT SEA, near the Aleutian Islands", + "ref": [ + "Yvan T. SANDERSON: \"The Invisibles under the Seas\" Albin Michel p.49-50", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1052" + }, + { + "date": "3/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) George P. Miller was hunting not far from Belfast when he saw an elongated object flying very slowly, swaying in an inclined position towards the ground. It headed towards a clearing and even broke some branches before landing. The witness found the UFO which had suffered no damage: the object stayed on the ground for a few moments then, with a buzzing sound, it began to spin on itself, releasing a multitude of silver threads. In a few seconds it rose and disappeared into the sky.", + "location": "USA, Belfast (Maine)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 273", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1053" + }, + { + "date": "3/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) As he was on his 37th mission above the Brenner Pass, the pilot of a B-25 saw a foo-fighter. The object came like a shooting star and stopped one meter away from the right wing of the aircraft. The size of a basketball and with a bright white color, the UFO accompanied the bomber for two to three minutes, then suddenly it left as it had come, speeding through the sky. Coincidentally, the next day, on his 38th mission, this plane was shot down above the Brenner. All the crew perished, except for the pilot, the main witness of this observation.", + "location": "Between AUSTRIA and ITALY", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 273", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1054" + }, + { + "date": "Early 3/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) I had a clear view of the sky from my position. At first I thought it was an airplane, but as it got closer I saw that it was round and flat, not spherical, and it had neither propeller nor wings. It hovered silently in the sky and suddenly disappeared. Like a soap bubble bursting. The object had a silver color. It's the way it disappeared that I can't forget. It was still war time, so I talked about it with a friend, who confirmed having observed the same phenomenon. (1945, late March or early April)", + "location": "GERMANY, Dresden", + "ref": [ + "The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda Pufori, 19.5.1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1055" + }, + { + "date": "4/1/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) FIRING OF 17 PRIVATE \"F\" ROCKETS BETWEEN APRIL 1 AND 13. (1945, April 1-13)", + "location": "USA, Fort Bliss (Hueco Ran.)", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Wp. 251, Galcit Report", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1056" + }, + { + "date": "4/20/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) While Abbot X. was picking mushrooms around the path connecting Renève (Côte d'Or) to Poyans (Haute Saône), he suddenly saw an astonishing little person of 15 to 17 cm tall pass close to him, completely scared and out of breath. The tiny person had the exact proportions of a human being and was wearing a kind of bordeaux suit that also covered his hands and feet. He seemed to be aged 70 to 75, with grey hair and a sparse beard. A kind of thin, widened at the end, stick was coming out of his back and was exceeding his head by about 2 cm. No words were exchanged, the priest and the humanoid were staring at each other for a few seconds. Then, in the most absolute silence, the person disappeared into the nearby thicket. What or who was it? [IN REALITY: an investigation by the Dijon Association of Ufology and Parapsychology revealed in 1983 that it was a small pet monkey, dressed as a soldier by the soldiers of an African regiment.]", + "location": "FRANCE, between Renève and Poyans", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 274", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1057" + }, + { + "date": "4/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Gunner James V. Byrnes observed a \"crystal ball\" passing the B-24 bomber at less than 20 meters. Years later he confirmed to NICAP that it was not a hallucination at all.", + "location": "GERMANY", + "ref": [ + "The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda UPORI, 19.5.1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1058" + }, + { + "date": "5/16/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4:30 pm two inhabitants saw an elongated cone-shaped object, apparently 60 cm long. Of a metallic gray color, the object was moving at high altitude in a NW to SE direction. At its base two red and green lights could be distinguished.", + "location": "FRANCE, Saint Mexant (Corrèze)", + "ref": [ + "in any case this case is not included in the catalogue of Figuet and Ruchon, who have done an excellent job", + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out on the S.V.\" - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1059" + }, + { + "date": "5/23/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) There were several B-29 raids on Tokyo. A local businessman on the lookout to give the alarm, was able to observe on May 23rd and 25th each time two objects in the shape of discs of gray-blue color. He described them as \"circular objects, flat like pancakes, with a diameter of about 20 yards. They passed over the city without emitting the slightest noise\". (1945, May 23rd and 25th)", + "location": "JAPAN, near Tokyo", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's, a century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 21-22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1060" + }, + { + "date": "5/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The crew of a Navy transport simultaneously observed an object in the shape of a cylinder and discs. This happened a quarter of a mile from their ship, in a clear sky without clouds, where suddenly the elongated object appeared. At first they thought it was a balloon. Then they saw that the cylinder was followed by three small discs of metallic appearance. The discs seemed to enter the cylinder which then took off at lightning speed. (1945, May or June)", + "location": "JAPAN, east of Okinawa", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's, a century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1061" + }, + { + "date": "7/3/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) TEST LAUNCH OF WAC CAPORAL \"BABY\" (1945, July 3-5)", + "location": "USA, Goldstone Range", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Wp. 251, Galcit Report", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1062" + }, + { + "date": "7/16/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB WAS SUCCESSFULLY TESTED IN THE DESERT OF ALAMOGORDO IN NEW MEXICO.", + "location": "ATOMIC BOMB", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's, A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1063" + }, + { + "date": "7/21/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) E.P.B. heard a kind of whistling and went out to see what was causing it. He saw in the sky five dark objects, which he took for shells. They flew very fast, much faster than an aircraft of 1945 could do. The sky was covered with clouds, and the 5 objects stood out well against them, keeping the same distance between them and staying in the same formation. They were observed for 10 to 15 seconds, constantly moving away, on a wavy trajectory. (1945, July 21 or 22)", + "location": "NORWAY, Sorreisa", + "ref": [ + "Letters from E.P.B., 15 Mar 1983, 18 Apr 1983. Ole Johnny Braenne's UFO REPORT FORM, 18 Apr 1983", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1064" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) William A. Mandell was then a captain of artillery and stationed to the north of Okinawa. From their bivouac they were facing east of the China Sea. One evening, by moonlight, he suddenly saw a patch of light coming from the south, flying parallel to the coast. As it got closer he clearly saw the phenomenon, in the shape of a cigar, with a single light at its end. This object passed about 350 m from him, at an altitude of less than 200 meters relative to the sea, since Mandell was at 200 m altitude and saw the thing at eye level. The object was 10 to 15 meters long, with a diameter of 2 m to 2 m 50. It had no wings, no propellers, no portholes, or other openings. It moved in a gentle and constant manner, and silently. (1945, Summer)", + "location": "JAPAN, Okinawa", + "ref": [ + "The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda PUFORI, 19.5.1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1065" + }, + { + "date": "8/6/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) AN AMERICAN B-29 SUPERFORTRESS DROPS THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB. – THERE WILL BE A SECOND ONE", + "location": "JAPAN, Hiroshima", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1066" + }, + { + "date": "8/20/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The crew of a US Navy ship saw a red light in the sky, like a heated steel bar, with an apparent length of 30 cm. The object moved north towards Japan. (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 275) Andrew Cimbala of Duquesne was on watch. It was just at sunset, and it wasn't dark enough yet to see stars. I saw a red line appear in the east. It passed directly overhead, heading west towards Japan. It was visible for more than 40 seconds. It looked like a heated steel bar, 1.5 cm wide and 25 to 30 cm long. Nothing else was visible. There was no flame.", + "location": "CAROLINE ISLANDS, Ulithi Island", + "ref": [ + "The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda PUFORI, 19.5.1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1067" + }, + { + "date": "8/28/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A C 46 transport in difficulty: engine failure and loss of altitude during the observation of 3 UFOs. (Marcel J. Lefèvre - 1968 - Brussels) I was one of the twelve air force specialists of the 5th Army on board a C 46 going from Ie-Shima to Iwo Jima where it was to make a technical stopover... (...) We were approaching, flying at three thousand meters, in a sky of great sunshine, when I saw, to my great astonishment, three pear-shaped objects. They were of a dazzling white, like burning magnesium, and were approaching the C 46 in a parallel course. Suddenly the left engine faltered. I was to learn later that the magnetic needles of the navigation instruments had gone wild. The C 46 was sinking. Oil was spurting from the failing engine. The pilot gave the alarm. The crew and passengers were warned to be ready for the dive. (...) The last fleeting vision I had of the three craft placed them at about 20 degrees in elevation relative to us. However, still in tight formation, they disappeared into a cloud bank. Immediately the failing engine started to run smoothly again. The plane regained altitude (...)", + "location": "JAPAN, Iwo Jima", + "ref": [ + "Leonard STRINGFIELD: \"General UFO Alert\", ed. France - Empire, 1978, pp. 27, 28", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1068" + }, + { + "date": "8/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Just before 5 o'clock, Ilona Johansson Paasonen was awoken by a strong light. She pulled the curtain to see what it was. From the shore of Shalahti, a dazzling sphere of about 10m in diameter was approaching quickly. She threw herself to the ground, on her back, waiting for the end, as she believed that this ball of fire would destroy everything. Surprised that the collision did not occur, she got up after a few minutes and took a look: the ball of fire had disappeared. But about 300m away, an object shaped like a tree trunk was slowly gliding on the water and approaching the shore. About 2 meters from the jetty stood a strange gray animal that seemed to be in terror. It was standing on its claws, it suddenly turned its head and she saw sharp teeth in the open mouth. Then the tree trunk arrived near the jetty and she saw that it was a narrow boat like a canoe: at the bow stood a tall man of handsome bearing, he was wearing a greenish suit. The boat pivoted a bit and she saw another man operating a motor inside a large transparent bulb. The \"Lapp dog\" no longer seemed afraid and was leaving. (Pierre VIEROUDY: \"These UFOs that announce the Superman\" - Laffont 1979, p. 56, 57) (...) (August 1945)", + "location": "FINLAND, Langelmavesi", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.50", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1069" + }, + { + "date": "9/20/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) While he was tending to his sheep near the Lamothe gate, Mr. F. saw, an hour before daybreak, a perfectly circular yellow light of the apparent size of a football. The phenomenon descended vertically, increasing in intensity, and stopped about thirty meters above the witness. A powerful beam shone on Mr. F., illuminating an area of 50 m in diameter around him. Completely dazzled, dizzy, the shepherd was on the verge of panic. The sheep were frantic and running in all directions. After a time he could not determine, the witness heard a buzzing and saw that the object was slowly rising into the sky. After a few seconds the beam went out and the UFO disappeared. (1945, week of September 20th to 27th)", + "location": "FRANCE, Draguignan (Var)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 275", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1070" + }, + { + "date": "9/26/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) TEST LAUNCHES OF WAC CAPORAL. (1945, from September 26th to October 25th)", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Wp. 253, Galcit Report", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1071" + }, + { + "date": "10/15/1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) TEST LAUNCH OF A V2, FIRST BRITISH SHOT. SECOND SHOT THE SAME DAY", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Cuxhaven", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Wp. 254", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1072" + }, + { + "date": "1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Charles Hamlet and Edward Cate observed one evening a UFO in the shape of a chimney, very colorful, which crossed the sky at great speed.", + "location": "USA, Kinsport (Tennessee)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 272", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1073" + }, + { + "date": "1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Luigi Donati saw a large, luminous disc topped with a dome illuminated by a greenish light. The UFO emitted a violet smoke and was heading northeast at an altitude of barely 50 m.", + "location": "ITALY, Livorno", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 272", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1074" + }, + { + "date": "1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jean-Paul Kellens, 10 years old, was in front of his family home, at the crossroads of the road leading from Koninksem, when he saw a luminous rectangular object coming from Saint-Trond, apparently flying at a high altitude. The outlines of the UFO seemed to be surrounded by a halo and its movement from west to east was perfectly silent. As this object arrived directly above the young witness, he was very impressed and immediately went back home. As he ran through a small room, the young boy suddenly began to levitate: he left the ground, rose to the ceiling and immediately fell back onto the floor. This phenomenon took place smoothly, the boy suffering no harm.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Tongres", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 272", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1075" + }, + { + "date": "1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Pommier (residing on the Issoire road, Landa Observatory) is a passenger in a truck driven by a German prisoner of war. The driver suddenly sees a dazzling light above his vehicle. At the same time, the engine stalls after a few jerks. The two witnesses then simultaneously see an egg-shaped flattened object landing a few meters from the road. After a few moments, the object takes off and the truck can start again. (1945 (or 1946))", + "location": "FRANCE, Puy-de-Dôme", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 644", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1076" + }, + { + "date": "1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) AMERICAN ATOMIC BOMB DROPPED ON NAGASAKI.", + "location": "JAPAN, Nagasaki", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Gabriel GRESLE: UFO, a pilot speaks, ed. Guy Trédaniel, 1993, p.30", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1077" + }, + { + "date": "1945", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two successful atomic bomb tests in the USA.", + "location": "USA, New Mexico", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Gabriel GRESLE: OVNI, a pilot speaks, ed. Guy Trédaniel, 1993, p.30", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1078" + }, + { + "date": "1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The young B., 19 years old, on returning home, saw a hat-shaped craft hovering above the roof of his home, after which it landed on telescopic legs. A door opened in the bell-shaped part of the craft and a kind of dwarf emerged, who seemed to be making signs to the witness. The young man rushed back home to warn his mother, and both of them then saw the strange craft, which had already taken off, fly away.", + "location": "ITALY, Foligno", + "ref": [ + "CISU: archive file 4601, source \"Paese sera\" 13.8.77, report by Mr. Cestellini", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1079" + }, + { + "date": "2/28/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) FIRST FLIGHT OF THE REPUBLIC F-84 (THUNDERJET) SERIES DELIVERED IN MAY 1947, SINGLE-SEAT, FIGHTER-BOMBER REACTION, THIN FUSELAGE, WINGS AT AN ANGLE OF 12°, THE FIRST SERIE REACHED MAX 945 KM/H, CEILING 12500 METERS. [note from vog: isn't this the plane that, according to some, is the object of Kenneth Arnold's observation?] (February 28, 1946)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft\" Bill Gunston - Elsevier Sequoia 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1080" + }, + { + "date": "3/5/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Excerpt from the report of Professor Felipe Machado Carrion, president of the Brazilian GGIOANI group: On this March 5, Mardi Gras day, Joao Prestes Filho had invited his 39-year-old friend Salvador dos Santos (still alive in 1971 at the time of the report) to go fishing on the banks of the Tiete. He asked his wife to take his sons to the carnival festivities, telling her to leave one of the windows of the house ajar, through which he could enter upon his return from fishing. Prestes Filho and dos Santos spent the day fishing, joyfully and carefree. Around 7:00 pm, under a light and uniform mist, in a serene atmosphere, not stormy, they returned from the Rio Tiete. They separated at a fork in the road, each heading towards his own house. An hour later, Prestes Filho burst into his sister Maria's house, shouting and in a disjointed way that when he tried to open the window, he received from outside a silent beam of light, against which he protected his eyes and head with both hands. Dazed, he fell to the ground for a few brief moments, without losing consciousness. He got up and started running towards the center of the village, in search of help. Maria's neighbors were immediately called, and Prestes Filho kept telling his story. One of the neighbors, Aracy Gomide, never left Prestes Filho's side from that moment on. His hair, head, eyes, clothes, nothing showed signs of deep or light burns. His eyes were dilated, in terror, his voice excited. Soon the scene turned to horror: Prestes Filho's flesh began to become visible, taking on the same aspect as if it had been cooked for long hours in boiling water. It began to peel off the bones, falling in pieces from the jaw, chest, arms, hands, fingers, lower legs, feet, toes. Some pieces of flesh remained hanging by the tendons, the witnesses not daring to remove them. Then everything deteriorated in an unpredictable way: the teeth and bones were exposed. Prestes Filho energetically refused the water and food that were offered to him, but at no time did he seem to feel any pain. His nose and ears detached, rolling down his body to the ground. A terrifying specter, dislocating from mutilation to mutilation. Eyes wide open in terror. Words already distorted in a mouth that was disarticulating: only sounds remained, whose meanings were lost. In the general confusion, what remained of Prestes Filho's almost decomposed body was loaded onto a cart that was to take him to Santa Casa de Santana de Parnaiba, the nearest hospital. In the sixth hour after the light attack, a corpse returned to Araçariguama, as Prestes Filho died during the journey without reaching the hospital. Until his last moments, guttural sounds came out of his mouth. Was he still telling his story of horrors? As there was no medical examination, the death certificate said \"Death by generalized burns\". The police made some inquiries that led to nothing that could be added validly to the content of the death certificate. (...)\"", + "location": "BRAZIL, Araçariguama, (Sao Roque de Sao Paolo)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 276 to 278", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1081" + }, + { + "date": "3/15/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) STATIC TEST OF V2 NO. 1", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1082" + }, + { + "date": "4/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1942, USA, same person) Howard Menger is injured in Okinawa and is in the presence of a man, dressed in military clothing, who tells him that the extraterrestrials continue to prepare him for his mission and predicts the atomic explosion of Hiroshima which took place four months later. [note from vog: this would have already been told to him in 1944, when he was still in the USA.... ] (April, 1946)", + "location": "JAPAN, Okinawa", + "ref": [ + "follow-up in 1955", + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"The Mystery of the E.T.\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 146", + "follow-up June 1946, USA, High Bridge", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1083" + }, + { + "date": "4/16/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 14:47 TEST LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 2; ALTITUDE 8 KM. RADIO STOP", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "EMERGENCY", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1084" + }, + { + "date": "5/10/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) TEST LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 3, ALTITUDE 112 KM.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1085" + }, + { + "date": "5/24/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At Vasteras, around 00:05, a witness observed the phenomenon, the size of a full moon in the sky of the SO, at an estimated altitude of 100-200 m and at a maximum distance of 500 m from the witness. This object was descending. At Karlskrona, at 2:20, a rocket was observed coming from the north and going towards the south, towards Copenhagen (Denmark) at a speed of approximately 400 km/h and at an altitude not exceeding 100 m. It flew horizontally, without wings or tail and was observed for 10 seconds.", + "location": "SWEDEN, Vasteras and Karlskrona", + "ref": [ + "Spökraketerna 1946, Göran Jansson", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1086" + }, + { + "date": "5/25/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In Huddinge people observe an unknown luminous phenomenon in the sky. In Hässleholm it is 2:10 when a ghost rocket flies at low altitude, around 300 m, at a speed of at least 600 km/h, in a straight trajectory. It is observed for 10 seconds. Around 7 pm, a luminous phenomenon in the shape of a drop of water but with a metallic aspect is observed.", + "location": "SWEDEN, Huddinge, Hässleholm, Uppsala", + "ref": [ + "Spökraketerna 1946, Göran Jansson", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1087" + }, + { + "date": "5/26/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11 PM an object was seen in the sky. It had all the characteristics, including sound, of a German V1 bomb.", + "location": "SWEDEN, Helsingborg", + "ref": [ + "and I wouldn't be surprised if it was one...recovered by the liberators", + "Spökraketerna 1946, Göran Jansson", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1088" + }, + { + "date": "5/28/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4:30 pm a rocket of aluminum-like appearance passed over Erkilstuna. At Mellosa a cigar-shaped object, on a hesitant trajectory, headed north at an altitude of 300 to 500 meters and passed over the aerodrome. (Spökraketerna 1946, Göran Jansson) May 29, 1946 USA, White Sands The US Army invited hundreds of journalists, photographers, filmmakers, even scientists, generals, including some British, to a spectacular show. Safely sheltered in bunkers, the guests could admire from a respectful distance a V2 rocket (...) At exactly 2:13 pm, a jet of flames appeared beneath it. The rocket rose with an impressive slowness before accelerating more and more in an awful roar, dragging behind it a 20 m long flaming tail, until it became a small orange star that finally disappeared, leaving only a thin trail of smoke. (...) Three minutes later, the V2, which had been followed by radars and special optical instruments taken from the Germans, after reaching nearly 100 km in altitude, fell back, signaled by an observation plane, at 4000 km/h, about sixty km from its starting point, burying itself in the desert sand amidst a burst of flames. (...) While tests of the V2, more or less modified, continued at a rate of one per week, in 1947 one of them reached the record altitude of 183 km.", + "location": "SWEDEN, Erkilstuna and Mellosa", + "ref": [ + "\"To the Assault of Space\" - Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 85, 86", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1089" + }, + { + "date": "5/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A Swedish industrialist, Gösta Carlsson, told journalist Eugen Semitjov (issue no. 44, Allers, 1971): \"It was one evening in May 1946. I had gone out to try to find pollen for my bees and I had taken a flashlight because the darkness was already well established. Suddenly I saw a light between the trees: I then thought that someone had just lit a fire. But when I saw that this light was advancing towards a small clearing, I changed my mind. So I headed in its direction and when I arrived at the edge of this open space, I saw something like a disc topped with a dome and resting on the ground. On the dome there were some kind of oval windows and above it was planted a kind of periscope, like for a submarine. Under the disc one could distinguish a large oblong fin extending from the center to the outside of this lateral part. Two landing feet were also visible and from a door located next to the fin-shaped wing, a ladder descended to the ground. The object had approximately 16 m in diameter for a maximum height of 4 m. On the periphery of the disc there were a series of openings like nozzles and besides, when the object left, jets of gas or vapors came out of it which burned the grass. The light that had attracted my attention was on the kind of mast that I assimilated to a periscope. This rod had a length of 5 m and from its top three antennas were leaving. Lower, it was a kind of lampshade that was suspended there. It was from there that this light seemed to pulsate, of a rather curious purple shade and which illuminated not only the object but also one to two meters all around. On the ground, outside this illuminated zone, a man dressed in a tight white suit was standing. It seemed that he was guarding the machine, because having spotted me he pointed his hand in my direction: I was less than 10 m from him and I stopped dead. The man had my size but he was much thinner than me. I saw that there were other people around the object, but what was strange was that they did not say a word. There were three of them working on one of the portholes and two others standing on the side of the machine. I also saw three women. In total I thus spotted the presence of eleven people. They all had black boots and gloves, a belt of the same color around the waist and a transparent helmet on their head. The women had ash-colored hair, but I could not see the shade of those of the men because they wore a kind of dark cap. Their skin was brownish, as if tanned by the sun. I advanced a few more steps, but the guard stopped me again with a gesture of the hand. This character was wearing a black box suspended from a chain around his neck: it looked like an old camera. He turned this device in my direction and I then thought he wanted to take a picture of me. But nothing happened except that I heard a click in my flashlight. This one did not work anymore afterwards, but this may be only a coincidence: when I returned home I noticed that the new batteries were completely discharged. One of the women came out of the cabin of the object holding something in her hand. She approached the edge of the illuminated zone and, through this kind of luminous curtain, she threw the object she was holding: at the same time she laughed ...\" Carlsson found this object which had the shape of a stick. An analysis carried out in 1971 revealed that it was silicone with various impurities. After this episode the witness left the place and did not return until about thirty minutes later. He approached by another path and then felt a strong ozone smell in the atmosphere. Before he reached the clearing, a very bright red light came on. With a kind of plaintive noise the object rose slowly above the treetops. At 500 m it seemed to waver a bit, then suddenly the light became brighter and turned purple. The object accelerated and disappeared at full speed. (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 279 to 281) 1946, summer, Angelholm A man saw in a wood outside the town, a swollen disc resting on two crutches and a tailplane. All around there were eleven beings of human appearance, of both sexes, dressed in white overalls and wearing spherical helmets. He approached but one being made him a sign to stop. Believing it to be a military secret, the man moved away and observed from a distance the takeoff and the rapid disappearance of the craft. traces were found.", + "location": "SWEDEN, Angelholm", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace no. 48 of 1979, p. 29", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1090" + }, + { + "date": "Spring 1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) My father told us an astonishing story: Around one o'clock in the night, he got up to satisfy a natural need outside. The night was calm and the sky starry. When he returned to his room, he suddenly saw the sky in the northeast lit up like in broad daylight. (...) He discovered an object neither round nor square flying in his direction. The shining object was as wide as two houses and as high as one floor. When the object passed over his head, it was 3 m away from him, but my father heard no sound. The huge flying machine was heading southwest. After about ten seconds, it had completely disappeared. (...) The next day (...) I learned that two teachers had seen in the night, around one o'clock, a huge luminous object advancing in jerks, going up and down. After three or four seconds, the object was only 50 m away from them. As it approached, the object became bigger and brighter. Frightened, they ran away. (..) But then they heard a loud \"Peng\" and the object rose to 30 m from the ground. It brightly illuminated the whole school with its bluish light. Even more scared, the two teachers shouted and woke up the teachers and all the boarders (...) But at that moment the luminous object had already disappeared. (1946, Spring)", + "location": "CHINA, Dongliangzihe (Hebei)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestres\", ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.84, 85", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1091" + }, + { + "date": "6/13/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) TEST LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 5 AT 16:40. ALTITUDE 117 KM.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1092" + }, + { + "date": "6/28/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH TEST AT 12:25 OF V2 #6, ALTITUDE 107 KM.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1093" + }, + { + "date": "6/29/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A military report indicates that a \"ghost bomb\" fell into the lake. The object resembled a 3 m long rocket and letters were painted on the side.", + "location": "SWEDEN, Kölmervsjön lake", + "ref": [ + "Pierre VIEROUDY: \"These UFOs that announce the superman\" - Laffont 1979, p. 58", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1094" + }, + { + "date": "6/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Cfr: 1945, early April, Okinawa) Discharged Howard Menger is in High Bridge and goes into the forest. A saucer lands: two blond men and the woman he had already met 14 years earlier in the same place, disembark. She has not changed and appears to be 25 years old, in fact she tells him, she is over 500 years old. But on the planet from which she and her two companions come, the atmosphere and lifestyle slow down aging. She gives him indications about his future mission and asks him not to reveal his story for 10 years.", + "location": "USA, High Bridge (New Jersey)", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"The Mystery of the E.T.\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 146", + "follow-up March 1956, unspecified location, assumed USA", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1095" + }, + { + "date": "7/8/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 23:35 two loud detonations were heard, followed by a hissing sound, like those produced by welding machines. An oblong cloud of vapor \"seeming to be overheated steam\" then rose from behind a hill called Kivitunturi. From this cloud then emerged an object, resembling a rocket, which rose on a trajectory of 30 to 40° in the direction of the southwest. The distance from the witnesses must have been about 5 to 8 km. It was morning, the sun was up, visibility was very good. All the witnesses estimated the length of the \"rocket\" to be between 10 and 15 meters.", + "location": "NORWAY, Vuoremijoki", + "ref": [ + "SWEDISH INTELLIGENCE REPORT, 26 Aug 1946. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1096" + }, + { + "date": "7/9/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 12:11, FIRST TEST FIRING: LAUNCH OF V2 #8, IT REACHES 5 KM ALTITUDE AND EXPLODES. At 12:25 SECOND TEST FIRING WITH LAUNCH OF V2 #7, ALTITUDE REACHED 133 KM.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1097" + }, + { + "date": "7/11/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 2:30 PM, a spherical object followed by a 30 meter long luminous trail emerged close to the rooftops and crashed near a group of children playing on the beach. Several people rushed to the impact point of the \"bomb\". A 2 meter long, 10 cm deep mark was found. Some pieces of crystallized and porous, brown sand were collected, which burned the fingertips like acid. Upon analysis, these samples showed a high concentration of organic matter.", + "location": "SWEDEN, Njurunda", + "ref": [ + "Pierre VIEROUDY: \"These UFOs that Announce the Superman\" - Laffont 1979, p. 57", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1098" + }, + { + "date": "7/13/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11 PM a yellow-red luminous object was approaching from the southeast. It looked like a rocket, flying at high altitude and high speed. It disappeared in the northwest, maintaining the same altitude throughout the observed trajectory.", + "location": "NORWAY, Stavanger", + "ref": [ + "STAVANGEREN, Jul 1946. DAGBLADET, 16 Jul 1946, 8. AFTENPOSTEN, 17 Jul 1946, 4. MORGENPOSTEN, 17 Jul 1946, 8. NATIONEN, 17 Jul 1946, 2. VERDENS GANG, 17 Jul 1946, 1. CIA INTELLIGENCE REPORT, 9 Apr 1947. Liljegren: SPÖKRAKETERNA 1946 - NYHETSBYRÅMATERIALET., 1977, 10. Gross: THE MYSTERY OF THE GHOST ROCKETS., 1982, 12. Listing d'Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1099" + }, + { + "date": "7/14/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 10:50 PM a man observed an object flying very quickly at an altitude of approximately 1000 meters. He was able to follow it with his eyes for two minutes. During this time the object changed color, becoming blue-green.", + "location": "NORWAY, Son", + "ref": [ + "AFTENPOSTEN, 15 Jul 1946, 1; 16 Jul 1946, 5. BORAS TIDNING, 16 Jul 1946. BUSKERUDS BLAD, 16 Jul 1946, 2. FREMTIDEN, 16 Jul 1946, 1. Listing of Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1100" + }, + { + "date": "7/14/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 22:55 four witnesses observed a bright yellow-white \"star\" on the southern horizon. They were able to see it for one minute, during its fast and high altitude flight towards the northwest. During the observation the color changed to a bluer tone.", + "location": "NORWAY, Jeloy", + "ref": [ + "AFTENPOSTEN, 15 Jul 1946, 1; 16 Jul 1946, 5. BORÅS TIDNING, 16 Jul 1946. BUSKERUDS BLAD, 16 Jul 1946, 2. DN, 16 Jul 1946. FREMTIDEN, 16 Jul 1946, 1. VERDENS GANG, 16 Jul 1946, 6. VD, 16 Jul 1946. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1101" + }, + { + "date": "7/17/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An engineer reported having observed at 12:50, a luminous object, coming from the east and going towards the southwest. He observed it through binoculars and saw that the object emitted a rather dense gray smoke.", + "location": "NORWAY, Oslo", + "ref": [ + "FREMTIDEN, July 19, 8. MORGENBLADET, July 19, 1. Liljegren: SPÖKRAKETERNA 1946 - NYHETSBYRÅMATERIALET., 1977, 11-2. Gross: THE MYSTERY OF THE GHOST ROCKETS., 1982, 16. Listing of Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1102" + }, + { + "date": "7/18/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 11:35: Bright object, with wings, making noise, emitting smoke.", + "location": "NORWAY, Son", + "ref": [ + "Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1103" + }, + { + "date": "7/18/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A family of farmers reported that an airplane was making a strange whistling sound at low altitude. Soon the witnesses saw two rocket-shaped objects pass quickly overhead and crash to the ground together. Two other witnesses described the craft as a kind of V1; then two small rockets two meters long fell together into the lake following a parabolic trajectory. (Pierre VIEROUDY: \"Ces OVNI qui annoncent le surhomme\" - Laffont 1979, p. 58, which dates the incident to June 20, 1946 and locates Mjosa in Sweden...) Between 12:00 and 12:30, several witnesses observed two objects, resembling V 1s, coming slowly, at low altitude (50 meters) from the west. Their attention had been drawn by a whistling, not resembling the sound of an airplane engine. The two objects flew so low that they almost brushed the tops of the trees. Both of them fell into Lake Mjosa, 2 km from the west beach and 7 km from Minnesund. They had the shape of a rocket, measuring about 2.50 m long and had wings with a total span of 2 meters. The wings were placed a little forward, about 1 m from the nose. The nose and tail shone like metal but the central part, as well as the wings, was very dark. The wings seemed to move slightly. The objects had no lights or fires and they flew one behind the other. Their trajectory was like that of a stone thrown with force. When they fell into Lake Mjosa, they raised a water jet several meters high. There was no sound of explosion. The sky was clear and the water calm. Among the witnesses were the whole family of Sigvart Skaug, and the two brothers Nils & Gustav Tosterud.", + "location": "NORWAY, Mjosa", + "ref": [ + "AFTENPOSTEN, 19 Jul 1946, 1; 20 Jul 1946, 1+5+14. BUSKERUDS BLAD, 20 Jul 1946, 1. DRAMMENS TIDENDE, 20 Jul 1946, 1. FREMTIDEN, 20 Jul 1946, 1. GÖTEBORGS-TIDNINGEN, Jul 1946. HD, 20 Jul 1946. SVD, 20 Jul 1946. MT, 21 Jul 1946, 18. AFTENPOSTEN, 22 Jul 1946, 1. ARBEIDERBLADET, 22 Jul 1946, 1. FREMTIDEN, 22 Jul 1946, 1. MORGENBLADET, 22 Jul 1946, 1. FLYING SAUCER REVIEW, v 15/n 2 - Mar/Apr 1969, 18. OFFICIAL UFO, Oct 1976, 61. Gross: THE MYSTERY OF THE GHOST ROCKETS, 1982, 14-5. AFU NEWSLETTER, 27 - Jan/Dec 1984, 4.Listing d'Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1104" + }, + { + "date": "7/19/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Knut Lindbäck and his servant, working outside, heard a loud buzzing in the sky. Lindbäck looked up and saw a gray rocket-shaped object descending towards the lake. The nose was rounded and the tail pointed and it seemed to have fins. Everything was going very quickly and he didn't have much time to observe it. When it fell into the water, a first huge column of water was raised, then a second. The witness estimated the length of the object to be about 2 meters. After the fall, uprooted algae and water lilies were floating everywhere and the water of the lake was completely muddy. Although the water was only 1.50m to 2m deep, it was impossible to locate the fallen object due to the muddy bottom.", + "location": "SWEDEN, Kölmjärv Lake", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 175", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1105" + }, + { + "date": "7/19/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An unusual aerial object was observed: it had the appearance of an illuminated milk jug. The observation lasted a good quarter of an hour: it must not have been flying very fast.", + "location": "SWEDEN, Bölebyn (in the north)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 175", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1106" + }, + { + "date": "7/21/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the Vrouweneekhoek quarter, a young cyclist was returning home around 8:30 pm when he saw a disc on the side of the road. Amazed, the witness then saw two figures, no more than a meter tall. Before re-entering the object on the ground, one of the beings broke an acacia branch. Completely scared, it was only the next day that the young boy returned to the spot: he then discovered an irregular trapezoidal surface where the vegetation seemed to be charred.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Sint-Niklaas (East Flanders)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 282-283 which places this in August; original source Hugo Huis, and GESAG special June 1972 p. 72", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1107" + }, + { + "date": "7/30/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 12:36 TEST LAUNCH OF V2 #9, REACHED ALTITUDE 167 KM.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1108" + }, + { + "date": "7/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. and Mrs. Brown saw at 10:55 PM the passage of two rocket-shaped bodies perfectly silent. When the objects passed over the farm, the witnesses noticed openings arranged two by two at the front and back. These two UFOs were moving at about fifteen meters from the ground emitting red flames. (July 1946)", + "location": "CANADA, Oakville (Ontario)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 282", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1109" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A large elongated and oval object was seen, flying at high speed above the pastures, at very low altitude. The witness even saw windows on the object which he described \"as being made of black glassy material\" (1946, Summer)", + "location": "NETHERLANDS, Elst (Gelder, Betuwe)", + "ref": [ + "(c) 1997 Jeroen Slurf and Jeroen Kümeling.UFO nieuwsbrief jaargang 2, nummer 1", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1110" + }, + { + "date": "8/1/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Transport plane pilot Jack Puckett observed an cylindrical object maneuvering around his aircraft which was flying at an altitude of 1200 m northeast of Tampa. (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 282) At 900 m it changed course and crossed their path. (note de vog: ??? isn't that a bit \"arranged?\") Its size was twice that of a B-29, it disappeared at an estimated speed of 2500 and 3200 km/h. (Johannes von BUTLAR: \"Ovni, nous ne sommes pas seuls\" - Presses de la Cité 1979 p. 28) On July 24, 1946 at 6 pm the C 47 pilot, Jack E. Puckett and copilot Henry Glass saw above the ocean southeast of their position, a cylindrical flying object with luminous windows. The size was approximately twice that of a B-29. Flying at about 2000mph the object had a tail of flames behind it, half its own length. It disappeared on the horizon. (1946, August 1 (July 24))", + "location": "USA, northeast of Tampa (Florida)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's, a century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 24: it cites Puckett's letter of July 24, 1957 to Donald Keyhoe, and found in the CUFOS files", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1111" + }, + { + "date": "8/8/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Daily Graphic of Stockholm published on August 8 that \"boomerang bombs\" were flying over Sweden towards the north and then crossing the country towards the south. None had fallen..(Antonio RIBERA: \"Procès aux OVNI\" - De Vecchi 1977 - p. 36) Professor John Persson saw a rocket carrying a dazzling light at the tip. He estimated the altitude to be 500 meters and the speed to be 800 km/h.", + "location": "SWEDEN", + "ref": [ + "Pierre VIEROUDY: \"Ces OVNI qui annoncent le surhomme\" - Laffont 1979, p. 58", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1112" + }, + { + "date": "8/13/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An object with small wings falls from the sky into a lake.", + "location": "SWEDEN, center of Norrland", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 175", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1113" + }, + { + "date": "8/14/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A Swedish military plane collided with one of the mysterious projectiles and the three crew members perished. A witness claimed that the \"projectile\" was making directional changes. [note from vog: Ribera is the only one to mention this, no trace in Swedish archives.... ]", + "location": "SWEDEN, Vaggeryd", + "ref": [ + "Antonio RIBERA: \"Procès aux Ovni\" - De Vecchi 1977 - p. 36", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1114" + }, + { + "date": "8/14/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Belgian-Flemish newspaper \"Belang Van Limburg\" - 19.9.46 published an article saying that the Lisbon Astronomical Observatory had no explanation for the observations made in different provinces regarding strange lights in the sky. These were balls of green light flying at high speed without any noise.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Province of Alentejo and Northern part of the country", + "ref": [ + "collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing by Victor Lourenço", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1115" + }, + { + "date": "8/15/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11:00 AM, TEST LAUNCH OF V2 #10, REACHING ONLY 3 KM ALTITUDE. RADIO CUT-OFF", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "EMERGENCY", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1116" + }, + { + "date": "8/22/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Children and adults saw entities appear: the Virgin Mary, other saints, angels. First appearance on August 22, 1946, then these entities appeared punctually on the 13th of each month until 1950.", + "location": "FRANCE, Espis (Tarn et Garonne)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 330", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1117" + }, + { + "date": "8/24/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness was on board the ship \"Helkkingen\" and observed at 20 o'clock, a ball of light rising on the horizon, between Holmengravika and Rodberget. Then it fell back, halfway between the sea and the horizon. After the impact, nothing was observed for the following thirty seconds. Then a fire, of red color, appeared and continued to burn for 3 minutes. The \"Hekkingen\" was then 3/4 of a nautical mile NE of Russeviksodden and was sailing towards Kirkeness (SSO). The trajectory of the ball of fire was supposed to go from north to west. It was also seen at the port, for 5 seconds, and it seemed to fly very, very fast. The witness, on the ship, estimated its altitude to be about 400 meters, the distance to 2 nautical miles. It was raining, night was falling, but one could still see the outlines of the nearby mountains. The cloud cover was at about 1000 meters. A colleague of the first witness observed the phenomenon with binoculars. He said that the red fire produced white smoke.", + "location": "NORWAY, Russeviksodden", + "ref": [ + "Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: INTELLIGENCE REPORT, 1 Oct 1946. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1118" + }, + { + "date": "8/24/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 9pm, two men saw in the sky an object resembling an airplane, coming from the north and flying at high speed. This object made no noise. It flew at an altitude of barely 200m, and was surrounded by a yellow-green light. When it arrived above Orebergvannet the light went out.", + "location": "NORWAY, Sande", + "ref": [ + "BUSKERUDS BLAD, August 26, 1946, 5. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1119" + }, + { + "date": "8/26/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 21:00, 2 witnesses saw a rocket above Femundselven. It was going southeast at the speed of an airplane and left a trail of smoke.", + "location": "NORWAY, Engerdal", + "ref": [ + "HAMAR ARBEIDER-BLAD, Aug 1946. ARBEIDETS RETT, 28 Aug 1946. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1120" + }, + { + "date": "8/26/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 23:00, two witnesses in a boat were rowing home. They saw a bright object of an intense green color surrounded by white sparks, coming from the southeast towards the northwest. It flew at an altitude of 300-400 m, on a constant trajectory. The weather was clear, visibility was good. No sound from the object was heard. It was observed for about 3 minutes and then arrived above Arsteinfjellet, where it split into two parts, the head being the smallest. The witnesses assumed that the two parts fell, but they could not see if that was the case, because in the meantime the object was no longer illuminated and it was pitch black.", + "location": "NORWAY, Arsteinfjellet", + "ref": [ + "Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: INTELLIGENCE REPORT, 1 Oct 1946. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1121" + }, + { + "date": "8/27/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 14:30 Rolf Wintervold saw an object that looked like a ring of gray smoke. The object could be at 20-50 m. altitude. At first, it moved slowly, then accelerated to an estimated speed of 800 km/h. First it followed the trajectory of the railway, then that of the RV30 road going full north.", + "location": "NORWAY, Roras", + "ref": [ + "ARBEIDETS RETT, 28 Aug 1946. UFO REPORT FORM, 29 Jul 1973. UFO FORUM, 4/1973, 7. Listing of Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1122" + }, + { + "date": "8/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the late afternoon, around 5:15 PM, Margaret Sprankle, 28 years old, an employee at A.F.B. Tinken, was returning home and saw a disk less than 100 m away, flying at low altitude. It hovered, inclined at 45°. At its lower part there were a dozen openings through which Margaret Sprankle thought she could make out shapes with large, bald heads and drooping shoulders. After 90 seconds the UFO moved away to the northwest and then quickly disappeared. (August, 1946)", + "location": "USA, Oklahoma City", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 283", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1123" + }, + { + "date": "9/1/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Several military units stationed in Greece reported the observation of mysterious rockets in the sky. According to a statement given to AFP by the authorities of the British Embassy in Greece, these objects reached altitudes between 500 m and 10 km. In total, thirteen reports were recorded for that night. The objects had been observed in all parts of the country but particularly in Macedonia and Thessaloniki where the following cities were overflown: Edessa, Ptolemais, Kastora and Grevena, Katerini, Eginion, Thessaloniki, Paranestion and Drama.", + "location": "GREECE", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 284-285", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1124" + }, + { + "date": "9/2/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A rocket-like projectile flew over the port of Thessaloniki, according to the Greek Prime Minister Tsaldaris.", + "location": "GREECE, Thessaloniki", + "ref": [ + "Antonio RIBERA: \"Procès aux Ovni\" - De Vecchi 1977 - p. 36", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1125" + }, + { + "date": "9/7/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A \"flying bomb\" crossed from north to south the west of Macedonia, 110 km from Thessaloniki.", + "location": "GREECE, Macedonia", + "ref": [ + "Antonio RIBERA: \"Procès aux Ovni\" - De Vecchi 1977 - p. 36", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1126" + }, + { + "date": "9/10/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The newspaper \"Hengelosch Dagblad\" reported on September 12 the events of the 10th as follows: \"The rocket passing through our firmament was observed by the population of Hengelo, Almelo and Enschede, probably concerns a test of V6, improved model (by the Americans) of V2. They called it V\", since the supposed rockets of Russian manufacture were already designated as V3, V4 or V5. The speed of the object would have been about 12,800 km/h. It flew silently at an altitude of 21 km. This rocket was also observed in Oldenzaal, while a Frisian witness saw it in the sky in the southeast.", + "location": "NETHERLANDS, province of Twente", + "ref": [ + "(c) 1997 Jeroen Slurf and Jeroen Kümeling.UFO nieuwsbrief jaargang 2, nummer 1", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1127" + }, + { + "date": "9/13/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 21:10 a rocket was observed by 7 witnesses; It was going towards the northwest. The first observation was made at Kalkkavare. The object had a slightly descending trajectory, flew at high speed, and white flames with red stripes coming out of the tail were clearly seen. The night was clear, there was a beautiful moonlight, there were also northern lights, very few clouds. The rocket must have been at about 2000 m altitude.", + "location": "NORWAY, Nedrevann/Porsangerfjord", + "ref": [ + "Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: INTELLIGENCE REPORT, October 1 1946. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1128" + }, + { + "date": "9/13/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the \"Tubantia\" newspaper of Twente from September 14, a French UFO of the \"dumbbell\" model was reported: The inhabitants of Nancy saw strange meteors last night, on a north trajectory. It was two luminous balls, connected to each other at the front by a luminous bar and leaving a luminous trail behind, crossing the sky much faster than the fastest plane can do.", + "location": "FRANCE, Nancy", + "ref": [ + "(c) 1997 Jeroen Slurf and Jeroen Kümeling.UFO nieuwsbrief jaargang 2, nummer 1", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1129" + }, + { + "date": "9/14/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mysterious rockets and unexplained aerial phenomena were observed on the 14th of September near Alemtejo, on the 16th above Porto and Douro, objects in the shape of cigars were seen heading south. On the 18th two other UFOs were spotted north of Lisbon: they were greenish globes moving silently southward. (1946, September 14th to 21st)", + "location": "PORTUGAL", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 285", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1130" + }, + { + "date": "9/15/1946 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The \"rocket\" phenomenon was observed in Casablanca, leaving a huge greenish trail. (1946, around September 15)", + "location": "MOROCCO, Casablanca", + "ref": [ + "Antonio RIBERA: \"Procès aux Ovni\" - De Vecchi 1977, p. 37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1131" + }, + { + "date": "9/17/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A rocket-like projectile flew over the British occupation zone, the news was confirmed by the British Rhine Headquarters, apparently \"Top Secret\" did not exist yet.", + "location": "GERMANY, Herfird", + "ref": [ + "Antonio RIBERA: \"Procès aux Ovni\" - De Vecchi 1977, p. 36, 37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1132" + }, + { + "date": "9/20/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Balls of fire were observed there, leaving behind a long trail of flames and producing a \"gray\" light (sic). They passed at low altitude, heading from northeast to southwest. (1946, September 20th and 24th)", + "location": "ALGERIA, western part of the country", + "ref": [ + "Antonio RIBERA: \"Procès aux Ovni\" - De Vecchi 1977, p. 37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1133" + }, + { + "date": "10/1/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) THE THIRD LOCKHEED MODEL 26 NEPTUNE, OF THE P2V1 SERIES WITH PISTONS, TOOK OFF THREE DAYS BEFORE FROM PERTH IN AUSTRALIA AND FLEW WITHOUT STOPPING THE 18080 KM TO COLUMBUS (OHIO). IT SET A WORLD RECORD FOR DISTANCE FOR PISTON AIRCRAFT, A PERFORMANCE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN BEATEN.", + "location": "FROM AUSTRALIA TO USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft\" - Bill Gunston - Elsevier Sequoia 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1134" + }, + { + "date": "10/7/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The night watchman of Bjornebekk Kursted, saw a luminous object coming from the northwest at 00:10 hours. It had the shape of a cylinder, was going a bit faster than an airplane, at an altitude of about 1000 m. At the back, he observed flames. The conical nose of the object was slightly luminous. He observed the phenomenon for a minute, then suddenly the object fell towards the ground and disappeared from his view. No sound of explosion was heard.", + "location": "NORWAY, As", + "ref": [ + "VÅRT LAND, October 8, 1946, 1. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1135" + }, + { + "date": "10/9/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) George Adamski observed a cigar-shaped object hovering motionless in the sky, and then heading south towards San Diego, where thousands of people (note from vog: see San Diego, same day, where Bougard mentions a dozen witnesses...) saw it. It was then that Adamski decided to build a telescope with the intention of photographing the objects. From 1946 to 1952 he took 500 shots of aerial phenomena of which only about twenty were clear enough to be identified as flying saucers.", + "location": "USA, California", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1136" + }, + { + "date": "10/10/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11:02 AM TEST LAUNCH OF V2 #12, REACHED ALTITUDE 164 KM.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1137" + }, + { + "date": "10/24/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 12:15 PM, TEST LAUNCH OF V2 #13. ALTITUDE REACHED 104 KM.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1138" + }, + { + "date": "10/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Dolores Benante, while out riding her horse in a beautiful moonlight, suddenly saw a white-bluish circular UFO appear and hover above her, causing great excitement in her horse.", + "location": "USA, Preakness (New Jersey)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 285", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1139" + }, + { + "date": "11/7/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 13:31 TEST LAUNCH OF V2 #14. RADIO SHUTDOWN (EMERGENCY) CRASH BEYOND THE RIO GRANDE IN MEXICAN TERRITORY.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 258, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1140" + }, + { + "date": "11/21/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 9:55 AM - Test launch of V2 #15, altitude reached 100 km.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1141" + }, + { + "date": "11/27/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) FIRST FLIGHT OF THE SINGLE-SEAT REACTION FIGHTER NORTH AMERICAN \"SABRE\" THE FIRST DELIVERY TO THE SQUADRON WILL TAKE PLACE IN DECEMBER 1948 UNDER THE NAME F-86A IT IS THE MOST FAMOUS COMBAT AIRCRAFT OF ITS TIME. IN 1945 ALREADY THERE WERE THREE PROTOTYPES ORDERED BY THE NAVY.... (November 27, 1946)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft\" - Bill Gunston - Elsevier-Sequoia 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1142" + }, + { + "date": "12/5/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 13:08 TEST LAUNCH OF V2 #16, ALTITUDE 167 KM.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1143" + }, + { + "date": "12/17/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10 PM, test launch of V2 #17 which reached 186 km in altitude. (1946, 17 DECEMBER)", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1144" + }, + { + "date": "12/30/1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ella Young was with a friend: \"The sun had just set, it must have been 5:35 pm. Suddenly a dark object appeared in the sky and as it approached us, its shape became more distinct. It looked like a black stick with wings. It remained motionless for a few moments. It then flew off towards the horizon and disappeared behind a cloud. Right after, a bright flash of light illuminated the sky above the ocean.\"", + "location": "USA, Morrow Bay (California)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977- p. 285-286", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1145" + }, + { + "date": "1946", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The secret Haviland D.H. 108 Swallow aircraft, which was meant to prefigure the DH 110 model, lacked stability for the expected Mach 1 speeds. During its test flight it suffered a terrible crash. This made the Americans working on the X-4 project think: it had the same profile as the English aircraft and, rightly so, the USA feared a destabilization at high speed.", + "location": "GRANDE BRETAGNE", + "ref": [ + "NASA website, 1997 \"On the Frontier\"", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1146" + }, + { + "date": "1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The rockets were applied to essentially (note from vog: but not 100%...) peaceful purposes: for sounding the upper atmosphere. The explosive charge was replaced by special devices, photographic chambers, spectrographs, etc. destined to descend by parachute, and knowledge of our aerial envelope could thus be extended up to 135 km, and even 183 kilometers of altitude in 1947.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"L'Astronautique\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 12", + "see 1949", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1147" + }, + { + "date": "1/10/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Or January 23?) 14:13 test launch of V-2 #18, altitude 115 km. Launch on January 23 of V-2 #19, which only reached 50 km altitude.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1148" + }, + { + "date": "1/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) W.H. still in service with the US Navy, out with C.C. who was discharged, looking for a property to acquire in a remote location. They arrive near the Papagos Indian Reservation, on the north side of the Superstition Mountains west of Globe. Driving on a bad road, they come across a group of soldiers on guard around a crashed and partially burned saucer in the sand. Object topped with a dome, about 30 feet in diameter, two outer rings seeming to frame portholes. [note from vog: probably debris from one of the V2s launched in January...? ]", + "location": "USA, West of Globe (Arizona)", + "ref": [ + "UFO Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1149" + }, + { + "date": "2/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A traveler saw five \"birds\" with leather bodies and wings.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Manuos, (Amazon River)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 314", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1150" + }, + { + "date": "2/20/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 11:16 am - Test launch of V-2 #20, reaching 109 km altitude. It is believed to have been a launch with \"biological experiment\". (February 20, 1947)", + "location": "USA, White Sands Proving Grounds", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Nieuwenhuis H. 1988", + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1151" + }, + { + "date": "3/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 11:23 AM - Launch of V2 #21, altitude 160 km.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1152" + }, + { + "date": "4/1/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 13:10 launch of V2 #22, it reached 129 km altitude.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1153" + }, + { + "date": "4/8/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 17:10 launch of V2 #23 which reached 103 km altitude.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1154" + }, + { + "date": "Mid 4/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Meteorologist Minozewski and his team observed, during a balloon launch, an ellipsoidal silver object just below it. This object had a kind of dome on its upper part and was larger than the balloon. It moved horizontally quickly. (April mid-1947)", + "location": "USA, Richmond (Virginia)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"From S.V. to UFOs\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 32", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1155" + }, + { + "date": "4/17/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 2:00 PM Mrs. Harrelson, occupied in her kitchen, heard a sound like an airplane followed immediately by an awful crash. She went outside and was astonished to see that the neighboring house had no roof. The rafters had been torn off, tiles and bricks thrown in all directions around. However, there was no airplane in the sky, the weather was absolutely calm, without wind. And the humming was getting farther away.", + "location": "USA, Georgetown (South Carolina)", + "ref": [ + "indeed strange... ", + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V. - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 52", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1156" + }, + { + "date": "4/17/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 16:22, launch of V2 #22, altitude reached 140 km.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1157" + }, + { + "date": "4/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:15 Maxime Orliange was driving and saw a disk 30 meters in diameter, lenticular, with a dome hovering above him. Blue light coming from between the dome and the disk. The object made a loop while rising without noise to a position 400 meters from the witness, at about 30 meters in height. Disappearance almost instantaneous vertically. (April 1947)", + "location": "FRANCE, Col de Serre (Falgoux)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 50", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1158" + }, + { + "date": "5/5/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3:30 PM three witnesses saw a silver disc making a dive, then disintegrating, leaving only a column of smoke.", + "location": "USA, Washington State", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1159" + }, + { + "date": "5/5/1947 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. H. V. Olavick and Mr. Rawlins, who later became her husband, observed 10 flying saucers performing bizarre aerial maneuvers above Tucson. One of the saucers was larger than the other nine and was estimated to be 100 feet in diameter. While they watched, the nine smaller saucers seemed to be \"playing hide and seek\" together around a cloud and this game was accompanied by violent maneuvers that lasted seven minutes. Finally, regrouping behind the largest saucer in a V formation, the group flew off to the northeast at a dizzying speed. (1947, around May 5)", + "location": "USA, Tucson (Arizona)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 32", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1160" + }, + { + "date": "5/14/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At approximately 8:30 PM, an aerial phenomenon was observed crossing the sky from SE to NE following a practically rectilinear trajectory. A consensus of the observers placed the object at an altitude of approximately 3000 feet and a speed greater than 400 mph and the witnesses described the object as being spherical in shape with an approximate diameter of 3 to 4 feet. It seemed to be burning and left a generally uniform trail, but with, sometimes, enlargements that could suggest successive pulsations. The object also apparently emitted a trail of flames of about 3 meters long, but no sound was heard.", + "location": "HUNGARY, Budapest", + "ref": [ + "Phenomena #35 of 1997 pp. 6 and 7", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1161" + }, + { + "date": "5/15/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 16:08, V2 #26 was launched, reaching an altitude of 122 km.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1162" + }, + { + "date": "5/17/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) … an enormous oval saucer, ten times its diameter in length, was seen by Byron Savage, a pilot from Oklahoma City. (Donald KEYHOE: \"Flying Saucers are Real\" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p89) Observation report at 8:30 PM by Brian Savage (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider) On May 17, 1947, the American pilot Byron (??) Savage saw an enormous disk moving at an unimaginable speed. Two days later, this disk was reported in another region of the USA. (May 17, 1947)", + "location": "USA, Oklahoma City", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Flying Saucers Come from Another World\" Fleuve Noir 1947 - Omnium Littéraire 1972 re-edition - p. 217", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1163" + }, + { + "date": "5/18/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Several witnesses observed a flat, white, cigar-shaped object quickly traversing the sky at sunset, heading northwest.", + "location": "USA, Richmond (Virginia)", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Roundup vol. 2 n° 21, 25.5.97", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1164" + }, + { + "date": "5/19/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) ... In the short time it could be followed, it changed direction twice, maneuvering at an incredible speed. (Donald KEYHOE: \"Flying Saucers Are Real\" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p 89) Seven employees of the Pike's Peak Railway were peacefully having lunch when, around 12:15, a bright silver object approached quickly. When it arrived above the witnesses, the UFO almost stopped and began to circle. At times it reflected the sunlight and when observed through binoculars it was impossible to accurately estimate its dimensions. The object moved silently for more than 20 minutes, diving towards the ground and changing direction before finally disappearing.", + "location": "USA, Manitou Springs (Colorado)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"From S.V. to UFOs\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 32,33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1165" + }, + { + "date": "5/19/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The observatory staff saw and was able to photograph a strange meteorite above Santiago. The object moved slowly, sometimes emitting white smoke plumes. The report indicated an increase in speed towards the end of the observation.", + "location": "CHILE, Del Salto", + "ref": [ + "Phenomena #35 of 1997 p. 7", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1166" + }, + { + "date": "End of 5/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Colden R. Battey, a doctor from Augusta (Georgia) was fishing when he saw a formation of 4 discs fly over quickly. They were silver, seemed to spin around their axis, and reflected the light. (1947, End of May)", + "location": "USA, St Helena Found (South Carolina)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1167" + }, + { + "date": "5/29/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the forenoon launch of a V2, it falls beyond the Polygon at El Paso.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, p. 258", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1168" + }, + { + "date": "6/2/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Report from Forest Wenyon: a UFO in the shape of a jar moving very quickly. The witnesses were interviewed by the FBI.", + "location": "USA, Rehoboth (Delaware)", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1169" + }, + { + "date": "6/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Testimony of Andréas Schulhof: He relates the time of June 1947 when he saw through the window of a train six unusual objects flying in formation near Oradea at a speed such that he attributed to them a speed of 2000 km/h.", + "location": "ROMANIA, Oradea", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\" - trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 296", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1170" + }, + { + "date": "6/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first \"UFO\" incident above the Oak Ridge atomic base dates back to June 1947, with the photograph taken by a civilian.", + "location": "USA, Oak Ridge (Tennessee)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979 - p. 141, 142", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1171" + }, + { + "date": "6/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) According to the \"Times of India\" UFOs were seen above Bombay.", + "location": "INDIA, Bombay", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1172" + }, + { + "date": "6/10/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) U.S. Air Force records contain cases observed in Budapest on this date. Ted Bloecher, who mentions this in his \"Report on the UFO Wave of 1947,\" does not give any details since his study only concerns the American wave of 1947. (Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\" - translated by Laffont 1976 - p. 246) Gyorik Ference saw four objects of yellow-red color in the shape of plates flying above Budapest. (note of vog: here is the contradiction in the following sentence) The objects were spherical and silver in color.", + "location": "HUNGARY, Budapest", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1173" + }, + { + "date": "6/10/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11 PM, Mrs. Coral Lorenzen saw a light rising from the Mexican side, it was spherical in shape and rose quickly until it disappeared among the stars. The observation only lasted 10 seconds.", + "location": "USA, Douglas (Arizona)", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Roundup vol. 2 n° 21 25.5.97", + "with her husband Jim Lorenzen they then created APRO", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1174" + }, + { + "date": "6/14/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Richard Rankin, Palm Springs, California, pilot, reported having observed 10 flying saucers above Bakersfield on the 23rd (error, it was the 14th) of June. They were flying at an altitude of 9000 feet, quickly, at a speed of 300 or 400 mph. \"I counted 10 in formation,\" he said. \"They were heading north. At 2:15 pm (error, it was noon) they turned around, heading south, and there were only seven left in the formation. I couldn't see their engines, or where they were located, and they had no wings. They appeared round to me. They resembled the drawings of the \"Navy's Flying Flapjack\". The Navy claims the Flapjack have not left their base. Rankin has logged 7000 hours of flight, and is the brother of stunt pilot Tex Rankin. (from the \"Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 2, 1947. Portland, Ore., July 2.\") Richard Rankin was outside at noon and watching a boy mowing the neighbor's lawn. The weather was clear and sunny when Rankin and the young man saw ten objects flying in a loose V formation. They were heading north. But then seven of the discs turned around and flew back over them on their way south. Their diameter was 30 to 35 feet and they were flying at an estimated speed of 350 mph at an altitude of about 8500 feet. (1947, June 14 (not 23).)", + "location": "USA, Bakersfield (California)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1175" + }, + { + "date": "6/14/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mac Brazel finds on his ranch 140 km from Roswell debris from an unknown device. Only on July 7th did he inform the sheriff who alerted the military base. On July 8th Colonel Blanchard announced the recovery of a crashed flying disc. That same evening General Ramey denied this information saying it was a weather balloon. For 50 years now this affair has been the subject of much ink: UFO or not UFO? Recovery of some small dead and alive creatures by the USAF? Will we ever know? All authors have abundantly described the peregrinations of the affair, from Stanton Friedman to Crain Jr, from Maurice Chatelain to Gildas Bourdais, from Ph. Corso to Lagrange, and I forget dozens... (1947, June 14th and following days)", + "location": "USA, Roswell (New Mexico)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1176" + }, + { + "date": "6/15/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:30 PM Harry Ripper was alerted by the house owner Mrs. Letta Loree, who saw \"balls of fire\" jumping in and out of the clouds, like clay pigeons, and burning for ten minutes. Ripper got tired of the show and went home. Once at home he saw a stationary beam of light, but he thought it was not related to the phenomenon observed.", + "location": "USA, Lansing (Michigan)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1177" + }, + { + "date": "6/16/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Firefighter Hjalmer Lokken reported having observed at around 9 PM \"something that looked like a very red ball\" passing quickly through the sky at the height of the flag flying over the college (65 m altitude) and heading west.", + "location": "USA, Valley City (North Dakota)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1178" + }, + { + "date": "6/17/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Louis Korn, of 879 Rush Street, saw six objects which were all alike, above the Mississippi River. They appeared to measure only two feet long by one foot wide, and were oval in shape and somewhat vaporous, somewhat like a white cloud. They seemed to float gently in the air, remaining visible for an hour. The Korns saw identical objects again on July 4, 1947.", + "location": "USA, Dubuque (Iowa)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1179" + }, + { + "date": "6/18/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) E.H. Sprinkler saw in the southwestern sky a multitude of saucers flying in the direction of the northeast. Sprinkler wanted to take a photo, but their speed was so great that they were out of sight before his camera was ready.", + "location": "USA, Eugene (Oregon)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1180" + }, + { + "date": "6/18/1947 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Elma Shingler, who lives west of the Cascade Mountains, saw twice objects shaped like saucers, reflecting light, flying at dizzying speeds. (1947, around June 18)", + "location": "USA, Bremerton (Washington)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1181" + }, + { + "date": "6/19/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An elderly lady saw from her window an object of the apparent size of the moon, passing nearby. In this object there was a slender figure whose clothing resembled a Navy uniform", + "location": "USA, Webster (Massachusetts)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace No. 48 of 1979, p. 29", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1182" + }, + { + "date": "6/21/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A woman from Spokane saw eight discs descending in a \"falling leaf\" pattern near the banks of the Saint Joe River (Idaho).", + "location": "USA, Saint Joe", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1183" + }, + { + "date": "6/21/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 14:00: Dahl, on a patrol boat in the harbor, saw when looking up, at 600 m altitude, 6 machines resembling giant inner tubes with portholes. 5 of them were slowly turning around the 6th, which seemed to be in trouble. They slowly and silently descended to 150 m above the water. After a muffled explosion, the central object started to pour out slag and molten metal, which hit the water with a hissing sound. The whole group then rose and moved away out to sea. Dahl made a report to his superior Fred L. Crisman, who was initially skeptical before seeing a saucer himself in the area. Through editor Ray Dero Palmer, Kenneth Arnold met Dahl who claimed that in the meantime he had been contacted by a mysterious man in black. This man described the Tacoma incident as clearly as if he had been standing next to Dahl during the observation. The man ordered him to keep quiet. (Philippe SCHNEYDER: \"Ovni, premier bilan\" - éd. du Rocher 1983, p. 185) (...) \"Five minutes passed like this, then one of the machines detached from the formation and approached the one that was not moving. It seemed to us that it touched it, then in turn it stopped. After a few minutes we heard a muffled sound and the lowest placed object started to eject thousands of (...) fine white metal particles that were fluttering in the air (...) Then the same object spat out black metal fragments that were thrown into the water or onto the beach. They must have been hot because their contact with the water caused a release of steam. We ran to take refuge on the rocks, but my son was burned on one arm by a fragment of this metal, while our dog was killed. Suddenly the metal rain stopped. The strange object and its five companions rose silently and headed west, towards the Pacific. (...) (A. RIBERA: \"Ces mystérieux Ovni\" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 66 to 71) All this affair would be a hoax set up to discredit the Kenneth Arnold case - also read \"The coming of the Saucers\" by K. Arnold, 1952, Palmer, and John Keel 'OUR HAUNTED PLANET'. [IN REALITY, it is a hoax, cfr: Edward J. Ruppelt: \"Face aux Soucoupes Volantes\", ed. France- Empire 1958, p. 39 to 42, where Ruppelt calls them Jackson and Richards although these are not their real names.]", + "location": "USA, Maury Island, Tacoma", + "ref": [ + "1968., Fawcett Crest., Greenwich, Conn.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1184" + }, + { + "date": "6/22/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the day of June 22 a \"flying saucer\" was observed by H.E. Hammond and his son L.V.W. Hammond, director of the Oregon Savings Bank Association.", + "location": "USA, Radium Springs (Oregon)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1185" + }, + { + "date": "6/23/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Elizabeth Hall was awoken at two o'clock in the morning by a brilliant light outside her open bedroom window. The light grew larger and then smaller. After blinking three times (in pulses) the object silently disappeared in a fourth pulse.", + "location": "USA, somewhere in Mississippi", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1186" + }, + { + "date": "6/23/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the afternoon of June 23, around 3:30 PM, a shining disc was flying at 150 mph above El Paso. One of the witnesses, Dr. G. Oliver Dickson, an optician, described it as having the shape of a balloon with a point at each end. The sunlight was not reflected by the object.", + "location": "USA, El Paso (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1187" + }, + { + "date": "6/23/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On the evening of June 23, Richard L. Bitters, editor of a major newspaper, saw strange flying objects, but only revealed this observation after the Kenneth Arnold case.", + "location": "USA, Wapakoneta (Oregon)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1188" + }, + { + "date": "6/24/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An engineer assigned to the railroad, getting off the train, observed ten objects in the shape of flying discs in strict formation: \"like wild geese\". His story was published, but ironically, the six lines relating the observation, attracted no attention.", + "location": "USA, Cedar Rapids (Iowa)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1189" + }, + { + "date": "6/24/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Lt. Gr. Donald S. Whitehead and Chief Justice Lampert saw a strange object in the sky in the afternoon. The object was stationary in the sky and resembled a comet.", + "location": "USA, Boise (Idaho)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p.37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1190" + }, + { + "date": "6/24/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 2:30 PM Leo Bernier saw several silver discs high in the sky, on a west-southwest trajectory. This was the first witness to suggest an extraterrestrial link to his observation.", + "location": "USA, Richland (Washington)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1191" + }, + { + "date": "6/24/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"Kenneth Arnold Incident\". Against the whiteness of the snow, he saw nine bright discs rushing at a frantic pace, a speed he mentally estimated, by comparing their angular speed and their approximate distance given by the mountain, at more than two thousand kilometers per hour. For three minutes the astonished American saw the nine bright discs maneuvering around the peaks, in formation, \"exactly,\" he recounted later, \"as if they were connected to each other at 4,000 meters of altitude.\" Still relying on the approximate distance of the mountain, he calculated that their size must have been that of a DC-3\"... . (\"Lights on Flying Saucers\" Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME, 1954, p. 15) Kenneth Arnold had taken off from Chehalis for a mountain search mission: a C-46 of the Navy would have crashed somewhere in the Cascade Mountains. Sunny afternoon and very good visibility. Suddenly, around 3 pm, a white-blue flash illuminated the entire right side of his cabin. He looked around to see where it came from, when a second flash, then others, made him turn his head. He then saw a formation of nine sparkling objects, of a metallic shine, coming from the direction of Mount Baker and going in that of Mount Rainier; it flew very close to the peaks and at a very high speed. The objects that composed it seemed to be connected to each other and it disappeared behind a high peak. Taking Mount Rainier and Mount Adams as reference points, Mr. Arnold calculated by triangulation the speed of these objects and was surprised to obtain 2,700 km/h; the formation was 30 to 40 km from his plane. Its speed was astonishing at the time because the sound barrier had not yet been broken, that is 1,200 km/h. He also noticed that the objects flew in two parallel lines, one of five, the other of four and that their flight was not straight, regular, but erratic. That same evening he declared to journalists that these objects had behaved like saucers bouncing on the water. Each disc-shaped object had about the size of a four-engine C-54, which is respectable. Their appearance was similar to that of a hammered bronze bowl. The bottom of each saucer seemed flat and the top more bulging. (Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of Flying Saucers\" - Laffont 1970 - p.86-87) Hans Van Kampen, after a thorough examination (...) concluded that Arnold could have seen a flight of F-84 Thunderjets which were still secret planes at that date. Were the first UFOs really planes? (Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 47) Pendeleton (Oregon) June 25 (A.P.) - Kenneth Arnold reports that he observed nine bright objects, flying at 2000 km/h above the Cascade chain in the western part of the state of Washington. These objects were saucer-shaped and were at an altitude of 3000 meters. When Arnold had spotted them, they were 40 or 50 km away and were heading north (F. Scully: \"The Mystery of Flying Saucers\", ed. Del Duca, Paris \"Les éditions Mondiales\" 1951, p.169, which cites the \"Los Angeles Times of June 26, 1947, title \"Nine saucers flying at 2000 km-h have been observed. But what are they?\"", + "location": "USA, between CHEHALIS and YAKIMA, Mount Rainier (Washington)", + "ref": [ + "continued on July 29, 1947", + "also read \"The coming of the Saucers\" by K. Arnold, 1952, Palmer: of the nine objects 8 were similar and one was very different.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1192" + }, + { + "date": "6/24/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On the same June 24, 1947, before the aviator's story was released by the press, a prospector working in the Cascade Mountains named Fred Johnson had seen in the sky six objects exactly like those of Kenneth Arnold. He was even able to follow them with a telescope for several seconds. Curiously, while these objects were passing, the magnetic needle of his compass, gone mad, was agitated in its case. (\"Lueurs sur les Soucoupes Volantes\" Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME, 1954, p. 15,16) A prospector, Mr. Johnson, reported the daytime passage of several UFOs that made the needle of his compass swing from side to side. The witness was questioned at length by the FBI. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee trans. Jean Sider) Johnson had his attention drawn to a flash of light in the sky and saw six bright, round objects. As these objects flew towards the southeast at an altitude of about 1000 feet, Johnson noticed they had tails and flew silently. The observation lasted from 45 to 60 seconds as the prospector watched them through a hand telescope. He estimated their diameter to be about 30 feet, their shape was not perfectly circular, it ended in an oval point towards the front. At the tail end he also saw something swinging from left to right. The objects flew at a speed never seen before.", + "location": "USA, Cascade Mountains (Oregon)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1193" + }, + { + "date": "6/24/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Ethel Wheelhouse reported having observed the flying discs at very high speed.", + "location": "USA, Yakima (Washington)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1194" + }, + { + "date": "6/24/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Sergeant David Menary of the highway patrol, saw from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco a dozen bright objects in the sky in the evening. \"They were each the size of a football, they flew past me in a rush, and fell into the sea,\" he said.", + "location": "USA, San Francisco", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1195" + }, + { + "date": "6/25/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two couples living in the suburbs of New York have revealed that they had seen one of these strange fireballs called \"flying saucers\" which have been keeping all Americans on edge for the past two weeks. The latest commented revelation is that of Mr. Harold Dahl (note from vog: see the date of June 21, 1947) who has just sent to the University of Chicago a piece of metal which was allegedly thrown by a flying saucer observed on June 25th. (June 25, 1947)", + "location": "USA, Suburbs of New York", + "ref": [ + "Michel MONNERIE: \"The Shipwreck of the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Nouvelles Editions Rationalistes, Paris, 1979, p. 106, which considers this kind of press clipping as a hoax to feed the myth", + "archives of L.D.L.N.", + "no references", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1196" + }, + { + "date": "6/25/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Carpenter W.I. Davenport saw nine objects high in the sky that looked like discs flying at very high speed towards the west.", + "location": "USA, Kansas City (Missouri)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1197" + }, + { + "date": "6/25/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A single disc appears in the sky of Utah and later C.E. Holman reports the observation of two illuminated discs in Oklahoma. The same day Louis Stebbins saw a reddish object crossing the sky of the countryside near Glens Falls, New York.", + "location": "USA, Utah, Oklahoma, and New York.", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1198" + }, + { + "date": "6/26/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Nine bright objects, with \"fins,\" entered and exited the clouds in La Grande. The sighting was made by student Larry Jones and two Catholic nuns.", + "location": "USA, La Grande (Oregon)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1199" + }, + { + "date": "6/26/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Later in the evening Henry Martin and Walter Harrod observed a group of objects resembling \"coffee pot lids\", shiny, and flying in a southwesterly direction at an altitude of about 5000 feet.", + "location": "USA, Denver", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1200" + }, + { + "date": "6/26/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Glen Bunting and two other independent witnesses observed a single object flying at high speed towards the east. A similar and equally fast craft was reported in Utah by Roy Walters, a private pilot who made the observation near Cedar City. The director of the Cedar City airport, Royce R. Knight, confirmed the observation. Another independent witness in Cedar City, Charles Moore, also saw a single object flying at high speed towards the east.", + "location": "USA, in Utah", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p.38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1201" + }, + { + "date": "6/27/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Clyde Homan observed two formations of 4 or 5 objects moving quickly above a railway line. They reflected light, moved silently by rocking forward and backward, undulating.", + "location": "USA, Woodland (Washington)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1202" + }, + { + "date": "6/27/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Nine objects, resembling silver plates, were seen by a woman as they flew over the Cascade Range. During their flight, these discs swayed and changed direction.", + "location": "USA, Kansas City", + "ref": [ + "A. RIBERA: \"These Mysterious UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 73", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1203" + }, + { + "date": "6/27/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Following UFO sightings in the area, Lieutenant Colonel Harold R. Turner said \"the flying saucers that were reported in several western areas on the night of Wednesday to Thursday were more than likely jets. Jets have circular exhausts and when they fly people can have the optical illusion of seeing round objects.\"", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 39", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1204" + }, + { + "date": "6/28/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) J.E. Johnson went down to the basement, around 1:30 in the morning, to check the plumbing. A basement that was entered from the front of the house. When he came out, while he was in his yard, his attention was drawn to a circular, luminous object that crossed his field of vision 8 meters in front of him. It had a diameter of about 4 meters, appeared flat and quickly moved at low altitude from south to north. Its appearance surprised him \"not so much in itself, but because the object emitted rays that had numbed me from head to toe. I could barely get back home\". His wife, a nurse, was in the kitchen and confirmed his state. The next day he felt pain in his chest and had difficulty raising his arm. He said that the observation was accompanied by a \"fireworks rocket noise\".", + "location": "USA, Waterloo (Iowa)", + "ref": [ + "Phenomena #35 of 1997, p. 8", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1205" + }, + { + "date": "6/28/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 2:00 PM Lt Armstrong, at the controls of his aircraft, saw a formation of 6 white discs coming straight towards him, at an altitude of 2000 m. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider) (Marcel J. Lefèvre - 1968 - Brussels) The pilot of an F-51 was flying near Lake Meade in Nevada when he spotted a formation of 5 or 6 circular objects to his right. It was around 3:15 PM", + "location": "USA, Luke Meade (Nevada)", + "ref": [ + "Edward J. Ruppelt: \"Face aux Soucoupes Volantes\", ed. France- Empire 1958, p.32", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1206" + }, + { + "date": "6/28/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:20 PM observation by members of the A.A.F. of the Maxwell Base, including Air Force Intelligence officers. For 5 minutes they observed a UFO making zigzags. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider) Around 9:20 PM four military aviators, two pilots and two officers, saw a very bright light crossing the sky. They spotted it just above the horizon, it zigzagged towards them with moments of very high speed. When it reached their vertical, it made a 90° turn and disappeared in a southward direction. 15", + "location": "USA, Alabama, Maxwell Base", + "ref": [ + "Edward J. Ruppelt: \"Face aux Soucoupes Volantes\", ed. France-Empire 1958, p. 32", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1207" + }, + { + "date": "6/28/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A housewife saw a (pulsating light) \"with legs\".", + "location": "USA, Chicago", + "ref": [ + "Edward J. Ruppelt: \"Confronting the Flying Saucers\", ed. France-Empire 1958, p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1208" + }, + { + "date": "6/28/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Farmer H.E. Soule reported to local authorities in Grand Junction that he had observed a small disk-shaped object coming from the northwest and flying less than 33 meters above his house without emitting any sound. The disk then reportedly departed to the east above highway 6 for a distance of about one mile, before finally turning southeast.", + "location": "USA, Appleton (Colorado)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 39", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1209" + }, + { + "date": "6/29/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11 o'clock in the morning Mrs. Morton Elder saw seven objects flying north emitting a faint buzzing sound. Other independent witnesses reported the same kind of sighting in the area.", + "location": "USA, south of Pendleton (Oregon)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 39", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1210" + }, + { + "date": "6/29/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Dr. C.J. Zohn, an expert in missiles, accompanied by three other people, were examining the launch site of a V-2 rocket, when suddenly, around 1 pm, a bright light was seen in the sky. They then saw a silver disc spinning rapidly above them.", + "location": "USA, Las Cruces (or White Sands?) (New Mexico)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1211" + }, + { + "date": "6/29/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3:00 PM Mr. and Mrs. James Harbor saw a huge silver disc surrounded by a kind of halo. Several other inhabitants of Richland saw the same thing. Most of the witnesses agreed that the outer edge of the disc indicated that it was spinning rapidly and that the central section remained still.", + "location": "USA, Richland (Washington)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p.40", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1212" + }, + { + "date": "6/29/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4:45 pm the driver of a bus saw an oval object followed by 4 other objects. Then 13 other objects came from the opposite direction. They all flew at an estimated altitude of 400 m. They made a noise like a dynamo and disappeared in the direction of NNO.", + "location": "USA, between Des Moines and Manson City (Iowa)", + "ref": [ + "Marcel J. Lefèvre - 1968 - Brussels", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1213" + }, + { + "date": "6/29/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 5:30 PM, Mr. and Mrs. Budds and their son were observing a bright object flying low and at a slow speed, heading south. The unusual object appeared like a small sun or a full moon, while the sky was completely covered by clouds. It flew at a constant speed towards the south.", + "location": "USA, St Joseph (Missouri)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 40", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1214" + }, + { + "date": "6/30/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two citizens reported having observed mysterious objects rotating, luminous, and flying at high speed above the city. William Crodie saw a silver object, without wings or tail, he said that the phenomenon was descending slowly. A woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, reported having seen some vaporous objects in the shape of a disk pass over her house about a month ago. She did not dare to say it right away, for fear that people would consider her crazy.", + "location": "CANADA, Vancouver (BC)", + "ref": [ + "source: Jan Aldrich of UFO activity over British Columbia during the summer of 1947 - newspaper articles", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1215" + }, + { + "date": "6/30/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The steamer Llandovery Castle was sailing along the Kenyan coast southward. The night was very starry but without a moon. A passenger who was walking on the ship's aft deck noticed an unusual shadow that partially masked the stars. It seemed to him that it was descending and approaching the boat. He told an officer who, having seen it, called the captain. At that moment twelve people, nine of them passengers, were observing the object that was approaching. It was huge and had no running lights. The thing settled at a height of 30 m above the sea and at a distance of 800 m from the ship, between the coast and it. It lit up a blinding white searchlight that illuminated the sky from the bottom of the object to the surface of the water and the reflection of this light allowed to see a gigantic dirigible-shaped craft, controlled intelligently, which advanced in concert with their ship. It was about twice the length of the Llandovery Castle, that is to say about 300 m, was silent, seemed to be made of a shiny material that reflected the light reflected by the sea as well as the glow of the stars. This craft sailed in concert with the ship for several minutes then turned off its projector and rose quickly and silently into the night sky from whence it came.", + "location": "At sea, off the coast of KENYA", + "ref": [ + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse\" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 27, 28.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1216" + }, + { + "date": "6/30/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:10am Lt. McGinty, in command of his aircraft, saw two round, gray UFOs descending towards the ground in a vertical line.", + "location": "USA, Grand Canyon", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1217" + }, + { + "date": "1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Clarence Hale and his wife Ruth said they saw hundreds of UFOs in the area. The first one in 1947. They got so used to it that they no longer pay attention. \"We have a kind of intuition,\" said Ruth. \"We feel that there is one outside, and when we go out, of course, there is one. They give us the impression of a kind of warm friendship. They are trying to make the earth and the universe better, filled with friendship and love. Most of the people in the area think the same thing. In addition, they claim to have provided the US authorities with a lot of evidence and evidence, such as this powder that is often spread in circles. Cliff Johnson found 5 each 4 meters in diameter, in his lawn one beautiful morning. Clarence Hale adds that he also found circles of powder after observing a UFO at 8 o'clock in the morning, flying at 30 mph, measuring nearly 300 meters long, with lit portholes and doors \" [note from vog: should we not be wary of this kind of testimony? ... they have, they say, some kind of intuitions ... hm! not very objective that.] (1947,)", + "location": "USA, between Flagstaff and Phoenix", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p.138, 139", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1218" + }, + { + "date": "7/1/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11:45 the Baillet couple saw two groups of flying saucers pass over their new house in Portland. The second group was composed of ten or twelve objects and flew low over the small hills near the Columbia River. A quarter of an hour later another woman in the area saw a bright object for fifteen minutes near the Columbia. A welder at work had his gaze drawn outside and watched the bright object with his protective glasses still on. There was an influx of observations and phone calls to Fort Stevens and the Coast Guard of Port Adams. The young county officer Robert E. Johnson also saw a silver disc flying over his area in the afternoon.", + "location": "USA, Portland (Oregon) and Tucson", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 41", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1219" + }, + { + "date": "7/1/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Dr. and Mrs. C.G. Gunn and two friends saw strange objects flying at high speed in the sky. At Edmonton (Alberta) Mrs. A. Olson reported seeing around 3 pm a silver craft flying at very high speed towards the southeast. Between Wilmington and St George in Delaware a man saw five oval shaped objects with two short protrusions at the back.", + "location": "Canada, Prince Edward Island, Edmonton, Delaware", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 41", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1220" + }, + { + "date": "7/1/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A radar operator detected a target flying at a speed of 600mph. The object changed direction four times during the detection. The Pentagon in Washington was very interested because at that time very few aircraft could reach that speed. (...) Major Farrier however pointed out that at that date it was known that the USSR had aircraft capable of reaching that speed.", + "location": "JAPAN, Chitoze AAB, Mokkaido", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 41", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1221" + }, + { + "date": "7/2/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Barnett saw a bright object in the desert. He approached it to see what it was and found a crashed saucer-shaped object, 30 feet in diameter. Later a military truck arrived with personnel to oversee the investigation at the site. Mr. Barnett saw bodies being taken away by the military: they were not wearing military clothing and did not have a human appearance. Seen from a distance, the bodies seemed to be wearing tight silver jumpsuits and were less than one meter tall.", + "location": "USA, Magdalene, N.M.", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1222" + }, + { + "date": "7/3/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 2:30 p.m. EDT. Witness: Astronomer John Cole of Brooksville, Me. Observed for 10-15 seconds ten very bright objects, with two dark shapes on their right side, moving like a swarm of bees in a Northwest direction. A very low sound accompanied the flight of the phenomenon. -(Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner) He estimated their speed between 600 and 1200 mph when they passed in a hazy sky towards the northwest.", + "location": "USA, Harborside, Maine.", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 44", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1223" + }, + { + "date": "7/3/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. W. Johnson and her family were able to observe the landing of nine objects. At least nine people saw a formation of 8 or 9 objects in the shape of a bowl, very large, luminous, moving slowly in jerks. Arriving above a clearing they descended. (Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 35) An air patrol of the Oregon National Guard almost saw one of these objects. They considered sending an airplane that day to do research near St Maries, where a woman reported that at least ten people saw eight of these flying objects disappear into the fog on July 3rd.", + "location": "USA, St Maries (Idaho)", + "ref": [ + "\"Las Vegas Review-Journal\", July 7, 1947 Internet, May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1224" + }, + { + "date": "7/3/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A couple saw a flying, luminous triangle pass silently over the area, heading north.", + "location": "USA, Redding (California)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 44", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1225" + }, + { + "date": "7/3/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Interesting observation because it takes place at the Auxiliary Naval Station and the witnesses are all well trained in observation. One of the witnesses recounts: \"I saw it a few minutes before 5 pm. From my position the phenomenon seemed to be at 1000 feet above the north-south runway of the airfield and I estimated its diameter to be 15 or 20 feet. (...) It had the shape of an enormous pocket watch, without the winding stem. It was covered with a silver material, like aluminum. There was no mark or sign on the surface, which was perfectly smooth. The object flew at the speed of a glider under normal conditions and my first impression was that it was one. However, there was something strange about it, and I observed it better. That's when I realized there were no wings, or any protruding parts. It flew gently north until it reached the end of the runway, there the object turned east, with very little inclination, and headed towards Santa Rosa. I had a moment of inattention and when I looked up again, the thing was gone. But the object must have been controlled. It only deviated when the winds were strong, to resume its straight trajectory. In short, the object behaved exactly like a glider.", + "location": "USA, Santa Rosa (California)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 44", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1226" + }, + { + "date": "7/4/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In Portland, Oregon, there were hundreds of simultaneous witnesses: pilots, port officers, police officers. And their testimony was consistent: they all had seen a dozen shining discs in the sun, moving quickly in the sky at an altitude that the most qualified estimated at 13,000 meters. (\"Lueurs sur les Soucoupes Volantes\" Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME, 1954, p. 16) At 11 o'clock the passengers of a bus saw, near Redmond, four objects in the shape of a disc flying like lightning over Mount Jefferson. At 1:05 p.m. a police officer, on the parking lot behind the central police station of the city of Portland, noticed that the pigeons were fluttering around as if they were frightened; he looked up and saw five objects in the shape of a disc, two going south and three east. They were flying very fast and seemed to oscillate on their lateral axis. A few minutes later, two other officers, both former pilots, declared that three of these objects were flying in a line. Shortly afterwards, the port patrol called the central police station: a crew of four patrolmen had seen three to six of these discs, in the shape of a chrome wheel hubcap, and moving very quickly, they were also oscillating while flying. (Henry DURRANT: \"Le livre noir des S.V.\" - Laffont 1970 - p.94) It is evident that the multiple fireworks fired at different times on the occasion of Independence Day multiplied the observations of unidentified flying objects, often seen as simple or multiple lights.", + "location": "USA, Portland, (Oregon)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 45 and following", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1227" + }, + { + "date": "7/4/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Having heard the radio call from Portland, 7 or 8 deputies of the sheriff went out to check. They saw 20 to 30 discs heading southwest, just above the city courthouse. Fred Krives, one of the witnesses, stated: these objects were dark, not at all shiny, they flew in a single line, separated by equal intervals. They headed towards Portland, 7 km away. They stopped flying in formation above Portland by spreading out to the south and west. The witness would have heard a faint buzzing during the observation.", + "location": "USA, Vancouver (Washington)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 20, p. 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1228" + }, + { + "date": "7/4/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 8:17 p.m. PDT. Witnesses: Capt. E.J. Smith of United Air Lines, First Officer Ralph Stevens, Stewardess Marty Morrow. Observed for 12-15 minutes four white objects with flat base and structured top, flying at varying speeds. One of the objects flew higher and to the right of the other three. (Project: Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner) \"Five things,\" the pilot wrote in his report, \"thin and smooth underneath and appearing rough on top, were silhouetted against the setting sun shortly after takeoff from Boise at 8:04 p.m. We saw them very clearly and followed them for about 70 miles in a northeasterly direction. They then disappeared, without our being able to say whether they moved away or disintegrated. We also cannot say whether they were round, oval, or of some other shape, but we are sure they were neither airplanes, clouds, nor smoke.\" (July 4, 1947)", + "location": "Emmet, Idaho", + "ref": [ + "Edward J. Ruppelt: \"Face aux Soucoupes Volantes\", ed. France-Empire 1958, p. 34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1229" + }, + { + "date": "7/4/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Associated Press) A flight of about thirty saucers was observed this day at 10:35 AM above the San Carlos region, by Stanley Miramon and his mother, Mrs. Marie Maranta. Miramon said they were heading northeast of San Carlos, at 2000 feet altitude, that they were round, silver in color, and the size of a car. A twin-engine transport plane was in the same region of the sky and it seemed to him that the pilot was observing these phenomena and heading towards them. Miramon went into the house to call the newspaper and when he came out the objects were gone.", + "location": "USA, Redwood (California)", + "ref": [ + "Internet May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1230" + }, + { + "date": "7/4/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 5:15 in the morning, at least five witnesses saw an unusual object in the sky, flying above Highway 5, near Corning. Jay Munger was drinking his coffee, as he worked the night shift at a bowling alley. He was with the police officers James Overton of Corning and Frank Rakes of Orland. It was Munger who first saw the object through the window. All three of them quickly went outside and saw something oval-shaped and dark grey in color, with a light on the top part, which shone upwards, and a less intense light illuminating downwards, on the base. A darker or black band encircled the object at mid-height. At first the thing was to the west, at a quarter of a mile away, and at around thirty meters above the ground. The thing was practically motionless. The sun had not yet risen, but the lights of the object itself were bright enough. Munger was calling his wife, but she couldn't see anything from where she was, trees blocking her view. He then rejoined the two police officers. The object had barely moved, now being at half a mile away. But then suddenly it accelerated, heading south and disappearing from their sight in less than ten seconds. Paul Heideman, from Fremont, California, was driving on Highway 5 southwards at the same time. He was accompanied by his friend Robert King. He saw the light of the object turn eastwards and remain almost motionless five blocks to the west. The diameter of the object is estimated to be 15 to 30 meters, the thickness 5 to 8 meters, and the black band could have been 1.50 to 3 meters. This object made no sound.", + "location": "USA, Corning, California", + "ref": [ + "Source: NICAP and James McDonald", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1231" + }, + { + "date": "7/4/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (A.P.) Sherman Campbell announced that he had found on his farm an strange object shaped like a six-pointed star, 1.25 meters high and 1.20 meters wide, covered with a layer of tin and weighing about two pounds. IN REALITY: the Port Columus weather station declared that the description of this device corresponded to that of an object used by the air forces to measure wind speed.", + "location": "USA, Circleville (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "F. Scully: \"The Mystery of Flying Saucers\", ed. Del Duca, Paris \"Les Editions Mondiales\" 1951, p. 171 which cites the \"Los Angeles Examiner\" of July 5, 1947 under the title \"Strange Find -A Saucer Falls into a Farm\".", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1232" + }, + { + "date": "7/4/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Dan J. Whelan and Duncan Underhill, from Hollywood, announced that on July 4, at 5 pm near Santa Monica, they had seen a disc, at about 600 meters above them. They were flying at 2000 meters altitude. It was a flat and round object, resembling a target for training, having 12 or 15 meters in diameter and flying at 700 or 800 km/h. (July 4, 1947)", + "location": "USA, Santa Monica", + "ref": [ + "F. Scully: \"The Mystery of Flying Saucers\", ed. Del Duca, Paris \"Les Editions Mondiales\" 1951, p. 171, citing the \"Los Angeles Examiner\" of July 5, 1947, title \"Aviators See Flying Saucers Closely. One Says 'Ovoid Objects Troubled Him'.\"", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1233" + }, + { + "date": "7/6/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Commander A. B. Browning, AC/A3 Pentagon, saw at 1:45 PM aboard a B-42 flying at 10,000 feet, a round silver disc, in clear weather without clouds.", + "location": "USA, Kansas City", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1234" + }, + { + "date": "7/6/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (United Press) A P-38 pilot reported on July 7 that he had shot down a flying saucer on the 6th, above the Root Mountains in western Alabama. He called the saucer a \"flying yo-yo\". The pilot, Vernon Baird of Los Angeles, flying for the Fairchild Photo-grammetric Engineer's Company, said he spotted the \"yo-yo\" from his firm's P-38. For the firm, aerial photos were to be taken between Helena and Yellowstone Park. Vernon Baird and his photographer George Suttin of Los Angeles were flying at 360 mph at 32,400 feet when they had engine trouble. \"One hundred yards behind us, the yo-yo was there. It was a kind of small, nicely made round plane, pearl gray in color, with a Plexiglas dome. It measured 15 feet in diameter and nearly 4 feet thick.\" The \"yo-yo\" came over the P-38 and Baird made an evasive maneuver, in which the propeller touched the \"yo-yo\" which split into two parts, like a shell. The two halves spiraled down somewhere towards the Madison Range. (note from vog: and nobody found a single little piece?) Baird adds that after the fall of the two parts of the \"yo-yo\" he saw a lot of other of these things, spinning around \"like a bunch of molecules dancing the rumba\" Baird said he was too preoccupied with his maneuvers to have noted if there was a pilot in this craft. His photographer didn't even think of taking a photo. [note from vog: doesn't this look like a journalist hoax?]", + "location": "USA, Bozeman", + "ref": [ + "Internet, May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1235" + }, + { + "date": "7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Olavick was in her kitchen at 2101 East Hawthorne Street, Tucson, while Mrs Down was in the garden. Suddenly Mrs. Down called the neighbor in an excited manner. It was noon, with a beautiful cloudless sky. A little to the north of their zenith was a single fluffy, vapor cloud, at an altitude difficult to estimate but probably at 3000 meters. Into and out of this cloud were entering and exiting white, matte objects that moved erratically in the sky, occasionally disappearing into or above this strange cloud. They stayed in observation for 5 or 6 minutes when suddenly the entire group of white things disappeared into or above the cloud. A minute later, a new object emerged from the cloud, it was two to three times larger than the white objects observed previously. Behind the largest object, the small ones followed, and they flew in a \"V\" formation: four objects just behind the largest, then a row of three and finally two objects in line to finish. As soon as the last two objects closed the formation, the whole group shot off like an arrow towards the northeast, rising, so that in 2 or 3 seconds they had disappeared from view. The witnesses do not know what happened to the cloud after the departure of the objects. In their opinion, they had just had the chance to observe American top-secret planes.", + "location": "USA, Tucson", + "ref": [ + "Source: NICAP and James McDonald", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1236" + }, + { + "date": "7/6/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In broad daylight. At Fairfield (California), Captain Burniston of the AAF and his wife saw, for one minute, a UFO moving quickly while oscillating. It had no wings. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider) Among the most interesting observations, a large disc was seen accompanied by smaller objects entering or leaving it. This series of testimonies began in the evening in Tucson and a few hours later in Palmdale and Hollywood (California). There were other witnesses afterwards in Tacoma", + "location": "USA, Fairfield-Suisan Air Base (California)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 39", + "Washington", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1237" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 8, 1947) A rotating disc is said to have fallen into a ravine behind the trees, near Lancaster. \"Fifteen or twenty trees caught fire,\" said the witness. A farmer by the name of Frits Godde denies it, he says that the ovoid and silver saucers were flying in a straight line towards Redlands, he told H.J. Stell, truck driver, who saw eight of them this morning at 6:12. Another farmer, R.V. Allen, says that a whole troop of these objects passed over Ontario. \"They flew through the air like a pole swimming in water,\" he said. Another witness recounts that they flew so low that their engines could be heard. As for Hall Hibbard, vice president of Lockheed, he claims to know nothing of a secret project. He supposes that the witnesses are seeing reflections on airplanes, that it is a kind of collective hysteria coupled with the desire of some to see their name printed in the newspapers.", + "location": "USA, Lancaster, March Field", + "ref": [ + "Internet, May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1238" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11:45 an instructor and a trainee, saw during a training flight, a UFO descending towards the ground, then flying horizontally at a speed of 9600 km/h. Around 14:30 a captain of the AAF and a passenger, during a flight, saw a UFO flying at 7000 km/h.", + "location": "USA, Koekonong and East Troy (Wisconsin)", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1239" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) William Rhodes was on his way to his laboratory located behind his home when he heard a noise above him. He looked up and saw a dark circular object spinning above the house. He rushed to the laboratory and came out with his camera: he was able to take two pictures published on July 9 in the Arizona Republic of Phoenix. A few weeks later an officer and an FBI agent went to Rhodes' house who spontaneously gave them the original negatives. Afterwards, he tried in vain to get them back. (Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 39) He saw a dark, elliptical, flat, heel-shaped object flying between 400 and 600 mph. The photo shows an irregular shape and looks very much like the description made at the other end of the country, in Lakeland, Florida. (see next case).", + "location": "USA, Phoenix (Arizona)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 56", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1240" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man heard a whistling sound and this noise was followed by the appearance of five unidentified objects flying towards the northeast. After the observation, the witness constructed a model of what he had seen. It was a single-leaf clover-shaped craft with a small vertical tail and topped with a dome.", + "location": "USA, Lakeland (Florida)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 56", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1241" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (United Press) Ralph Dinsmore reported having observed a formation of flying saucers in the vicinity of Mount Diablo. The central object seemed to have a protuberance resembling a coffee cup and just below it there was another bearing a symbol that announced \"5 cents\". As he watched, the \"5 cents\" announcement seemed to change into a \"10 cents\" configuration while the coffee in the saucer's cup seemed to empty, the sugar disappeared and the cream too. (note from vog: !!!) Three police officers from San Leandro saw the saucer last night coming from the west, hovering over San Leandro at an altitude of 10,000 feet, for an entire hour. Private pilot Robert O'Hara from Hamilton Field, Marin County reported having seen a 40-foot saucer above the field at about 6000 feet. Frank Tylman, engineer and pilot during the first world war, saw with his 9-year-old son Danny a saucer on Sunday at 8:20 in the morning, 2 miles west of Pittsburg, Contra Costa County. \"It was catapulting towards Mt Diablo,\" he said, \"turning counterclockwise, at an altitude of about 3000 feet, and faster than a jet. The wingspan was that of a P-80, it was silver, circular in shape, curved above and below and it left no condensation trail or smoke.\"", + "location": "USA, Port Costa, California", + "ref": [ + "Internet, May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1242" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the early morning a man stepped out of his house to find the cause of the static electricity noise emitted by the radio. He then saw hovering above a high-tension line, six small discs, the size of small plates.", + "location": "USA, Riverside (California)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1243" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:21 eight objects in the shape of discs, or ovoid of silver color were observed flying silently in single file. One of the discs was more elliptical and was flashing. The witness said that the unidentified objects were flying much faster than airplanes.", + "location": "USA, Colton (California)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1244" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:35 Stanley Miramon and his mother saw about thirty objects circling above them at an altitude of 2000 feet. Miramon compared their size to that of an automobile and said they were round and silver in appearance.", + "location": "USA, San Carlos (California)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1245" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two farmers busy with their harvest saw the sun reflecting off three \"rows\" of discs passing overhead. They estimated that there must have been at least 25 objects flying at high speed in a wavelike and rocking motion from right to left. Before they were out of sight, they saw the three rows change into a V formation.", + "location": "USA, Glenn (California)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1246" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) William Smith, a photographer for the \"Bee\", saw a round object that seemed to be doing loops in the air, alternately showing a dark side and a light side. Smith had served as an aviator in the Navy. He wanted to take a picture of the objects, but when he returned with his camera, they had disappeared.", + "location": "USA, Sacramento", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1247" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (United Press) Mrs. Amy Herdliska reported to the police that she saw a \"mother\" saucer eject five small saucers above the mountains. The small discs scattered, returned to the mother disc and were seemingly absorbed by it. It was a bit like a mother hen and her chicks. (Internet, May 1997).", + "location": "USA, Palmdale", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1248" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (United Press) General H. H. (Hap) Arnold, head of the armed forces during World War II, stated this day that the saucers are probably a development of American scientific research, but not yet perfected. He added that it could of course be foreign country's devices, which have escaped all control. Lastly, the general supposes that they are simply combat aircraft.", + "location": "USA, Sonoma (California)", + "ref": [ + "Internet, May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1249" + }, + { + "date": "7/6/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Landing and ascent of a small disc. (1947, July 6th or 7th)", + "location": "USA, Temple (Arizona)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"From S.V. to UFOs\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 38", + "In the documents of the Project Blue Book, the folder referring to this case is empty!", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1250" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The FBI office in New Orleans reported by telex on 7.7.47 that a small disc had been found. It had descended from the sky emitting smoke. The secret service of the army (G-2) of Barksdale was charged with retrieving it. It was a small flat disc 16 inches in diameter (40 cm) to which two small nozzles were applied. The G-2 of Barksdale had proposed to the FBI to take care of it themselves and the director (Hoover) was informed the next day, July 8, that the Milwaukee Sentinel and Milwaukee Journal had published the day before that Father Joseph Braskey had discovered a wooden saucer. The FBI could not fail to note that Braskey was a confirmed drinker and that he was telling any story and that there was no need to make a more thorough investigation.", + "location": "USA, Shreveport, Louisiana", + "ref": [ + "CENAP, \"Müll aus den Weltraum\" = Space Garbage", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1251" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Several witnesses saw several objects, some of which landed on rooftops. The witnesses saw \"little men\" who disappeared when the journalists arrived. (Inforespace #48 of 1979, p. 29) Two policemen observed bright discs in the sky, in an erratic course. At first the objects emitted red light, then it became purple before changing to blue-white and then back to red. They said that the \"central saucer\" acted as if commanding the others. Around it, smaller saucers seemed to enter and exit.", + "location": "USA, Tacoma (Washington)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1252" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two teenagers who were fishing, observed around 3:30 pm, an object \"flat and reflective\" seeming to come towards them from the ocean. It quickly lost altitude and touched the water about 400 meters from the shore. The impact created a column of water. Then it floated on the surface before sinking. The two teenagers estimated the size to be that of a truck wheel.", + "location": "USA, Fort Bragg (California)", + "ref": [ + "Phenomena No. 35 of 1997, p. 9", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1253" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the Rogers Airport in Springfield, three witnesses saw a \"flat\" and luminous object, bearing what looked like \"fins\". This object seemed to be constantly tumbling. This object followed Walker's plane, and when Walker finally turned towards the southwest, the object disappeared.", + "location": "USA, Springfield (Missouri)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1254" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:30 PM, John W. Hawkins and Virgil Ashley, sitting in Ashley's garden, saw a flying saucer pass by at very high speed, heading north. The saucer was luminous, silver in color. They estimated its altitude to be around 300 feet and they heard a faint buzzing sound.", + "location": "USA, St Joseph, Missouri", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 57", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1255" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (The London Free Press, July 8) Three members of the James (Lucky) Ferguson family, 117 Langarth Avenue, Manor Park, saw the mysterious disc last night shortly after 8 pm. \"It seemed about as big as one of those weather balloons, but it was flat, like a frying pan,\" said Ferguson. \"It was silver and had a luminous halo on the sides and at the back there were dark markings, and like serrations. The back part was not as rounded as the front part. It was alone.\"", + "location": "CANADA, London (Hamilton)", + "ref": [ + "Internet May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1256" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The wife of a pastor had her attention drawn to the sky where she saw a black ring with cut edges flying through the air.", + "location": "ENGLAND", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1257" + }, + { + "date": "7/8/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7:05am a private pilot observed something strange while flying over Cook Springs: a circular object with a polished mirror-like surface silhouetted against the mountains. He attempted to get closer, but the UFO's speed was so great that it quickly disappeared. (\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 57) July 8, 1947; Muroc Air Base, California. 9:30 a.m. PDT. Witnesses: lst Lt. Joseph McHenry, T/Sgt Ruvolo, S/Sgt Nauman, Miss Janette Scotte. They observed for an indeterminate amount of time two silver, circular, metallic-appearing objects flying in large circles, later one of the two objects reduced its circular trajectory to a smaller circle. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner) July 9, 1947 (9??) Muroc Base, Mojave (California). At 9:30 in the morning at the canteen, an officer of the cantonment said: \"I will believe in these discs when one has been shown to me.\" He went out and... first saw two moving at approx. 500 km/h at 2500 m altitude on a heading of 320°. He called other witnesses. Shortly afterwards he saw a third, on the same heading, describing reduced circles in a rigid plane.", + "location": "USA, Cook Springs (Alabama)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979, pp. 95 to 97.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1258" + }, + { + "date": "7/8/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On July 8, 1947, at 11:50, we were in an observation car in Sector 3, Rogers Dry Lake, to follow two P-82s and an A-26, flying at 6000 meters which were to carry out an ejection seat test. We noticed a round object, the color of aluminum, which at first seemed to us to be a parachute. Our first impression was that an ejection seat had been prematurely ejected, but this was not the case. The object was below 6000 m and was falling at a speed about three times greater than that of the test parachute which we saw open 30 seconds after the discovery of the object. As it fell, it was moving slightly to the north of true west, against the prevailing wind. We were unable to determine the horizontal speed but it seemed to us to be lower than the maximum speed of an F-80. When the object reached an altitude allowing us to observe its lateral silhouette, it presented itself in a clearly oval shape with, at the top, two projections which could be thin ailerons or caboches. They crossed each other at intervals, suggesting a slow rotation or oscillation.” (July 8, 1947)", + "location": "USA, Rogers Dry Lake (near Murdoc)", + "ref": [ + "Edward J. Ruppelt: “Face aux Soucoupes Volantes”, ed. France-Empire 1958, p.35, 36", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1259" + }, + { + "date": "7/8/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3:30 pm a very bright, oval-shaped object topped with a \"glass\" dome was flying in a north-west direction above the city.", + "location": "USA, Seattle", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 62", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1260" + }, + { + "date": "7/8/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 40 miles south of Muroc, at 3:50 PM a P-51 pilot at an altitude of 20,000 feet saw an object without wings or tail, \"flat and reflecting nature\". He attempted to intercept it twice but could not reach the same altitude.", + "location": "USA, 40 miles from Muroc", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 58", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1261" + }, + { + "date": "7/8/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) B. Turrentine saw and photographed a UFO in the shape of a rugby ball spinning and swaying. Witnesses were extensively questioned by the FBI.", + "location": "USA, Norfolk (Virginia)", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1262" + }, + { + "date": "1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A witness saw a silver saucer land. Out of it came a small pilot who was no more than 60 cm tall, with a round head the size of a basketball. This dwarf saluted the witness, went back into his craft and took off.", + "location": "USA, Acres Home - Houston (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 48 of 1979, p. 29", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1263" + }, + { + "date": "7/8/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3:50 PM Lt. A.E. Mormant, flying his fighter at 20,000 feet, saw a flat, wingless, tailless UFO moving at 35,000 feet.", + "location": "USA, Mt. Baldy (California)", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1264" + }, + { + "date": "7/8/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A farmer observed a disk shaped like a huge pancake, something like a ray without a tail. The UFO seemed to be at 2000 feet altitude, flying at about 800 mph and had an estimated diameter of 20 or 30 feet. The object had two window-shaped openings. The body seemed to be metallic and had the luster and polish of stainless steel or aluminum. When the object had passed the witness, he heard for 3 or 4 seconds an almost inaudible sound. The object had several protuberances shaped like pipes and these emitted steam.", + "location": "USA, Corapeak (North Carolina)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 62", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1265" + }, + { + "date": "7/9/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. and Mrs. R.E. Lane were picking berries around 5 pm when they saw an object hovering a few meters above a stretch of sand. After about ten seconds the object disappeared, but a black substance and some metal fragments were found at the site. Analysis concluded that the metal was silver and the black substance was thorite with some impurities of iron, aluminum, and titanium.", + "location": "USA, Midland (Michigan)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 40, 41", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1266" + }, + { + "date": "7/9/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 12:15 p.m. PDT. Witness: Idaho aviation editor and former AAF B-29 pilot Dave Johnson. After three days of aerial searches, he concentrated his gaze on the object and saw it maneuvering so that its edge was presented to him. At that moment it sparkled once in the sunlight. It then seemed to execute a maneuver resembling a roll or barrel roll, which instead of completing, stopped at around 180°. At that precise moment he lost sight of it. He forgot to look at his watch to determine the exact moment he saw the object, but immediately afterwards he called the Civil Aviation Weather Service which recorded his communication at 12:17 p.m. (July 9, 1947)", + "location": "Boise, Idaho", + "ref": [ + "Brad STEIGER: \"UFO, the Project Blue Book\" - translated by Belfond 1979 - pp. 39,40; Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1267" + }, + { + "date": "7/9/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 8 PM T. A. Smith saw a flying disc heading southeast. He said the phenomenon looked like a whirling washing tub. He also noted that the object was emitting sparks, which was confirmed by another witness.", + "location": "USA, Llano (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1268" + }, + { + "date": "7/10/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 12:18 EST, V2 #29 was launched, reaching only 16 km in altitude, radio cut-off", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "emergency", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1269" + }, + { + "date": "7/10/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 1:20 PM George Dey and Roy Wilson reported seeing flying saucers west of Buhl above Joel Hart's farm. They said that at first the objects were luminous and flying in formation, then they scattered. [note from vog: could they not have seen the V2 launched an hour earlier?]", + "location": "USA, west of Buhl (Idaho)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1270" + }, + { + "date": "7/10/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) George Vance observed at 4:30 PM \"a round turtle-backed object\" shining intensely while flying in a straight line.", + "location": "USA, Logan, West Virginia", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1271" + }, + { + "date": "7/10/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A 17-inch diameter disc (42.5 cm) was found. It was apparently made of cardboard and painted with silver enamel. In the center of the disc there was a small pipe and a small motor and on the side a propeller. This \"UFO\" was requisitioned by a colonel of the civil guard, but seeing the \"toy\" the FBI did not want it.", + "location": "USA, Black River Falls, Wisconsin", + "ref": [ + "CENAP: \"Mülle aus den Weltraum\" - space junk -", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1272" + }, + { + "date": "7/10/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Astronomer Lincoln La Paz, accompanied by his wife and two daughters, was travelling from Clovis to Clines Corners when they all noticed a curious bright object almost motionless in the sky amidst thin clouds, around 4:50 PM. This object was ellipsoidal and began to climb slowly before disappearing behind a cloud. It reappeared a few seconds later, but much higher, which made Dr. La Paz think he had just encountered a brand new aerial invention. (Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 41) At 4:47 (...) luminous, a bit less white than Jupiter in dark weather (...) The object was visibly trembling (...) The object was between 30 and 50 km away, was between 55 and 80 m long and between 20 and 30 m high, its horizontal speed was between 150 and 250 km/h, its vertical elevation between 800 and 1500 per hour. It was moving in an oscillating manner (...) (Leslie Adams and George Adamski: \"Les S. V. ont atterri\" - J'ai Lu 1971, p. 44 à 46) At 4:47 a renowned astronomer (whose identity is not mentioned in the magazine \"Life\" where the author drew the article from) accompanied by two of his teenage daughters saw an elliptical object very high among the clouds (note from vog: still the V2?) The astronomer, using his pencil to determine the apparent size, estimated that the object was at a distance between 20 and 30 miles from his position, elliptical and rigid, 160 feet long, 65 feet wide, flying at 120 to 180 mph horizontally or 600 to 900 mph vertically. It was silent (??? note from vog: I'll believe it, at that distance!) luminous through the clouds, with a slightly undulating movement, without a condensation trail. The observation lasted 2 minutes 30.", + "location": "USA, between Clovis and Clines (New Mexico) Fort Summer", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1273" + }, + { + "date": "7/10/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two silver discs shaped like saucers with a dome on the upper part passed slowly over the city on a clear day.", + "location": "USA, Cheyenne (Wyoming)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1274" + }, + { + "date": "7/10/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Smith Tarrant, who had been a colonel in the Air Force, saw from the doorway of a store two flying saucers at about 1500 feet altitude, flying in a straight line at a speed of 200 to 250 mph. They left his view to the south after a three minute observation, during which he heard no sound, nor did he perceive any exhaust trail, or any visible means of propulsion.", + "location": "USA, Temple (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1275" + }, + { + "date": "7/10/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Sixty people at the local ice cream parlor at the John Cox farm saw groups of flying saucers flying in pairs or threes from north to south. Some flew alone, but most were in formation. The same kind of observation was made by Mr. and Mrs. Dykes and Mr. and Mrs. Van Buren and their family as they drove on Highway 65. The sight of this phenomenon caused all these people to pull over to the side of the road where they were joined by other stunned motorists.", + "location": "USA, in Missouri", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1276" + }, + { + "date": "7/10/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7 PM, Ray Carpenter and his wife saw a luminous object in a bank of dark clouds. A former director of the Wolf Point aerodrome, Carpenter estimated the size of the object to be that of a private plane flying very fast.", + "location": "USA, near Brockton (Montana)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 65", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1277" + }, + { + "date": "7/10/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:00 PM a pilot from the \"Lee Geophysical Company\" saw a luminous craft fly south. An independent witness, J.C. Penman, saw instead \"a round fluorescent lamp\" heading northeast. (\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 65) July 10, 1947; Harmon Field, Newfoundland, Canada. Between 3 and 5 PM local time. Witnesses: three crew members and Mr. Leidy, of Pan American Airways, observed for a short time a translucent disc, or wheel-shaped, flying rapidly and leaving a dark blue trail, before making its way through the clouds. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). At 5 PM, civilian navigators saw a UFO similar to a truck wheel at 10,000 feet. Photo taken of some kind of smoke trail. Around 11:15 PM, several witnesses in St. Jean saw round and luminous UFOs.", + "location": "USA, Tulsa (Oklahoma)", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1278" + }, + { + "date": "7/10/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7:30 pm my wife told me she had seen an object in the sky. It was entering the clouds at an indeterminate altitude, shining like a star or like a mirror reflecting the sun. When it went into the shade it became dark and round or oval. There was no sound coming from the object which was the size of an airplane. It stayed in view for four minutes and then disappeared towards the southeast.\"", + "location": "NORWAY, near Skotfoss", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 66", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1279" + }, + { + "date": "7/11/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 2:20 AM the inhabitants of Codroy saw a flying saucer with a conical tail. The object was very bright, in yellow tones and left a yellowish trail. It flew extremely fast, coming from the northwest and heading east at an altitude of about 6000 feet.", + "location": "CANADA, Codroy", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 65", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1280" + }, + { + "date": "7/11/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Johnny Johnson, working for the E. L. Mansure company, tried in vain to shoot down the \"flying saucers\". He was at his home and sleeping, when his wife, who was returning from church around 10 pm with neighbors, came to wake him up to tell him that there were \"strange objects\" in the air. He took his gun and fired several shots at the saucers, in the hope of shooting one down. They were flying at low altitude, were circular, and continued to fly over the area for half an hour. Unable to reach them, Johnson eventually went back to bed.", + "location": "USA, Brush (Virginia)", + "ref": [ + "Source: Bluefield, West Virginia SUNSET NEWS, 12 July 1947, Page 1. Edition I and Edition II. \"Learns Shots Can't Ground Flying Discs - cfr Jan Aldrich", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1281" + }, + { + "date": "7/11/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Associated Press reported this: \"Two pilots flying at 1000 feet about 10 miles south of High Point saw at 7:20 pm 'a ball of fire..' 'A huge object flying at very high speed..' A flash of light to the left of their plane made them look in that direction. They then saw a huge object, rounded on top, with a black band outlining the central part, flying at an incredible speed towards the north. The base of the object was rotating, and regularly there was a fire emission coming from it, as if it was a jet. The pilot had turned to get closer to this 'thing', but his maneuver was not yet finished when the object passed him and disappeared in the direction of the north, towards Winston-Salem, on a trajectory that passed through High Point and Thomasville.\" (July 11, 1947)", + "location": "USA, High Point (North Carolina)", + "ref": [ + "Wilmington, (NC) MORNING STAR, 13 July 1947, Page 1 \"YEP, THEY'RE REPORTED AGAIN'\" - Jan Aldrich", + "Investigator's note: The two pilots, Ed Lewis and Dick Milsaps, would have collaborated together on a local magazine \"Southern Wings\", one being the author, the other the editor, but Bullard and Aldrich's investigation could not find any trace of the magazine or the pilots.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1282" + }, + { + "date": "7/11/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:00 GMT in the morning, accompanying a Viking transport to Argentina, Captain Norman E. Waught of London Airwork Ltd was at approximately 8000 feet when he saw ahead of him at a higher altitude, an elongated, tadpole-shaped object flying at 16000 feet. First Officer Peter Roberts and Radio Officer Stuart Chinneck confirmed that the object was grayish and of an unusual shape. At one point they were 5 or 6 miles away from the UFO, which then passed by their aircraft at an enormous speed leaving a trail of vapor. The crew estimated the speed of the object to be 6000mph and 7000 feet above them.", + "location": "ATLANTIC, Bay of Biscay", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 67", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1283" + }, + { + "date": "7/12/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man reported the observation at noon of an orange ball flying and making a humming sound above Silver Lake.", + "location": "USA, Silver Lake (Washington)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 68", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1284" + }, + { + "date": "7/13/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Several witnesses saw at 7 pm above Baker Valley, a round object moving in a yo-yo pattern. Among them were pilots who attempted to intercept it in vain.", + "location": "USA, Wingville (Oregon)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 68", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1285" + }, + { + "date": "7/16/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. C. Arnell found in his garden the debris of an American weather balloon, a \"US Army Signal Corps weather balloon\" which had probably been launched from an airport in the state of Washington. There were rubber pieces, a parachute like crepe paper, bright red in color. A complex mechanism was enclosed in a semblance of a box, weighing not 1 kilogram. Other similar balloon debris had already been found in various places on Vancouver Island.", + "location": "CANADA, Vancouver Island (BC)", + "ref": [ + "Press clippings - cfr Jan Aldrich", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1286" + }, + { + "date": "7/17/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 2:45 PM and 3:00 PM several objects appear at different altitudes above Helena. But it is possible that it was a balloon release as the military did at that time.", + "location": "USA, Helena (Montana)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 68", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1287" + }, + { + "date": "7/20/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One UFO event is reported in Texas, and according to its description it appears to be a rocket launch.", + "location": "USA, Texas", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 68", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1288" + }, + { + "date": "7/20/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A ship reported that at around 8:15 PM red-orange flashes were emitted by a UFO changing direction in its progression.", + "location": "At sea, near Newfoundland (Canada)", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1289" + }, + { + "date": "7/23/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A works supervisor, José C. Higgins, heard a very sharp, piercing sound and saw a large disc land that was about 50m wide. It was made of a grayish-white metal and stood on curved metal legs. The other workers fled and Higgins was left alone with three entities over 2 meters tall wearing \"transparent suits covering head and body, and inflated like rubber bags,\" as well as \"metal boxes\" on their backs. Their clothing, visible through the suits, resembled brightly colored paper. The entities, all identical, had huge round eyes, enormous round and bald heads, no eyebrows, no beards, and legs that were proportionally longer than ours. Higgins couldn't tell if they were male or female but he found them strangely beautiful. They surrounded him, one of them raised a metal tube towards him and they seemed to want to draw him into the disc. But observing that they feared the bright sun, he managed to escape and hid for half an hour in a bush where he then observed that, with extraordinary agility, they jumped and gamboled while throwing huge stones. Then they went back into the craft which vanished with a whistle towards the north. In the previous phase one of them had dug eight holes in the ground with a stick and showed Higgins that the largest hole was \"Alamo\" while the seventh, the farthest away, was \"Orque\". (Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 107) José C. Higgins, who was then in Brazil, encountered three astronauts wearing transparent and inflated scuba suits like automobile tires. Each of them had a kind of metal bag on their shoulders. One of the characters drew a point surrounded by seven circles on the ground, then indicated the seventh circle as well as the craft from which they had just disembarked. According to their external appearance, they did not differ in any way from the inhabitants of our planet. (A. RIBERA: \"These Mysterious UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 227, he places this in August 1947) Three humanoids 2.10m tall who looked like triplets.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Bauru-Pitanga, Campo de Mourao", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"UFO, the Unmasked Invaders\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 80", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1290" + }, + { + "date": "7/23/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: July 10, 1947) The \"Continental J. 3\" plane of pilot John E. Janssen was stopped and immobilized in mid-air by a flying saucer. (Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 68) The pilot's body was filled with unpleasant electric tingles. The plane's circuits were cut. The aviator saw above him the presence of two overlapping metal discs, one clearly hovering much higher than the other. After a while the plane nosedived, the tingles disappeared and Janssen was able to restart the engine and straighten the plane.", + "location": "USA, Morristown (New Jersey)", + "ref": [ + "J. G. DOHMEN: \"A identifier et le cas Adamski\" - éd. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 51, 52", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1291" + }, + { + "date": "7/23/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A green fireball was reported under the clouds. This is the only good UFO report for this date.", + "location": "Belgium", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 68", + "the author cites the newspaper \"Het Belang van Limburg\" and a letter from 1954", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1292" + }, + { + "date": "7/29/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 05:55, launch of V2 No. 30, reaching an altitude of 159 km. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952) July 29, 1947; Hamilton Air Base, California. 12:00 p.m. PDT. Witnesses: Base Operations Assistant Captain William Rhyerd, former AAF B-29 pilot Ward Stewart. Observed for an unspecified length of time two round and shiny objects, estimated to be 15-25 feet in diameter, flying at 3 or 4 times the apparent speed of a P 80. One of the objects flew in a straight line, the other oscillated from left to right like an escort.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1293" + }, + { + "date": "7/29/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. June 24, 1947, Kenneth Arnold case) Above Union he saw flying straight ahead, a strange group of objects the color of embers, resembling ducks in migration. He tried to photograph them. These objects were round, their upper part matte with a spot. They flew at several hundred miles per hour.", + "location": "USA, Union, Oregon", + "ref": [ + "The coming of the Saucers\" Kenneth Arnold, Palmer, 1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1294" + }, + { + "date": "7/29/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 12:05 a bright disc moving quickly, then hovering. After being shaken by oscillations it is seen \"dissolving\" into the air.", + "location": "USA, Canyon Ferry", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1295" + }, + { + "date": "7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mme S. was cycling at around 3pm on the road that runs alongside the Seine. She saw on the road a kind of large rugby ball, 3 meters long and 2 meters high. Beside the craft were two small beings, about 1 meter tall. \"When I got to about a hundred meters from this thing, I stopped and rang my bike bell. The two small beings got up, saw me, and rushed into their craft. It rose vertically to about a hundred meters, then stopped oscillating for a few seconds before speeding away.\" Astonished, the witness continued on her way, wondering what devilry she had just witnessed...", + "location": "FRANCE, Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie (region of Rouen)", + "ref": [ + "GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 89, 90", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1296" + }, + { + "date": "Late 7/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1969, after reading in the newspaper \"La Suisse\" articles about UFOs, a reader took up her pen and wrote: \"At Azeindaz, one evening with beautiful weather, I was sitting around 8 pm against the wall of my brother's house, on the side of the Tour d'Azeindaz. Suddenly, I saw in the sky, high above the said Tour, a luminous disc. It was the size of the moon (the size is difficult to evaluate, now I have the impression that it was bigger), of a bright white-silver, like aluminum, slightly tinted mauve-light blue, and accompanied by green and red balls. The most characteristic was its descent movement towards the ridges, turning slowly on itself, like leaves falling in autumn. The apparition was very beautiful, I was very moved, it disappeared behind the Tour d'Azeindaz, in the precipice towards Solalex. The whole movement lasted about 15 to 20 seconds, if not more. What was also characteristic is that the object seemed to rush towards me, to \"come\" from very high. I went to the others to announce this wonderful extraordinary vision, but nobody paid attention and I was even answered very evasively. I did not talk about it anymore, but I remember it very well...\" (1947, late July)", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Azeindaz", + "ref": [ + "Les Soucoupes chez Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997", + "Marlise Flotron, Lausanne", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1297" + }, + { + "date": "7/30/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A motorist driving his vehicle was observing storm clouds in the sky just before dawn. As he watched, something emerged from the clouds, passed over him and flew off in a south-easterly direction. This thing glided towards the ground, righted itself and gained altitude before disappearing at great speed. The object did not seem to be very high in the sky. \"It looked like an airplane wing burning at both ends, but when it passed over me I could see it was round in shape. It was the size of a tractor wheel and four feet thick. It was spinning and flames were coming out all around it. I had laughed at stories about these things, but this time I wasn't laughing, I was scared. The object was real. I wish I had found another witness to this apparition, but at that hour there was no one around.\" The witness said the object was silent and he was able to observe it for about 20 seconds.", + "location": "Canada, between Torquay and Estevan (Saskatchewan)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 70", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1298" + }, + { + "date": "8/1/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two women saw three discs topped with dark domes, coming in a triangular formation from behind the hills. They crossed the sky in a straight line, from WSW to ENE. All three seemed to have a lower part in rotation and had a metallic look.", + "location": "FRANCE, Arèches (Savoie)", + "ref": [ + "Phenomena No. 35 of 1997 p. 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1299" + }, + { + "date": "8/2/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A Lancastrian Star Dust of British South American Airways, was due to land in Santiago at 5:45 pm. At 5:41 pm the radio reported to the control tower that all was well on board and that the pilot, Capt. R. J. Cook was about to begin the approach procedure. At the end of this message, the Santiago radio operator heard three times, very clearly, very loudly, pronounced by another voice than that of the pilot, a word that could be spelled as \"STENDEK\"... (note of vog: \"stand on deck\"? It is the cry launched when a ship (mariner) is in distress) From that moment on, there was no more news either from the plane, or from the 5 crew members, or from the six passengers, or from the radio, or from any other testimonies. A large corridor of 400 km² was combed through with several aircraft, without result. (Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on Humanoid ETs\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 103, 104) IN REALITY: But in December 1999, Argentinian aviation enthusiast Juan Carlos Mouso was flying over Mount Tupungato, 110 kilometers (66 miles) southwest of Mendoza and 500 kilometers and 500 kilometers (300 miles) west of Buenos Aires, \"when he spotted the glint of sunshine on a fuselage on the mountain's south face.\" Mouso convinced the Argentinian government to mount a search of Tupungato. Assisting Mouso in the arduous climb was Argentina's 11th Mountain Infantry Regiment. On Monday, January 24, 2000, Mouso and two Argentinian soldiers \"found a badly-damaged four- engine Lancaster and three frozen bodies\" on one of Tupungato's glaciers at an altitude of 5,500 meters (17,600 feet.).\" Apparently, the Star Dust had exploded in mid-air, scattering debris over the snowfields to a distance of one kilometer (0.62 miles). \"Investigators huffing through the thin air at the crash site found twisted metal and the remains of three frozen bodies amid the wreckage of the fuselage.\"

\"Besides the three bodies, the searchers also found a woman's hand and a shoe with a Royal Air Force (RAF) insignia that may have belonged to one of the pilots.\" \"'The urgency now is to fence off the (crash) site so no one removes any of the discovered remains until a group of specialists can arrive, which is difficult but not impossible,' Lt. Col. Bustos said.\" Argentinian \"federal judge Alfredo Manuel Rodriguez is in charge of the forensic investigation and is taking fingerprints and DNA samples to establish the victims' identities.\" Paul Simpson was reportedly wearing a small silver lapel pin in the form of a running greyhoud. This is the insignia of a King's Messenger and will probably be used to identify his remains, if they are found.", + "location": "CHILE, Santiago", + "ref": [ + "See the Argentinian newspapers Uno for January 24, 2000 and La Nacion for January 26, 2000. - Scott Corrales, Jim Hickman et UFO Roundup, Volume 5, Number 5, 3.2.2000, Editor: Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1300" + }, + { + "date": "8/4/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4:00 PM the pilot and navigator saw from their plane an orange, shiny, cylindrical UFO, its two ends tapering off. Witnesses were extensively questioned by the FBI.", + "location": "USA, near Boston", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1301" + }, + { + "date": "8/4/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On a day in July, with a cloudless sky, it was still daylight, around 10 pm. (...) The pilot was arriving with his DC 3 towards the Béthel airport. He saw the object to his left and declared that the co-pilot saw it at the same instant. They made a 45° turn to leave the object's trajectory and then had the impression that it was moving away. The pilot described it as a winged object of the apparent size of a C.54. He could not see any propulsion system, any combustion, or any vapor trail. (...) The civil aviation authorities of Béthel had no other plane in the sector. (...) The object was at 1000 feet, and was moving at 300 mph. No radio interference. The object appeared dark and very sharply outlined against the sky. (...) (Phénoména n° 35 of 1997, p. 12 which falsely relates the story in July) At 10 pm (but it was still daylight) the pilot and co-pilot of a military plane saw a UFO in the shape of a winged object without engines or trace of combustion smoke. Witnesses were extensively interrogated by the FBI. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider, he places the date at August 4, 1947).", + "location": "ALASKA, near Béthel", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 71 and 72, on the date of August 4", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1302" + }, + { + "date": "8/6/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 10:30 PM many witnesses saw a UFO in the shape of a \"giant firecracker\" moving at an apparent speed of several hundred miles/hour. Witnesses were extensively questioned by the FBI.", + "location": "USA, Philadelphia", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1303" + }, + { + "date": "8/2/1947 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On August 8th 1947 (note from vog: August 8th was a Sunday, if I'm not mistaken), the Gazette de Lausanne, citing the Corriere del Ticino, mentions a communication from its correspondent in Locarno: \"Last Monday, around 3 o'clock in the morning, a luminous globe was seen in the sky, accompanied by a very shrill whistling, crossing the horizon from east to west and disappearing behind the Pizzo Ruscada. Many think it was one of the famous \"flying saucers\" and others affirm it was a meteor of an exceptional size.\" (1947, August 2nd (?))", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Locarno", + "ref": [ + "The Saucers in Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1977", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1304" + }, + { + "date": "8/13/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A.C. Urie and his two sons saw, around 1 o'clock, in the Snake River Gorge, an object of lenticular shape, pale blue, with a bright red incandescent flange along the top leaving behind it like a red exhaust flame. The object descended to 90 m in the deep gorge of 120 m at that place. It disappeared behind a tree. The closest sound heard was a \"ch-ch-ch\". Dimensions: 6 m high, 3 m wide and 3 m high, resembling an upside-down pie plate. All witnesses were extensively questioned by the FBI. (August 13, 1947)", + "location": "USA, Twin Falls (Idaho)", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider", + "Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970 - p.94", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1305" + }, + { + "date": "8/14/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Professor R. L. Johannis, a painter and geologist (but also author of science fiction books: 15 or 16 titles in the collection \"I Romanzi di Urania\" by Mondadori in Milan - cfr Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of the Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 228 - for the Italian CISU group: he is only a painter and science fiction author, and Johannis is the pseudonym of Lugi Rapuzzi) on an excursion in the Italian Alps, discovered around 9 o'clock in the morning, while going up the Chiarso stream, a lenticular disc about 10 m wide and two \"boys\" 50 m away from him. He called them by showing the disc and heading towards them. Halfway there he stopped, stunned, noticing that the boys were 90 cm tall dwarves who were taking a few steps towards him. Big head, no hair, no eyebrows, greenish face, straight nose, widely split mouth, somewhat fish-like. The skin around the huge, round and prominent yellow-green eyes formed rings rather than eyelids. The excited professor started shouting at them, asking who they were and where they were from, while gesturing with his ice axe. One of the two dwarves put his hand to his belt from which then came a very short beam. The professor found himself on the ground and the ice axe flew towards the dwarves who took it away. The witness felt a violent electric shock. The disc rose into the air and a cascade of stones and earth came down from the place where it had been stationed.(Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 216)

While he was lying on the ground, the two dwarves advanced and stopped 2 meters away from Johannis. He managed to turn and lie on his side. He saw one of the adversaries bend down and pick up the ice axe which was bigger than him. At that moment he could clearly see the green hand taking the object. It had eight fingers of which four were rigid, without joints. It was not really a hand but rather a kind of claw. He also noticed that the breathing of the two beings was oppressed. (A. RIBERA: \"Ces mystérieux ovni\" - de Vecchi 1976, p. 252, 253) (The CISU group - which also assumes that it is a hoax - gives the following details: the saucer was very shiny as if varnished and of a beautiful red color with a pinkish transverse slit, in the center there was a dome topped with a telescopic antenna. He saw two beings and thought they were small shepherds, before seeing their way of walking in small steps. They had a big head covered with a kind of brown helmet, their eyes were huge and protuberant, the pupil of yellow color crossed by a vertical line and surrounded by a dark iris. They wore a dark blue tights. To the question of what they were doing there, one of the beings manipulated a small box at his belt from which a light smoke came out. Johannis found himself on the ground and one of the beings took his ice axe. They returned to their craft which first rose vertically, then inclined a bit, and left at an enormous speed. At their departure Johannis noted the loss of his ice axe and various aluminum elements of his equipment. Johannis would have made a report of this adventure in 1964, for the Clypeus group. [note from vog: as he was an author of science fiction...]", + "location": "ITALY, Raveo (Villa Santina) (Frioul)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1306" + }, + { + "date": "8/14/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:40 a.m. soldiers saw a crescent-shaped UFO, quickly zigzagging twice during the same hour. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider) Around the same time American planes were pursued by glowing balls. Once, one of them penetrated into a bomber, passing through the walls of the cabin and exiting in the same way, terrifying the astonished crew.", + "location": "JAPAN, Guam Island", + "ref": [ + "Antonio RIBERA: \"Procès aux Ovni\" - DE VECCHI 1977, p. 34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1307" + }, + { + "date": "8/19/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. and Mrs. Busby, as well as Mrs. Henry Swift, were sitting on the porch of their house around 9:30 pm when suddenly Mrs. Busby cried out, pointing to the sky where she had seen an object fly off to the northeast at an incredible speed. Ten minutes later, the three witnesses saw similar objects, moving in the same direction in a triangular formation. Just as the formation disappeared, three objects detached from its left flank and flew off to the north. The others seemed to tighten their ranks and continued to the northeast. Three to five minutes later they saw three more objects in the same direction, and five minutes after that, five to six objects, still in a triangular formation. Very shortly after, a group of 35 to 40 objects were flying in the same direction in a triangular formation. Twenty minutes later, objects grouped in threes were returning to the city to the southeast. Inspector Frazier of the police arrived with two officers, following Mrs. Busby's call, and they too observed these objects.", + "location": "USA, Twin Falls (Idaho)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979, p. 39, 40", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1308" + }, + { + "date": "8/15/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Major Smith reported that shortly before nightfall, while sitting in the parking lot near the restricted area gates, he saw about 12 flying objects in a tight diamond formation. Coming from the northwest they were descending slowly. At about 150m altitude, they leveled off, made a wide 110° right turn and resumed an ascending course towards the southwest. They rose with a rapid acceleration and seemed to be moving between 500 and 650 km/h. Seen in a horizontal plane they had an elliptical shape and the size of a B.29. No sound or condensation trail. (1947, between August 15th and 20th)", + "location": "USA, Rapid City AFB, Weaver", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"The UFO Report\" - Belfond 1979, p. 40, 41", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1309" + }, + { + "date": "8/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Dessily was with other people witness to the terror of a peasant after the landing of a UFO on his field. A circular trace of 15 m in diameter was visible in the half-charred plants.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Jalhay (Liège)", + "ref": [ + "list Daniel BUKENS, Remicourt, Belg.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1310" + }, + { + "date": "8/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 10:00, a mountain hiker saw a UFO landed on the ground. It took off, causing the witness to become dizzy.", + "location": "USA, near Los Angeles", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1311" + }, + { + "date": "9/2/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Flying saucers caused panic in a pigeon release, driving them, in panic, back to the pigeon loft. Thomas Naylor, well known to pigeon fanciers, reported the news. He swears to have observed, high in the sky, spinning discs in the sky, at the moment he was releasing his Birmingham pigeons. Finally it appeared that there was only one object, but it cut the trajectory of the flight and the pigeons returned precipitously to the pigeon loft, refusing to come out for a certain time.", + "location": "CANADA, Nanaimo, Vancouver", + "ref": [ + "Source: The Vancouver (BC) SUN of 3 Sep 1947: 'Flying Saucers' Stampede Pigeons\" cfr: Jan Aldrich", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1312" + }, + { + "date": "9/6/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) British test launch of a V2, reaching 9.6 km altitude and exploding.", + "location": "BERMUDA, \"Midway\"", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, p. 258", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1313" + }, + { + "date": "9/6/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The logbook of the tanker USS Chipola (...) reveals an observation made at 9:40 PM: \"unidentified luminous phenomena\" were observed 10° above the horizon at an estimated distance of 5 miles. The crew observed the maneuvers of two groups of 8 oval-shaped objects of a bluish color, at a speed of about 5 knots. They disappeared in about eight seconds. The witnesses were Officer of the Watch R.L. Simmons, Ensign J.B. Harris and Third Class J.A. Wisnienski.", + "location": "From the Persian Gulf to the USA", + "ref": [ + "Phénoména n° 35 of 1997 p. 16", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1314" + }, + { + "date": "9/12/1947 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On September 13, 1947 (note from vog: September 13 was a Saturday if I checked correctly), the Lausanne Gazette headlined: \"Are these flying saucers?\" \"Reliable people living in La Rosiaz, Lausanne, witnessed a curious phenomenon on Friday evening. At around 6 pm, they saw a large, very bright star slowly crossing the sky from the Villeneuve region to above Evian. At 7 pm, a second star crossed the sky in the same direction, but this time it \"attached\" itself to the Dent d'Oche, where it stayed for several minutes before disappearing.\" These witnesses insist that these aerial lights moved much slower than shooting stars. We cannot help but compare this account to the flying saucer affair, without drawing any conclusions.\" (1947, September 12 (?))", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, La Rosiaz, Lausanne", + "ref": [ + "Les Soucoupes chez Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1315" + }, + { + "date": "9/20/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Something off the coast of Southern California greatly disturbed the population. The incident occurred on September 20 and was reported by the US Coast Guard as: \"A flaming object (that) fell into the sea off the coast; no missing aircraft; Griffith Park Observatory does not believe it was a kind of meteorite\". Strange indeed, since it looks very much like a meteorite and, in such cases, this is normally the first line of defense of orthodoxy. However, a more thorough investigation revealed that this darned \"thing\" was maneuvering, and for quite a while, and consequently it had greatly distressed the Coast Guard. (September 20, 1947)", + "location": "USA, Southern California, at sea", + "ref": [ + "Yvan T. SANDERSON: \"The Invisibles Under the Seas\" Albin Michel 1979 - pp. 50-51", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1316" + }, + { + "date": "9/23/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) DATE: 23 September 1947 SUBJECT: AMC Opinion Concerning \"Flying Discs\" TO: Commanding General Army Air Forces Washington 25, D.C. ATTENTION: Brig. General George Schulgen, AC/AS-2 1. As requested by AC/AS-2, the considered opinion of this command concerning the so-called \"Flying Discs\" is presented below. This opinion is based on interrogation report data furnished by AC/AS-2 and preliminary studies by personnel of T-2 and Aircraft Laboratory Engineering Division T-3. This opinion was arrived at in a conference between personnel from the Air Institute of Technology, Intelligence T-2, Office, Chief of Engineering Division, and the Aircraft, Power Plant and Propeller Laboratories of Engineering Division T-3.

2. It is the opinion that: a. The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious. b. There are objects probably approximately the shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as man-made aircraft. c. There is the possibility that some of the incidents may be caused by natural phenomena, such as meteors. d. The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and action which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically or remotely.

e. The apparent common description of the objects is as follows: (1) Metallic or light reflecting surface. (2) Absence of trail, except in a few instances when the object apparently was operating under high performance conditions. (3) Circular or elliptical in shape, flat on bottom and domed on top. (4) Several reports of well kept formation flights varying from three to nine objects. (5) Normally no associated sound, except in three instances a substantial rumbling roar was noted. (6) Level flight speeds normally about 300 knots are estimated.

f. It is possible within the present U.S. knowledge - provided extensive detailed development is undertaken--to construct a piloted aircraft which has the general description of the object in subparagraph (e) above which would be capable of an approximate range of 700 miles at subsonic speeds. g. Any developments in this country along the lines indicated would be extremely expensive, time consuming and at the considerable expense of current projects and therefore, if directed, should be set up independently of existing projects. h. Due consideration must be given the following:

(1) The possibility that these objects are of domestic origin -the product of some high security project not known to AC/AS-2 or this command. (2) The lack of physical evidence in the shape of crash recovered exhibits which would undeniably prove the existence of these objects. (3) The possibility that some foreign nations has a form of propulsion possibly nuclear, which is outside of our domestic knowledge.

3. It is recommended that: Headquarters, Army Air Forces issue a directive assigning a priority, security classification and code name for a detailed study of this matter to include the preparation of complete sets of all available and pertinent data which will then be made available to the Army , Navy, Atomic Energy Commission, JRDB, the Air Force Scientific Advisory Group, NACA, and the RAND and NEPA projects for comments and recommendations, with a preliminary report to be forwarded within 15 days of receipt of the data and a detailed report thereafter every 30 days as the investigation develops. A complete interchange of data should be effected. 4. Awaiting a specific directive AMC will continue the investigation within its current resources in order to more closely define the nature of the phenomenon. Detailed Essential Elements of Information will be formulated immediately for transmittal thru channels. N.F. TWINING Lieutenant General, U.S.A. Commanding. (1947, 23 September)", + "location": "USA: Document TWINING.", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1317" + }, + { + "date": "10/9/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 12:15 launch of V2 No. 27 which reached 156 km altitude.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1318" + }, + { + "date": "Early 10/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Then on the 10th. Test pilot Chuck Yeager, on P-51 (XS-1), which he had named \"Glamourous Glennis\" in honor of his wife, reached a speed of Mach 0.93. (...) On October 10th Yeager reached Mach 0.94. But ice was forming inside the cockpit. Fighter pilots Bob Hoover and Dick Frost on Lockheed P-80 then assisted him \"viva voice\" to land blind. Analysis of the oscillographic film compared to ground data confirmed that the XS-1 had reached Mach 0.997 at 12000 meters altitude, or a speed of 1059 km. It was also, for everyone, the experience of the first \"supersonic bang\". (1947, early October)", + "location": "USA, Muroc", + "ref": [ + "NASA Website, 1997 see \"On the Frontier, Ref 1-19", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1319" + }, + { + "date": "10/14/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Sound Barrier was broken on October 14. Preparations began at dawn. There was a secret kept by Jack Ridley and Walt Williams about the horse fall that test pilot Yeager had the day before: He had two broken ribs and was bandaged roughly by a civilian doctor... So they made a short cut for him to be able to enter the plane. The crew of the B29 who had heard of the fall but ignored the case of the broken ribs, presented him with a carrot and a turnip. The Glamourous Glennis was put into the bomb bay of the B29 and then the tanks were filled with 1177 liters of liquid oxygen and 1109 liters of ethylene fuel (...) At 10:02 the Superfortress took off. Two P-80 fighters accompanied it. At 10:26, at 6000 meters of altitude, the Glamourous Glennis was launched into the sky above the Mojave Desert. (...) Soon it reached Mach 1.05, at 13100 m of altitude (speed 1125 km/h). Fourteen minutes after the launch it touched the ground in the bed of the dry lake. The Sound Barrier had been definitely broken.", + "location": "USA, Muroc", + "ref": [ + "NASA Website, 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1320" + }, + { + "date": "10/14/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) NNE of Cave Creek, Arizona, at noon. Witnesses: former AAF bomber pilot J.L. Clark, civilian pilot Anderson, and a third person. Observed for 45-60 seconds an object in the shape of a flying wing, about 3 feet in size, appearing to be black in color, seen through the clouds, and red against the blue sky, flying in a straight line at an estimated speed of 380 m.p.h., at an altitude of 8-10,000 feet, from NW to SE. (Project Blue Book - cf. Don Berliner). [Note from vog: see previous article... this seems clear to me!]", + "location": "USA, near Cave Creek (Arizona)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1321" + }, + { + "date": "Early 10/1947 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Selman Graves (22 years old) and his brother-in-law Bob Malody (16 years old) were hunting rabbits and exploring abandoned mines in what is now known as the Cave Creek Recreational Area. At one point, standing atop the highest hill, they looked south towards their friend Walt Salyer's house. From their vantage point they could make out the house, the corral, and even the water tank. But when they looked west, they saw something unforgettable. It was an aluminum dome erected in the middle of the desert, like an observation dome. There were five men and two trucks near the dome. One of the trucks was a military-style (2.5-ton) personnel and equipment transport. But there was no equipment, no small cranes, nothing. Moreover, the five men didn't seem to be working either. The dome was estimated to be 11 meters in diameter and was located about a mile from their position. (1947, Early October?)", + "location": "USA, Cave Creek, Arizona.", + "ref": [ + "see above: October 14, Muroc, and the landing...", + "See the newspaper Newsday of Melville, N.Y. for July 6, 1997. Lou Farrish of UFO Newsclipping Service, 1997.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1322" + }, + { + "date": "11/15/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 47,000 spectators of a baseball match saw two \"flying saucers\" slowly flying above the stadium, hovering for a moment before suddenly speeding away at a terrifying speed.", + "location": "NICARAGUA, Managua", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 74", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1323" + }, + { + "date": "11/20/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 16:47, a V2 \"special\" was launched, only reaching 21 km in altitude, poor performance.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1324" + }, + { + "date": "11/24/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First launch of an Aerobee, it reached 57 km in altitude and stopped after 35 seconds (jerks).", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, p. 286, doc. Van Allen", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1325" + }, + { + "date": "12/8/1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 14:42, V2 #28 was launched, reaching 104 km.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1326" + }, + { + "date": "1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A young African saw near the Institute of Education and Research, located near the forest, a small man with red fur on his body and long hair on his head. This creature emerged from the trees, but upon realizing that she was not alone, she retreated back into the forest.", + "location": "COTE D'IVOIRE, Adiopodoumé", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 198", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1327" + }, + { + "date": "1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Thomas C. Smith, recently graduated from Penn State University with a degree in mechanical engineering, was working for the Chance-Vought Aircraft Company in Stratford, which was manufacturing airplanes for the US Navy. He had the opportunity to see on the ground and then in flight, a perfectly terrestrial flying saucer. The disc was in a hangar, was elliptical in shape, measured about 12 meters in diameter and was powered by propeller engines. Its takeoff was vertical for the first three meters (like a helicopter) and then it took an ascending trajectory. The bubble-shaped cockpit allowed the pilot to see in front of him and below him. The edges of the craft were thick, about ten centimeters, and the bubble was only 60 centimeters high. Smith saw the pilot enter and lie down on his stomach on the provided bunk. At the back there were two propellers. The metal parts were painted khaki. Smith claims that many such devices were being developed and tested by test pilots and that there were obviously from time to time, accidents.", + "location": "USA, Stratford, Connecticut", + "ref": [ + "Source: Lancaster New Era, Pennsylvania, 12.7.1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1328" + }, + { + "date": "Spring 1947", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Excerpt from a letter from an anonymous witness: \"We were living there, on the side of the road called the Trans Canada Highway, the Cloverdale/Langley road crossed our property. The area is very sparsely populated and consists mostly of flat fields as far as the eye can see. We were on vacation, I was 16 years old. With my brother I was near a pond close to our house. While he was trying to fish for minnows, I was reading, leaning against and in the shade of a tree. It was quiet, it was nice. I had heard a humming sound, but I didn't think anything special about it. Then, I remember, we see in the sky something gray-silver, right in front of us. What happened? For an hour we experienced conscious situations, interspersed with moments of unconsciousness. In the object a door opened, its full height, and four or five grotesque creatures, resembling praying mantises, but dressed in gray-silver tights, without buttons, zippers, nothing, came out. I had gotten up, still holding my book in my hand, and one of these creatures came straight towards me. I was petrified, it put a hand on my shoulder and looked me straight in the eyes, as if to read my thoughts and I had the impression of hearing \"clicks\" like a camera, produced by its huge black eyes. It was terrifying. Then there was a blackout.

... I felt calmer, and I sent my mother, who was screaming, back inside, telling her that he \"would kill her if she didn't go back into the house\". The creature left me to join its congeners. They walked around the UFO, which seemed to be broken down, because they seemed to be repairing something on the side of the door. Little by little I regained my senses and noticed that several vehicles were circulating on the road. The drivers could not fail to see the scene. But the first creature was coming back towards me, putting its hand on my shoulder again, looking me straight in the eyes again and I understood this telepathic message: \"We are leaving now, don't look up, don't look, don't look.\" I was there, head bowed, but I thought: \"I have to look\" which I did. The thing was there, above the tree where I was standing, going up vertically into the sky, where there were also four military planes. The saucer was going faster than anything I had ever known before or after, without any noise. The UFO disappeared in the direction of Washington, and I had the impression that the military planes were trying in vain to chase it. In my opinion, there must be a report about it. I called my brother, who was not moving. I had to get into the pond and take his hand, saying \"Come, let's go back now\". When I got back into the kitchen, my mother was angry \"Finally, here you are\". We didn't talk, couldn't talk, but we were terribly thirsty. We drank water, a lot of water and went to bed, both of us. We spent several days in bed, drinking only water and sleeping. When I finally recovered, going down to the kitchen, I could see through the window near the pond, a large circle of scorched grass. A few months later my parents moved. We never talked about this event, neither between us, nor with others.\" (1947 (Spring or Summer))", + "location": "CANADA, Langley Prairie (C.B.)", + "ref": [ + "Source: UFO UpDates Mailing List, from: boliver at Direct.CA (Bill Oliver) 4.8.1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1329" + }, + { + "date": "1/7/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the early afternoon hundreds of inhabitants of Madisonville, then thousands of citizens of the same state, saw an immense circular and shining object. The state police alerted Fort Knox, The diameter of the craft was, it was believed, at least 75 meters. (etc… ) (Donald E. KEYHOE: \"The UFO Files\" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.37, 38) At 1:15 pm a round object, about 70 m in diameter, is reported above Madisonville heading towards Fort Knox. At 1:45 pm the observer of the Godman air base signals it; the officers observe it from the ground with binoculars and with the naked eye. The commander of the base, Colonel Hix, orders by radio a patrol of three F-51 fighters to take the object in pursuit and observe it. The patrol, commanded by Captain Mantell, who was overflying Fort Knox, then heads towards Godman. At 2:45 pm Mantell reports that the object is above him. He rises to meet it and the speed of the three fighters is about 500 km/h.

Radio message from Mantell: \"I'm approaching to better examine it. The craft looks like it's made of metal and it's huge\".

At an altitude of 5,000 m the object still rising, the other two fighters lose sight of Mantell due to the clouds and abandon the pursuit to return to the Godman base. At 3:15 pm Mantell reports that he can't reach the object and that he will abandon the pursuit at 6,000 m if the craft continues to rise, as he does not have an oxygen inhaler. This is his last message. Around 4 pm debris from Mantell's F-51 was found within a radius of several kilometers, which would prove that the plane disintegrated in mid-flight. Despite the searches made, nothing of the pilot's body was found. (Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970 - p.89-90) (note from vog: see newspaper article of the following day: the remains of Mantell were indeed found and evacuated from the crash scene by ambulance)

Years later it was known that the secret military Skylook weather balloons were being tested in the area and Arnold would have died from lack of oxygen at an altitude of 20,000 feet. (Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 48)

Here is an excerpt from the article published in the January 8, 1948 edition of the weekly \"The Franklin, Kentucky Favorite\". AN AIRPLANE EXPLODES AT MID-ALTITUDE, THE PILOT IS KILLED IN THE CRASH ON JOE PHILLIPS' FARM. An Army P-51 combat plane exploded at mid-altitude yesterday and crashed on Joe Phillips' farm in the afternoon around 3:30 pm killing the pilot identified as Thomas F. Mantell (Jr.), 3533 River Park Drive, Louisville. The plane bore (on the tail) No. Ky. NG 869. Mrs. Joe Phillips said she was sitting near the fire when she heard the plane, whose engine apparently had some trouble, flying near the house. Almost immediately there was a great explosion.

Surprised she looked out the window and saw 200 yards from the house, the disintegrated plane fall into a wooded lot. Pieces of the wreckage were found up to a quarter of a mile around the point of impact. Several people in Franklin say they heard the explosion. A trail of steam still floated in the air an hour after the crash. Another eyewitness, Barbara Mayes, a student at the Franklin Grade School said she saw the plane explode while it was still at mid-height. She was waiting for the bus to go home when she heard the explosion. This is the second explosion in a few months. The place of the explosion was only 3 miles away from the one that took the life of Ed Snow and Richard M. Thomason on April 29, 1947. (…)

Mrs. Joe Phillips said she called an ambulance and help. The remains of the dead pilot were removed from the scene by ambulance and taken to the Booker funeral home awaiting official instructions.

Captain Mantell was a veteran of World War II and participated in the June 6, 1944 Normandy landing, he was among others decorated with the Flying Cross. He was demobilized a year ago (in 1946). He leaves a wife and two children.", + "location": "USA, Madisonville (Kentucky) and elsewhere. MANTELL Case", + "ref": [ + "Lee Trail and Lou Farish of the UFO Newsclipping Service made this article available to UFO ROUNDUP vol. 3 n° 01 from 04 jan. 1998, ed Joseph Trainor", + "…", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1330" + }, + { + "date": "1/22/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 13:12 Launch of V2 No. 34 which reached an altitude of 159 km.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1331" + }, + { + "date": "2/1/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Farmer B. Stevens was up early that winter morning, like every other morning. He first went out to the barn to take a look at the pigs. But on the way he saw something he couldn't accept. Above the farm buildings was suspended an object of metallic appearance in the shape of a saucer. Very down-to-earth Stevens could immediately judge that the object was real and solid, that it measured 60 feet in diameter and was thick from 10 to 12 feet. The center seemed dome-shaped and a bright orange light was coming out of it. This dome was transparent, because when the saucer inclined slightly, he could make out a silhouette inside. The occupant of the saucer seemed to concentrate his gaze on the farm buildings and Stevens thought that the cause might be the green light that lit up one of his hangars. Soon the light from the dome was fading and Stevens could no longer make out the occupant well. Then the saucer glided upwards and flew away out of sight. (February 1, 1948)", + "location": "USA, Circleville (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's: a Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 100", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1332" + }, + { + "date": "2/4/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The skyrocket did not seem to fit in with the research plan. Designed for both jet and rocket engines. The first skyrocket (the D-558-2 as it is called) made its first flight on February 4th with John Martin as test pilot. (February 4, 1948)", + "location": "USA, Muroc", + "ref": [ + "NASA Website 1997 - \"On the Frontier\"", + "continued 24.5.49", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1333" + }, + { + "date": "2/6/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:17 AM, launch of V2 #36 which reached an altitude of 112 km.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1334" + }, + { + "date": "2/13/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Dr. Gee (his real name is GeBauer) claims to have been part of the recovery team of a saucer, when 16 small humanoid bodies were found dead on board. According to Jerome Clark, Gebauer and Silas Newcomb were later arrested and imprisoned for attempting to sell extraterrestrial material, \"of immeasurable value\". It is not said when they were released from prison.", + "location": "USA, Aztec N.M.", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Winipeg, Manitoba, Canada", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1335" + }, + { + "date": "3/5/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of an Aerobee which reached 96 km in altitude. Measurements of intensity and distribution of cosmic rays.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 286, doc. Van Allen", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1336" + }, + { + "date": "3/19/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 16:10, launch of V2 #39 which only reached 5 km.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1337" + }, + { + "date": "4/2/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of V2 #25 at 06:47. It reached 143 km in altitude.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1338" + }, + { + "date": "4/3/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Giusseppe Langiano and his foreman Giuseppe Bavota observed a saucer of the shape of an open umbrella, without the handle, of a luminous orange color. It was heading west to east in the sky. Suddenly it stopped at about ten meters from the ground. There, stationary, it emitted a beam of white light from its center, which descended to the ground while the witnesses then had the impression of feeling very hot. On the upper part of the saucer there was a rounded protuberance illuminated by a soft and silvery light. After two minutes, a more or less anthropomorphic figure, about one and a half meters tall, descended vertically through the central light beam, until it touched the ground. It wore a suit that seemed metallic, large gloves and boots of the same material. Its head was covered and a kind of visor was outlined in the one-piece helmet with the suit. In this visor there were two circles (glasses?) The witnesses were less than 200 meters away (let's say that to see the circles in the visor, these witnesses had some good eyes ... try it ...) and were heading towards the strange machine, but at that moment the being was going up, vertically, through the beam (elevator?) which was getting shorter. Suddenly the object flew away, even faster than it had arrived.", + "location": "ITALY, San Martino in Pensilis - Fara di Cigno", + "ref": [ + "CISU, archive file 4801 - sources: GDM 3, 23, 13-16; Ufo in Italia I, 94-95 and 102, Ossola III, 321-322, Ufo Info 12, 48, 18 + 13, 53.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1339" + }, + { + "date": "4/13/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of an Aerobee, altitude reached 96 km, measurements of the geomagnetic field.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 286, doc. Van Allen", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1340" + }, + { + "date": "4/18/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Incident reporting a flat, round object, oscillating at 1:06 PM and reported by 1st Lt Aytch M. Johnson Jr of the 375th VLR Weather Squadron. The UFO was coming from the northeast flying towards the southwest. Flying at an altitude of 2000 feet, and at a speed of 200 to 300 mph. But at one point the object made a dive covering 500 feet in 2 seconds. Horizontal flight, silent, in a clear sky with unlimited visibility.", + "location": "ALASKA, Fairbanks", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: a Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p.103", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1341" + }, + { + "date": "4/19/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of V2 #38, at 0:54. It reached 56 KM.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1342" + }, + { + "date": "4/23/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10 pm, the captain of an F 80, in flight, saw an object that was moving vertically from the base (American in Germany) at an altitude that could not be specified. The object, which looked like a star, was red. It was heading south, towards Munich. Then suddenly it changed direction and headed first southwest and finally southeast. Its speed must have varied between 300 and 900 km/h (...) The base gave the alarm to the radar station which at first did not see anything on the screens. After a few minutes the radar station announced an object flying at 1350 km/h, at an altitude of 8000 meters in a point located 45 km south of Munich. The captain noted that the object he had spotted was not in this area. After a few minutes the radar station indicated that the object was now at 15000 meters altitude, circling about sixty km south of Munich.", + "location": "GERMANY, north of Munich", + "ref": [ + "A. RIBERA: \"These Mysterious UFOs\" -De Vecchi 1976, p. 93, 94", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1343" + }, + { + "date": "4/29/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Test pilot Howard Lilly reached a speed of Mach 0.88 with the Skystreak.", + "location": "USA, Muroc", + "ref": [ + "NASA Website 1997, \"On the Frontier\"", + "see 3.5.48", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1344" + }, + { + "date": "5/3/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Test pilot Howard Lilly was killed in an experimental flight with the NACA Skystreak. This aircraft had the same aerodynamic configuration as the XS-1 but apart from the wing and tail, the D-558-1 (official name of the Skystreak) had nothing else in common. The Skystreak took off from the ground with its own General Electric TG-180 turbojet engine. The Douglas Company had built three of these D-558-1s. (1948, 3 May)", + "location": "USA, Muroc", + "ref": [ + "NASA Website, 1997 - On the Frontier", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1345" + }, + { + "date": "5/5/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The newspaper \"Yeni Sabah\" of May 5, 1948 reported that a luminous object exploded in mid-air above Adapazari. Pieces fell into a nearby village, killing a shepherd dog. The recovered parts clearly show that it was a missile. It came from the northwest and was only 200 meters above Adapazari before it fell. Rumor has it that this flying object was from Soviet tests conducted at the Alagoz base near the eastern border of Turkey.", + "location": "TURKEY, Adapazari", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's: a Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 104", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1346" + }, + { + "date": "5/13/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch at 06:43 of V2 #B1, Bumper Program, altitude 112 KM.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1347" + }, + { + "date": "5/17/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 3.5.48) Exactly two weeks after the dislocation of the Skystreak causing the death of Lilly Howard, the test pilot of the Ames Laboratories, Ryland Carter, perished while testing a P-51 H Mustang. These two accidents temporarily put a stop to the race for supersonic speed.", + "location": "USA, Muroc", + "ref": [ + "NASA Website, 1997 - On the Frontier", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1348" + }, + { + "date": "5/25/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Hans Klotchbach was travelling without a passport on a coal train. At night, just before the Wasserbillig border control station, he fell onto the ballast and injured both of his legs. He fainted, losing blood and unable to walk. He claimed to have regained consciousness inside a flying saucer, in a cabin bathed in an opaline blue light. A voice gave him information in German about upcoming cataclysmic events and added that it was by chance above his unconscious body that the occupants had come to his aid. He fainted again. Four days later he was sitting in the moss of a small wood, 6 km inside Luxembourg, 10 km from the place of his fall: his legs completely healed but his trousers and shoes full of clotted blood.", + "location": "LUXEMBOURG (Grand Duché), Wasserbillig", + "ref": [ + "continued December 30, 58", + "Henry DURRANT: \"Premières enquêtes sur les Humanoïdes ET\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 64", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1349" + }, + { + "date": "5/27/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch at 7:15 of V2 #35. It reached 140 km altitude and weighed 13624 kg.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1350" + }, + { + "date": "5/28/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3:00 PM, a passenger aboard a C-47 transport observed at 8000 feet altitude, three objects in the shape of a disc. He defined them as being \"golden silver\". Another passenger confirmed the observation, but only saw two objects. The size of the objects was estimated to be 300 or 400 feet and with a well-defined outline when they emerged from the clouds at 18000 feet. They flew in the opposite direction to that taken by the plane.", + "location": "USA, Monroe (Michigan)", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's: a Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 104, 105", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1351" + }, + { + "date": "6/11/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch at 03:22 of V2 #37 which reached 63 km altitude. It carried in the frame of \"Blossom III N\" the rhesus monkey Albert A. malfunction.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 and Caldin 1960, p. 102", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1352" + }, + { + "date": "6/16/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Test pilot Arcad Ivanovitch Apraksine took off in a series aircraft, reached an altitude of 10500 m and found himself above a solid sea of clouds, flying in a southward direction. He had been flying for half an hour when he spotted an unknown flying craft coming across and descending. The object had the shape of a cigar. Light cones or beams were projected backwards. Seeing this craft, Apraksine, who was in radio communication with his base, described what he saw. He was told that the unknown object was being tracked on radar, had been given the order to land and had not responded. Apraksine was given the mission to intercept the craft and order it to land and, if it did not, to open fire. Carrying out these instructions, Apraksine maneuvered for interception and approached to a distance of 10 km from the object. Its light beams then opened up in a fan and engulfed his aircraft, dazzling him. At the same time he realized that all the electrical controls of the aircraft were dead and the engine stopped. Apraksine managed to make a forced landing after a glide. He saw the object shoot up into the sky.", + "location": "USSR, Kasputine Yar (Baskounchak)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"The Invisible College\" - J'ai Lu 1975, pp. 81-83", + "Continued on May 6, 1949", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1353" + }, + { + "date": "6/26/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of V2 #40, it reached 96 km altitude.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1354" + }, + { + "date": "7/2/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around two o'clock in the morning, hundreds of Valdoriens witnessed the passage of several flying saucers. These, of a purple-red color, moved in a fantastic ballet above the city of Val d'Or.", + "location": "Canada, Val D'Or (Abitiba)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"All about Flying Saucers\" ed.; Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p.151", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1355" + }, + { + "date": "7/20/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A two-storied spacecraft, moving at a higher speed, had been seen on July 20, 1948 (...) Witnesses had reported it at a very high altitude moving at a fantastic speed. (Donald KEYHOE: \"Les soucoupes volantes existent\" - ed. Corrêa, Paris, 1951, p. 97) An object was observed four times, when it intermittently emerged from the clouds around 1:30 PM. It was built like a V2 from the Second World War, without wings or fins, but its appearance did not resemble that of a rocket. One of the witnesses said he was able to see two floors on the object.", + "location": "NETHERLANDS, The Hague, Arnhem", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's: a Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 105", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1356" + }, + { + "date": "7/23/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The DC 3 was at 2:45, 32 kilometers west of Montgomery, when a projectile-shaped aircraft came roaring along the air route. … \"It suddenly changed course and passed about two hundred meters to our right. I then saw that it had no wings.\" The mysterious aircraft flew past where Whitted was, allowing him to examine it in detail. ) – The object was about thirty meters long, cigar-shaped and had no wings, he said. It was about twice the diameter of a B 29, without protrusions. According to Chiles, the cabin looked like an ordinary cockpit, except that it was lit by a light of supernatural brightness. Whitted and he agreed that the brightness was comparable to that of a magnesium flash. They did not see any occupants, which is not surprising at that speed. – An intense dark blue glow emanated from the side of the craft, Chiles said. (…) It ran the length of the fuselage, like a fluorescent blue lamp. The exhaust was an orange-red flame, lighter at the outer edges. The two pilots said that the flame extended between ten and fifteen meters to the rear. As it passed, Chiles observed a kind of beak similar to a radar antenna. (…) So the spacecraft was not a stray rocket. But it could be a new kind of aircraft, somewhat revolutionary, made in the greatest secrecy. (Donald KEYHOE: \"Les soucoupes volantes existent\" - ed. Corrêa, Paris, 1951, pp. 91 to 95, and same author: \"Le dossier des Soucoupes Volantes\" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.39) Chiles and Whitted on their DC.3 saw a lit bolide emerge at 03:40. Chiles had only time to move away and the UFO passed along the plane at less than 200m. It was cigar-shaped, 30 m long, the cabin was lit like by a magnesium flash. An intense dark blue light emanated from its side. The exhaust was an orange-red flame extending over about fifteen meters. The UFO had also maneuvered to avoid collision. The pilots saw it rear up, spew out an awful jet of flames and climb at a terrifying speed. Duration of the observation: 10 seconds. It had no wings or other protrusions but had two rows of rectangular windows lit up (Jacques POTTIER: \"Les Soucoupes Volantes\" - DE VECCHI - 1974 - p. 25) An airplane was shaken by the wake caused by the passage of a UFO (July 23, 1948)", + "location": "USA, Atlanta-Boston", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 210", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1357" + }, + { + "date": "7/26/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of an Aerobee. It reaches 112 km and takes photos of the surface of the earth and cloud formations.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, p. 286, doc. Van Allen", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1358" + }, + { + "date": "7/29/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 9:55 a.m. Witnesses: James Toney and Robert Huggins, both employees of a cleaning firm. An aluminum object, more or less in the shape of an airplane propeller with 10 to 12 small protuberances on each side. Estimated size: 6-8' long, 1.5-2' wide. The object glided over the road at a few hundred feet in altitude and apparently descended into a wooded area in front of their vehicle. Duration of observation: a few seconds. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). Two employees of a cleaning company were crossing a bridge at 9:55 a.m. when they saw an object crossing the road gliding at a hundred meters in front of them. It was bright and made of metal, was about 2 to 2.5 meters long and 50 cm wide (in the shape of an oblique \"Z\"). It was flying horizontally at an altitude of 10 m and made a wide turn to the left. It was only seen for a few seconds and apparently landed in a wooded area, but no trace was found. (July 29, 1948)", + "location": "USA, Indianapolis (Indiana)", + "ref": [ + "Brad STEIGER: \"Ovni, le projet Blue Book\" - trad. Belfond 1979, p. 108", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1359" + }, + { + "date": "7/31/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 8:25 a.m. Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Swigert; he is an electrician. Object shaped like a cymbal or like a dome disc about 20' wide and 6-8' thick. Without any shine. Flew in a straight line from horizon to horizon in 10 seconds, blinking in the sun as if it was rotating. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). At 08:25 this electrician was standing at the bathroom window facing west when he saw a lenticular object. He ran to the kitchen to show it to his wife. The object flew in a level and straight line from west to east. Duration of the observation: 10 seconds.", + "location": "USA, Indianapolis, Indiana.", + "ref": [ + "Brad STEIGER: \"Ovni, the Project Blue Book\" - trad. Belfond 1979, p. 114", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1360" + }, + { + "date": "8/5/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 05:07, launch of V2 #43 which reached 167 km.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1361" + }, + { + "date": "8/11/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At noon, two children aged ten and eight were playing in the garden of the farm where they lived. They then drew their attention to the sky, where they noticed a dark gray object descending. Each child questioned separately described the object as being in the shape of two plates stuck together. It landed making a resonant metal sound. But soon the object emitted a hiss, rose 20 feet, hovered, maneuvered above the trees and telephone lines, before flying away for good. (...) In the files of the US Air Force this file bears the number 198 and is considered \"not credible\". (August 11, 1948)", + "location": "USA, Hamel (Minnesota)", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 110", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1362" + }, + { + "date": "8/19/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 07:45, launch of V2 No. B2 as part of the BUMPER Program, it reached 13 km.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1363" + }, + { + "date": "9/2/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 18:00 launch of V2 No. 33 which will reach 151 km.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1364" + }, + { + "date": "9/23/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 12 o'clock, noon. Witnesses: Sylvester Bentham, retired Colonel Horace Eakins. Two objects: one is a brown or gray rectangle with vertical lines, the other a translucent \"amoeba\" with a dark center. The arms of the amoeba are undulating. Both objects travel very quickly.", + "location": "USA, San Pablo, California", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1365" + }, + { + "date": "9/30/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Bumper Program: Launch of V2 #B3, it reaches 149 km, radio cut-off (emergency).", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1366" + }, + { + "date": "10/1/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A real aerial duel between a UFO and Lieutenant Pilot George F. Gorman, of the North Dakota Air National Guard. (Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970 - p.91) \"(...) Suddenly Gorman noticed a strange phenomenon. Instead of discerning the silhouette of an airplane around the eclipse light, he saw none. (...) The pilot, at that moment, distinctly saw the thing. It was a white disc about 20 cm in diameter. (...) When Gorman approached with his F-51, this 20 cm light suddenly stopped flashing and jumped to his left. It was absolutely round, white and without material consistency. There was nothing, no shape, no machine in the center of the glow: a disc of pure light, without apparent emission source. \"(Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 50) The authorities concluded that Gorman had chased a weather balloon and that in the second part of the incident he was chasing a mirage of the planet Jupiter, caused by a temperature inversion. Apparently Jupiter descended below the horizon when Gorman saw the light rise and disappear.", + "location": "USA, Fargo (North Dakota)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London, 1989, p. 49", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1367" + }, + { + "date": "10/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) October 1948 to 1951. Many green fireballs silently flew over the Southwest and in particular the nuclear installations of New Mexico. They could be as big as the moon, had horizontal trajectories and sometimes exploded emitting intense flashes. A certainly natural but still unexplained origin.", + "location": "USA, New Mexico", + "ref": [ + "Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, pp. 60 to 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1368" + }, + { + "date": "10/13/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11:45 two employees standing in front of the window of an office at the Studebaker Corporation observed a silver, flat disk flying silently in the sky at an altitude of 1500 feet. The UFO seemed to them a bit smaller than a DC-3, but it was traveling three times faster. The sun was reflecting off of it and giving it a kind of blinking brightness, as bright as that which can be reflected by a chrome surface. It was coming from the northwest and flying towards the southeast. There were no wings, engines, or other visible propulsion devices on the object. The two employees held positions of trust in the company and had an excellent reputation.", + "location": "USA, South Bend (Indiana)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: a Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 112", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1369" + }, + { + "date": "10/15/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Fusuoka, Japan. 11:05 p.m. Witnesses: pilot Halter and radar operator Hemphill aboard a P-61 \"Black Widow\". Up to six objects detected on radar, but with the naked eye: only one was observed. Dark or black object in the shape of a dirigible with a flat bottom and cut tail. The pilot attempted to approach the objects seen on the screen, the only one he could see departed at great speed.", + "location": "JAPAN, in flight near Kyushu", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1370" + }, + { + "date": "11/1/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Bumper program, launch of V2 No. B4 which exploded at 5 km altitude.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1371" + }, + { + "date": "11/4/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:43 above the Army Observation Post #1, at 37°57'N, 125°31'E, flying from east to west at an altitude of 5000 feet. The same object was observed at Observation Post #2 37°51' N, 125°17'E as well as the two following. The object circled above Post #2 before veering north. It resembled a twin-engine bomber, and it is assumed to be Soviet.", + "location": "SOUTH KOREA", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's: a Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 114", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1372" + }, + { + "date": "11/10/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A farmer returning home late at night was flown over by a UFO of conical shape, emitting white light. During the flight, the witness's hair and fur stood on end. Back at home, everyone noticed that his complexion had suddenly become very tanned.", + "location": "SWEDEN, Ervalla", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 353", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1373" + }, + { + "date": "11/18/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 15:35, Launch of V2 #44, it rose to 145 km.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1374" + }, + { + "date": "12/3/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night of December 3, 1948 (8:15 p.m.), while the airfield was swept by winds stronger than usual. In the gusts, they reached 110 km/h. A strange luminous ball was suddenly seen at an altitude of about three hundred meters. As the base personnel watched it in amazement, the mysterious light suddenly rose almost vertically. It reached an altitude of seven thousand meters in an incredibly short time and then disappeared. (Donald KEYHOE: \"Flying Saucers Exist\" - ed. Corrêa, Paris, 1951, p. 107) 8:15 p.m. Witness: a USAF Sgt., operator at the control tower; A round and white light flies for 25 seconds at varying speeds, jerky movement to end with erratic ascent.", + "location": "USA, Fairfield, Suisan AFB, California.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1375" + }, + { + "date": "12/9/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:08 AM, launch of V2 #42 which reached 108 km.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1376" + }, + { + "date": "12/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Oblong metallic objects, shaped like fish, were seen reflecting the sunlight.", + "location": "USSR, Moscow", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"UFOs in the USSR and Eastern Countries\" - trans. Laffont 1976 - p. 274", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1377" + }, + { + "date": "12/29/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Already in a report published on November 11, 1945, General H.H. Arnold, Supreme Commander of the American Aviation, envisaged the launch of a space exploration program. (...) On December 29, 1948, Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal officially revealed that a program of artificial satellites was under study in each of the three arms and that the Commission of Special Long-Range Engines was going to take charge of these files to develop a common program.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Pocket, 1967, p. 147", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1378" + }, + { + "date": "1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The launches of V2 rockets were followed by visits from UFOs. I have the recording of the interview with Charles Schwartz, the radar operator at White Sands during one of these UFO appearances. (Has anyone heard this recording???) The object had the shape of a disc, it rose to 1600 km/h at the same time as the V2 which it circled around. It was observed with binoculars, theodolites and radar. It had passed the rocket at some 9000 km/h and had disappeared into space.", + "location": "USA, White Sands (New Mexico)", + "ref": [ + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse\" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 202", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1379" + }, + { + "date": "3/25/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three flying saucers, approximately 11 m in diameter, fell into the hands of the US Air Force. Inside, the bodies of 34 small men, 0.80 m to 1 m tall, were found. (note from vog: only 34? pff!) (Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"The Enigma of the E.T.\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 110) The OSI of the Army and the IPU in red alert and all the military mobilized when a UFO crashed near Aztec. The UFO was targeted on radar in four zones (Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado) it began to flutter, to oscillate from side to side and descend towards the ground. The object fell on the property of the H.D. family who had to swear to keep the secret - see also March 22, 1950. The UFO measured 100 feet in diameter.", + "location": "USA, near Aztec, N.M.", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1380" + }, + { + "date": "1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A creature entered a hut as it approached the fire, in the midst of a storm. The witness escaped, terrified. He saw a ball of fire suspended in the air at a short distance away.", + "location": "SPAIN, Gargauta la Olla (Cacérès)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" LAFFONT 1977 - P. 175 and 178", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1381" + }, + { + "date": "12/1948", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The NACA had hoped to receive one of the two X-4 aircraft that Northrop was building this month (as part of the transonic research). But in December 1948 only one was complete and still at the factory, where it made its initial flight. The X-4 program experienced delays and design problems: in six months it only made three flights and according to the pilots, this aircraft was far inferior to the Skystreak with which Howard Lilly had lost his life.", + "location": "USA, Muroc", + "ref": [ + "NASA website 1977 \"On the Frontier\".", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1382" + }, + { + "date": "1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Soviet rockets had moved slowly, since their first vertical launch engine dated back only to 1949 with an altitude of 110 km.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 12, 13", + "see 1957, August", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1383" + }, + { + "date": "1/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On a cold January morning in 1949, a strange phenomenon was observed on the farm of the Lampe couple. It had snowed heavily during the night and in the morning, looking out the window, Mrs. Lampe saw in the snow a patch of light gray color, no bigger than two hands held together. It had an irregular shape. It \"rested\" on a small rounded pile of snow, about three wheels from the house and right in front of the window. Suddenly this patch changed into a disk of bright white light with a diameter of three feet (90 cm). This lasted about two full minutes. Then suddenly the light contracted into an orange bar 10 to 12 cm wide which flew quickly towards the window where the witness was looking and then, apparently, exploded against the stone foundation of the porch as several sparkling red and blue sparks rose up to 70 cm above the door frame. When day broke, the couple looked for evidence, but no mark or trace to explain the phenomenon was found.", + "location": "USA, Gardnerville (Nevada)", + "ref": [ + "THE CASE FOR THE UFO by Morris K. Jessup, Citadel Press, New York, N.Y., 1955, page 168", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1384" + }, + { + "date": "1/4/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 2 p.m. Witness: USAF Capt. Paul Storey, pilot, on the ground. An object, flat, elliptical, white with the upper part matte, flew in circles oscillating from left to right before departing at high speed.", + "location": "USA, Hickham Field, Hawaii.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cf. Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1385" + }, + { + "date": "1/27/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 10:20 p.m. Witnesses: Capt. Sames, an active military member of the USAF at Eglin AFB, and Mrs. Sames. They observed for 25 minutes an object shaped like a cigar, as long as two Pullman cars, with seven square windows illuminated and emitting sparks. The object first descended, then rose in jumps at an estimated speed of 400 m.p.h.", + "location": "USA, Cortez-Bradenton, Florida.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1386" + }, + { + "date": "1/28/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:20 Launch of V2 #45, it rises to 59 km. Weight 13,340 kg. Radio stop.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959", + "Emergency", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1387" + }, + { + "date": "2/17/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:00 AM launch of V-2 #48 which reached 127 km. It weighed 13235 kg.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1388" + }, + { + "date": "2/17/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Approximately 100 (one hundred) witnesses observed a round object, moving in an elliptical shape of a bright white, observed for about 6 minutes. Its angular size was comparable to that of the moon. It moved from east to west, then disappeared.", + "location": "USA, near Albuquerque", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1389" + }, + { + "date": "2/24/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Americans created the \"WAC Corporal\", \"Aerobee\", and \"Viking\": they attached a WAC to a V-2 and this two-stage assembly broke the height record with 400 kilometers of altitude.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 12", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1390" + }, + { + "date": "2/17/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Alain Bérard saw a large object on the ground, shining with an intensity similar to the light of a green flash. He saw 3 people with short and thick legs and without a head. Frightened, he shot at them three times. The craft took off vertically.", + "location": "FRANCE, unspecified", + "ref": [ + "list by Daniel BUKENS, Remicourt (Belg)", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1391" + }, + { + "date": "3/7/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Static testing with Viking 1. (1949, from March 7th to April 25th))", + "location": "USA, White Sands:", + "ref": [ + "Ley 1958, 274", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1392" + }, + { + "date": "3/17/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 7:52 p.m. Witnesses: guards of the 2nd Armored Division. While waiting for a firing, they observed for an hour the passage of eight large objects, green, red and white, resembling shells, flying generally on a horizontal trajectory.", + "location": "USA, Camp Hood, Texas.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1393" + }, + { + "date": "3/17/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mexico experienced a strange incident. \"Aviation from Beyond Space\" by Alberto Perego and other works extensively relate this extraordinary event. So, on this March 17, a few hours from Aztec, a mysterious disc of about thirty meters in diameter landed close to secret bases. Alerted immediately, the authorities surrounded the area with secret service agents and called in aeronautical experts. As one can imagine, there was great confusion and anxiety and men examined the outside of the craft for several days. (...) Time passed, bringing with it the certainty that \"no one could come out alive\" from this craft. So technicians tried to open the hermetically sealed cockpit. Their fear, as soon as they entered the strange vehicle, turned to terror. Sixteen men, of human appearance, lay there, on the ground, dead. One of the witnesses reported \"that they all looked like \"twins\", with fine features and very beautiful faces. They wore a blue uniform of the type of our naval officers and could measure between 1 m 30 and 1 m 40. They had obviously died in the landing. It was with difficulty that the parts of the craft, embedded one in the other, could finally be dismantled and the first analyses revealed that this mysterious disc had been designed in a very light alloy, the composition of which could not be established. The bodies of the mysterious pilots were then taken to the Aeronautical Hospital and subjected to an autopsy. After which, the doctors stated that they were \"in all respects like us\".", + "location": "MEXICO", + "ref": [ + "S.DELLO STROLOGO: \"What Governments Hide from You About Flying Saucers\" - De Vecchi 1975- p. 125-126", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1394" + }, + { + "date": "3/21/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 23:43, Launch of V2 #41, Altitude 129 km.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1395" + }, + { + "date": "3/21/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) That night, two American aviators, Jack Adams and his co-pilot G.W.Anderson declared to have seen a flying saucer: \"It was during the first part of our flight to Shreveport, (Louisiana), explained Anderson. \"Jack was at the controls. We were heading west, and we were about 25 km north of Stuttgart (Arkansas). The visibility and the ceiling were unlimited, we were flying at about 600 meters. Suddenly, Jack saw, on our left, a flashing light, of a bluish color, and of an extraordinary intensity. It was about 300 meters above us and 800 meters away. It shone at the top of an object of almost spherical shape. The object was buzzing at a great speed, 800 to 900 km/h approximately. It was moving towards the north, in front and above us. The craft remained well visible for thirty seconds, and we were able to consider it attentively. It had no navigation lights, but we distinctly saw other lights, which seemed to come from eight or ten windows or portholes lit in the lower part of the aircraft.\" \"The lights were of a fluorescent kind, soft, flaky, and did not resemble anything we had ever seen.. The \"object\" was circular. It approached and disappeared exactly like another plane. (...) \"The object was about the size of a DC 3. It had no exhaust pipe, and caused no smoke trail. In our opinion, it was an aircraft, but not a jet.\" [note from vog: I did not find mention of this observation in American authors ...]", + "location": "USA Stuttgart (Arkansas)", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde\" Fleuve noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 - p.29-30", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1396" + }, + { + "date": "4/3/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 11:55 a.m. Witnesses: entrepreneur Gosta Miller and three other people. An object shaped like a saucer, flat bottom, dull, top shiny aluminum color, 20 feet in diameter, 4 to 5 feet thick. Six cycles of movements, all at very high speed: descent, swaying, flight, swaying, rotation, swaying.", + "location": "USA, Dillon, Montana.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1397" + }, + { + "date": "4/4/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Leaving his home at 10:00 PM, the witness heard a considerable noise of clicking. Towards the east, at 40° above the horizon, he distinguished after 10 seconds an object, a solid mass, curved, rounded, of the size of 4 to 5 feet in diameter, at a height of less than 1000 feet. Its color was dull, slightly colored by the lights of the ground that were reflected in it. The object moved slowly towards the west or the northwest. The visual observation lasted about 35 seconds. The object made a kind of turn of 90°, the clicking noise was constant, even during this turn. On the part of the modified trajectory (towards the south) the noise became duller. When the sound was no longer perceptible, the witness no longer saw the object. There were fluctuations in this sound, resembling that of an incorrectly adjusted household mixer-beater.", + "location": "USA, Merced (California)", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1398" + }, + { + "date": "4/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three Aerobee launches, all three from SS Norton Sound.", + "location": "PEROU (USA) coast.", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, 286", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1399" + }, + { + "date": "4/11/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of V-2 No. 50 at 15:05, altitude 85 km.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1400" + }, + { + "date": "4/15/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4:30 PM a witness observed for 15 minutes a small grayish disc followed by a thin trail of the same color, quickly rising in the sky from 30° above the horizon. The observation ended when the object was no longer visible.", + "location": "USA, El Paso (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "declassified FBI doc.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1401" + }, + { + "date": "4/21/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of V-2 #b6. Bumper Program. Altitude 150 km. Poor performance.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1402" + }, + { + "date": "4/24/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) DD - Time: 10:30; number of observers: 5; duration: 1 minute. Charles Moore Jr.- Mc Laughlin, instead of Moore?- is cited by: A. RIBERA: \"These mysterious UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 106, 107) an aerological survey specialist was leading a team of four recruits from the Navy. They had set up the recording instruments that preluded the launch of a Skyhook balloon. (..) there was a theodolite consisting of a 25x magnification telescope mounted to provide elevation and azimuth readings. At 10:30 the group released a 350 gram weather balloon for observation of wind speed and direction at high altitude. Moore followed this balloon with the theodolite for several minutes, after which he handed the instrument to a sailor. Shortly afterwards, he noticed that the sailor had pointed the instrument in another direction. Letting out a choice of naval curses Moore was about to snatch the instrument from the sailor when the latter said: \"But I'm keeping it in there.\" Moore looked and saw in the theodolite's field of view an elliptical whitish object. It was moving east at a speed of 5° of azimuthal displacement per second. It seemed to be two and a half times longer than wide. It was easily visible to the naked eye, and all the members of the group observed it. (...) (J. Allen HYNEK: \"UFOs, myth or reality\" - trad. Belfond 1974 - p. 85-86 and 274) (Desmond Leslie and Georges Adamski: \"The S. V. have landed\" J'ai Lu, 1971, p. 46,47 says: \"a group of five technicians led by J. Gordon Vaeth, aeronautical engineer of the Naval Research Bureau) 10:30 a.m. Witnesses: the General Mills meteorologist and balloon expert C.B. Moore and others from the balloon launch team. An ellipsoid white, whose length is twice the width", + "location": "USA, Arrey (White Sands), New Mexico", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1403" + }, + { + "date": "4/27/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The possible existence of some kind of strange extraterrestrial animals was also vaguely considered, since several of these objects described behave more like animals than anything else. But there are few reliable reports on extraterrestrial animals. Space navigation, outside the solar system is a near certainty... [note from vog: I can't resist adding A. Ribera's personal follow-up in \"These Mysterious UFOs\": What is absolutely certain, in any case, is the existence of certain \"terrestrial animals\".. many of which belong to the personnel of ATIC where they hide under the appearances of dignified technicians.]", + "location": "USAF M-26-49 statement:", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970 - p.95-96, 99", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1404" + }, + { + "date": "5/3/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of a Viking 1. Altitude 80 km. Premature stop due to leak in turbine. Engine stopped after 54 seconds.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, 274? AND M.W. Rosen, N.Y. 1955", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1405" + }, + { + "date": "5/5/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch at 8:15 of V-2 #46, only 8 km altitude, poor performance.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1406" + }, + { + "date": "5/5/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 11:40 a.m. Witnesses: Army officers: Maj. Day, Maj. Olhausen, Capt. Vaughn. Two white, oblong discs, flying at a speed of approximately 200-250 m.p.h., made a slight circular motion during the 30-50 seconds of observation. (1949, 5 May)", + "location": "USA, Fort Bliss (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1407" + }, + { + "date": "5/6/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: June 16, 1948) Apraksine was on a test flight at maximum altitude. (...). Suddenly, he saw an \"incomprehensible\" aircraft, lower than him, which began to descend even lower. Apraksine maneuvered towards the flying cigar. The two aircrafts were going very fast on a collision trajectory. At a distance of 10 km, a cone of light beams was once again directed at Apraksine. He was blinded. All the electrical controls of the plane were destroyed. The Plexiglas windshield was damaged. The cabin pressurization was lost and, although wearing a special suit and a waterproof helmet, Apraksine was in great difficulty. He nevertheless managed to land on the right bank of the Volga, 40 km north of Saratov and lost consciousness. (...) in January 1950 he appeared before a medical committee and was definitively retired.", + "location": "USSR, Moscow (in flight)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"The Invisible College\" J'ai Lu 1975, pp. 83 to 85", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1408" + }, + { + "date": "5/6/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 9:35 a.m. Witness: C. G. Green. Two objects resembling discs, luminous, turning around each other while blinking. One shot up to the sky emitting a grey trail, and the other one joined it afterwards. Duration: 5 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Livermoore, California.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1409" + }, + { + "date": "5/9/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Witness: M/Sgt. Troy Putnam. Two round, flat objects, silver in appearance, estimated to be 25 feet in diameter, flying at 750-1,000 m.p.h. in regular jumps.", + "location": "USA, Tucson, Arizona", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1410" + }, + { + "date": "5/21/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the afternoon, an F-82 fighter took off on a mission to intercept a flying saucer in the no-fly zone above the Hanford atomic center, hovering at 5000 or 6000 m. This silver disc-shaped object was visually spotted on the ground and on the radar screens at the station. As soon as the plane took off, the object sped south at a speed higher than that of a jet aircraft. (May 21, 1949)", + "location": "USA, BAF Moses Lake, Hanford (Washington)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979, p. 140, 141", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1411" + }, + { + "date": "5/24/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cfr 4.2.48) NACA received a second example of the Skyrocket, which made its test flight on May 24, piloted by Bob Campine. NACA did not look favorably upon the Skyrocket, partly due to the rocket engine, it did not exactly fit transonic research. Walt Williams recalled: it had to take off before the temperature reached 80° F. Then it had to struggle to reach an altitude of 24,000 feet, having used almost the entire tank in the climb, then it had to try to reach Mach 0.9. This never lasted more than half an hour in total.", + "location": "USA, Muroc", + "ref": [ + "NASA website 1997, \"On the Frontier\"", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1412" + }, + { + "date": "5/24/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 5 pm several witnesses saw with the naked eye, at the edge of a river 4 km from its mouth, an object that reflected the sun. Looking through binoculars, the witness no longer saw this reflection (did the binoculars have filters?). It appeared to be made of metal and was distinct enough to see that its hull was dirty. The front was smooth and the back was wrinkled and rough, with a kind of piece on top. It moved away in a level flight at increasing speed, reaching that of a jet plane before disappearing. No means of propulsion were visible. Duration of observation was 2 and a half to 3 minutes. [note de vog: see previous article, test flight...]", + "location": "USA, Roque River (Oregon) (No. 1119.00)", + "ref": [ + "Brad STEIGER: \"Ovni, le projet Blue Book\" - trad. Belfond 1979, p. 113, 114", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1413" + }, + { + "date": "5/27/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) South-central Oregon. 2:25 p.m. Joseph Shell, from Red Bluff, California. From 5 to 8 oval-shaped objects, twice as long as wide and 1/5th for the thickness. Flying in single file, leaving an interval of 3 to 4 times their length, except for the second and third which were closer to each other.", + "location": "USA, flying over Oregon", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1414" + }, + { + "date": "6/14/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 15:35, launch of V2 No. 47, weighing 13,667 kg, reaching a height of 133 km (GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959) Monkey \"Albert\" killed in the crash on the ground. (Nieuwenhuis H. 1988, 17) The monkey, Albert II, reached an altitude of 134 km in the V2, but the return parachute did not function.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace No. 49, 1980, p. 14, 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1415" + }, + { + "date": "6/27/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 8:15 pm a veterinarian and his friend, Ercole Cerutti, were near the Borbera stream when they noticed the presence of a flying object ten meters above the ground. The lower part of the thing was rust-colored, while the upper \"glass\" part was divided into four panels. The craft was quite small, about two meters in diameter. When the object was directly above them, they could see that the base was completely round, crossed by four reinforcing bars two in each direction, at the back, the two bars ended in a kind of exhaust pipes directed downwards from which a thick orange gas came out, especially when the craft gained altitude. The trail of this gas measured 40 meters long and only formed 4 or 5 meters behind the craft. There was only a very light buzzing, the object then passed over the trees at 40 or 50 meters altitude, and continuing on its trajectory, disappeared from their view behind a hill.", + "location": "ITALY, Albera Ligure", + "ref": [ + "CISU, archive file 49001 - source: 1985 letter from the witness, addressed to CISU, following an article published in the newspaper \"La Stampa\".", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1416" + }, + { + "date": "7/24/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (U.P.) Airline pilots report seeing a huge craft emitting a twelve-meter-long stream of flames from the rear. The craft seemed to be illuminated by an incandescent trail running along its center. It was moving at a speed between 800 and 100 km/h.", + "location": "USA, Atlanta", + "ref": [ + "F. Scully: \"The Mystery of Flying Saucers\", Del Duca, Paris \"Les Editions Mondiales\" 1951, p. 174, citing the \"Los Angeles Times\" of July 25, title \"An Aerial Monster Without Wings and Incandescent\"", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1417" + }, + { + "date": "7/24/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Noon. Witness: Henry Clark, flight director, aboard his Piper Clipper. Seven triangular objects, with a wingspan of 35-55 feet, length 20-30 feet, thickness 2-5'; of a light color except for the dark circle of 12 feet at the back of each object. They flew in a tight formation of two, two and one, and made a perfect turn without inclining. During the 10 minute observation, they oscillated less and less. Clark's plane had difficulties during the observation and upon landing it was found that all the electrical fuses had blown.", + "location": "USA, Mountain Home, Idaho.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1418" + }, + { + "date": "8/20/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On the evening of August 20th, 1949, at 10:45 PM, Professor Tombaugh was in front of his house in Las Cruces, New Mexico, with his wife and her mother. Looking up at the sky, he suddenly saw near the zenith, six or eight rectangles shining with a greenish light, flying quickly towards a point on the horizon between 25 and 30 degrees southeast. They moved with a rapid and uniform motion and seemed to be windows of some unlit craft carried in a luminous vague silhouette against the black of the firmament. In any case, these rectangles were certainly flat objects, because as they moved away they gradually contracted in the direction of flight, as if the three witnesses had seen them increasingly in profile. The whole of the six or eight rectangles, which followed each other two by two, formed in the sky a perfectly rigid design of an area of about one degree, which corresponds to twice the width of the full moon. (...) (There are slight differences between the two accounts: first in the magazine \"Life\" and then in Menzel): in the first Tombaugh frankly speaks of a cigar with two rows of windows, while in the second, the cigar has faded into a vague silhouette. In the first account the observation lasts about twenty seconds, it is much shorter in the second. (August 20th, 1949)", + "location": "USA, Las Cruces (New Mexico)", + "ref": [ + "\"Glimpses of Flying Saucers\" Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME, 1954, pp. 69 and 70, dated August 20th", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1419" + }, + { + "date": "8/19/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two gold prospectors were witnesses to the crash landing of a flying object in the shape of a disk. Two small men emerged from it and the gold prospectors gave chase. They lost the small men in the sand dunes and when they returned to what they estimated to be the landing site, the craft had gone.", + "location": "USA, California - Death Valley", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of the Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 174", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1420" + }, + { + "date": "8/31/1949 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A giant in the sky, emitting a flame, more than a kilometer long, passed at 15,000 meters above the Muroc Air Base. The control towers of the airfield and the air traffic control officers at the Lockheed, Palmdale and Long Beach bases received this amazing information from a private pilot and his two passengers. The pilot is Bob Hanley, a calm and trustworthy man. He saw the object at 12:15 above Mint Canyon. (1949, August 31 (?))", + "location": "USA, Muroc Air Base", + "ref": [ + "F. Scully: \"The Mystery of Flying Saucers\", ed. Del Duca, Paris \"Les éditions Mondiales\" 1951, p. 175 he cites the \"Los Angeles Daily News\" of 31.8.1949, title \"A strange aerial monster emitted a trail of fire more than a kilometer long.\"", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1421" + }, + { + "date": "9/6/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of Viking II. Stopped at 51 km altitude, escape in the turbine.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, M.W. ROSEN, N.Y. 1955", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1422" + }, + { + "date": "9/16/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 16:19, launch of V2 No. 32. Operation Blossom. Altitude 5 km. Explosion (GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959) Monkey \"Albert III\" killed in the explosion.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: Nieuwenhuis h. 1988, 17", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1423" + }, + { + "date": "9/25/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the afternoon, at 2:45 PM, this pilot was flying from Clark Field to Parkersburg in a Luscombe 84, at 160 km/h and 3450 feet above sea level, in the west of Virginia when he suddenly noticed a bright yellow shape coming straight towards him. The object was coming towards him at such a speed, added to the speed of his own plane, that it made him jump when it passed him in the space of two seconds. But it was flying roughly 100 feet below, 50 feet to the right. Thanks to the dark green of the forest that was passing beneath the plane, he was able to clearly distinguish the intruder: it was a bright canary yellow, 15 to 18 inches long, diameter around 4 inches at its widest part. It looked like a missile, but in fact had the same shape and proportions as the fuselage of a Lockheed X 90 of the Air Force. No wings, but vertical and horizontal ailerons at 1/3 of its rear. No visible means of propulsion, no engines, combustion trail, smoke, steam, exhaust gas. The front of the missile was very pointed, with a needle-shaped nose. This needle was about 6 inches long and resembled a lead pencil. The other end of the object was as pointed as the tail of a jet plane. The missile was heading west at 240°. It seemed to be coming to the end of its course when it passed the plane, as its speed seemed to be slightly decreasing.", + "location": "USA, in flight, Virginia", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1424" + }, + { + "date": "9/29/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:58 AM, Launch of V2 #49, Altitude 151 km.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1425" + }, + { + "date": "10/12/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Note from vog: in my opinion, all this can only be the biggest hoax ever put together by Scully himself and others, including the famous Doctor G. alias GeBauer) October 12, 1949: Variety (New York) Title \"A Flying Saucer Lands in New Mexico\" - A two-column article by Frank Scully, announcing the landing of a flying saucer and giving all the details according to the accounts of scientists who had examined the craft. \"It was 100 feet in diameter and 72 inches high\". Scully adds that \"sixteen men\" with charred skin were found inside the cabin and that the craft was made of \"two metals still unknown on this earth\".", + "location": "USA, New Mexico", + "ref": [ + "F. Scully: \"The Mystery of Flying Saucers\", ed. Del Duca, Paris \"Les éditions Mondiales\" 1951, p. 176 which thus cites itself!", + "The magazine \"Variety\" of November 23, 1949, publishes other details due to Scully's pen", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1426" + }, + { + "date": "11/18/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) V2 Launch #56 at 09:03, altitude 124 km. (November 18, 1949)", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1427" + }, + { + "date": "11/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7:30 PM, Mr. Toussaint observed 6 red objects, rolling along the southern horizon at a speed of approximately 200km/h - elevation 40° on the horizon.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Brussels", + "ref": [ + "list by Daniel BUKENS, Remicourt, Belgium.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1428" + }, + { + "date": "12/8/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 00:15, launch of V2 No. 31, altitude 127 km (GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959 and Nieuwenhuis H. 1988, 17) \"Albert IV\" the monkey is the last to be launched by a V2. The parachute does not work. (December 8, 1949)", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace No. 49, 1980, p. 14, 15 which dates this to December 12", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1429" + }, + { + "date": "12/25/1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Uri Geller, then aged 3, saw a large, shining, saucer-shaped object in the sky above him. He also saw, in the garden, a very large radiant figure with no discernible face, only a radiant form. This is the beginning of Uri Geller's story with all that surrounds the character. (1949, 25 December)", + "location": "ISRAEL, Tel-Aviv", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1430" + }, + { + "date": "1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1949, a new type of UFO descended at night near the Albuquerque airport, in New Mexico. It was about 200 meters away when, all of a sudden, it fell to around 50 meters and exploded, spreading a rain of red dust. At the time, people feared it might be a toxic gas, but no harmful effects were observed. The incident repeated itself three times at the same hour, in the same place. There was no doubt that the red-emitting UFO's were very precisely controlled. The case was recorded in the \"Grudge\" study group report. Without any comment.", + "location": "USA, Albuquerque (New Mexico)", + "ref": [ + "Donald E. KEYHOE - 1973 - Trans. \"Les Etrangers de l'Espace\" Ed. France-Empire coll. Press Pocket 1975 - p. 211-212", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1431" + }, + { + "date": "1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mikel Conrad shot a 300-meter film of the maneuvers, landing, and takeoff of 8 flying saucers, 70 km north of Juneau (Alaska), in 1949. The American government confiscated this film, examined it, and studied it in detail before returning it to him a year later.", + "location": "USA (Alaska)", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"The S.V. come from another World\" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Omnium Littéraire 1972 Reissue - p. 256", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1432" + }, + { + "date": "1949", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Excerpts from an article in the United States Naval Institute Proceedings, by Commander J.R. Bodler (USNR): My ship had just passed through the Strait of Hormuz, bound for India. The night was clear and beautiful. The second mate called me to the bridge, saying he had seen something I should see. About four points (45°) on the starboard bow, toward the coast of Iran, there was a band of light that seemed to pulsate. Its aspect suggested an aurora borealis, but much lower, below the horizon in fact. Binocular examination showed that the lighted area was distinctly below the horizon, in the water, and was approaching the ship. As the phenomenon drew near, it became apparent that the pulsations seemed to emanate from the middle of the band and ripple out to the ends. At a distance of about one mile from the ship, the phenomenon appeared vaguely circular in shape, with a diameter of 300 to 450 meters. The pulsations were clearly caused by a rotary motion of the whole about a rather ill-defined center, with light rays like searchlight beams, radiating from the center and revolving (in a counterclockwise direction) like the spokes of a giant wheel. For several minutes the ship occupied the approximate center of the phenomenon. Slightly curved bands of light swept rapidly across the starboard bow to the stern and across the port bow. The brightness made the superstructure very visible. The luminous bands seemed to pass over a given point about every half second. As can be imagined, the effect was strange and extremely impressive; the ship seemed to occupy the center of a huge fireworks sun, with its “phosphorescent rays” revolving rapidly around the vessel as hub. The “hub” of the phenomenon gradually drew nearer the port side and passed astern, becoming more and more distant on the port quarter. While still in view several miles astern, and appearing at that time as a pulsating band of light, a repetition of the manifestation occurred on the port bow.", + "location": "At sea, Strait of Hormuz", + "ref": [ + "Yvan T. SANDERSON: \"The Invisibles Under the Seas\" Albin Michel 1979 - pp. 119-120", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1433" + }, + { + "date": "1950's", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Sometime in June.) One evening in June, people were leaving a New York theater. It was 11 pm when suddenly they saw in the middle of the intersection a man who seemed from another era. He was wearing a jacket with a row of buttons on the back, a wrinkle-free and non-reversible pants and a top hat. The people who saw him declared: \"He was there, in the middle of the intersection, looking with an astonished air at the red lights, as if he had never seen them before\". Suddenly what was predictable happened, a taxi could not avoid the man who died on the spot. On him was found an identity card with the name Rudolf Fentz and old coins. The police investigation will allow to trace the trace of a certain Rudolf Fentz who mysteriously disappeared in the spring of 1876, wore the same clothes and had the same age as the man who died at an intersection of another era than his own. (1950's)", + "location": "USA, New York", + "ref": [ + "Christian DE ZAN: \"Guide of the UFO Phenomenon Hunters\", ed. De Vecchi1980, p. 25, 26; he cites J. Bergier and the team of Giornale dei Misteri in the collection \"The Paths of the Impossible\" ed. Albin Michel", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1434" + }, + { + "date": "1/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two Aerobee launches from the SS Norton Sound.", + "location": "ALASKA (USA) Gulf of Alaska", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, 286", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1435" + }, + { + "date": "1/22/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 02:40, Lt. Smith of the US Navy, the flight commander of a P2V3 patrol plane #4 of Squadron #1, reported a radar contact with a UFO (note: launch of AEROBEE???) 20 miles from the Naval Air Base of Kodiak. At 02:48 a second radar contact was made with an object located 10 miles southeast of the base. The radar operator, Lt. Gaskey, reported intermittent radar interference of a type he had never recorded before. The contact was then lost, but the intermittent echo persisted. At 04:40 Smith had a visual and radar contact with the object which was moving at a high speed, and for 10 seconds all the crew members saw the object flying above them at about 1800 mph. The object then seemed to return and was observed at a larger size. But it quickly turned and seemed to be heading towards Smith's side, who turned off all the lights and the plane's lights. Four minutes later the object was moving away to the southeast. It appeared as two orange lights rotating around a common center.", + "location": "ALASKA, Kodiak", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1436" + }, + { + "date": "1/23/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 04:35, Lts. Causer and Barco and Captain Paulson, the flight commander, saw an object for 10 minutes while they were in flight 62 miles south of Kodiak. At no time was a radar contact made. The object appeared to them like some kind of projectile in the shape of a flame of pulsating yellow-orange light, pulsing regularly every 3 to 5 seconds. When they saw the object more closely, the pulsations were at a beat of 7 to 8 seconds.", + "location": "ALASKA, near Kodiak", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, trans. Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1437" + }, + { + "date": "1/30/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around midnight an intense phosphorescence accompanied by various luminous shapes was observed in the sky, going from north to south. At the same time in the Madrid radio receivers, words were spoken in an unknown language. (1950, night of January 30th to 31st)", + "location": "SPAIN, Madrid", + "ref": [ + "and the Spaniards don't mention this anywhere???", + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 67", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1438" + }, + { + "date": "2/5/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 5:10 p.m. Witnesses: former military pilot Marvin Odom, Lt. Philip Foushee, military pilot from Otis AFB, and two others. Two thin illuminated cylinders, one of which dropped a fireball, maneuvered together and disappeared at high altitude after 5 minutes of observation.", + "location": "USA, Teaticket, Massachusetts.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1439" + }, + { + "date": "2/9/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 14:45, launch of Viking III, altitude 80 km. With measuring instruments for the upper atmosphere. (February 9, 1950)", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, 277 and M.W. Rosen, N.Y. 1955", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1440" + }, + { + "date": "2/17/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of V-2 #53 at 11:00 AM, reached altitude 148 km. (February 17, 1950)", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1441" + }, + { + "date": "2/24/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 1:55 p.m. Witnesses: Weather employees of the Luther McDonald Municipal Airport, Harrison Manson. A white oval, slightly elongated, was observed for 1.5 minutes with a theodolite, flying horizontally in a straight line. (February 24, 1950)", + "location": "USA, Albuquerque, New Mexico.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1442" + }, + { + "date": "2/25/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 3:55 p.m. Witnesses: twelve security inspectors from the Atomic Energy Commission. A silver, flashing cylinder with truncated ends flew slowly and then quickly, cavorted, and oscillated, changing direction. According to the witnesses, the observation lasted from 23 seconds to 2 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Los Alamos, New Mexico.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1443" + }, + { + "date": "3/3/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 11:05 p.m. Witness: 1st Lt Frank Mattson. An intense and huge yellow light descended vertically, then began to fly horizontally at great speed. Duration of observation: 4 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Selfridge AFB, Michigan.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1444" + }, + { + "date": "3/8/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the middle of the morning a T.W.A. aircraft was preparing to land at the Dayton municipal airport. As it maneuvered to present itself, the pilot and co-pilot saw a bright light, seeming to hover towards the southeast. They warned the control tower. The operators replied that they also saw this light and had warned the Ohio National Guard squadron stationed at the airport. A pilot was already running to his F-51. All the staff actually saw the UFO: an extremely bright light, much brighter and bigger than a star. It was at a very high altitude because the thick and high clouds masked it from time to time. In the air there was the F-51 of the (...) A few minutes later the object disappeared from the radar screen. The two F-51s descended. When the clouds dissipated, nothing could be seen anymore. (1950, 8 March)", + "location": "USA, Dayton", + "ref": [ + "Edward J. Ruppelt: \"Face aux Soucoupes Volantes\", ed. France-Empire 1958, p. 100, 101", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1445" + }, + { + "date": "3/9/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Radar-optical observation. The object was detected on the screens of two radar stations. The object remained stationary for 2 minutes, its velocity magnitude and acceleration of three-dimensional movements exceeded the known capacity of lighter-than-air vehicles in directed flight. (March 9, 1950)", + "location": "USA, Selfridge (Michigan)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979 - pp. 123, 124", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1446" + }, + { + "date": "3/10/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:45 many people from the locality saw coming from the north, towards Big Tujunga Canyon, a triangular object, at an altitude of 1500 to 3000 meters. Mrs. Ruby Lytle, one of the first witnesses, described it as having a construction resembling a gondola, inside a slightly colored halo. This object flew slowly, without audible noise. It eventually disappeared into the sky towards the southwest.", + "location": "USA, La Crescenta (California)", + "ref": [ + "from the book \"The Tujunga Canyon Contacts, p. 139 - Ufo Folklore Center", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1447" + }, + { + "date": "3/16/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: GESAG, GS 006) A UFO above Spa! White smoke was coming out of the craft. On Thursday morning several inhabitants of Spa saw an object which they identified as a UFO! One of the witnesses specified that the craft left behind a trail of white smoke.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Spa", + "ref": [ + "\"Le Soir\" of Brussels, 17.3.1950, \"La libre Belgique\" of 17.3.1950, Le journal de Bruges of 18.3.1950", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1448" + }, + { + "date": "3/18/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:30 PM Wilfredo H. Arevalo saw a disc land, while a second craft hovered higher up. Arevalo got as close as 150 meters to the disc on the ground which emitted a bluish-green vapor and an \"intense smell of burning gasoline\" and seemed to be made of a phosphorescent metal similar to aluminum. On the disc a large flat part was spinning \"like a gramophone disc\". In the center the disc had a \"glass\" cabin very transparent through which he saw four tall, well-formed men, dressed in something like Cellophane, working on various instruments. He was particularly struck by the paleness of their faces. Seeing him, the men directed a spotlight towards him, a blue light illuminated the craft, there was an increase in vapor and red-green flames shot out from the base. The craft then rose with a low rumble and the two machines disappeared leaving bluish trails.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Lago Argenino", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 108", + "ground traces", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1449" + }, + { + "date": "3/31/1950 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) March 31: 9:26 p.m. Witnesses: Chicago & Southern Airlines Capt. Jack Adams, First Officer G. W. Anderson, Jr. A circular disc of 100' with 9 to 12 portholes along its lower part, emitting a soft purple light and at the upper part a white flashing light that blinked 3 times in 9 seconds, flying at least 1,000 m.p.h. Observation of 25-35 seconds. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). On the night of March 31 at 9:29 p.m. the pilot Jack Adams noticed the presence of a white light on his left. His companion the second pilot G. W. Anderson made the same observation. When the UFO passed in front of the DC 3 they were able to examine it closely. Neither of them was able to indicate its exact shape because, according to them, its contours were blurred. Because of the arrangement of the 8 or 10 portholes through which a bluish light could be seen, they assumed it must have been round. In addition, a white light was flashing intermittently at the top of the craft. (Edward J. Ruppelt: \"Confronting the Flying Saucers\", ed. France-Empire 1958, p. 105) and \"plagiarized\" word for word in: (March 31 (or 20?) 1950)", + "location": "USA, Stuggart, Arkansas.", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 130, 131, which dates to March 20 at 9:26 p.m.", + "A. RIBERA: \"These Mysterious Ufos\" - De Vecchi 1976 p. 108, 109", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1450" + }, + { + "date": "3/29/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 7 a.m. Witnesses: Whiteside and Williams. From 6 to 12 dark objects shaped like 150 kg bombs, 5 feet long, flying at 500 mph, descending, making a sound like the wind in the trees.", + "location": "USA, Marrowbore Lake, Tennessee.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1451" + }, + { + "date": "3/29/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At noon, Ruiz Gomez, head of the weather service at the air base, the sergeant in charge of transmissions, and the officer responsible for teletypists, heard a sound similar to that of an airplane approaching the airfield. They were surprised because no plane was expected in Villafria. From the top of the control tower where they were, they saw a flying saucer appear, coming from the southwest, soon to be vertical to the tower. It then changed its route abruptly and headed east. The three observers calculated that the aircraft was flying between 500 and 1000 meters in altitude and resembled one of those airplanes called \"winged wings\". However, the object observed was much smaller than the planes of this type .. one could have thought that it was simply an eagle. The UFO passed over the witnesses at 1800 km / h, three times as fast as the fighter planes of the time. (March 29, 1950)", + "location": "SPAIN, Burgos - Villafria", + "ref": [ + "A. RIBERA: \"These Mysterious UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 322, 323", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1452" + }, + { + "date": "4/7/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The duty officer of the Logan International Airport control tower and the other controllers saw from 21:55 GMT to 22:05 GMT, while on the ground and at altitude the wind was blowing in gusts at 75 km/h from the northeast, full west, 15° above the horizon a dark blue light, sailing towards the southwest. During the observation it changed to a bright white, then back to a dark blue. This point split into two blue lights that were spinning around each other and their trajectory led them to 45° above the horizon. (Cloud cover at 5000 m altitude). There was also a mass that was once luminous white, and then cherry red. The object was moving against the wind. [Note from vog: if the wind was blowing from the northeast and the object was flying west and then southwest, it was not flying against the wind!] (April 7, 1950)", + "location": "USA, Logan (Massachusetts)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979, pp. 66-68", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1453" + }, + { + "date": "4/8/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 2 a.m. Witness: Earl Baker. A gray metallic disc 50 feet in diameter, 15 feet thick, saucer-shaped with a conical turret, three openings on the belt emitting blue light. It hovered for 2 minutes and flew away. Baker was awakened by his dog's barking. (Project Blue Book - cf. Don Berliner). Above northern Indiana, another T.W.A. DC3 saw a UFO resembling \"a large globe of molten metal\". (April 8, 1950)", + "location": "USA, Kokomo, Indiana.", + "ref": [ + "Edward J. Ruppelt: \"Confronting Flying Saucers\", ed. France-Empire 1958, p.105", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1454" + }, + { + "date": "4/9/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Young Lightfoot approached the UFO so closely that he could touch it. It was a small flying saucer no bigger than a truck tire. The bottom was rounded and the top looked like a shallow plate, with a slight space between the two parts. David Lightfoot was injured on his face and hands by a burning jet that came out of the craft at takeoff. The top part kept spinning during the landing and this movement accelerated to take off. (April 9, 1950)", + "location": "USA, Amarillo (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace #43, January 1979, p. 18", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1455" + }, + { + "date": "4/14/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 2:30 p.m. Witness: Army M/Sgt. James. Four rectangular objects of amber color, about 1 m to 1 m 20 in length, changed speed and direction abruptly. The group of objects rose together at a high speed at the end of the observation which lasted from 3 to 4 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1456" + }, + { + "date": "4/20/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Residents observed for one minute to the northwest of the city, a flat \"U\" shaped crescent, with a fringed edge. It was located at a high altitude in a different direction than the Moon. (April 20, 1950)", + "location": "BELGIUM, Bruges (Flanders)", + "ref": [ + "listing by Daniel BUKENS, Remicourt, Belgium", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1457" + }, + { + "date": "4/23/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Dean Margen, an amateur photographer, on an excursion in the forest around his hometown, ran down a small hill, crossed a thicket and found himself in the open air. He directed his gaze to the sky and almost fell back in terror. \"Seven meters above my head, I saw the metal base of a huge circular craft, absolutely motionless as if suspended in the air. On top there was a red-colored dome, the craft started moving.\" He had time to arm his camera and take a picture. It was then 3:38 PM. During the same day, around 4 PM, a young newspaper carrier, Donald Gene, who was cycling about fifty miles from Red Bud, stopped in front of the Green family house. As he glanced at the roof being repaired, he saw a silver \"saucer\" flying very high in the sky. (April 23, 1950)", + "location": "USA, Red Bud (Illinois)", + "ref": [ + "A. Schneider-H. Malthaner: \"The Secret File of UFOs\", De Vecchi ed., 1978, pp. 103-105", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1458" + }, + { + "date": "4/24/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10 pm Bruno Facchini heard and saw sparks and discovered an object, dark in color, hovering between a pole and a tree at a distance of 100 to 200 meters from his house. A man wearing tights and a helmet was making repairs, and three other silhouettes were working around the craft. When Facchini offered his help, the men spoke among themselves with guttural sounds and one of them projected a kind of beam at Facchini, which knocked him down a few meters away. Then he was caught in a kind of whirlwind of air which threw him back to the ground. The work finished, a hatch was closed and the craft flew away with a sound like that of a giant beehive. Bruises and wounds. Traces. Police investigation. Other witnesses (April 24, 1950)", + "location": "ITALY, Abbiate Guazzone (Varese)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 222, 223", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1459" + }, + { + "date": "4/27/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:25 PM a TWA DC 3 heading west flew over Goshen. In the cockpit were Captain Robert Adickes, and Captain Robert F. Manning, who was serving as second for Flight 117 to Chicago. As the plane flew at 600 meters altitude, Manning suddenly saw an unusual red light moving quickly behind them and a bit below their plane. He saw it descend and then continue on its way beneath the DC 3, approaching the plane. At this point the DC 3 was flying at 280 km/h. The mysterious object passed them at great speed while its brightness increased. It had an orange-red color and seemed like a molten metal bar sliding through the sky. Manning could make out a spherical shape at the top that shone intensely, while the bottom was dark. He drew Adickes' attention (...) who decided to contact the control tower. The UFO began to fly alongside the DC 3, and Adickes suddenly made a turn, but immediately the mysterious craft veered away. The pilot executed the maneuver a second time with the same result. He called flight attendant Gloria Hinshaw and ordered her to alert the passengers (to ensure their testimony). Suddenly the UFO began to dive at a dizzying speed towards the north towards South Bend. Gloria Hinshaw said: \"It looked like a huge wheel of red color spinning close to our plane. The spectacle was extraordinary. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have had a hard time believing the pilots' story. (...) (April 27, 1950)", + "location": "USA, Goshen (Indiana) in flight", + "ref": [ + "A. RIBERA: \"These Mysterious UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1976, pp. 369-373", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1460" + }, + { + "date": "5/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) M. Pierrard and his daughter Madeleine, aged 14 at the time. \"It was 6:30. As usual we were going up to the meadows with our dog to get the cows. When we reached the park I suddenly exclaimed: 'Dad, look at the sun, it's really close? (...) We heard a strange noise, it was like: hou! hou! hou! hou! and then a ball appeared. It was like a ball of fire. It came closer, then it landed in front of us. My father asked me not to move or go forward, for fear of being burned. It was after the ball was still that we realized it was more like a kind of saucer. I then saw, right in front of me, inside the object totally transparent like glass, a little man about 1 m 40 tall, arms spread, perhaps hindered by the diving suit he was wearing. He was absolutely motionless. He looked like a Michelin man. He wore a kind of motorcyclist's helmet with a Plexiglas visor and two tubes apparently connected to two tanks above his shoulders. What shocked me the most was that it seemed to me that he was constantly looking at me. I felt completely paralyzed during the whole observation. I felt a heat stroke similar to the one felt when sunbathing. I did not move during this period which lasted about two minutes. The object then rose like a spinning top, turning slightly on itself, rising in successive steps, emitting the same noise as at the beginning, after which it moved away and disappeared in the direction of Buzancy. \" (May 1950)", + "location": "France, Vaux en Dieulet (near Buzancy)", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Michel LIGERON: \"Ovni en Ardennes\" 1981, p 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1461" + }, + { + "date": "5/10/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Enrique Caretenuto Botta (Enrico Botha, other authors write E.C. Bossa)), an aeronautical engineer, was driving when he saw a metallic disk with a shiny surface, 10 m in diameter and 4 m high (2 m high on the edges), resting in a field near an infrequently used road. The only activity detectable was a flashing light on the dome. There were no visible landing gear, the disk was slightly tilted on the ground. The whole had a smooth and shiny look, but at the same time like a kind of elasticity like rubber). He approached and entered through an opening on the side. (There was an odor of ozone and garlic. Three humanoids, about 1 m 30 tall, dressed in a lead-colored suit were sitting motionless on seats (in the turret). (Their faces and hands were uncovered. Their skin was tanned, their hair gray-brown, their eyes very large) He touched them: they were dead (and rigid). In front of them were control instruments and a kind of television screen. The humanoid sitting in the center held his hands on two levers. The other two were lying on curved beds along the circular wall). Above a flashing orange light. Very impressed, Botta left (he had only been inside for 5 minutes) and returned the next day with two engineer friends. They only found a pile of ashes (still hot, leaving a greenish color on their hands). They then observed, very high in the sky, a large cigar and two disks, one of which was hovering above them. Then the two disks entered the cigar which (became all red) and disappeared in a few seconds.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Bahia Blanca region", + "ref": [ + "Leonard STRINGFIELD: \"General Alert OVNI\" ed. France - Empire, 1978, p.116 to 118", + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"The Enigma of the E.T.\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 110, 111 - for the complements between parentheses: Mufon Ufo Journal December 1996, n° 344, pages 15 to 17", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1462" + }, + { + "date": "5/11/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4:00 PM launch of Viking IV, 169 km altitude, fire in the same rocket. (GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, M.W. Rosen, N.Y. 1955) DURATION 435 SECONDS, RANGE 12 KM, FALL INTO SEA (May 11, 1950)", + "location": "USA, Jarvis Island, Santa Barbara Channel.", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, 279/280", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1463" + }, + { + "date": "5/11/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On this day, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Trent, farmers, saw a metallic, shiny object with a superstructure. As it came to their level, the witnesses felt a \"gust of wind\". Mr. Trent took two photographs in 30 seconds. The object quickly moved westward just after the second photo was taken. (May 11, 1950)", + "location": "USA, McMinnville (Oregon)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - pp. 254-256 and photographic insert", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1464" + }, + { + "date": "5/20/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At Lowell Observatory, Professor Hall, an astronomer, affirmed to have seen through the telescope a bright silver disk, moving slowly in the sky. (Henry DURRANT: \"Le livre noir des S.V.\" - Laffont 1970 - p.99) Astronomer Seymour L. Hess made a remarkable observation at 9:20 PM. It was a partially shaded disk flying against the south-east wind towards the north-west and which disappeared into a cloud bank at an altitude of 12000 feet. (May 20, 1950)", + "location": "USA, Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff (Arizona)", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 134", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1465" + }, + { + "date": "5/20/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A woman, Micheline G., had a terrifying encounter at the place called \"Givry\" during a walk, around 4 pm, along the Loire. Before that, there was a great gust, a whirlwind, like a storm wind and she heard a strange laugh, heard as if through water. The laugh stopped abruptly and then she received a kick in the back, as if the knee was made of steel. She fell and was forced to lie down, still with her head held tight, and that's how the entity dragged her onto the path and into a bush of thorns and nettles. Then it said \"There she is. We have her!\" as if speaking to someone. She was dragged through the bushes into a small pasture and there it gradually let go. She wanted to call out but had no voice. She was able to stand up. She saw the tops of the trees bend, the branches shaking violently. It didn't last very long. There was then a bitter, unknown taste in the air. After the traumatic encounter there was again a violent displacement of air and she was blinded by a burning white light, while she felt an electric current in her body, like a brief paralysis. It was brief, calm returned immediately. (Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p 210) Micheline headed for the lockkeeper's house in Givry, who treated the bloody and covered in multiple bruises victim, with finger marks embedded in her neck. The lockkeepers were inside the house and had been blinded by a great white light shortly before her arrival. Numerous traces on the spot and investigation by the gendarmerie of Fourchambault.", + "location": "FRANCE, Cours-les-Barres (Cher) (Fourchambault)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier dossier complet...\" éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 52, 53", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1466" + }, + { + "date": "6/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The experimental aircraft Skystreak completed its last research flight (Vortex Generator) and reached Mach 0.99. This was the limit of its possible performance. It was not retired from the program until 1953.", + "location": "USA, Muroc", + "ref": [ + "NASA website 1997, \"On the Frontier\" Ref 2-25", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1467" + }, + { + "date": "6/23/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) American Navy divers were unsuccessfully trying to retrieve debris from an airplane buried 50 meters deep in the muddy waters of the lake. They found nothing. Yet, shortly afterwards, something began to rise to the surface on its own; it had bizarre shapes, with no relation to what is usually found after an explosion. Imagine violently hammered glass tiles and you will have an idea of what was collected that day in Indiana. (June 23, 1950)", + "location": "USA, Lake Michigan", + "ref": [ + "Peter KOLOSIMO: \"Shadows on the Stars\" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 304", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1468" + }, + { + "date": "6/29/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3:45 PM witnesses, including FBI agents, saw a very high object in the sky. It was also picked up by radar. An airplane passing through the area at 290 miles/hour was able to make a circle under the object which was at about 35000 feet. The object had the shape of a balloon and was moving very slowly (50 miles/hour) towards the west in the absence of any wind.", + "location": "USA, Phoenix (Arizona)", + "ref": [ + "Doc. FBI, Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1469" + }, + { + "date": "6/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Suarez saw four luminous objects emerge from the sea, close to the shore, one after the other, while the sea boiled like a maelstrom, with a terrifying noise.", + "location": "AMERICA, Atlantic", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p 214", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1470" + }, + { + "date": "6/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Frank Scully, author of \"Behind the Flying Saucers\", claimed that he had boarded a Venusian vessel equipped with an electromagnetic propulsion system and had undertaken a journey with its occupants. [note from vog: I did not find this in Scully's claims...] (June 1950)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "A. RIBERA: \"Ces mystérieux ovni\" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 226", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1471" + }, + { + "date": "6/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man who was walking along the beach, saw an oval-shaped UFO emerge from the sea and fly towards the land. A few nights later he saw a similar phenomenon near Santa Cruz.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Tierra del Fuego, between San Sebastian and Rio Grande", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 307", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1472" + }, + { + "date": "Early Summer 1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) L. B. was returning home after spending the evening playing cards with his neighbors. The weather was nice, the sky was clear. It was between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning. The witness was walking on the dirt road when he saw, near an abandoned barn, a light. At the same time he heard noises that he thought were of metallic origin. He wondered if it was wise to approach, but after a moment of hesitation, he decided to approach. He then heard voices perfectly. He thought it was people who had taken up residence in this barn to make \"bagosse\" (illegal moonshine). He had already heard that this had been seen in the region. (...) he slipped behind a \"pitoune\" (wooden balls) rope. There he heard the voices very well and he saw the object that emitted the light. It was a bright and shiny disc 6 m in diameter, suspended one and a half meters from the ground. (...) \"Near this device, I clearly saw, because of the light that was still quite strong and coming from the object, a being 1 m 60 tall. He was well built, thin and looked rather young. (...) I was not afraid to look (...) and so I advanced.\" Up close the witness noticed that the man had a phosphorescent one-piece garment and on his face he wore a mask that seemed to be made of a piece of soft leather with holes for the eyes. It started in the middle of the forehead and ended just under the mouth. (...) the character spoke words in an unknown language (note from vog: detached syllables resembling German) Almost immediately the witness felt movement under the luminous object. Another character emerged from under the apparatus. (...) this second character is smaller than the first; he is dressed in the same way; his head is bigger and covered with a kind of hood. He has wide shoulders, a hunched back. At the waist he wears an object similar to a flashlight. With an awkward gesture he directs the instrument towards the witness, who immediately feels \"mortified\". (note from vog: paralyzed in place but seeing and hearing everything). (...) The two beings began to talk. The character with the flashlight approached the witness (...) he touched his forehead (...) with a hand with fingers deformed as if by arthritis. (...) his head barely reached his shoulders (...) he removed his hood. (...) L.B. had a shudder of disgust (...) The skin was wrinkled and tanned... deformed by a grimace, one could clearly see all his teeth... small and all alike. (...) because he was showing me those eyes with his fingers all deformed. (...) the area around the eyes had wrinkles like the area around the eyes of a chicken. And the black dots of the two eyes did not reach the same height, as if they were looking in different directions. I also saw that the face had no mobility at all, it was stuck there, period. (...) he put his hood back on. He stayed a few minutes looking at the witness's face. The other (..) started talking very loudly. The one in front of me left me on the spot to go to the luminous object. The two then climbed into the object by a short ladder. (..) L.B. remembers nothing else. (...) he was able to move again. (...) He was sitting in the grass. (1950, early summer)", + "location": "CANADA, Vassan (Abitibi)", + "ref": [ + "Jean Ferguson: \"Les Humanoïdes, les cerveaux qui dirigent les S.V.\" ed. Leméac 1978, p. 241 to 244", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1473" + }, + { + "date": "7/1/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness, being in an observation tower north of Chicago, saw at around 01:00 an object in the shape of a cigar. 2/3 of the front part were lit up with a glow resembling the color of the flame of a kerosene lamp. The last third of the object was dark. The UFO left a light blue trail in the sky, of the same length as the object itself. No noise.", + "location": "USA, Chicago", + "ref": [ + "Doc. FBI, Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1474" + }, + { + "date": "7/2/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A couple had gone, as they often did, to a secluded cove of Sawbill Bay, a narrow and deep arm of the lake, surrounded by rocks just above the water. In the afternoon they had pulled their boat onto the beach, eaten and drunk tea and were resting in the open air when it began to vibrate. The strange sensation persisting, the man had climbed a rock, which was cut at its top by a narrow slit through which one could see without being seen. \"I saw a large, shining object floating on the water in the curve of the opposite shore, less than 40 m from the entrance of the farthest pass. I quickly descended and, trying to keep my calm, I told my wife what I had seen. We climbed the rock together. The thing was still there: it looked like two large saucers joined by the edges. On the circumference there were portholes bordered in black and spaced one meter apart. As the base was in the water one could not see the underside. At the top there were like hatches open and at the surface a dozen strange little beings were slowly turning in a circle. An object in the shape of a hoop was rotating around a central point 2.50 m in the air. As it was just opposite us it stopped and the little beings imitated it. Everything seemed to converge on the slit through which we were looking. Instinctively we stepped back. Glancing over my right shoulder I caught a movement in the bushes. A deer was coming down to drink. The circle or hoop and the little beings faced the deer. The hoop having started to turn again did not stop on the deer. My wife and I stepped back, we had the impression that the rock was protecting us from the hoop. This one was maneuvered by a being who was standing on a small platform. He had a skull or a bright red helmet. All the others wore dark blue helmets. All were the same size, about 1 m. All were dressed the same way and had something shiny on their chest that seemed metallic and something darker on their arms. They moved like automatons and did not turn around like us, but had to move their feet to change direction. I watched one of these beings grab the end of a flexible tube of a very bright green and lift it while he was in a certain position and make his feet turn half a turn to be able to go in the opposite direction. At the same time my wife and I heard a regular humming. They seemed to be drawing water with a tube and discharging something with another. We had to step back again because of the hoop and when we looked again, everything had disappeared from the surface of the object and it began to rise above the water. It was about 2.50 m high. The water where it had landed was reddish blue with golden reflections. The thing seemed to have a thickness of 4.50 m in the center and 3.50 m on the circumference. There was a gust of wind at the moment it flew at about 45° and quickly disappeared in the distance. Comparing it to two trees on the opposite shore I estimated its diameter to be about 14.50 m.\"", + "location": "CANADA, Steep Rock Lake", + "ref": [ + "Frank Edwards: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse\" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 144 to 146", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1475" + }, + { + "date": "7/4/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Daniel W. Fry, supervisor of the rocket launching facility at White Sands, had gone for a nighttime stroll. Suddenly he saw an oval object slowly descending and landing 20 meters away from him: no sound except for the cracking of branches. He walked around the object and estimated its diameter to be 9 meters and its height to be 8 meters. He found no openings. He touched the shiny metal surface with violet reflections and found it to be extraordinarily smooth and quite warm. He lightly tapped it with his hand and immediately felt a tingling in his fingers. That's when a voice came out of nowhere, telling him not to touch it. Fry was so scared that he backed away, stumbled and fell. The voice spoke in correct English and then spoke in a way that was meant to \"advance mankind\" and Fry was invited aboard. A panel opened on the lower part and Fry entered the cabin which was 2.7 meters long and 2.1 meters wide and contained 4 chairs adapted for humans. There was no one aboard. But Fry was able to make a trip to New York in 30 minutes, and back. He had barely left the spacecraft when the panel closed, the craft was surrounded by a red halo and it rose vertically, while Fry felt as if he was being pulled off the ground and almost lost his balance. (Johannes von BUTLAR: \"UFO, We Are Not Alone\" - Presses de la Cité 1979 - pp. 39-41) On July 4, Daniel Fry wanted to go to Las Cruces to see the fireworks of the Independence Day celebration and missed the last bus. He decided to take advantage of the beautiful night to go to the desert. Suddenly he saw a shooting star, which went up and then down. It was a 20 meter diameter saucer that landed. A voice echoed, coming from a mothership still in the sky. The craft on the ground had no crew. In 30 minutes, Fry, who had entered the craft on the ground, made a round trip to New York, at 13500 km/h. (continued on July 28) (Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998) In 1954, the contactee Daniel Fry published a book in which he detailed several highly questionable experiences. However, he claims to have had a telepathic dialogue with an extraterrestrial whose name is sometimes written as A-lan and sometimes as Alan, who took him in his flying saucer on July 4, 1954. (July 4, 1950)", + "location": "USA, White Sands (New Mexico)", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"UFO, the Unmasked Invaders\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 78", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1476" + }, + { + "date": "7/13/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 5 p.m. Witnesses: two experienced ballistic arsenal employees, including Mr. Washburn. An object, in the shape of a pointed arrow, with the appearance of polished aluminum, flew horizontally. Then this triangle rotated 1/4 turn on its axis inversion and returned to its initial position. The object then made an abrupt right angle turn, accelerated and disappeared in the distance. Observation lasted 30 seconds.", + "location": "USA, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1477" + }, + { + "date": "7/23/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Lucky Blondeau, owner of the squadron bar, on the edge of the airfield, recounts: \"Around 11 o'clock at night I was going for a walk before going to bed. I admired the starry sky on the airfield, where I was isolated more than a kilometer from the first house. Suddenly I heard a sound of wind. Turning around I saw at a hundred meters from me in the darkness, two gray shapes: perfectly round objects of 5 m in diameter and about 1.60 to 1.70 m in height. All around the edge was glazed, sort of rectangular portholes. On the lower face of each of the objects an ovoid door very thick (40 cm) opened and I saw a man descend from each machine. These pilots measured about 1.70 m and their hair was dark. They wore a gray-brown or dark blue suit. These men rushed to one of the machines where they placed or moved a kind of blade resting on something like rubber. They did this work with their bare hands, without tools. Despite my emotion I approached. Seeing me they seemed surprised but calm. \"Are you broken down?\" I asked. And one answered \"Yes, but not for long\". A minute later the repair finished, each of them advanced towards the door of his machine and opened it. From the inside a formidable lighting burst out. Hesitating I risked a look through the open hatch. It was the most perfect lighting, throwing no shadows. In the middle there was a kind of armchair and in front of it a radio station with 7 or 8 buttons. Above there was a huge oval wheel with a handle at each end. It was solid metal, covered with signs and buttons. Other devices were mounted on blocks around the armchair. I asked other questions but the answer was brief: \"Energy\". They entered, locking the doors. I had the impression that the metal of the machines resembling aluminum, weighed nothing and that the discs were suspended 10 cm from the ground without touching it. From their horizontal position these machines immediately passed to the vertical and thus disappeared, like shooting stars. After takeoff I heard a small sound of wind, like a breath. In all, since I had seen them, barely two minutes had passed. [IN REALITY: it would be a hoax that at the time largely abused the press. Its author admitted to having set up this story from scratch, without giving the reasons.]", + "location": "FRANCE, Guyancourt (20 km from Paris)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET / J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, First Complete File ...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, pp. 655, 656", + "Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - pp. 86 to 88", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1478" + }, + { + "date": "7/28/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. July 4, 1950) Daniel Fry had a new contact with the extraterrestrial A-Lan. He explained to Fry that the saucer had two poles and that electrons were in free mixture between them. The control mechanism caused the electrons to be expelled through the two rings above and below the saucer. He was made to understand that it was a powerful electromagnetic field and Fry, being a scientist, was able to follow the conversation. A-Lan specified that his people had been living on board ships for generations. Tens of thousands of years before, their ancestors had built an empire on the Earth Lemuria, part of the continent Mu, now submerged in the Pacific Ocean, A-Lan said. They were of a very advanced culture and technology. This was also the case for the inhabitants of Atlantis, but the two races were rather rivals. There was an atomic catastrophe, which is related in the Mahabharata. The survivors fled to Mars (etc...) (...) As proof of his contact, Fry received a cruciform disc 8 cm in diameter which, according to analyses in scientific laboratories (note from vog: which ones, and where are the results?), contained a curious mixture of various elements. (July 28, 1950)", + "location": "USA, unspecified location", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1479" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The 8 year old girl was playing in her grandparents' barn, when suddenly she found herself hundreds of meters away in the farm yard, without understanding how she had gotten to that place. A warm liquid was running down her leg: at mid-calf a deep, clean and absolutely painless wound of 2.5 cm long and 1 cm deep. She was bleeding abundantly: yet, the pants were absolutely not torn. (1950, Summer)", + "location": "CANADA, in Manitoba", + "ref": [ + "Bertrand MEHEUST: \"En soucoupes volantes\" - Imago 1992, p. 43", + "continued: summer 1966, France, in Alsace", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1480" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1950 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: GESAG, GS 552) Willy V. (aged 8-10) was outside the house with his younger sister Yvette, at the hamlet of Broekhuize, Maldegem. Yvette first noticed the phenomenon, looking up at the sky almost mechanically. It was a disc rotating on itself, flat on the top and curved on the bottom. At the periphery of the disc were short beams of grayish light. There was no emission of smoke and the light rays remained fixed on the edge of the object, like short pulsations. At 60 cm from the eyes, the diameter was estimated at 20 cm, while the speed of movement could be estimated as that of the planes of the time (900km/h). It seems that it was not the outer ring that was rotating around the vertical axis. Yvette specifies that sometimes the surface of the object sparkled, despite the absence of the sun but that the sky was clear. The object was moving from west to east, almost passing directly above the young witnesses at an altitude estimated between 4000 and 6000 meters. The children rushed into the house to alert the parents and when they all returned outside, everything had disappeared. From the moment of the observation until they returned to the house, about 3 minutes had passed. (1950, Summer (or 1955?))", + "location": "Belgium, Maldegem", + "ref": [ + "Investigation by Jacques Bonabot, in September 1972.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1481" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A 6-year-old girl spotted an \"airplane\" in a clover field not far from her father's farm. She wanted to go and take a closer look. The airplane had no wings, only a long fuselage about 6 m long with silver ends and a black middle. Four small men, barely taller than her, were busy. They were extraordinary: dressed in bright green, with a red face and a kind of cap on their heads. They moved like puppets, one of them kicked the airplane, their eyes were fixed and did not move. The girl then told them that they were in a clover field in the village of Liiduvere, but suddenly she was seized with panic and ran home. Looking back, she saw the plane rise slowly. The next day she returned to see if the plane had returned, but she was scared when she approached the place. For a long time, for her, the word \"airplane\" evoked this cigar-shaped device. She had told her story to her grandmother and her mother, but they did not believe her. (1950, Summer)", + "location": "ESTONIA, Liiduvere", + "ref": [ + "International Ufo Reporter, vol. 2 n° 12, 1977", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1482" + }, + { + "date": "7/24/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 09:29 launch of V2 #B8, Bumper Program.", + "location": "USA, Florida", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1483" + }, + { + "date": "7/29/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of V2 #B7 at 06:25. Bumper Program.", + "location": "USA, Florida", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1484" + }, + { + "date": "8/4/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 10 a.m. EDT. Witnesses: Quartermaster Nils Lewring, Chief Petty Officer Jacob Koelwyn, Third Mate of the M/V Marcala. An object 3 meters long at an altitude between 20 and 35 meters, flying in a wavy motion, accelerated at the end of the 15 second observation.", + "location": "USA, approx. 100 mi. SE of New York City (39' 35' N., 72' 24.5' W.).", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1485" + }, + { + "date": "8/15/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) DD; 11:30 - 2 witnesses, duration 1 minute UFO film: two small punctual lights in the bright sky containing enough reference objects to allow for a significant study. (J. Allen HYNEK: \"UFOs, Myth or Reality?\" - trans. Belfond 1974, p.78,79, 274) Film shot by Nick Mariana of Great Falls. (Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - p.180) This color film was carefully studied by physicist Dr. M.L. Baker, \"top secret security clearance card.\" The film contains 290 successive images. On the first 35 one sees a kind of mark or band at the periphery of the two objects that rotate synchronically. Or rather: one saw. These 35 images were confiscated by the Air Force. (August 15, 1950)", + "location": "USA, Great Falls (Montana)", + "ref": [ + "Aimé MICHEL/Georges LEHR: \"FOR/AGAINST UFOs\" BERGER-LEVRAULT 1969, FOR section, p. 51, 52", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1486" + }, + { + "date": "8/25/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 8 p.m. Witness: B-29 radar operator S/Sgt. William Shaffer. Radar sighting and possibly a blue light visually 2 to 3 minutes later. The B-29 pursued an unidentified target, passed within 1/4 mile of it, then the B-29 was followed for 5 minutes by the target before it accelerated away. Total duration of the radar sighting: 20 minutes.", + "location": "BERMUDA, approx. 250 mi. SW of Bermuda (29' 40' N., 67'28' W.).", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1487" + }, + { + "date": "8/30/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 1:30 p.m. Witnesses: three people from the locality, including Kaeel and Alexander, from the Air Force base. A dark object shaped like a barrel with the opening facing down, in the water, flying at about 5km/hour, at an altitude of 4 to 6 meters during the 5 minute observation.", + "location": "CANADA, Sandy Point, Newfoundland", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1488" + }, + { + "date": "8/31/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:09, launch of V2 No. 51, 136 km altitude, weight 13672 kg. (GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959) with mice on board, killed in the crash on the ground.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "Nieuwenhuis H. 1988, 17", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1489" + }, + { + "date": "8/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One morning in August, in the midst of the Korean War, a Russian reconnaissance plane - which, escorted by two fighters, had taken off from Vladivostok - was flying over the Japan Sea. A Japanese merchant vessel was sailing on the same sea and its crew often looked up to follow the maneuvers of the Soviet aircraft. The sailors were rightly worried; they were suddenly stunned. A round, very bright thing had just crossed the sky and stopped motionless at the height of the planes. Suddenly the reconnaissance plane turned around while the fighters began to whirl around the luminous ball and one of the two pilots took it under fire from his machine guns. The thing, which seemed insensitive and invulnerable, the fighter pilot seemed to want to approach it and at the moment when he was about to touch it, the sailors saw the Soviet one remain motionless for a few seconds, then waver, then tremble, then vibrate, then eject planes exactly like him, he who still did not move. There were three, four, five exactly identical ones arranged in a fan, connected to each other by the beak. Then there was the explosion. (...) (August 1950)", + "location": "Japan Sea", + "ref": [ + "Peter KOLOSIMO: \"Shadows on the Stars\" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 338", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1490" + }, + { + "date": "9/3/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 2 p.m. Witnesses: Maj. R.J. Gardiner, Mrs. Gardiner and a neighbor (one of the witnesses saw 3 objects, the other two saw only one object). Disk of metallic appearance and bronze color, 20-30 feet long and 2-6 feet thick. Independent and erratic movements for 5 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Spokane, Washington.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1491" + }, + { + "date": "9/20/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 10:49 a.m. Witness identified as \"credible\". Two large, bright round objects, and three smaller objects \"inside\". The two large ones hovered for a minute, while the three smaller ones entered and exited the large objects. All of them rose and disappeared, accelerating.", + "location": "USA, Kit Carson, Colorado.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1492" + }, + { + "date": "9/21/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 9:52 a.m. Witness/: M.I.T. research associate and Air National Guard Maj. M.H. Ligda. Radar tracking of one object during M.I.T tracking of USAF flight of F-84 or F-86 jet fighters. Object speed was 22 miles/minute (1,200 m.p.h.), made turn of 11-12 gs acceleration during 1 minute observation. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner)... During the third mission we detected another \"airplane\" in the radar sweep, heading roughly north on a course converging with that of the F 86s. (...) The echo caught up with the F 86s, passed them, and crossed their course, then, after a sharp, tight turn to the right, reversed course back toward Boston, passing directly over our aircraft. (...) A moderate estimate of the speed of the object would be approximately 1,900 km/h, and the centrifugal force exerted on the craft at the time of its turn would exceed 5 g....\"", + "location": "USA, Provincetown, Otis, Massachusetts.", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979 - pp. 138-140", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1493" + }, + { + "date": "9/26/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two police officers patrolling in a car saw through the windshield an object slowly approaching the ground. The object seemed to them at first to be a parachute. Located at the tops of the trees it seemed to have a diameter of six feet. It landed in a nearby field. The police officers, after watching it for some time, wanted to take possession of it, but the object disintegrated, leaving only a slight odorous residue. Total duration of the observation: 25 minutes, during which the object emitted a light so bright that the witnesses saw that the grass did not even bend under the craft. (FBI doc. - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider) It was a circular mass about two meters in diameter, thick about 30 cm in the center and 5 to 6 cm at the edges. In the light of their torches, they distinguished that the strange thing was reddish and that it quivered like something alive. In the darkness the thing radiated a faint red glow. \"Should we pick it up?\" one of the police officers proposed. After a moment of hesitation, Collins tried. He only managed to grasp pieces of a gelatinous material that broke and slipped between his fingers, leaving a kind of grease or foam on his hands without smell. In less than half an hour, the whole quivering mass had disintegrated, evaporated. The police officers are certain of one thing: it was alive. (September 26, 1950)", + "location": "USA, Philadelphia", + "ref": [ + "Pierre VIEROUDY: \"These UFOs that announce the Superman\" - Laffont 1979, p. 80", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1494" + }, + { + "date": "10/5/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) When the California Central Airlines plane took off from Burbank-Hollywood Airport at 7:55 PM, neither the captain nor the co-pilot suspected they were on a collision course with a UFO. Five minutes after takeoff to Oakland, the plane was somewhere between Van Nuys and San Fernando, climbing to 4500 feet. Suddenly the captain, Cecil Hardin, drew the co-pilot's attention to an illuminated object approaching directly ahead. The co-pilot, Jack Conroy, later told reporters that the object was only observed for a few seconds before passing beneath the plane. \"It's impossible to say how fast it was going and how far away it was,\" said Conroy. \"But it seemed big, flying at a tremendous speed, and quite close, say 500 feet from us,\" added Hardin. \"What really seemed strange to us was that it had absolutely no fuselage. We didn't feel the rush of air from its engine or its speed when it passed beneath us.\" They estimated the length of the object to be about 85 feet, with 6 to 8 bright lights arranged on the upper part, all of which were blinking.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "NUFORC, Looking Back, by Bob Gribble", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1495" + }, + { + "date": "10/12/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Radar detection of at least eleven objects at 11:25 PM. They were moving in the heavily monitored area of Oak Ridge. Their altitude varied between 1000 and 5000 feet, the density of the targets was comparable to that of the navigation lights of a C.47, the estimated speed was 120/125 miles/hour. A fighter was sent to try to intercept the unknown aircraft, but the pilot could not distinguish anything on the on-board radar, nor with the naked eye.", + "location": "USA, Knoxville (Tennessee)", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1496" + }, + { + "date": "10/23/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 12:42 p.m. Witness: former USAF pilot Frank Risher. An aluminum object in the shape of a dirigible or a Convair C-99 cargo, with 3 portholes, arrived from the SE, hovered for 3 to 5 seconds and flew away towards the SSE at the end of the 40 second observation.", + "location": "USA, Bonlee, North Carolina.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1497" + }, + { + "date": "10/26/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 16:02 launch of V2 #61, explosion.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1498" + }, + { + "date": "10/30/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. A.W. Bearne, of Preston, saw above his house a kind of cigar spewing flames and descending at great speed. It changed direction and left horizontally. Its tail flames suddenly decreased in intensity and two large disks of silver-blue color appeared in front of the cigar at a higher speed. They moved silently at about 2000 feet and approximately at the same speed. Their minimum diameter must have been 15 to 20 meters. They stayed in view for about fifteen seconds and disappeared above Goodrington and Brixham.", + "location": "ENGLAND, Preston", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GIEU: \"The S.V. come from another World\" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Omnium Littéraire Reissue 1972 p.34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1499" + }, + { + "date": "10/30/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Pope Pius XII (...) after getting up as usual at 6:30 and fulfilling his duties, went out for a walk. (...) Pope Pius XII approached a statue of the Virgin at the bottom of the garden (...) it was on his way back from this place that he looked up at the sky. To his great astonishment, he saw the sun dancing just like at Fatima thirty years earlier. Certainly the phenomenon had something worrying about it in more than one respect. The sun, although bright, did not dazzle him, he was able to look at it for long minutes without feeling any discomfort. The \"sun\" began to vibrate on itself, then it went zigzagging in the sky. It moved in abrupt, almost violent and very fast movements from north to south, then from east to west. Its trajectory often brought it back to its starting point from where it started the same game again. Then it stabilized in the sky and began to spin at an incredible speed. It had the appearance of a wheel of fire and from this wheel came out in disorder spiral bursts of light, pink, yellow, orange and mauve which shot towards the 4 points of the horizon. Suddenly there was a complete stop and the sun became normal again, but after a few moments it started its amazing game again (...) and suddenly the heat seemed unbearable. (...) The phenomenon was to be repeated for him again on October 31st and November 1st (1950, October 30th, 31st, and November 1st)", + "location": "ROME, Vatican", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Enigmas of the Present Time\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1979, p. 49", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1500" + }, + { + "date": "11/5/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 11:55 a.m. Witnesses: Fairchild Aircraft illustrator Don Patrick. A translucent light gray object with a dark rim, pear-shaped. Flew for 5-10 minutes in a caracoling and rapid motion.", + "location": "USA, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1501" + }, + { + "date": "11/21/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:18 AM, launch of Viking V, altitude 173 km. Photographs of the Earth taken from high altitude.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, 280, M.W. Rosen, N.Y. 1955", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1502" + }, + { + "date": "12/2/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 10:50 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. L. Scott. An object like a pearl, with the top flattened, spinning and hovering and making a sound like a swarm of bees. Only document in the file: East African newspaper \"Standard\"", + "location": "KENYA, Nanyika", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1503" + }, + { + "date": "12/6/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 5 p.m. Witnesses: former interceptor pilot Harry Lamp and four boys, with x10 binoculars. An object of 25 meters, one meter thick, with a bubble on the upper part, silver and white belt, with two orange reactors. The center is rotating when the object is flying; then it takes off accelerating prodigiously.", + "location": "USA, Ft. Myers, Florida.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book -cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1504" + }, + { + "date": "12/6/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Crash of a saucer that burns completely. A photo of the event reached ufologists in 1980 [note of vog: which ones? The author is the only one I know to claim this]", + "location": "USA, El Indio Guerrero, border between Texas and Mexico", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1505" + }, + { + "date": "12/11/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of Viking VI. 64 km altitude, night fire, damaged wings.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, M.W. Rosen, N.Y. 1955", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1506" + }, + { + "date": "12/12/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On December 12th, an Aerobee was launched at 10am and another at 9pm. The following day, an Aerobee was launched at 2am and another at 12pm. (1950, December 12th and 13th)", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, 288", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1507" + }, + { + "date": "12/24/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A white object, which then turned red and green, with a tail, travelled 1° every 2 minutes. It was observed for 2 hours and 30 minutes before disappearing and photos were taken by Mr. Stanfield. (1950, night of December 24th to 25th)", + "location": "USA, Datil (New Mexico)", + "ref": [ + "doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, trans. Jean Sider", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1508" + }, + { + "date": "12/1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In December 1950, the American seaplane tender Gardiners Bay was heading up the Inchon Channel in Korea when its crew spotted two mysterious objects with smoke trails that struck the water at an incredible speed. Two huge columns of water shot up more than 35m at the moment of contact. No aircraft was observed, either visually or by radar; and the U.S. NAVY announced: \"The identification remains a great mystery.\"", + "location": "KOREA, at sea, Inchon Channel", + "ref": [ + "Yvan T.SANDERSON: \"The Invisibles Under the Seas\" Albin Michel 1979 p.51", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1509" + }, + { + "date": "1950", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A lesser-known contactee, John Watts, claims to have been able to visit the planet Venus in 1950 aboard a flying saucer piloted by a Venusian who was called Mara.", + "location": "USA, unspecified location", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 84", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1510" + }, + { + "date": "1/8/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 10:45 p.m. Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Boggus, plus drivers and passengers of several cars stopped to observe. Two groups of red and green lights in triangular formation stationary before taking off.", + "location": "USA, south of Ft. Worth, Texas.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1511" + }, + { + "date": "1/12/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 10 p.m. Witnessed by 2nd Lt. A.C. Hale of the Army. A light with a triangular outline remained stationary like a star for 20 minutes before quickly flying away.", + "location": "USA, Ft. Benning, Georgia.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cf. Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1512" + }, + { + "date": "1/18/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 13:14, a V2 #54 was launched, only reaching 2 km.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1513" + }, + { + "date": "1/20/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:20 PM two controllers of the control tower observed a light above the airport. A DC 3 plane of Mid Continent Airlines was taking off at the same time, the crew (Lawrence W. Vinther and F. Bachmeier) observed it at 8:26 PM. The object described a larger circle than the plane to take off, the object turned and passed in front of the nose of the plane and seemed to instantly appear on the other side, gliding under it. It had the shape of an airplane whose fuselage had the shape of a cigar and the straight wings a bit larger than a B-29. The pilot and co-pilot saw neither nacelle nor engine. The light seemed to come from the bottom of the object.", + "location": "USA, Sioux City", + "ref": [ + "Johannes von BUTLAR: \"Ovni, nous ne sommes pas seuls\" - Presses de la Cité 1979 - P. 77", + "Brad STEIGER: \"Ovni, le projet Blue Book\" - trad. Belfond 1979, p. 109,110", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1514" + }, + { + "date": "2/8/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of Hermes A 1 No. 4: missile test.", + "location": "USA, unspecified location", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, and photo", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1515" + }, + { + "date": "2/19/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: Nicap) Captain Jack Bicknell, the radio officer, D. W. Merrifield, of East African Airways, and 9 passengers, saw while flying over Kilimandjaro, a cigar-shaped object with vertical stripes, hovering for a long time, before shooting off at a tremendous speed.", + "location": "AFRICA, Kilimandjaro (in flight)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1516" + }, + { + "date": "2/26/1951 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 7:10 a.m. Witness: Sgt. J.B. Sells of the USAF. A dark grey metallic object, estimated to be 120 feet long, 10-12 feet thick, flying, emitting puffs of smoke before taking off after 1-1.5 minutes of observation. (1951, February 26 (or 25?))", + "location": "ALASKA, Ladd AFB", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1517" + }, + { + "date": "3/5/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:30 PM, George Adamski finally, after 5 years of observation, took a photo of a \"large\" flying saucer with a makeshift camera on his telescope. The photo of the \"saucer\" showed a craft resembling a twin to the lid of a soda dispenser...", + "location": "USA", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1518" + }, + { + "date": "3/8/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:16 PM, launch of V2 #57, Operation Blossom, altitude 3 km, 13620 kg, explosion", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1519" + }, + { + "date": "3/13/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 3:20 p.m. Witnesses: USAF 1st Lt. B.J. Hastie and Mrs. Rafferty. A cylinder with tail fins, 200 feet long, 90 feet wide, turned north and flew at incredible speed. Two minutes.", + "location": "USA, McClellan AFB, California.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1520" + }, + { + "date": "3/15/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:20 a.m. (local time), thousands of people were witnesses to an astonishing apparition: a \"flying cigar\" traversing the sky of India. George Franklin Floate, chief engineer of the Delhi Flying Club and several members of the club, observed with interest the strange phenomenon which lasted 20 minutes. - This craft, explained Mr. Floate, had the shape of a metallic cigar 100 feet long (about thirty meters), with a ring of flames at its tail. It emitted a thick white exhaust and reflected the rays of the sun. (This was confirmed by all the witnesses interviewed and undeniably proves the metallic and material nature of the craft) (note from vog: yes? too easy deduction, that proves nothing at all). \"It moved silently at an altitude of 5000 feet (about 1500 meters) and at a maximum speed of 2000 miles/h (3200 km/h).\" Two jet fighters of the Indian Air Force were ordered to take off and approach the singular vehicle, but it made a leap at their approach, up to 20,000 feet (6000 meters) and then suddenly disappeared. \"It was there,\" Floate noted, \"and a second later it had vanished, evaporated into the sky!\" The fighters returned empty-handed to their base. That same night, the object reappeared in Allahabad (about 650 km from Delhi). It was seen by Mr. Y.R. Bahn Darkar, instructor of the local flying club. (Jimmy GIEU: \"The UFOs Come from Another World\" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Omnium Littéraire 1972 p.36) New Delhi, India. 10:20 a.m. Witnesses: 25 members of a flying club, including the chief aerial engineer and his two assistants. One metallic cigar-shaped object with white exhaust which turned black when it accelerated to an estimated 1,000 m.p.h. and made a large loop. Seven minutes. (March 15, 1951)", + "location": "INDIA New Delhi", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1521" + }, + { + "date": "3/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One night, around 4 o'clock in the morning, three officers of the military aviation were on the field of the base of Bangui in ex A.E.F. The moon shone in a very clear sky. Suddenly \"at a distance impossible to appreciate, but relatively low, appeared towards the southwest an luminous object (double of Venus in its fullness approximately) which approached quickly. Enormous speed, total silence: we first thought that it was a shooting star. Arrived by the traverse of Bangui exactly to the west of the base, the object slowed down strongly, made a hook of 90 degrees approximately, then accelerated very clearly and moved away, to disappear in the distance three to four minutes after the turn. All the trajectory was apparently made at the same altitude, in five minutes approximately. It was impossible to distinguish the outlines of the object, which seemed very big and of a weak luminosity.\"", + "location": "CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, Bangui", + "ref": [ + "\"Lights on the Flying Saucers\" - Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME 1954, page 136", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1522" + }, + { + "date": "4/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The British Minister of Supply, Duncan Sandys, announced that automatic and remotely guided rockets had been developed. They were characterized by five times greater maneuverability than fighter planes, speeds greater than 3,500 km/h and the possibility of reaching altitudes far beyond those of bombers. More than one hundred British firms were involved in the project. The known factories working on remotely guided projectiles in Great Britain (Bristol, De Haviland, Armstrong-Siddeley, Armstrong-Worthworth, Fairy, Vickers, English Electric, Napier) and important test stations at Farnborough and Aberporth (England) existed, but the largest test field was at Woomera in Australia, where tests had been carried out since 1947 and where, in 1951, 3,000 people were employed. (April 1951)", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Woomera", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" - Hans K. Kaiser, Amiot-Dumont 1954, pp. 121, 122", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1523" + }, + { + "date": "4/18/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of the first Aerobee rocket containing a monkey. The parachute does not function.", + "location": "USA, New Mexico", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 49, 1980, p. 14, 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1524" + }, + { + "date": "5/12/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On Monday, May 12th at 4 o'clock, several hundred people gathered on the quays of Corcelles, in Neufchâtel, observed the mysterious appearance in the sky, at a very high altitude, of a shining object propelling itself in sudden bursts and leaving a white trail in its wake. The phenomenon, very visible to the naked eye, lasted for a quarter of an hour. After that, the craft described a half-circle in space and overturned, presenting to the eyes the classic shape of a perfectly round flying saucer. Then, in a fraction of a second, it shot up vertically into the sky at a prodigious speed and disappeared. This was not a collective hallucination: among the hundreds of testimonies is that of Swiss professor Alfred Lombard.", + "location": "SWITZERLAND Neuchâtel", + "ref": [ + "Charles GARREAU: \"Alerte dans le ciel: le dossier des enlèvements\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p.45", + "Jimmy GIEU: \"Les S.V. viennent d'un autre monde\" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 p. 37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1525" + }, + { + "date": "5/15/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An American soldier of the occupation army in Austria, was returning home by bicycle on a shortcut at around 11pm. From a thicket, a small figure emerged pointing a thin object the size of a pencil at him. The soldier heard a clicking sound, felt paralyzed and thought he was going to fall. The being approached and attached a black plate to his chest. Immediately the witness felt as if he was no longer subject to gravity. The being dragged him towards a large round mass about fifty meters in diameter, which was resting in a field, and he felt pushed inside through the door that had just opened. He found himself in a place with transparent walls: he could see the landscape and the stars. The structure rose into the air, the being went into another room without paying attention to his prisoner, who was able to examine him: he was bald, wearing silver tights, with an oversized forehead, immense faceted eyes, nose and ears reduced to mere openings, and very long hands. The vessel flew so close to the moon that the witness could see its craters. Then it set a course for another planet covered with red fields, rivers and bridges and landed vertically on a platform overlooking a vast parking lot where hundreds of other gray, golden and silver vessels were already parked. The pilot descended and spoke with the navigator of another craft. The witness noticed men, women and children captured like him. A few moments later the pilot returned to the vessel and flew back to Earth at lightning speed. The soldier was dropped off near the place where he had been taken, and the pilot pointed the thin instrument at him again. It was midnight twenty. The witness felt sick but did not dare to tell his wife about his adventure. (Marie Thérèse de BROSSES: Enquête sur les enlèvements E.T.\" - Plon, 1995, p. 41 and 42) but also in:", + "location": "AUSTRIA, Salzburg", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: «Les Humanoïdes…» - éd. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.85 to 94", + "…", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1526" + }, + { + "date": "5/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Case of Clarita Villanueva attacked by \"inter-dimensional\" entities. Witnesses: Doctor of Medicine Marianna Lana, Mayor Arsenio Lascon, two policemen, a judge, several journalists and others. It was a stormy evening in May 1951 and the police were expecting trouble. A storm was forecast and there was tension in the air. The patrol car received a message that there was a crowd in front of one of the bars along the beach. They went there and as the car stopped, they heard a piercing scream. They forced their way through to see a young woman rolling on the ground screaming: \"Help! Catch him! Help me. I'm in too much pain, help!\" But no one could do anything since the young woman was alone on the ground in the middle of a circle of onlookers. To their amazement they saw marks of bloody bites appearing on the young woman's neck and arms. Finally, they took the young woman, handcuffed her, took her away and brought her to the station. Put in a cell, she cried all day \"Please, get him away. I can't take it anymore. Catch him... He's biting me, I'm going to die.\" So the police called a doctor, suspecting Clarita Villaneuva of being drunk or drugged. Dr. Marianna Lara, took a look and declared peremptorily: \"She is in an epileptic seizure.\" She was taken back to the cell, despite her pleas not to be left alone. A few minutes later a terrible scream brought the two policemen back. \"This thing is back, it passed through the walls. It has huge eyes and wears a cape. This thing can fly at mid-height!\" To make sure, the policemen entered the cell, but saw absolutely nothing. While trying to calm the young woman, they noticed that the marks of bites were increasing on Clarita's arms. The police then called the mayor and recalled the doctor. When they were there, they all agreed that the young woman could not inflict these bites on herself, for example on her shoulders and in the middle of her back... Finally everything calmed down, the young woman fell asleep. The next day she had to appear before the judge, accused of \"vagrancy\" (note of vog: ???) But, at the time of appearing, she was screaming that \"the thing was back\". Everyone could see marks of bites appearing. The attack lasted five terrifying minutes before Clarita fainted. Half an hour later Mayor Arsenio Lascon was on the spot, spoke to the victim and in view of her swollen and bite-covered state, asked for an ambulance to take her to the hospital. He and Dr. Lara accompanied the unfortunate one. But in the ambulance the attack started again: this time \"there were two identical creatures\" biting her while the mayor and the doctor watched helplessly the appearance of the horrible wounds, on her throat and on her hands. The journey lasted fifteen minutes and Mayor Lacson has several times admitted later that it was the longest quarter of an hour of his life. Very strangely, once the young woman was admitted to the hospital, nothing bad happened anymore. She was of course kept day and night. She left six weeks later, healed, but covered with scars. \"We will never know what happened to Clarita,\" said Dr. Lara. Years later all the scars were still visible.", + "location": "PHILIPPINES, Manila", + "ref": [ + "A Look Through Secret Doors By John Mackim, 1969, Ace Publishing", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1527" + }, + { + "date": "6/1/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 4:20 a.m. Witnessed by M/Sgt H.E. Sweeney, and two militiamen. An illuminated object of yellow color, in the shape of a disk, with wings in the shape of an arc, rises vertically. Observed for 30-40 seconds.", + "location": "USA, Niagara Falls, New York.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1528" + }, + { + "date": "6/14/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 06:48 launch of V2 #55, explosion.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1529" + }, + { + "date": "6/15/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Air Base 115, Fighter Squadron, Fighter Squadron No. 1/5. For 6 minutes the pilots attempted to approach a spherical object. At the final departure, the object made a slight tilt and then appeared elliptical. (Robert ROUSSEL: \"Ovni, the end of the secret\" - Belfond 1978 - p. 230 to 236) French pilots Irénée Prio and Raymond Gallibert, each on board a Vampire from the Orange base, saw a disk with a metallic reflection. The pilots tried to approach the perfectly stationary craft in the air, but at the last moment, the object escaped. The pilots set off in pursuit, but the disk proved to be much faster than its pursuers.", + "location": "FRANCE, Vendée", + "ref": [ + "Yves NAUD: \"The E.T. and the UFOs in history\" Famot 1977, Volume 4, p. 166", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1530" + }, + { + "date": "6/19/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A mechanic saw a UFO land and felt paralyzed. The birds stopped singing and the cows stopped moving. Four entities dressed in black and wearing helmets emerged from the craft. Others were seen around the perimeter, as if they were making repairs. Eight other saucers appeared in the sky, hovered for a moment above the site, and then flew away.", + "location": "DENMARK, Sonderborg", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 324", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1531" + }, + { + "date": "6/19/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (..) shortly after midnight, a red light appeared towards the southwest. Alerted, the tower's radar picked it up on its screen. Mentioned altitude: approximately 1300 m. The object remained still and red for a moment, then suddenly turned very bright white and moved away at a lightning speed. At the precise moment when the red gave way to the white, the spot on the screen had become very bright itself. The radar operators know perfectly well the meaning of this transformation: it occurs when an airplane, to turn, suddenly inclines and offers the radar beam all the surface of its wings. [note from vog: ... which would mean that the observed thing could have wings?]", + "location": "CANADA, Goose Bay (Labrador)", + "ref": [ + "\"Glimpses on Flying Saucers\" - Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME 1954, page 102", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1532" + }, + { + "date": "7/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Pierre Monnet was cycling home when, on the road connecting Orange to Courtaison, he was, on this summer evening, as if magnetized towards a UFO which was hovering a few meters above the ground. Pierre Monnet did not immediately notice the beings standing in the radiant light of the craft. There were four of them, wearing flight suits, tall, with long blond hair falling on their shoulders. It seemed to him that a voice was resonating in his head, a foreign voice, which was giving him reassuring words. The contact was both physical and psychic since - at the moment of the encounter - the witness was standing three meters away from the extraterrestrials. Today, Pierre Monnet is still unable to say how long this \"unusual dialogue\" lasted. The only thing he is sure of is that he was, from the very first moments, manipulated by an intelligence foreign to his own, which engraved in his memory a long message whose parts appeared progressively over the years. (July 1951)", + "location": "FRANCE, Orange", + "ref": [ + "Guy TARADE: \"OVNI: \"Terre, Planète sous contrôle\" Ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979 p.138-143", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1533" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 9pm, the three witnesses went to the placette to watch a performance of Lucrèce Borgia by a travelling theatre. In the Rue des Martyrs, they saw from a distance of 60m an oval-shaped object, entirely transparent, 4-5m long and 2m high, 8m off the ground, on the place where the show had started and where everyone had their backs to the phenomenon. The pilot seemed thin and elderly and had a long beard. Normal skin colour and light-coloured clothing. No visible equipment in the craft. The three witnesses got to within 7-8m of the craft and called the others to witness this incredible sight. The object immediately started up with a slight whistle and disappeared in a second above the rooftops towards the NNE. The witnesses were unable to convince anyone of their observation and were thought of as \"crazy\". (1951, Summer)", + "location": "FRANCE, Beausoleil", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 54, 55", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1534" + }, + { + "date": "7/13/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was 9 pm and the radar operators were scanning the sky, when on the screen appeared a spot corresponding to a metal body the size of a B36. The radar noted a speed of 2700 km/h! The Air Technical Intelligence Center, an agency of the Air Force charged with investigating UFO sightings, classified this observation among the inexplicable cases.", + "location": "USA, Kirksville (Missouri)", + "ref": [ + "\"Lights on Flying Saucers\" - Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME 1954, page 103", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1535" + }, + { + "date": "7/22/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ballistic missile, altitude 100 km, on board the dogs Misjka and Tsizik.", + "location": "USSR, Kapustin Yar", + "ref": [ + "Nieuwenhuis 1988, 52", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1536" + }, + { + "date": "7/24/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 7:10 Witnesses: Capt. Cobb from Hanscom AFB Operations and Cpl. Fein. An object tubular in shape, 100-200 feet long, 5 times wider than long, with a tail fin, gray in color with black spots, flying at 800-1,000 m.p.h. at 1000 or 2000 feet altitude, raising the grass. Duration: 20 seconds.", + "location": "USA, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1537" + }, + { + "date": "7/28/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of a V2 for a biological experiment. It explodes after departure.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "Nieuwenhuis 1988, 52, photo", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1538" + }, + { + "date": "8/1/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (..) the radar of the Wright Patterson base fell around 10:45 am on an unidentified object flying at high altitude. Spotted on the ground, the object appeared as a bright ball of intense brightness. Two jet fighters F. 86 were immediately charged to intercept it, and they climbed up to 10,000 m. There, they consulted each other. Both of them saw above them the object in question in the form of a circular body of metallic appearance moving slowly in the sky. (...) Then the two pilots armed their machine guns and went hunting. Their goal was to take pictures and, if necessary, to shoot. But it had not been three minutes since they had gone up that the saucer, suddenly accelerating with the brutality so often observed, melted into the distance. The two pilots - Commander James B. Smith and Lieutenant Donald J. Hemer - did not have time to shoot. But they had pictures. On development, the films revealed a round shape, without visible structural details.", + "location": "USA, Wright-Patterson (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "\"Glimpses of Flying Saucers\" - Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME 1954, pages 103, 104", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1539" + }, + { + "date": "8/7/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of Viking VII, altitude of 219 km, this is a record for this version of the Viking.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, M.W. Rosen, N.Y. 1955", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1540" + }, + { + "date": "8/14/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) B.M., a 57-year-old farmer, was at the local cemetery to do some work. It was 1 o'clock. Suddenly he heard a humming and simultaneously felt a very hot gust of wind. He turned around to see where it was coming from and then witnessed the landing of a strange silver, spherical but flattened craft, about 50 meters away from him. At the top, the dome had vertical fins. The dome was spinning rapidly on a kind of wide ring with round blue-colored portholes. The lower part had the rough shape of a funnel and was motionless. Gradually the object came to the ground while telescopic legs emerged in three places. Meanwhile two small hatches opened and a kind of ladder descended. Six creatures, 1.2 meters tall, wearing white suits and their heads in a transparent \"globe\" topped with three antennas, descended the stairs. On their backs they carried a \"cylinder\" connected to the helmet by a tube adjusted under the chin. The creatures' arms were excessively long. They came towards the witness, getting as close as 5 or 6 meters. They had round blue eyes, a simian face, white skin and the one who seemed to be the leader had a red beard. He smiled at the witness and showed a kind of strange drum that he tapped, making a blinding light come out, like the witness had never seen before. After that, the \"leader\" made a kind of salute and immediately the six creatures returned to their craft, climbing the ladder. A pink flame came out of the lower funnel, the object rose vertically at such speed that in two seconds it was out of sight. A cemetery worker, working on the other side, only saw the blinding light. There were traces on the ground: a circle of burned grass and bare earth 7 meters in diameter.", + "location": "ITALY, Voghiera - Voghenza", + "ref": [ + "CISU, archive file 5101 - sources: report by Mr. F. Zo, Notiziario Ufo 18, 101, 52, FSR 24, 6, 24-25 and others", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1541" + }, + { + "date": "8/19/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ballistic missile, dog Rizika on board.", + "location": "USSR, Kapustin Yar", + "ref": [ + "Nieuwenhuis H. 1988, 17", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1542" + }, + { + "date": "8/25/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 9:10 PM, four professors from the Texas School of Arts and Crafts were sitting in the yard of one of their houses to observe meteors as part of a study undertaken by the school. They were W.L. Ducker, A.G. Bert, W.L. Robinson and another man. They saw a group of lights pass over them from north to south. They had the same light as a bright star but a larger surface area and they moved at a great speed. The shape formed was almost a perfect half-circle containing between 20 and 30 lights. Later that evening a similar incident was observed and over a period of 3 weeks a total of twelve passes of this group (or a similar group) were observed by these men. (Brad STEIGER: \"UFO, the Project Blue Book\" - trans. Belfond 1979, pp. 68-83) In front of Doctor Robinson, a geology professor, Doctor Oberg, a chemistry professor, Doctor Ducker, a petroleum engineer, and hundreds of people, a group of about twenty luminous discs in a V formation flew from one end of the horizon to the other. Twelve minutes later, a formation of similar size flew by. And thirteen similar flights were observed between August and September. (Charles GARREAU: \"Alert in the Sky: The Abduction File\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p. 22) [IN REALITY: since the observations were explained and positively identified as a very common natural phenomenon, all other explanations lost their importance.]", + "location": "USA, Lubbock (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "Edward J. Ruppelt: \"Facing the Flying Saucers\", ed. France-Empire 1958, p. 143", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1543" + }, + { + "date": "8/25/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 9:58 p.m. Witnesses: the security guard of the Sandia base, Hugh Young and his wife. At nightfall, an Atomic Energy Commission employee and his wife had seen a UFO. They were both sitting in the courtyard of their house, in the suburbs of Albuquerque. They were admiring the beauty of the night sky when they saw a huge airplane passing quickly and silently above them. They only saw it for a few seconds but they clearly distinguished it because it was very low, between 250 and 300 meters they estimated. It had the shape of a \"winged plane\" and about one and a half times the length of a B-36. The wing was strongly inclined towards the back, almost taking the shape of a V. They did not distinguish the color but noticed that dark stripes crossed the object lengthwise. At the back they saw six or eight pairs of weak and bluish lights. (Edward J. Ruppelt: \"Face aux Soucoupes Volantes\", ed. France-Empire 1958, p. 128) A flying wing object passed above them at an estimated altitude of 800-1,000', without noise. Estimated dimension: 1.5 times the wingspan of a B-36 bomber, or 350'. Based on the dark lines and 6-8 pairs of soft lights at the back of the winged plane. Estimated speed at 300-400 m.p.h., object seen for about 30 seconds. (August 25, 1951)", + "location": "Albuquerque, New Mexico", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1544" + }, + { + "date": "8/30/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Carl Hans Jr., a professional photographer, took two photos of circular UFOs, moving in formation at night, with a Kodak 35 mm, F 3.5 at 1/10\". On each photograph, the individual luminescences of the formation had changed position according to a precise reference frame. (Henry DURRANT: \"Le livre noir des S.V.\" - Laffont 1970 - photographic insert, ref. Capt. E. Ruppelt, The Report on UFO, p. 144 and following - photo United Press). Carl Hart, an 18-year-old young man, photographed an identical formation. The photos show about twenty bright blue objects in a V formation and, a little apart, a large light... [note from vog: Was Carl Hans or Hart a professional photographer or an 18-year-old young man???]", + "location": "USA, Lubbock (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "Yves NAUD: \"Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire\" Famot 1977, volume 4, p. 167", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1545" + }, + { + "date": "8/31/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 12:45 p.m. Witnesses: Mrs. Tom Tilson, and one or two other women, all apparently of excellent reputation (note from vog: ???) An object shaped like a pear the size of a B-29 fuselage, aluminum or silver-white in color, with a window or some other kind of opening on the side. The object with the pointed end forward, hovering slowly at 50 meters altitude, began to fly in circles until it disappeared from sight in a few seconds. (August 31, 1951)", + "location": "USA, Matador, Texas.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1546" + }, + { + "date": "8/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. René Talarmain, a farmer at the hamlet of Kerverrien, was returning home in the night when he saw approximately 500 meters above him an \"object shaped like an overturned bowl with a convex bottom, making no noise and spinning around itself quite quickly\". (August 1951)", + "location": "France, Kerverrien", + "ref": [ + "Jean François BOEDEC: \"Les OVNI en Bretagne, Anatomie d'un Phénomène\", ed. Fernand Lanore 1978, p. 105", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1547" + }, + { + "date": "9/10/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 10:30, the pilot of a T-33 jet, with an air commander as a passenger and flying at 6000 meters above Point Pleasant, saw below him an object in the shape of a disk, with a silver color. He estimated the diameter to be between 10 and 15 meters and noticed that the object was descending towards Sandy Hook, from an altitude of around 1500 meters. He turned to approach it. At that moment, the object stopped descending, gained speed, changed direction by 120° and disappeared towards the sea.", + "location": "USA, Point Pleasant (New Jersey)", + "ref": [ + "Edward J. Ruppelt: \"Face aux Soucoupes Volantes\", ed. France-Empire 1958, p.122", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1548" + }, + { + "date": "9/14/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 9:30 p.m. Witnesses: T/Sgt W.B. Maupin and Cpl. J.W. Green. Radar targeted three objects. There were first two, which were on a collision course. At the request of one of the radar operators, one veered off to the right! No known aircraft in the area. A third unidentified target then joined the other two. Duration: over 15 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cf. Don Berliner) RO. at 00:20 - crew of a B-36, duration: 20 minutes which puts the date at September 18.", + "location": "CANADA, Goose Bay, Labrador", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"UFOs, Myth or Reality?\" - trans. Belfond 1974 - p. 275", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1549" + }, + { + "date": "9/20/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) For the first time a monkey and eleven mice, launched with the second Aerobee rocket, which reached 72 km, returned safe and sound. The device fell into the desert.", + "location": "USA, New Mexico", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 49, 1980, p. 14, 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1550" + }, + { + "date": "9/23/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7:55 two F-86s on patrol were approaching Long Beach. Suddenly the section leader called the ground control to announce that himself and his wingman were seeing an object high \"at 12 o'clock\", turning to the left, which was not another plane. The controller checked his radars, found nothing, and told the section leader to try to identify the object. The two F-86s set off in pursuit. The UFO continued to turn. They tried to intercept it but never managed to gain enough altitude. From time to time, when they seemed to be getting closer, the UFO casually moved away, climbing, while describing a wide circle to the left. After ten minutes the planes had to give up the pursuit due to lack of fuel. Four new F-86s took over and in pairs tried to reach the UFO's altitude, which they estimated to be 16,500 meters. They did not succeed. All the pilots spoke of a \"silver plane with wings very inclined to the rear\" except one who spoke of a round and silver object. [IN REALITY: it was a weather balloon launched from Long Beach.]", + "location": "USA, Long Beach (California)", + "ref": [ + "Edward J. Ruppelt: \"Face aux Soucoupes Volantes\", ed. France-Empire 1958, p. 125 and 147 for the conclusion", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1551" + }, + { + "date": "9/1951 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A group of Aborigines from the Anmatjera tribe told authorities that they had seen, from the top of a small hill, a shining circular object land a short distance from another object already on the ground. In their opinion, the two objects had the same dimensions, that is, 14 to 15 m and \"between one man and one and a half\" in height. Afraid to approach these objects, the people hid in the rocks and observed the strange scene. After a few minutes, something resembling a very small man had come out from under the second object and had gone to the first, entering it through the base. This creature had shiny clothes and its round (bulbous) head shone. Then the first object rose up buzzing like a swarm of insects and the second followed quickly. (1951, September (February?))", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, center", + "ref": [ + "Keith Basterfield of UFORA - Australia, cites this case in February 1951", + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse\" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 146-147", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1552" + }, + { + "date": "Early Spring 1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (so September October) At 10pm three teenagers were riding their bicycles when they saw at a distance of 20 meters a vaporous human figure, about 180 cm tall, dressed in a robe and floating above the ground. One of the boys felt a vague communication, but all three of them fled from the scene. (1951, Early spring)", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, East Port Macquarie, New South Wales", + "ref": [ + "UFOIC - Keith Basterfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1553" + }, + { + "date": "10/3/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 10:27 p.m. Witnesses: radar operators: Sgt. M.W. Watson and Pvt. Gonzales and another sergeant. A large radar echo of a round object on radar, flying at 4,800 m.p.h.", + "location": "JAPAN, Kadena, Okinawa.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1554" + }, + { + "date": "10/4/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An air force officer saw a UFO, dark yellow and circular in shape. The object seemed to descend before rising and accelerating strongly. (Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 342, 343) On the night of October 3 to 4, two military aviation officers and some men were sleeping outside the bordj, under the crystal clear and still desert sky. \"I woke up at 2 o'clock,\" one of the officers said, \"and couldn't get back to sleep. The night was dark, the stars very bright, the air calm. Suddenly, coming from the east and quickly approaching west or so, I saw a light. It was descending. (...) It was not an airplane. After a few seconds the shape of the object became clearly visible: it was an \"object\" approximately circular, with the apparent diameter of a 10 centimeter circle, dark yellow, almost orange. It continued to approach slowly descending, at the approach speed of a night DC 3 type airplane. Arriving at the vertical of the bordj-village of Tessalit, about 6 km southeast of where we were, the object made a turn of more than 90 degrees to the left, thus passing approximately at the heading of 170/180 degrees. It accelerated, its speed became astonishing, it rose very quickly, while its apparent diameter decreased, and disappeared.", + "location": "MALI, Tessalit", + "ref": [ + "\"Lueurs sur les Soucoupes volantes\" - Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME 1954, page 133", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1555" + }, + { + "date": "Late 10/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1951, German technicians organized in Egypt a rocket construction, the result of which was, it is said, a new type of device with a length of 1.50 m and a range of 15 to 30 kilometers. The first flight took place successfully at the end of October 1951. (1951, late October)", + "location": "EGYPT", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" -Hans K. Kaiser, Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 125", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1556" + }, + { + "date": "10/31/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Then Mr. Ropert, residing at 9 Place de la Préfecture in La Roche sur Yon, saw it in turn, on the road from Niort to Fontenay. It was a very bright emerald green light, passing below the clouds at about 1500 m. The green light was sometimes speckled with yellow and gave a dazzling whiteness to the clouds near it. It crossed the sky at great speed, without noise, then turned mauve when it changed direction. The same evening, Mr. Sigot, a taxi driver in Fontenay le Comte, also saw the emerald green light at the same altitude.", + "location": "France, between Niort and Fontenay", + "ref": [ + "Jean PLANTIER: \"The Propulsion of Flying Saucers by Direct Action on the Atom\" ed. MAME 1955, p.108", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1557" + }, + { + "date": "11/2/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An American Airlines DC 4 was flying at 1,500 meters altitude, in the east of Abilene, Texas. At 7:15 in the morning, an object of a beautiful bright green passed the aircraft. It had passed very quickly, but its characteristic shape of a ballistic projectile had not escaped the captain and his co-pilot. It was emitting a white trail like an exhaust vapor. Its heading and altitude were the same as the DC 4. Almost immediately after passing it, the craft exploded, throwing red balls of fire in all directions. (November 2, 1951)", + "location": "USA, Abilene (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "Donald E. KEYHOE - 1973 - Trans. \"Les Etrangers de l'Espace\" Ed. France-Empire coll. Press Pocket 1975 p. 212", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1558" + }, + { + "date": "11/18/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 3:20 a.m. Witnesses were the crew of Capital Airlines Flight 610 in a DC-4 and the air traffic controller of Andrews AFB, Tom Selby. An object with multiple lights followed the DC-4 for 20 minutes and then reversed its trajectory.", + "location": "USA, Washington, D.C.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1559" + }, + { + "date": "11/24/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 3:53 p.m. Witnesses: pilots W.H. Fairbrother and D.E. Stewart each in a P-51 Mustang. An object of milky white color, in the shape of the Northrop flying wing (large, without fuselage or tail) with a wingspan of about 8 feet, was seen flying horizontally for 5 seconds.", + "location": "USA, Mankato, Minnesota.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1560" + }, + { + "date": "11/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 5:50am Mr. P.D. was in a train carriage at Langerbrugge station (north of Ghent). He saw an elongated object, apparently 3mm in size, appear to the west. There was a red, opaque flame visible at the back \"like a nozzle with a fairly sharp outline\". The phenomenon crossed transversely over the stopped train, heading east. Estimated duration of the observation was 15 seconds.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Langerbrugge (near Ghent)", + "ref": [ + "Investigation by Jacques Bonabot, 12.2.1972 - GESAG", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1561" + }, + { + "date": "12/7/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 8:15 a.m. Witness, one of the guards of the Atomic Energy Commission, J.H. Collins. A 20-foot square object, white-gray in color, but not illuminated, flew low over the installations up to the clouds and back, twice in succession. Each round trip took 30-40 seconds.", + "location": "USA, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1562" + }, + { + "date": "12/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Sam Coley and his two children reported having seen an aerial craft in the shape of a disk, with a human-shaped occupant inside. Coley was reportedly questioned by the director of the Surety and the local police chief (...)", + "location": "USA, Red Springs (North Carolina)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 174", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1563" + }, + { + "date": "Early 10/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) M. Le Haziff, his wife and two daughters, M. Jean Marteil and M. Robin (deaf-mute) observed between 8 and 9 pm a luminous halo that descended. In the halo, an oval shape soon illuminated the entire field on which it landed, 200 to 300 m from the witnesses and where cows were grazing. They observed the object but did not approach it beyond a curtain of chestnut trees. No one remembers how the thing disappeared. One of the cows was taken by \"crises as if she had gone mad\". She had to be sold. Discovery of a curious material about 10 cm in diameter, 3 or 4 cm thick, resembling \"bread without crust\". (1951 or 1952, early October)", + "location": "FRANCE, Saint Samson \"Bellevue\"", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 644, 645", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1564" + }, + { + "date": "12/20/1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On December 20, at a Pacific Coast base, three \"Sabres\" took off wing to wing for a training mission. Commander Scott was in charge of the patrol, his crewmates were Lieutenants Powell and Hadley. The ceiling was at 4000 meters. At 6000 meters, the \"Sabres\" burst out of the clouds and shot into the blue sky. Suddenly, the radio indicator lit up: \"Unidentified flying object just flew over the base. Heading from southeast to northwest. Altitude 10,000 meters. Speed 6000 km/h. To all aircraft in the sector, try to intercept and observe. Warning, danger!\" In less than two minutes, the mysterious object will be in the vicinity. Slightly below the three aircraft, a black dot quickly grew larger. Less than two minutes later, the charred remains of the three fighters were scattered over a 5 km radius, finishing burning. [note from vog: it's amazing that it's a Frenchman who tells this story, while the Americans are shying away from it, attributing it to the collision of the aircraft between them...]", + "location": "USA, Pacific Coast base", + "ref": [ + "Charles GARREAU: \"Alert in the Sky: The Abduction File\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p.23 and 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1565" + }, + { + "date": "1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Keith Baskerfield) Mrs. X. was a young married woman and at the time of the events her husband was away from the farm. They had also recently lost their first baby. Very early in the morning Mrs. X. made her rounds inspecting the livestock, accompanied by the dog. She climbed a small hill from which she had a better overall view. To her surprise she then saw an unusual object on the ground, resting on four feet. It seemed to her to be the size of a \"two-bedroom house\". Mrs. X. looked at this thing, then decided to go and see it more closely. As she set off she saw three creatures emerging from under the object, these creatures seemed to be floating. Mrs. X. however had no fear upon seeing this, feeling rather confident. The creatures seemed to her to be male, of the size and appearance of normal human beings, with a beautiful skin without wrinkles and blue eyes. They wore one-piece silver-colored suits and boots of the same color. On their heads they had hats. She was taken, with her consent, into the object, by some kind of invisible elevator which gave her the feeling of floating. Inside there was a creature standing in front of what we would today call a computer console. He moved his hands above a panel, without touching it, and lights began to blink in response to his movements. There was also a screen, like a television screen in this room. The conversation between her and the \"men\" was in English, but she did not always have to speak to be understood. Today Mrs. X. no longer remembers the subject of the conversation. The \"men\" told her that they knew she had lost a child, but that things would get better. She left the craft floating by the invisible elevator and when the object had gone, the four circles of the landing feet remained on the ground. When she later tried to talk to people in her surroundings about this experience, she was laughed at.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Halidon, Murray Bridge.", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1566" + }, + { + "date": "1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (summary) story of \"Pope\" Clément XV, born Michel Collin in 1905. He was ordained a priest in 1933, crowned Pope on 7.10.1950 by Christ himself, suspended \"a divinis\" and excommunicated in 1951; He founded in Vaux his little Vatican of Infinite Love. He claims to hold the 3rd secret of Fatima. In 1970 he excommunicates the tax director of Nancy who demands back taxes from him. Clément XV proclaims his Interplanetary Church, for he is aware that many Martians have already descended to Earth and live clandestinely among us\". He dies on June 23, 1974. In his entourage are mentioned Claude SEBASTIO, Swiss, and the Sicilian initiated by Asthar Sheron and Adoniesis, Eugenio SIRRAGUSA", + "location": "France, Vaux, near Metz and Clémency (Meurthe et Moselle)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Enigmes du temps présent\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1979, p.115 to 118", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1567" + }, + { + "date": "1951", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Liliane Roth, an American artist, had her first encounter with a UFO. She was spending the night with her husband Burt Mc Guire in an isolated motel located in the Arizona desert. \"Around 7 pm,\" Liliane Roth recounts, \"I took out my three little bichons. Suddenly I saw a huge ring, like a big hoop hovering about 40 m in altitude. When this object with a metallic sheen, measuring about 50 m, was right above my head, I quickly called my husband. After about 5 minutes the UFO rose at a fantastic speed, then returned to the same place shortly after. Two minutes later, this strange craft, pierced with multicolored holes, slowly disappeared to the east.\" (1951, no date)", + "location": "USA, Arizona desert", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"The Secret File of UFOs,\" ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p 19", + "continued: March 1952", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1568" + }, + { + "date": "Early 1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A B-29 Superfortress was perfectly tracked by the radars that had it in charge. Soon an unknown aircraft entered the radar field. It seemed to merge with the B-29 and the latter sent out a distress signal. It was never found again. (1952, beginning of the year)", + "location": "JAPAN, north of Hokkaido - in flight", + "ref": [ + "Guy TARADE: \"S.V. and civilizations from beyond space\" - J'AI LU 1969, p. 224", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1569" + }, + { + "date": "1/20/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7:30 PM two Chief Sergeants, both intelligence specialists, were walking down an alley of the Fairchild Base, near Spokane. Suddenly they saw a large, spherical object of pale blue color approaching from the east. They stopped to examine it, as several UFOs had been reported by officers of the base in the preceding months. The object was moving at a rather fast but moderate speed in a horizontal plane. It passed north of the Sergeants' location. When it disappeared to the west they noticed it had a long blue tail. At the time of the observation the sky was overcast from the ceiling of 1400 meters with a thickness of 1800 meters. If the object was just at the base of the clouds, it was 3000 meters away from the observers and moving at more than 2000 km/h. It could not have been a jet aircraft due to the absence of noise.", + "location": "USA, Fairchild Base (Washington)", + "ref": [ + "Edward J. Ruppelt: \"The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\", France-Empire 1958, p.24,25", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1570" + }, + { + "date": "1/22/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 0:20 local time, an aviator who was monitoring the screen saw an object appear, in the form of a clear, bright point, as airplanes usually give. The abnormal fact was that this point was northeast of the station, i.e. above a region that airplanes rarely flew over and where there was only ice, snow, some Eskimos and, a little further, Russia. After plotting three good contacts, the operators knew they had something exceptional. The object was at 7000 m altitude and was moving at 2400 km/h. A few minutes later, an F-94 jet interceptor took off from the base. Suddenly, the unknown object slowed down, stopped and reversed its course, heading straight for the station. When it was about fifty kilometers away, an operator switched to a shorter range and, in doing so, lost both the object and the plane. Two other F-94s had taken off. During the fourth interception pass, the object suddenly seemed to move. Ground radar got a brief echo, but it soon went out of range, moving away to the west.", + "location": "ALASKA", + "ref": [ + "Edward J. Ruppelt: \"Face aux Soucoupes Volantes\", ed. France-Empire 1958, pp. 160, 161", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1571" + }, + { + "date": "2/2/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Radar operators of the aircraft carrier Philippine Sea, detected a UFO showing a high speed of flight, initially detected at 40 km distance and having approached to 32 km, it made a wide turn to the east, moving away on a route opposite to that of the aircraft carrier. Recorded speeds: 960 km/h during the first minute, 1440 km/h during the second minute, 2880 km/h during the third minute. It separated into two contacts distant from 9 to 20 km. Three helmsmen of the aircraft carrier saw on the deck a triple incandescent wake.", + "location": "KOREA, at sea, eastern coasts", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979, p. 125, 126", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1572" + }, + { + "date": "2/23/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 11:15 p.m. Witness: Captain/B-29 pilot. A cylinder of bluish color, three times as long as wide, with a tail, rapid pulsations, coming at high altitude at great speed, made several turns, passed under the B-29 easily avoiding the shots. Duration: 45 seconds", + "location": "North Korea", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1573" + }, + { + "date": "3/25/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Customs officer Eugenio Siragusa, on his way to work, was waiting for the bus. A light in the shape of a cross and shining like liquid mercury appeared in the sky. It flew at very high speed. It came closer and closer and confirmed a cross shape, like a priest's hat. At its aplomb, the object stopped. An intense beam of light came out of it and went through Eugenio from side to side. He then felt perfectly happy. After a moment, the light of the beam returned to the object. The object then made a beautiful curve in the sky and disappeared. When Siragusa regained contact with reality, he felt completely different, he would say \"redimensioned\". He began to hear a voice in his head speaking to him about Poseidonia, the capital of Atlantis, where he would have lived 12,000 years ago. He started to draw the map of the lost continent, on a 6 m long roll. At the same time, his instruction by the extraterrestrials began. Messages were dictated to him for President Eisenhower (USA) and for Kroutchev", + "location": "ITALY, Catania (Sicily)", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "following April 30, 1962", + "USSR", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1574" + }, + { + "date": "3/29/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A report from documents contained in the files of the American intelligence services states that a small metal disc passed near an F-84 jet on March 29, 1952 at 11:20. Lieutenant pilot David Brigham, an eyewitness, reported that the craft was following a seemingly directed trajectory. The disc had a diameter of about twenty centimeters. Very thin, perfectly round, with a shiny chrome finish, it left no trace or vapor trail. The disc-shaped object moved significantly faster than the jet. It followed the jet for a few moments, oscillated, swayed, and then disappeared at high speed.", + "location": "JAPAN, 20 miles north of Misawa AFB, Japan.", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde\" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 p. 48", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1575" + }, + { + "date": "3/29/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The two witnesses in the car saw a flat disc appear on the horizon, topped on one side by a dome. This dome had a kind of small porthole on one side and a dark trace outlining a hatch. This craft came from the northeast towards the witnesses and stayed hovering below them. It was luminous, silver, about 15 m in diameter and emitted light comparable to neon while it was swaying. One of the two witnesses took the machine gun from the back seat, circled the craft several times wondering if he should shoot. His friend, remaining in the car, urgently asked him not to do so for fear of a response. The stationary flight lasted at least three minutes, it put itself on song, presenting a flat surface, seemed to roll on itself and then crossed the sky at a speed higher than that of a jet plane. The witness also claims that the craft cut off the engine of the car, magnetized the electrical circuits and caused cracks in the paint.", + "location": "USA, between Glen Burnie (Maryland) and Baltimore", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979, pp. 191 to 193", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1576" + }, + { + "date": "3/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1951) Barely a year later, in March 1952, Liliane Roth and her husband noticed on the road from Fort Lauderdale to Palm Beach, a UFO in the shape of a cigar and resembling the former Hindenburg-Zeppelin dirigible", + "location": "USA, between Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"The Secret File of UFOs\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p 19", + "Beckley 1975", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1577" + }, + { + "date": "3/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In March 1952, the famous wing-commander J. Baldwin disappeared in the sky of Korea, the one who had taken Rommel's car under fire near Caen. The pilots who escorted him reported \"that he had entered a cloud and had not come out of it!\" An American patrol had noticed at about the same time an unknown device in the sky.", + "location": "KOREA, in flight", + "ref": [ + "Moustique n° 1505 of 28.11.54, p. 17, article by Bert Brem", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1578" + }, + { + "date": "4/4/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 7:30 p.m. Witnesses: two radar operators from the 147th AC&W Squadron.; An object was tracked by radar for one minute at an estimated speed of 2,160 m.p.h.", + "location": "USA, Duncanville, Texas.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1579" + }, + { + "date": "4/5/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 10:40 a.m. Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. L.G. Ryan, R.L. Stokes, D. Schook. A large, dark gray, circular object, followed by two identical ones, flying at high altitude in a straight line and at high speed.", + "location": "USA, Phoenix, Arizona.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1580" + }, + { + "date": "4/10/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) About 10 km west of Pecos, an object in the shape of a diamond in a vertical position, 15 m wide and 23 m high was observed for 5 minutes. Brilliant and sparkling like aluminum in the bright daylight. Made the sound of a jet engine, rotating every second. It hovered for a few minutes, then climbed straight up to about 600 m, turned slowly and disappeared to the northwest.", + "location": "USA, Pecos (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979, p. 43, 44", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1581" + }, + { + "date": "4/10/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness was a 23-year-old woman. She had gone with two dogs to a mazet to collect the wool from two mattresses, was going to spend the night there and join Nîmes the next day with the wool bundle. She was getting ready to go to bed, it was 10 pm. The dogs were barking. She went out and saw a stranger crouching in a thyme bush. He got up and asked her: \"What are you doing here?\" She retorted that he was on her property. Exchange of banalities: he was a terrestrial being who had left 10 years earlier with an E.T. crew. Two other characters appeared, with a rather Amerindian look. They spoke in an unknown language. They were wearing green trousers and jerkins, without buttons. A third E.T., who seemed to be the leader, appeared. He was small and seemed tired. On his forehead shone a precious stone. He had an abdominal box attached by straps. The witness was subjected to some kind of examination. The dogs, now reassured, were frolicking, but suddenly ran away howling in pain. The leader showed a \"miracle\" to the witness, he made stones from the garrigue levitate, he passed a large one through the door without damaging it. Soon after they headed towards the ship, which the witness had not yet seen: like a Maurice Chevalier hat, but as big as a bus; it was purring. The object left silently. Missing time. She did not go to the appointment set a year later, day for day.", + "location": "FRANCE, outskirts of Nîmes", + "ref": [ + "\"Rencontre avec les Extraterrestres, par le témoin sous le pseudonyme ROSE C. - ed. du Rocher 1979", + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, pp. 55-57", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1582" + }, + { + "date": "4/12/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 9:30 p.m. Witnesses: Royal Canadian Air Force Officer E.H. Rossell, Sgt. R. McRae. A circular object, amber in color, flew quickly, stopped abruptly, reversed its course, and rose out of sight on a 30° trajectory during the 2 minute observation.", + "location": "CANADA, North Bay (Ontario)", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1583" + }, + { + "date": "4/14/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 6:34 p.m. Witnesses: U.S. Navy Pilots, Lt. jg. Blacky, Lt. jg. O'Neil. An inverted saucer, 3 feet long, 1 foot high, with vertical grooves or slots, flew quickly, in a straight line, 100 yards away from the witnesses' aircraft for 45-60 seconds.", + "location": "USA, Memphis, Tennessee.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1584" + }, + { + "date": "4/17/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 8:30 p.m. Witnesses: S.B. Brooks, chemical engineer and J.A. Eaton. A round object, of pronounced orange color, flew erratically, quickly, emitting from time to time a beam of light during the 40 minute observation.", + "location": "USA, Longmeadow, Massachusetts.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1585" + }, + { + "date": "4/18/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Witness: a radar operator. Unidentified target followed for one minute flying at 2,700 m.p.h.", + "location": "JAPAN, 50 miles northwest of Kyushu, Japan (129* 51' E., 34' 19' N.).", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1586" + }, + { + "date": "4/22/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Midnight Witnesses: crew of a B-29 bomber, on the ground. An elliptical object, followed by two identical ones, then by two more, each with a flashing white light, emitting a flash every 1-2 seconds, while they performed erratic maneuvers in the sky for 10 minutes.", + "location": "JAPAN; Naha AFB, Okinawa.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1587" + }, + { + "date": "4/24/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 5 a.m. Witnesses: crew of a USAF C-124 transport plane. Three bluish circular objects, in a loose formation, flew twice parallel to the plane. Duration of the observation: 3-4 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Bellevue Hill, Vermont.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1588" + }, + { + "date": "4/24/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 2:30 p.m. Witnesses: three electronics engineers from the Cambridge Research Center, one of whom is named Buruish. Two flat, square, red objects fly in a wavelike pattern, rising up, then flying horizontally, during the 1.5 minute observation.", + "location": "USA, Milton, Massachusetts.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1589" + }, + { + "date": "4/27/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In a car, the witness, his wife and two children, saw a white object quickly descending from the northeast. It suddenly stopped and began to oscillate. Stopping at a 30° angle, the light from what appeared to be portholes dimmed in intensity. It remained there, motionless, for 3 or 4 minutes, at an altitude of about 1000 m. It seemed to have two rows of portholes, each about 3 m high: it looked like the part of the harmonica in which you blow. The craft was round and flat and must have been 60 m in diameter, then it began to drift towards Pontiac at about 160 km/h, stopping two or three times. It made no sound. The lights went off and on three times, the fourth time they changed from bright white to yellow-orange. The object disappeared behind the trees at 11:15 pm.", + "location": "USA, Michigan: on Fifteen Mile Road", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979, p. 71, 72", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1590" + }, + { + "date": "4/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Dan Kimball, Secretary of State at the Ministry of the Navy, took off for Hawaii with his entire staff. A second plane followed with Rear Admiral Arthur Radford on board. Suddenly two flying saucers appeared, dived towards Kimball's plane, circled it several times and then disappeared in the direction of the second aircraft which was 80 km away. The same manoeuvre was repeated. The UFOs circled Radford's plane before moving away at an inconceivable speed, as testified by the pilots. Their speed was estimated at 3000 km/h. Upon his return to Washington, Kimball quickly submitted a report and wanted to find out what efforts had been made to clarify the matter. The Air Force and the CIA then made it clear to him that it would be in his best interest to forget the incident definitively if he wanted to keep his post.", + "location": "In flight, heading to Hawaii.", + "ref": [ + "Johannes von BUTLAR: \"UFOs, We Are Not Alone\" - Presses de la Cité 1979, p. 86, 87", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1591" + }, + { + "date": "5/1/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:10 two round and shiny objects caught up with a B-36, slowed down to match its speed, flew in formation with it for about 20 seconds, then executed a sharp turn of 70-80°, returned to their initial speed, covered 1/4 of the distance to the horizon and one of them suddenly stopped, remaining in stationary flight. Witnesses: 2 officers from the base and the crew of the B-36.", + "location": "USA, BAF Davis-Montham, Tucson (Arizona)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979, pp. 109-112", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1592" + }, + { + "date": "5/1/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 10:50 a.m. Witnesses: three men near the ammunition hangar, plus a Lt. Colonel 4 miles away. Five flat, white discs, approximately the diameter of a C-47 (95 feet) flew quickly, made a right angle turn in a formation of three in front and two in back, and whirled in the air for 15-30 seconds. (Project Blue Book - cf. Don Berliner) At 10:50. Four witnesses in the control tower, 1 witness 6 km away on a golf course. They observed five daylight discs for a short period of time, 15 to 30 seconds. The discs were very maneuverable, seeming to go into collision, then suddenly veering away. The diameter seemed greater than the length of an F-51 fighter. They were of a uniform, non-shiny white, moving in formation, the last two with a rotary motion. They came from the southeast and flew at an altitude of about 1200 m, at double the speed of a jet aircraft (about 1600 km/h). They had sharp outlines.", + "location": "USA, George AFB, California.", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979, pp. 107-109", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1593" + }, + { + "date": "5/7/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 12:15 p.m. Witnesses: Capt. Morris, a Chief Sergeant, a Sergeant, and a First Class Pilot. During the observation of 5 to 10 minutes, an object of aluminum or silver appearance, cylindrical, was seen, ten times, entering and leaving the clouds.", + "location": "USA, Keesler AFB, Mississippi.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1594" + }, + { + "date": "5/7/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Joao Martins and Edwardo Keffel of the newspaper O Cruzeiro were preparing to do a report on the Island of Lovers, and were looking for famous couples: movie stars, personalities, etc. Martins then drew his companion's attention to a strange bird flying over the promenade. It was about 4:30 pm. They soon realized that it was neither a bird nor an airplane. Keffel grabbed his camera and frantically took a series of five shots at 500th. The disc-shaped craft was progressing with curious swaying, as if an airplane was losing balance. It was about 100 meters high at an angle of 45° and disappeared on the horizon.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Barra da Tijuca", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - p.252-253 and photographic insert.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1595" + }, + { + "date": "5/8/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"Here is the testimony of Mr. Raoul Roux: I was keeping the flock of sheep belonging to Mr. René Loiseau, former café owner, residing in Place du Marché. Roux is 38 years old, he had set up his flock on the Ajoncs airfield and he was accompanied by his young son, Maurice, 8 years old. Suddenly, around 6:30 pm, my son exclaimed: Look dad, an apparition, the Virgin is coming. Skeptical, I looked up and I saw... very high in the sky a kind of bright white ball whose size I could not estimate... Appearing to be motionless, the object stayed for about three quarters of an hour above the airfield before disappearing. A few moments before seeing the phenomenon, Mr. Roux had observed the passage of a white trimotor, but the sphere had appeared far from the wake of the aircraft ((private file, without reference). Mr. Roux, a shepherd, and his son Maurice, 10 years old, were near La Roche sur Yon in the place called \"Les Ajoncs\" former disused airfield. It was about 6 pm and they were changing parks. An airplane passed in the sky, they looked up. \"Dad, look what the plane dropped off\". But the object was higher than the plane in the sky. It looked like a glass ball, very bright. It stayed about half an hour, motionless, then, without any noise, it rose into the sky. \" (1952, 8 May)", + "location": "France, La Roche sur Yon", + "ref": [ + "Michel MONNERIE: \"The Shipwreck of the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Nouvelles Editions Rationalistes, Paris, 1979, p. 124, which considers this kind of press cut as a hoax to feed the myth", + "Paris Match n° 169, of 7.6.1952, page 9", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1596" + }, + { + "date": "5/8/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 1am a Pan American Airlines DC4 was flying south towards Puerto Rico. It had departed from New York and was above the Atlantic approximately 900 km from Jacksonville (Florida) and at an altitude of 2500 meters.(...) At this moment the light began to grow to the point of becoming \"ten times as big as the landing light of an airplane\". It continued to approach and passed like a flash at the end of the DC4's left wing. Before the crew could react and make out anything precise, two other small balls of fire flew in front of them. The two pilots later declared that they remained frozen in their seats for several seconds, sweat running down their backs.", + "location": "USA, above the Atlantic in flight", + "ref": [ + "Edward J. Ruppelt: \"Face aux Soucoupes Volantes\", ed. France-Empire 1958, pp. 170, 171", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1597" + }, + { + "date": "5/21/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"Michael\" and \"Patricia\" monkeys, with two mice, reach 58 km in the third Aerobee rocket. Return is normal.", + "location": "USA, New Mexico", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 49, 1980, p. 14, 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1598" + }, + { + "date": "5/23/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Orfeo Angelucci is a very fragile health mystic, who studies metaphysics, the works of Edgar Cayce, and Yogi Paramahamsa Yogananda. On May 23rd he notices strange electrical symptoms, which discharge inexplicably. As he heads towards Los Angeles he sees an oval-shaped, red object flying in front of him. Suddenly two green light balls detach from it and stop quite close to him, between them he sees a kind of film and an unknown voice says to him: \"We are friends, do not be afraid.\" (...) (continued on July 23rd, 1952) (Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998) In May 1952, six months before Adamski, Orfeu Angelucci would have had contacts with an extraterrestrial from Neptune and another from Orion. The latter was a female entity named Lyra. (...) Lyra took Angelucci to her planet which she designated as Lucifer. And the journey only took place in spirit. The planet Lucifer is Venus, as we have seen before (May 23, 1952)", + "location": "USA, Los Angeles, California", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, the unmasked invaders\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p. 75, 76", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1599" + }, + { + "date": "5/25/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 9:15 p.m. Witnesses: seven people including John Hoffman, his family and friends. A large white circular object, with dark sections on the edges, was seen for 30 minutes, entering and exiting a cloud.", + "location": "USA, Walnut Lake, Michigan.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1600" + }, + { + "date": "5/29/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 7 p.m. Witness: Maj. D.W. Feuerstein, USAF pilot, on the ground. A luminous tubular object, gradually took a vertical position for 8 minutes, returned to a horizontal position very slowly, went back to vertical, accelerated, seemed to elongate before becoming red. The total observation lasted 14 minutes. (1952; May 29)", + "location": "USA, San Antonio, Texas.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1601" + }, + { + "date": "5/31/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 4:00 AM I was on guard duty when I heard a jet engine in the direction of the north. It made a stuttering sound, as if it was running at a slow speed. At first I didn't see anything, then a small light appeared at about 1100 meters, the light began to fall at a very slow rate, and as it fell it grew in size. As it grew it spread a glow. The fall stopped at about 800 meters in altitude and it took the shape of a disk, with a dull center and a bright outline. The object left towards the east in short bursts. It changed direction, the turn seemed instantaneous, and it went west, another instantaneous change of direction to go east, it climbed at an angle of 25°, then it left towards the north at an angle of 45°. The guard at post #6 alerted his colleague at post #4 who confirmed, but there was more: a F94 had orders to intercept it. Neither on the radar screen of the plane nor on the ground was there an echo of this unusual object.", + "location": "KOREA, Chorwon", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979, pp. 87-89", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1602" + }, + { + "date": "5/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At an unspecified date in the month of May, Mrs. Ann Sohn put the coffee pot on and glanced at the clock: it was 10:50 PM. She went to the back bedroom of the house (on one level) to see if the children were well covered before opening the window. Sitting on her son's bed she took a moment to look at the starry sky. A little minute later her attention was drawn to a bright light to the right and she was amazed to see a bright, round, hovering object over the neighboring field to the east. There was a screen in the window opening and Mrs. Sohn pressed her face against it to get a better look at the object, which was partially hidden by the corner formed by her house. The object, which was 30 to 40 feet in diameter, was bright and hovered absolutely motionless about 100 feet above the field for 3 to 5 minutes. Underneath the UFO there was a cloud of vapor or mist that slowly slid along the bottom of the object to the right, giving the impression that the object was resting on a small cloud. Mrs. Sohn could not say where the mist was coming from, since she could not see any exhausts or other openings. Since she was laterally under the object she saw that it was round. Along the edge of the object there were about 15 square portholes and just below a line that seemed to be the edge joining the lower part to the upper part. The upper part had a dome that seemed to be made of plastic or Plexiglas. The entire object was a bright white, except for the windows. Several were black and from the dome came a pale bluish glow, as if it were lit by other elements of the UFO. Inside the dome there were two small vertical objects, resembling antennas or small masts. At the farthest part of the UFO from the witness, three windows emitted intense light and at each window Mrs. Sohn saw \"a member of the crew\". The two closest windows showed silhouettes looking outwards, the last occupant seen in profile, at the extreme right, examining some kind of panel on the wall. The three occupants did not move. Mrs. Sohn tried to wake her son, but he continued to sleep. Mrs. Sohn's father was resting in another room of the house, but the witness was too scared to call him out loud. She defended herself from leaving the room for fear that when she returned the object would have disappeared. Meanwhile, the silhouette at the first window (on the left) made a movement of the right hand as if to push a lever, which had the effect of increasing the emission of vapor. This occupant moved back, pushed a lever with his left hand and the vapor changed color: from white it became green with orange reflections, then became orange with green remains. Immediately, while the silhouette on the right remained motionless, the one in the center pushed a lever with his right hand and the entire UFO, except for the non-lit and black windows, became a bright orange and left, rising very little, at an enormous speed towards the north, the speed being such that in a fraction of a second the object was out of sight. At the time of departure there was no emission of vapor or smoke, and no sound was heard. The three occupants (one of whom did not move during the entire observation) wore full-body suits, head included, except for the face. The light was so intense that the facial features or the shape of the hands were impossible to distinguish. There were secondary effects but Mrs. Sohn did not make the connection with the observed UFO. In the neighboring field which contained a whole parcel of garlic, there was none left. The grass was dead over a width of 25 feet. Shortly after the observation, the ten rosebushes planted on the east side of the house withered on the spot to the great despair of the witness who took very good care of them. The paint on the exterior woodwork on the east side of the house peeled off after showing blisters. The owners of the neighboring field had planted a green hedge to mark the separation: all the shrubs died.", + "location": "USA, Prospect Heights (Illinois)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, pp. 168-170, he cites the report of Police Captain Runser", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1603" + }, + { + "date": "6/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) To study aerodynamics at transonic speeds, researchers have adopted free fall. The test vehicles, made of very thick sheet metal, are weighted to increase the power of gravity, and launched at an altitude of 12,000 meters. Equipped with parachutes that open at low altitude, they are recoverable.", + "location": "USA-EUROPE", + "ref": [ + "\"Science et Vie\" No. 417, June 1952, p. 435 - cf. \"Science et Vie\" No. 957, June 97, p. 136", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1604" + }, + { + "date": "Early Summer 1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) George Van Tassel, an aviation mechanic and test pilot for 20 years, used Giant Rock, purchased from the US government, for meditation. At the beginning of the summer of 1952 he had his first telepathic contact with the extraterrestrials \"The 7 Lights\" (1952,Early summer)", + "location": "USA, Giant Rock, California", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "following beginning of July 52", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1605" + }, + { + "date": "6/1/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 2 o'clock in the morning, it was in the sky of Black Africa, in Port-Gentil, that a mysterious craft was seen. Testimony from the commander of a merchant ship and several members of his crew. The commander specified that the craft had described a double loop before diving out to sea at great speed. It was an extremely bright and phosphorescent orange light, moving with dizzying speed, following a substantially straight trajectory. The craft, visible for three minutes, made no noise. It must have been at 3,000 or 4,000 m altitude, and its apparent diameter was that of a planet. At its appearance, the \"object\" had come from inland, above Port-Gentil. It stopped, turned to the right and resumed its initial route after having made the same maneuver. All this excludes the \"meteor\" hypothesis. The same night, after investigation, it was established that no plane had flown over Port-Gentil.", + "location": "GABON Port-Gentil", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"The S.V. come from another World\" Fleuve Noir, 1954 - Omnium Littéraire 1972 p. 49", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1606" + }, + { + "date": "6/6/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of Viking VIII, altitude 6 km, destruction by fire in flight.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, M.W. Rosen, N.Y. 1955", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1607" + }, + { + "date": "6/7/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 11:18 a.m. Witnesses: the crew of a B-25 bomber flying at 11,500 feet. An object rectangular in shape, made of aluminum, 6 feet by 4, flying at 250-300 feet below the B-25. [see tests June 1952: aerodynamics at transsonic speed...]", + "location": "USA, Albuquerque, New Mexico.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1608" + }, + { + "date": "6/7/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Captain E. returns to the field at the controls of his old Junker 52. Good weather reigns over this corner of Germany. Suddenly the three crew members jump: a few hundred meters in front of them, and at a slightly lower altitude, a yellow \"biroute\" has just appeared. The three men immediately think they have got themselves into a shooting range .. The captain reduces the gas. \"But it's a glider,\" he exclaimed a moment later. Strange glider without fuselage and whose oblong and orange wing shines strangely in the ending day. Suddenly it is miraculously in front of the nose of the plane and the captain makes a \"dog leg\" abrupt to counter the crazy recklessness of the object. The shaken and intrigued passengers put their heads to the portholes and also see the appearance. It is clarified for a moment in the form of an orange and incandescent disk that immediately escapes at a dizzying speed.", + "location": "Germany, in flight, unspecified location", + "ref": [ + "Jean PLANTIER: \"The Propulsion of Flying Saucers by Direct Action on the Atom\" ed. MAME 1955, p. 121, 122", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1609" + }, + { + "date": "6/10/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two experienced pilots, Messrs. F. Cavasse and N. Clément, were piloting the DC-4 of the regular London-Orly-Nice service. At 19:28 (local time) they were flying over Draguignan when a kind of luminous white egg, but not blinding, much bigger than a transport plane, crossed their path. It flew horizontally, in a straight line, at a speed of around 2 to 3000 km/h leaving behind it a trail of smoke \"in dots\" white and slightly bluish. This trail was twenty to twenty-five times the length of the egg. The two pilots observed it for 30 seconds with the astonishment that can be imagined.", + "location": "France, in flight, above Draguignan", + "ref": [ + "Jean PLANTIER: \"The Propulsion of Flying Saucers by Direct Action on the Atom\" ed. MAME 1955, p.111, 112", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1610" + }, + { + "date": "6/12/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 2:00 PM, Colette, the maid, warned Mrs. Convert that there was something resembling a parachute, which was not descending. A few moments later, this thing flew towards the house, approaching to 500 m. The witnesses, taken by panic, fled to another room, they were dazzled. The UFO stopped above a meadow of the Bramafan castle, at 20 m of altitude, at 300 m from the witnesses. Cars stopped on the road bordering this meadow and people got out of them. Suddenly, bouncing, the object took altitude while turning faster and faster, whispering slightly, attracting the branches of the trees and the hair of the people. It disappeared in 5 or 6 seconds. The object resembled the classic saucer, with a dome on the lower face, and a kind of chimney of 15 m long directed towards the ground, from which were coming out colored moving filaments. Wires or ropes were hanging, as if they had supported a gondola.", + "location": "FRANCE, Ste Foy les Lyon", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni: le premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 57, 58", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1611" + }, + { + "date": "6/15/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Men working in the forest saw a large, circular object resembling a parachute quickly descend. Witnesses: Marius Aubry, Joseph Bestag, Simon, Collet.", + "location": "FRANCE, Mogneville", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni: le premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 59", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1612" + }, + { + "date": "6/15/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3:40 PM a woman reported \"a very bright object\" at high altitude. At 4:20 PM the operators of the air traffic control station saw \"a round and bright object\" to the southeast of their station, directly south of Unionville. At 4:43 PM the pilot of a jet aircraft from the Navy attempted to intercept \"a bright sphere\" south of Gordonsville. At 5:43 PM a T-33 from the Army also attempted to intercept a bright sphere south of Gordonsville. It climbed to 10,500 meters but the UFO remained above it. At 7:35 PM several inhabitants of Blackstone (about 120 km from Gordonsville) saw a round, bright object with a golden glow, moving from north to south. At that moment the speakers of the radio of Central Virginia announced the progress of the UFO. At 7:59 PM the operators of an air traffic control station in Blackstone saw the object. At 8:00 PM jet aircrafts arrived from Langley to try to intercept it, but at 8:05 PM it had disappeared. It was not moving very fast since it had only traveled 140 kilometers in 4 hours and 25 minutes. [IN REALITY, in Pittsburgh a radiosonde had gone up to around 18,000 meters and must have had a leak since it stopped instead of going up to 25,000 or 30,000 meters before bursting.]", + "location": "USA, Unionville, Gordonsville, Blackstone", + "ref": [ + "Edward J. Ruppelt: \"Face aux Soucoupes Volantes\", ed. France-Empire 1958, p. 180, 181", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1613" + }, + { + "date": "6/19/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 2:37 a.m. Witness: 2nd Lt. A'Gostino and an unidentified radar operator. A red light became white while undulating. Stationary target detected on radar during 1 minute observation. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). A red disc approached the military airbase at night.", + "location": "CANADA, Goose Bay, Labrador", + "ref": [ + "Donald E. KEYHOE: \"The Flying Saucer File\" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.134", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1614" + }, + { + "date": "6/20/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 3:03 p.m. Witnesses: four people from the Navy, and pilots of F4U-4B Corsair fighter planes. An oval object, white or silver, 10-20 feet in size, made a \"left hand\" orbit, then a \"right hand\" orbit at a terrifying speed for 60 seconds.", + "location": "Central KOREA,", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1615" + }, + { + "date": "6/21/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 12:30 p.m. Witness: T/Sgt. Howard Davis, flight technician of a B-29 bomber at 8,000 feet altitude. An object flat, strongly pointed at the front, rounded at the back, with a dark blue center and a red outline, emitted sparks as it passed behind the B-29 at a distance of 500 feet in 1 second.", + "location": "USA, Kelly AFB, Texas.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1616" + }, + { + "date": "6/25/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 8:30 p.m. Witnesses: Mrs. Norbury, Mr. Matheis. A luminous, white-yellow, ovoid object, which occasionally had a red trail, performed circular flights (7 times) during the one and a half hour observation.", + "location": "USA, Chicago, Illinois.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1617" + }, + { + "date": "6/29/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 5:45 p.m. Witnesses: Three USAF M.P.s. A bright, silver, oval and flat object, surrounded by a blue halo, flew, then moved very quickly from left to right, up and down for 45 minutes.", + "location": "USA, O'Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1618" + }, + { + "date": "6/30/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (The London Free Press, June 30, 1952, pages 1 and 12) In Clarke Street and Oxford Street, the inhabitants saw in the evening a light so bright that it was as bright as day for two minutes, emitting a kind of low humming sound. At the London control tower they said the saucer was blue and followed a flash of light. The officials of the H.E.P.C. suppose that the phenomenon was due to the mobile transformer parked in the area. The transformer was fried during the storm.", + "location": "CANADA, London (Ontario)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1619" + }, + { + "date": "Early 7/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: beginning of summer 52) An entity by the name of \"Portla\" announced to Van Tassel that the commander Ashtar of the intergalactic vessel Schare, would come to him to speak to him. (continued 18 July 52) (Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998) At the end of 1952 he published a small 51 page self-published booklet entitled \"I rode a Flying Saucer\". Van Tassel claimed to have dialogued in an ecstatic trance state and in the presence of witnesses, with an extraterrestrial named Totalmon, then with another one saying his name was Ashtar. (1952, beginning of July)", + "location": "USA, Giant Rock, California", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 76", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1620" + }, + { + "date": "7/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Tollkeeper Truman Bethurum claimed to have boarded a giant craft and to have had several conversations with the ship's commander... a splendid Venusian (named Ranes) who seemed to have a weakness for men with a bald head as smooth as a billiard ball. Which, of course, was the case of Bethurum! When she received her terrestrial friend, she was surrounded by a court of little men (...) (A. RIBERA: \"These Mysterious UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 226, 227) Truman Bethurum claimed to have met in the Mojave Desert, from July to November 1952, therefore before Adamski, a female extraterrestrial entity who presented herself under the name of Aura Rhanes (July to November 1952)", + "location": "USA, Mojave Desert (California)", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"UFO, the Unmasked Invaders\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 77", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1621" + }, + { + "date": "7/2/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The film had been taken by US Navy Officer Delbert C. Newhouse. He and his wife were on a drive. They were driving slowly at 11 km from Edmonton when suddenly they saw a formation of bright objects against the blue sky. Newhouse was a Navy photographer. The objects were round, unlike any known aircraft, and moved at supersonic speeds. Grabbing his 16mm Bell and Howell camera, Newhouse fitted a telephoto lens and used twelve meters of film. At the end of the roll he pointed his camera at a disc that had changed direction and left the formation, but by the time he had turned his camera to the \"formation\" the other saucers had already disappeared. (Donald E. KEYHOE: \"The UFO File\" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.139, 140) UFO film shot by Delbert C. Newhouse, US Navy Chief Photographer. (Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - p.180) They were out for a drive, he and his wife, near the Great Salt Lake when they saw a formation of bright, round objects. He took his 16mm camera, set up the telephoto lens and filmed the group of 12 to 14 objects. He used 13 m of film. The US Navy Marine-Photo-Interpretation Laboratory spent over a thousand hours analyzing the film.", + "location": "USA, Tremonton (Utah)", + "ref": [ + "Johannes von BUTLAR: \"UFO, We Are Not Alone\" - Presses de la Cité 1979, p. 77, 78", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1622" + }, + { + "date": "7/4/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Agent McDowell was feeding the pigeons when a sudden agitation took hold of the birds. Looking for what had scared the pigeons, he saw five large discs in the sky to the east of Portland. The discs were diving and oscillating vertically. McDowell notified this by radio. Paterson, who had heard the alert, went outside and saw a disc of aluminum appearance heading southwest. These discs were flying at an incredible speed.", + "location": "USA, Portland (Oregon)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979, pp. 100-102", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1623" + }, + { + "date": "7/4/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Commander Smith and the entire crew of a UAL flight saw, to the west, first 5 flying discs in formation. Then they saw 4 more, three in formation and one flying alone at a good distance. Smith described them as thin and smooth underneath, rough on top. They were silhouetted against the sun shortly after 8:04 PM, takeoff time. The witnesses saw them for 70 km and then they disappeared.", + "location": "USA, Emmeth (Idaho)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: New Report on UFOs - Belfond 1979, p. 102, 103", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1624" + }, + { + "date": "7/5/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Several pilots had seen a disk-shaped craft near the Richland atomic plant. (Donald E. KEYHOE: \"The Flying Saucer File\" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.44) Four Florida pilots reported seeing a flying saucer hovering over the Hanford atomic base in Richlands, Washington. Capt. John Baldwin, Capt. George Robertson, and pilots D. Shanbel and Steven Summers said the UFO was round and flat. As it hovered over the installations, it gained speed, reversed its course, and then quickly disappeared. A week later two balls of fire were reported above the Hanford installations.", + "location": "USA, Richards, Washington", + "ref": [ + "Internet, May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1625" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1952 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Oskar Linke and his daughter were in East Berlin and were returning from one of their motorcycle rides with a sidecar. (They were returning on foot because one of the sidecar tires had burst) His daughter drew his attention to something white that was glinting through the trees of a wood they were crossing (a wood 150 m away from them). It was a light so abnormal that they stopped the motorcycle. Linke hid himself under the bushes and went into the wood. (Suddenly he found two beings resembling men, wearing strange metallic suits that were carefully examining the ground of a small clearing). Very close to them was a rose-colored metal saucer (and of an impressive size). They thus arrived at 25 or 30 m of a disc of 7.50 m in diameter that was resting on the ground of a clearing.

\"It looked like an enormous pot without a tail that was heating up, and it seemed phosphorescent. In the center there was some kind of apparatus - a square thing - a kind of superstructure that came out of the top of the craft like a top hat. It was a bit darker than the rest of the craft which was of a polished aluminum color. (note from vog: hmm? I thought it was rose!) (Under the effect of surprise he called his daughter who had stayed near the motorcycle. Upon hearing his voice the two metallic armored beings rushed towards the craft, entered the cylinder and locked themselves in). We were well hidden and saw two small beings resembling miniature human beings of about 1 m in height and wearing shiny one-piece clothing. On the chest one of them was carrying a box or a package the size of three stacked cigarette packs, on which shone a blue light that was blinking. They arrived from the edge of the clearing and were heading one behind the other towards the craft. When they were only 3 or 4 m away, the last one stretched out his hand, touched the helmet that shone like glass of the first one. They stopped and one of them slowly turned to look to our left. Upon seeing him my daughter jumped. The creatures hurried to enter the craft through a porthole at the top of the central superstructure. We then saw that the disc had two rows of portholes around its circumference. They were about the size of those of ships. Under our eyes the square superstructure went back into the dome and at the same time the object slowly rose up. We then noticed that a square thing similar to it was coming out of the base of the craft and apparently making it rise from the ground. Then the object rose up to about 30 m, stayed hovering for a moment, then gained speed and disappeared.\" (Frank Edwards: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse\" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 152 to 154) (A. RIBERA: \"Ces mystérieux Ovni\" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 133, 134 for the contradictory information in parentheses) This fantastic story told by Antony Terry of Berlin was published in the \"Sunday Graphic\" of July 6, 1952 - (...) so it is a second-hand story. (1952, July 7 (or 1?))", + "location": "GERMANY, Hasselbach Berlin", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's: a Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, pages 198 to 200, with other juicy stories published in the newspapers around this date", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1626" + }, + { + "date": "7/12/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 9 p.m. Witnesses: several radar controllers, military officers. Several blips targeted on radar at a speed of 1,500 kts. (1,700 m.p.h.). No visual observation.", + "location": "USA, Kirksville, Missouri.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1627" + }, + { + "date": "7/14/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10 pm, a group of young athletes were resting on the Oukaimeden Plateau (winter sports station, High Atlas) when they suddenly saw a device shaped like a white ball with the apparent diameter of a full moon. It flew horizontally from northeast to southwest, soon splitting into three sections resembling three luminous wagons attached to the same train. The \"sections\" disappeared behind one of the station's peaks. Meanwhile, 25 km away from Oukaimeden by air, on the Marakech-Taroudant road via Tizi N'Test, near the village of Asni, about forty people saw around 10 pm a device whose description they gave exactly matched that of the young people of Oukaimeden.", + "location": "MOROCCO, Oukaimeden Plateau (High Atlas)", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde\" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 p. 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1628" + }, + { + "date": "7/14/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 8:12 p.m. Witnesses: Pan American Airways First Officer William Nash, Second Officer William Fortenberry. Eight large, round, glowing red objects maneuvered below their airliner, in formation. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). Captain William B. Nash, bringing a DC 4 from New York to Miami, and co-pilot W. Fortenberry, working for the first time on this line, saw at 9:12 p.m. a strange glow followed by six glowing discs that approached at a dizzying speed. The DC 4 was flying at 2500 m altitude, the discs were 1 km or 1500 m below, their diameter was around 33 m. They moved in formation. The leading object slowed down so suddenly that the two following seemed to oscillate briefly. During braking, the objects' glow dimmed. Then the 6 objects changed their course by 150° and disappeared, covering 75 km in 15 seconds, that is 18000 km/h! (Johannes von BUTLAR: \"Ovni, we are not alone\" - Presses de la Cité 1979, p. 79, 80) On July 13 at 9:12 a.m., a DC-4 of Pan American, heading to Miami, was approaching Norfolk. The pilot was W. B. Nash; his second W.H. Fortenberry was acting as co-pilot. Flying at 2400 meters altitude, the DC-4 was a few kilometers from Newport, when, in front of him, a red glow formed. The pilot and his second saw six huge discs; they were rushing in their direction, but lower; flying horizontally, these devices seemed incandescent; it was as if molten metal. The discs were approaching, echeloned. The one in the lead slowed down then straightened up vertically; the five other saucers maneuvered in the same way. Changing course, the leading machine returned to the horizontal and sped westward, the other discs did the same and lined up behind the leader. A second later, two new discs emerged under the DC-4's fuselage and accelerated to join the formation. The glow was becoming brighter and brighter. At the moment they had slowed down, before changing course, the six discs had dimmed; they had only regained their initial color during the acceleration phase. (July 14, 1952)", + "location": "USA, Newport (Virginia)", + "ref": [ + "Donald E. KEYHOE: \"The File of Flying Saucers\" - ed. Hachette", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1629" + }, + { + "date": "1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (p.47, but page 116, it is dated July 14) A DC 4 suddenly found itself in the presence of six luminous red discs near Norfolk (Virginia).", + "location": "Norfolk (Virginia)", + "ref": [ + "A. RIBERA: \"These Mysterious UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 135", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1630" + }, + { + "date": "7/15/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:25, three aviators from the Casablancais Aero-club saw in turn a rocket with a greenish mass and an extension (resembling the tail nozzle of a jet plane) from which flashes of light sometimes burst forth.", + "location": "MOROCCO, Casablanca", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde\" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 p. 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1631" + }, + { + "date": "7/16/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Fred Reagan was flying with his Piper at 2400 meters altitude. It was 2:32 PM. That's when he noticed some kind of huge, shiny diamond-shaped thing. It was coming towards him at a very high speed. (...) In panic, Fred Reagan didn't have time to react. The object hit his Piper head-on, breaking off the tail of the plane, which after violent shakes, fell towards the ground. (...) He was outside and he felt that he was descending at a dizzying speed (note from vog: without losing consciousness?) Suddenly there was nothing. (...) He felt lifted in the air and he understood that it was the unknown vessel that was attracting him towards it by means of an immense suction system. (...) He found himself plunged into a deep darkness, then he saw three humanoid figures with the appearance of pins. (medical examination, brain tumor discovered and cured, various explanations of kindness. He awoke in a well-earthly hospital room. (...) He died on May 16, 1953. (Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, pp. 78-82) July 1951 (note from vog: that is one year earlier) Fred Reagan recounted that in 1951 his Piper Cub plane had been hit by a huge UFO and crashed to the ground. He himself remained suspended, attracted and lifted up towards the saucer. There he was treated for cancer with a particular blue light and then gently laid on the ground near the remains of his plane. No one believed his story. He died on May 16, 1952 (note from vog: he dies one year earlier too) in the Atlanta insane asylum: at the autopsy it was found that his death was due to extreme atomic radiation.", + "location": "USA, Atlanta (Georgia)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 64", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1632" + }, + { + "date": "7/18/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Frégnale, an engineer, took a series of four photos of an object of metallic appearance, reflecting the sun's rays on its edge, of lenticular shape, moving from west to east, around 6:00 pm flying at about 1000m altitude. At the moment of the object's disappearance, the witness had the impression that it disintegrated. (Henry DURRANT: \"Le dossier des OVNI\" - Laffont 1973 - p.269-270 and photographic insert) (Science et Avenir n° 307 -1972.) An engineer, André Frégnale, sees a disc-shaped object silently and at a constant speed pass through the sky. He takes four photos of it, then, through binoculars, sees it disappear as if it were vanishing on the spot.", + "location": "FRANCE, Lac Chauvet (Puy-de-Dôme)", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"Le dossier secret des OVNI\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p. 127, 128", + "Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, p. 60 to 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1633" + }, + { + "date": "7/18/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) George von Tassel receives a telepathic message from the commander of the space fleet, ASHTAR, warning him against nuclear power and the H-bomb. Von Tassel is tasked with delivering the message to President Truman.", + "location": "USA, unspecified location", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "follow-up on August 24, 1953", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1634" + }, + { + "date": "7/18/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6 pm, the inhabitants reported seeing a fuselage without wings or protuberances, emitting at regular intervals a brief and violent flashing and giving rise to a very thick white smoke dissipating quickly. The witnesses describe this fuselage as having an apparent length of 30 m, being in a vertical position and being accompanied by a fairly loud rumble. (1952, July 18 or 19)", + "location": "France, Pouilly and Vénarey lès Laumes", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE - Jeanine VALLEE: \"The Unusual Phenomena of Space\", ed. bound LAFFONT 1978, p. 76", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1635" + }, + { + "date": "7/19/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 2:55 a.m. Witness: an experienced civilian pilot. An elliptical object with a fringe of light, descended quickly, made a full circle and another half circle during the 5 minute observation.", + "location": "USA, Williston, North Dakota.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1636" + }, + { + "date": "7/19/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11:30 PM two radars from the National Washington Airport detected eight UFOs flying at 160-200 km/h, two of which suddenly accelerated. The control tower recorded the same phenomenon on its radar and confirmed it to Mr. Barnes, the main controller. He informed Andrews Air Force Base, since the White House and the Pentagon, located in the District of Columbia where the federal capital of the Union is located, are obviously forbidden to be overflown. Andrews AFB answered affirmatively: its radar had seen the objects. It even specified that the sudden acceleration of one of them had brought its speed to 10,000 km/h. At dawn the operators saw, with the naked eye, a large luminous sphere of bright orange color above them. Mr. Barnes, at the Washington National Airport, observed the objects with a theodolite. Around 12:30 AM on July 20th, he alerted the air defense. Reaction interceptors took off from Newcastle AFB (Delaware) since the tracks of Andrews AFB were temporarily impracticable. When they arrived, around 3 AM, there were no more objects in the sky: they returned to their base. New alert above Washington, new request for interception at Newcastle AFB, new appearance of the objects on the radars, new disappearance of these objects on the screens. Meanwhile, during this crazy night, airline pilots confirmed in their flight reports that they saw lights that they could not identify in the places indicated by the radar operators. Mr. Chambers, a radio engineer, when leaving the Washington NA radio station at 5 AM, saw five huge discs and testified to it. (Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970 - p.105-106-251 and photographic insert) - July 19th and 26th 1952: During a wave of observations, mysterious UFOs were detected in the night of the 19th by several radars and simultaneously observed as an aerial ballet of lights above the capital. They play hide and seek with the fighter planes sent to intercept them. Other observations took place in the following nights, in particular on the 26th. Astronomical objects? Mirages due to temperature inversions in the atmospheric layers? (note from vog: and so the radars would have captured mirages?) (Science and Life, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFOs, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, p. 60 to 63) ...see also:. ((c) 1997 Jeroen Slurf and Jeroen Kümeling.) see also: (1952, July 19th and 20th)", + "location": "USA, Washington", + "ref": [ + "\"Glimpses of Flying Saucers\" - Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME 1954, pages 96 to 99", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1637" + }, + { + "date": "7/20/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 12:20 a.m. Witness, chemist professor Dr. A.B. Spooner from Seton Hall University. Two large orange lights with something bright red, flying one behind the other, turning and flying in circles for 5-6 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Lavalette, New Jersey.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1638" + }, + { + "date": "7/21/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 10:40 p.m. Witnesses: one Lieutenant, two Sergeants, three militiamen. A blue circle with a blue tail was observed, first hovering, then accelerating to a speed of 700+ m.p.h. after one minute.", + "location": "USA, San Marcos AFB, Texas.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1639" + }, + { + "date": "7/21/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 8:10 p.m. Witnesses: one military officer, two militiamen. An object of aluminum appearance, triangular, with a vertical tail, flying first in a straight trajectory, then hovering during the observation of 3 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Rockville, Indiana.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1640" + }, + { + "date": "7/22/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 10:50 a.m. Witnesses: control tower operator Don Weins, and two pilots from the Carco firm. Eight large round objects, of an aluminum-like appearance, flying first in a straight trajectory, then erratically maneuvering vertically for 25 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Los Alamos, New Mexico.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1641" + }, + { + "date": "7/22/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 2:46 p.m. Witness: Don Epperly, Director of Trans Texas Airlines and meteorologist. A large round object, silver in color, rotating, flew at more than 1,000 m.p.h. for 45 seconds.", + "location": "USA, Uvalde, Texas.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1642" + }, + { + "date": "7/22/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 10:47 p.m. Witnesses: pilot and radar operator aboard a USAF F-94 jet interceptor. A round, blue light, rotating, passed the F-94.", + "location": "USA, between Boston and Provincetown, Massachusetts.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1643" + }, + { + "date": "7/22/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) From 10:50 p.m. to 12:45 a.m. Witnesses: crews of various USAF F-94 jet interceptors from Dover, Delaware base. Thirteen visual observations (and one radar target) of blue-white lights during two hours.", + "location": "USA, Trenton, New Jersey.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1644" + }, + { + "date": "7/23/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 12:50 p.m. Witnesses: crews of two USAF F-94 interceptors at 35-46,000 feet altitude. Three cylindrical objects in vertical formation, flying at an altitude of 50-80,000 feet. Observation for 20 minutes", + "location": "USA, Altoona, Pennsylvania.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1645" + }, + { + "date": "7/23/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 11:35 p.m. Witness: Capt. H. W. Kloth, USAF pilot. Two blue-white objects flying together, then the one at the back turned and disappeared after 9 minutes.", + "location": "USA, South Bend, Indiana.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1646" + }, + { + "date": "7/23/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. May 23, 52) Orfeo is invited to enter an unmanned saucer and flies off into the Universe. He returns with a cross-shaped mark on his chest, on the left side, the symbol of the UR-E.", + "location": "USA, Los Angeles", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "following August 2, 52", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1647" + }, + { + "date": "7/24/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A B-25 took off from Hamilton base. (...) At 3:40 they were above the Carson Sink region when one of them discovered the presence of three flying objects in front of them, slightly to starboard. (...) A moment later they saw three silver delta wings, very bright and without tails or cockpit. Only a clear band running from one end to the other of each aircraft broke the uniformity of the upper part. A few moments passed, then the three objects turned slightly to the left and passed in front of the B-25 at an extraordinary speed that the witnesses estimated to be three times that of a F-86. The aircraft passed at 400 to 800 meters so that the two colonels could observe them well. (A. RIBERA: \"These Mysterious UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 113, 114) Carson Sink, Nevada.: 3:40 p.m. Witnesses: two USAF Lt. Colonels McGinn and Barton in a B-25 bomber. Three silver, delta-shaped objects, each with a ridge along the top, crossed in front of and above the B-25 at high speed, in 3-4 seconds. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner) and the same", + "location": "USA, from Hamilton to Colorado Springs (in flight)", + "ref": [ + "Edward J. Ruppelt: \"Facing the Flying Saucers\", ed. France-Empire 1958, p. 22 to 24, which still says that silver-painted delta aircraft existed at the time in the USA, while others were painted blue", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1648" + }, + { + "date": "7/25/1952 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man fishing in the Serchio River saw a disk hovering in the air for ten minutes. A hose was hanging from the disk and going into the water. A man wearing a diving helmet was looking through a porthole. The witness was paralyzed by a green ray that caused an electric shock. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 100) Carlo Rossi, a 53-year-old farmer, was fishing on the Serchio at 3 o'clock in the morning. He saw a brilliant light that descended on a part of the river. He approached the place while hiding and saw a black craft two meters in diameter, with a dome on its belly, about three meters high, as big as \"a room\" emitting a blue light. A hose was coming out of it and hanging in the water. On the lower part there were two large and two small propellers. In the upper turret a kind of porthole came out and the witness thought he saw a man making a gesture with his arm towards him. At the same time a green ray came out from somewhere on the craft, causing a shock throughout his body. When he looked again, the craft had gained altitude and was moving away at a dizzying speed. (July 25 (24?), 1952)", + "location": "ITALY, Lucca, San Pietro a Vico", + "ref": [ + "CISU, archive dossier 5202, sources \"La Nazione\" of 26.9.52, Guieu I, 79, and others", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1649" + }, + { + "date": "7/26/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two monkeys and two mice are lifted to 60 km in an Aerobee and are recovered.", + "location": "USA, New Mexico", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 49, 1980, p. 14, 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1650" + }, + { + "date": "7/26/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 8 p.m. until midnight. Witnesses: radar operators and several other people, pilots. Several targets on the radar, above Washington, at different speeds. The pilots saw unidentified lights. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner) At 10:30 p.m. the two Washington NA radars detect objects again. Mr. Barnes is notified, Andrews AFB is alerted and confirms immediately. At 11:30 p.m. jet interceptors are alerted and at midnight two F-94s arrive above Washington guided by the radars. Then the objects disappear and the planes return. (Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970 - p.107) also:", + "location": "USA, Washington, D.C.", + "ref": [ + "\"Glimpses of Flying Saucers\" - Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME 1954, page 99", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1651" + }, + { + "date": "7/27/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 10:05 a.m. Witnesses: three B-29 bomber crews on the ground. Several round, white objects flying in a straight line, very quickly. There were two at 10:05, one at 10:10, another at 10:15, and one last at 10:20. Each light was observed for about 30 seconds.", + "location": "USA, Selfridge AFB, Michigan.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1652" + }, + { + "date": "7/28/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 6 a.m. Witness: Ground Control Approach radar operator M/Sgt. W.F. Dees, and persons in the base control tower. Radar tracked a large cluster of very distinct blips. Visual observation was of oblong objects having neither wings nor tail, which made a very fast turn and at one time were in echelon formation. Entire episode lasted 55 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner) Jersey City (New Jersey) August C. Roberts along with James Leyden, both members of the Ground Observers Corps, photographed a strange object in the sky. It had the shape of an orange glowing disc which oscillated side to side.", + "location": "USA, McGuire AFB, New Jersey.", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" Fleuve Noir 1956, p. 39, 64 and 65", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1653" + }, + { + "date": "7/29/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 1:30 a.m. Witnesses: ground radar operators, pilot of an F-51 Mustang in flight. Several clusters of about ten small radar targets as well as one large one. The small targets flew from southwest to east at about 60-70 mph, one behind the other. The largest one flew at 700 mph. Total duration: one hour. The pilot confirmed one of the targets by visual observation.", + "location": "USA, Osceola, Wisconsin.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1654" + }, + { + "date": "7/29/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) George J. Stock photographed an aircraft, coming from the south and going east, passing vertically over his garden and hovering in one spot for several minutes at a height of about 185 yards. The object was gray in color topped with a dome and came from the south. It was about 12 m in diameter and stabilized for a few moments. Then it oscillated and left, disappearing to the east while accelerating. Total duration of the observation: 1 minute. A government agent from the Office of Scientific Investigation borrowed the negatives and kept them for many months. After a long series of protests, Stock was able to get them back.", + "location": "USA, Passaic (New Jersey)", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V. - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1655" + }, + { + "date": "7/30/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around midnight, Mrs. Lilette Tramier witnessed a strange event: \"I was in bed,\" she explained, \"when suddenly through the crack of the window of my room, I saw a luminous object slowly pass in the sky. I quickly got up and then saw a brightly glowing cylinder, like a long neon bulb. It was moving in a straight line, horizontally, about 30° above the horizon. This silent craft, of extraordinary sharpness, produced neither a trail nor a halo. Its length was approximately five times the apparent diameter of the moon. Coming from the East, it moved away to disappear towards the South-West. The night was clear, without clouds...and I was not dreaming.", + "location": "FRANCE, Le Tholonet (near Aix-en-Provence)", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde\" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Omnium Littéraire 1972 p.64-65", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1656" + }, + { + "date": "7/30/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 10 a.m. Witnesses: E.E. Nye and one other person. A round, white object, flew slowly and departed at high speed after 20-30 minutes.", + "location": "USA, San Antonio, Texas.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1657" + }, + { + "date": "7/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Above the capital, a UFO was hit by a burst of machine gun fire from a Navy jet. A fragment of the object was recovered and handed over to laboratories for analysis. (Note from Vog: probably on the 26th or 27th of July) (Jacques POTTIER: \"Les Soucoupes Volantes\" - DE VECCHI - 1974 - p. 30) During the summer of 1952, a metal fragment was ejected from an unidentified flying object. It was determined to be an orthosilicate matrix of magnesium, according to Frank Edwards. The Condon Report indicates that there is no official confirmation and the deposition of the samples is unknown.", + "location": "USA, Washington", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Confrontations\" - Laffont 1991, p. 68", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1658" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (GESAG, GS 1062) Along with playmates, J.E. (14 years old) saw a large, luminous disc, orange in the center and greenish around the edge. The object was totally silent and seemed to be spinning. Quickly passing at an estimated altitude of 1000 m, according to the witness, the disc came from the south and was heading north, towards Manage, without leaving any trace or trail behind it. The object was observed at an elevation of about 50°. It disappeared from the witness's view after a few seconds, behind the houses that lined the playground. (1952, Summer (or 1953))", + "location": "BELGIUM, Bellecourt", + "ref": [ + "SOBEPS, Michel Bougard's investigation, 28.9.1973, communicated to GESAG by J.L. VERTONGEN", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1659" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A young couple, on a night walk towards \"Le Vieux Moulin\", suddenly heard an appalling noise, for which there was no explanation. Then came an impressive silence. Paralyzed, the witnesses did not dare to move. Something resembling whispers of human voices, clear, numerous, continuous, came from behind the hedge, but so faint that it was impossible to recognize words or a language. The witnesses held their breath as long as this \"discussion\" lasted. Then, as suddenly as the first time, a noise was reproduced in the same place. Traces found the next day, related to the phenomenon? (1952, Summer)", + "location": "FRANCE, Chatillon", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 60", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1660" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A flying saucer crashed in the desert and the debris of the craft, as well as the bodies of three occupants, were immediately shipped to Wright Patterson where a film was made with views taken immediately at the crash site or later at the base. The first showed the craft embedded at 45 degrees in the desert sand and an open door below, from which the humanoid corpses were extracted. The following views showed these corpses lying on tables. They were about 1.20m tall, with huge pear-shaped heads, long arms that reached down to their knees, large open eyes with holes instead of a nose and ears, and a grayish skin. This film, which was obviously TOP SECRET, was shown to a number of senior officers of the Air Force at different air bases, with a ban on talking to anyone about it. I have heard about it several times, but have never had the opportunity to see it myself. (1952, Summer)", + "location": "USA, New Mexico", + "ref": [ + "and nobody else has heard of it???", + "Maurice CHATELAIN: \"The Messengers of the Cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, p. 25", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1661" + }, + { + "date": "7/31/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Giampiero Monguzzi, an Italian engineer, went on a mountain hike with his wife. Suddenly, at around 9:30, they saw a large circular object resting on the glacier. The craft had a metallic appearance and a long vertical antenna emerged from its dome (note from vog: very convenient for space flights, the longer the better! But on the other hand: I saw this photo pass by, exactly the same, as having been taken on the moon by one of our real astronauts). A pilot in an astronaut suit emerged from it and was holding an object resembling a flashlight. Several photographs were taken of the craft and its occupant...", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Bernina Massif", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"The Secret File of UFOs\", De Vecchi, 1978, pp. 168-162", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1662" + }, + { + "date": "8/1/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Above the Wright Patterson base, two \"Sabres\" were returning from patrol when the observers of an interception station had just picked up the echo of a craft moving at high speed, quite high, vertically above the airfield. The two pilots, Commander James Smith and Lieutenant D. Hemer, were given the order to try to intercept this craft. It was a round and shiny object. After quickly consulting each other, they split up, making numerous changes of direction while continuing to gain altitude: \"We deliberately maneuvered in circles,\" they explained later, \"to make sure it was not a reflection of light. At first, the object seemed red and white to us, then only white\". Despite their maneuvers, the object did not change its appearance. Undeniably, it was a solid body. The two pilots armed their machine guns, released the safety catch. The sights lit up. But the craft seemed to pay no attention to their approach. It is true that, according to the spot that appeared on the on-board radars, it was flying at least 4,000 meters above the planes. However, the \"Sabres\" which had reached 12,000 meters, began to level off. Making a sharp turn to take a film, Smith lost altitude and could not aim his camera. Climbing back to 12,000 meters, he was luckier this time and managed to take several meters of film before the \"Sabre\" made another dive. A few seconds later, the craft suddenly accelerated and disappeared. (Charles GARREAU: \"The Pilots Testify: UFOs are Among Us\" - Historia n° 421 Dec. 1981 p. 100-101, case taken from (Donald E. KEYHOE: \"The Flying Saucer File\" - ed. Hachette 1952, p. 92 etc..) but also: The Associated Press revealed a new and undeniable appearance: Commander James Smith and Lieutenant D. Hemer had really tried to intercept a saucer above the airfield. (Charles GARREAU: \"Alert in the Sky: The Abduction File\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p.28) [IN REALITY: a 6-meter balloon photographed at 9000 m distance, gives exactly the same image as that of the UFO reproduced by the film.] (August 1st, 1952)", + "location": "USA in flight, Wright Patterson", + "ref": [ + "Edward J. Ruppelt: \"Facing the Flying Saucers\", ed. France-Empire 1958, p.217", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1663" + }, + { + "date": "8/2/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. July 23, 1952) After a new UFO sighting, Angelucci Orfeo meets his space brother in the flesh for the first time. He is tall, well built and wearing a seamless tunic. Orfeo calls him 'Neptun'. The conversation warns the earthlings", + "location": "USA, Los Angeles", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued in October 1952", + "etc...", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1664" + }, + { + "date": "8/3/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two silver discs were spinning above the base, one behind the other. They were joined by 6 other discs. All together they took the formation of a diamond before disappearing. (Marcel J. Lefèvre - 1968 - Brussels) At 4:45 PM two huge silver discs, evolving at different altitudes, had appeared coming from the east. From the ground, pilots of jet aircraft observed the phenomenon. Suddenly they saw the upper disc dive and level off with the other. Then the two saucers began to spin above the airfield, behaving like fighter planes in aerial combat. The first to spot them was Lieutenant Swimley, who looked through binoculars but noticed no details. Meanwhile the radar of a ground interception station had spotted blips on its screen. As the pilots hastened to their F-86s, six other discs joined the first two. United in formation, the machines had set a course to the west and when the F-86s began to gain altitude, they had already disappeared. (August 3, 1952)", + "location": "USA, Hamilton AFB (California)", + "ref": [ + "Donald E. KEYHOE: \"The Flying Saucer File\" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.111, 112", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1665" + }, + { + "date": "8/5/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 1:30 p.m. Witnesses: USAF F-94 jet interceptor pilots lst Lt. W.R. Holder and lst Lt. A.M. Jones, and Haneda control tower operators. Airborne radar tracked a target for 90 seconds. Control tower operators watched 50-60 minutes while a dark shape with a light flew as fast as 330 kts. (380 m.p.h.), hovered, flew curves and performed a variety of maneuvers. Aug. 6, 1952; This is a continuation of the Haneda AFB sightings. (project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). Two American security personnel were walking on the Haneda airport runway at night when they suddenly noticed an extraordinarily bright light above Tokyo Bay. Seeing that it was moving, they ran to the tower to observe it through binoculars, after alerting two other colleagues. A radiance seemed to emanate from a round, dark shape. The UFO slowly approached the airfield, hovering above it. Under the dark shape, the witnesses saw a second, dimmer light. The object headed east and disappeared, only to reappear a few seconds later, disappear again, and reappear a third time. The radar observers had it on their screens and followed it for another 5 minutes. Shortly after midnight, an F-94 fighter took off from Johnson base, the pilot's mission being to approach the object as closely as possible.", + "location": "JAPAN, Haneda, Tokyo", + "ref": [ + "Johannes von BUTLAR: \"Ovni, nous ne sommes pas seuls\" - Presses de la Cité 1979, p. 80, 81", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1666" + }, + { + "date": "8/6/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The inhabitants saw, around 12:45, clouds emerge, an object of a dazzling green. The bolide rose towards the sky leaving behind a golden trail.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Stembert (Liège)", + "ref": [ + "list by Daniel BUKENS, Remicourt, Belgium.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1667" + }, + { + "date": "8/7/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Very early in the morning a witness saw two discs with flat domes, maneuvering and making zigzags in the sky, identical and simultaneous movements for both discs.", + "location": "NETHERLANDS, Kerkrade", + "ref": [ + "Marcel J. Lefèvre - 1968 - Brussels", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1668" + }, + { + "date": "8/19/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Some, with reason, took Desverger's story seriously. The scout leader's arm was indeed very red, his hat burned, and when the sheriff arrived at the clearing where the incident had taken place, he noticed that the ground bore traces of fire over a small area. Nevertheless, Devergers refused to reveal anything more to the journalists, offering to grant the exclusive of his adventure to a magazine. From then on, some people, myself first, began to ask questions. (…). It should be noted that three months later the scout leader's story was published in the \"American Weekly Magazine\" (Donald E. KEYHOE: \"The UFO File\" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.102, 103 and 108) IN REALITY: if one reads all the pages that KEYHOE devotes to this case, it is a terrible hoax. In the evening of the 19th, on a field near West Palm Beach, three scouts were on a night outing with their leader Sonny Desverger, aged 30. As they entered the palm forest, Sonny Desverger saw six lights in the sky, like the windows of an airplane flying at night. These lights plunged into the woods. Sonny thought it was a plane in distress. He and the three scouts immediately set out to search. After covering 400 m Bobby Ruffin, one of the young scouts, saw the lights again: they seemed motionless at the top of the trees. Sonny lit his lantern and, armed with a machete, he cleared a path through the bushes.

- If I'm not back in ten minutes, call the sheriff, he said to his scouts. After a while, the latter, not seeing him return, rushed to the sheriff's house. Absent from his home, he was contacted by radio and arrived 30 minutes later at the place where Sonny Desverger had left his small group. While the scouts explained what had happened, Sonny appeared at the top of an embankment. Pale, trembling, he kept stammering: - I'm coming, here I am. He no longer had a lantern but had kept his machete. His left arm was bloody with the trace of a deep burn. His cape - or his jacket - was pierced in three places. His hair was disheveled and russet. When he was somewhat recovered from his emotions, when he was bandaged, he could tell his adventure:

\"(…) I soon stopped, feeling a strange impression. It seemed to me that I was not alone. Nothing apparently confirmed this strange sensation. Suddenly the air became suffocatingly hot around me. I looked up, the stars were no longer visible. I lit my lantern and pointed it upwards. About a meter above my head I discovered a dirty gray metallic surface. I could have touched it with my machete at arm's length... and I was afraid. I clearly remember thinking: get out of here! I moved cautiously and arrived under the edge of the thing. It was a disc about ten meters in diameter with a kind of hemisphere at its upper axis silhouetting against the sky. There was no light. The machine tilted gently. Its upper surface was better visible. I was about to flee but did not dare to make sudden movements. Suddenly, in the hemispherical dome, an opening was revealed. And Sonny Desverger saw... a living creature. A strange creature no doubt. Frightening? Threatening? He obstinately refused to specify this to the journalists who interviewed him on this point. (…) . (Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 115 to 118) CONFIRMATION OF THE HOAX:", + "location": "USA, West Palm Beach (Florida)", + "ref": [ + "Edward J. Ruppelt: \"Facing the Flying Saucers\", ed. France-Empire 1958, p. 218 to 230", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1669" + }, + { + "date": "8/24/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 10:15 a.m. Witness: pilot of a F-84G jet fighter, Col. G.W. Johnson. Two silver balls 6 feet in diameter flying side by side, one quickly turning grey, the other turning grey more slowly. On a turn one of the balls became an elongated grey object. Observation lasted 10 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). Col. Carl Sanderson said \"I was piloting a F-84 flying at an altitude of 10,700 meters. At 10:15 a.m. I saw two silver, round objects flying side by side above Hermanas (N.M.). One of the saucers turned right in front of my plane. Then the two craft disappeared, then reappeared above El Paso (Texas). One made a vertical climb of 600 to 1000 meters, the other passed in front of me to join the first. A few minutes later, the two machines had disappeared. (Donald E. KEYHOE: \"The Flying Saucer File\" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.112) 1953 (note of vog: year error?) 24 August; 10:15 a.m. Col. Carl Sanderson aboard a F-84 at 10,700 m, saw 2 UFO's circular in silver color. One of the objects made a turn in front of his plane. After an ascent of 600 to 1000 m they moved away. (1952, 24 August)", + "location": "Mexico, Hermanas, Mexico.", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 8 p. 3 - 1973 - SOBEPS", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1670" + }, + { + "date": "8/24/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 9:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m. Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sharp. An object, like a spinning top, changing color from red to yellow, then blue, with a tail of flames, flew for 20 minutes, whistling, then flew away. An identical phenomenon was observed an hour later. (1952, 24 August)", + "location": "USA, Levelland, Texas.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1671" + }, + { + "date": "8/25/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 5:35 a.m. Witness: William Squyres, a musician from a radio station, was on his way to work when he saw an object hovering 3 m above the field alongside the road. He stopped and got out of the car, but his artificial leg prevented him from getting closer than 100 m to the object. It was not completely still, it was swaying slightly. He then heard a low humming sound and the object began a vertical ascent with a sound similar to that of a large flock of quail taking off at the same time. The object shot up until it was out of sight. It was lenticular, 21 m long, 3.50 m wide and 8 m high, with a dull, smooth aluminum color. There was a single window at the front from which a blue light of different shades shone, and he saw the head and shoulders of a man, sitting still, looking forward. In the middle part there were also several windows, with a bluish light, and the witness saw movements that he could not interpret as either human or mechanical, although they were not regular. At the back and underneath there were no openings. Along the entire outer edge there was a series of 15 to 30 cm diameter propellers mounted on a support, so that they rotated on a horizontal plane along the edge of the object, at high speed. (Brad STEIGER: \"UFO, the Blue Book Project\" - Belfond 1979, p. 115, 116) (J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979, p. 195 to 197 - the location and measurements between parentheses come from this author) On the morning of August 27, Squires was driving in Pittsburgh when he saw something circling above an open field. He approached to get a better look: three meters from the ground was a machine composed of two huge discs placed one above the other, between which was a kind of cabin with three or four curved portholes. A bluish light seemed to come from inside. Squires later specified that the diameter of these discs was around 23 meters. Out of his car, the musician cautiously approached the curious machine. When he got as close as possible, he vaguely distinguished movement in the cabin. It seemed, he said, to be a human form (On this last testimony, however, he expressed some reserve) At the same time he heard a curious and rhythmic sound. Before he could get any closer, the mysterious machine took off vertically and quickly disappeared into the sky.", + "location": "USA, Pittsburg, Kansas.", + "ref": [ + "Donald E. KEYHOE: \"The Flying Saucer File\" - Hachette 1952, p.104,105", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1672" + }, + { + "date": "8/26/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 12:10 a.m. Witness: Capt. D.A. Woods. A large, very bright round object, with a V-shaped tail and a black cone in the center; flew very quickly, glided, made an abrupt right-angle turn, rose gently and then suddenly accelerated.", + "location": "USA, Lathrop Wells, Nevada.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1673" + }, + { + "date": "8/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Cecil Michael claimed to have experienced various events in August 1952. On two occasions he observed a strange saucer so close that he could make out the figures of its two occupants. The craft had a raised central cabin with tall, narrow windows apparently made of glass.", + "location": "USA, Bakersville (California)", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 80", + "Continued October 1952, USA Bakersville", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1674" + }, + { + "date": "9/2/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Observation for 3 minutes by Désiré Bedele: a luminous halo with a border resembling smoke, in the center of the halo an object in the shape of a cigar in a horizontal position is drawn, the whole descends obliquely in the direction of the witness. The object wobbles in place, its movement slows down considerably and the witness distinguishes a rotation movement, the wobbling increases and from time to time the craft occupies a position of 40° relative to the horizontal. The rotation and the wobbling seem synchronized. (...) It disappears leaving a luminous trail of triangular shape, which the clouds quickly blur. The diameter of the disc corresponded to three times the length of an airplane flying at 2000 meters.", + "location": "FRANCE, Crecey sur Tille (Côte d'Or)", + "ref": [ + "GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 257, 258", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1675" + }, + { + "date": "9/2/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 3 a.m. Witness: ground radar observer Turason at Midway Airport. 40 targets flying in various directions at a speed of 175 m.p.h. Two of these targets seemed to accompany a DC-6 airliner. Total duration of observation: 8 hours.", + "location": "USA, Chicago, Illinois.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1676" + }, + { + "date": "9/12/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The children, including Eddie and Fred, sons of Mrs. Kathleen May, claim to have seen a monster emerge from a vibrating red ball. An expedition is organized, led by Gene Lenon, a 17-year-old young man, who volunteered as a policeman, to which Mrs. May joined, armed with a powerful flashlight. They enter the forest and there they see a creature 4 m tall, whose humanoid body is covered with a green rubber suit that reflects the light, and wearing a helmet. The face is red with two huge orange-green eyes. It emits a stench. It moves but without moving its feet and seems to slide on the ground. General panic, including the dog who takes off first. (Jacques BERGIER: \"Les E.T. dans l'Histoire\" - J'AI LU - 1970 - p. 162, 163) (Brad STEIGER: \"Ovni, le Projet Blue Book\" - trad. Belfond 1979, p. 84, 85)...measured 2.70 m. Its face was injected with blood, its green body emitted flashes of light and exhaled an abominable smell that made those who saw it at close range vomit. It terrorized the region. It disappeared without a trace, but was seen in South America six years later.", + "location": "USA, Flatwoods (Virginia)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes...\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p. 17", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1677" + }, + { + "date": "9/13/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. and Mrs. Georges Snitowski noticed a creature 3.50m tall with shining eyes, which seemed to be floating. This creature inspected their vehicle.", + "location": "USA, Frametown (Virginia)", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"The Enigma of the E.T.\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 93", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1678" + }, + { + "date": "9/14/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Witnesses: military personnel of various nationalities aboard ships during NATO's \"Mainbrace\" operation. Among the observations: a blue-green triangle flying at 1,500 mph; three objects in triangular formation emitting a white light at 1,500 m.p.h.", + "location": "NORTH ATLANTIC, between Ireland and Iceland", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1679" + }, + { + "date": "9/14/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 7 p.m. Witness: Ground Observer L.W. Barnes, with binoculars. An object red in color, cigar-shaped, with three protuberances at the rear, flying first towards the west, then towards the south, and then vanished. 30-40 minutes.", + "location": "USA, White Lake, South Dakota.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1680" + }, + { + "date": "9/16/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 6:22 p.m. Witness: crew of a U.S. Navy P2V Neptune patrol plane, radar-optical observation. A group of five lights was observed, while a small blip appeared on the radar screen. Duration: 20 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Portland, Maine.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1681" + }, + { + "date": "9/19/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Officers and men of the RAF Topcliffe base observed a UFO following a Meteor jet. The observation was reported to the Air Force Headquarters by the Coastal Command. (Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970 - pp. 108-109) (A. RIBERA: \"These Mysterious UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 399).", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Topcliffe (Yorkshire)", + "ref": [ + "BUFORA, Internet 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1682" + }, + { + "date": "9/19/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) M. R. Sommer, pilot and aircraft constructor, wrote to us: \"I was driving back in my car, the night was dark, no moon, no stars. After leaving the village of Beine and having driven for about 5 minutes, our surprise was great when we noticed an unknown, shining object had appeared in the sky to the left of the road. The object had the shape of an olive and the color of gold. Its major axis was vertical. The spectacle was magical. The appearance lasted about five minutes. The minor axis of the object was slightly smaller than the apparent diameter of the moon. A few moments later I visited the neighboring villages, I examined the churches fearing that this appearance might come from illuminations or reflections, etc... But everywhere it was absolute calm and no remarkable lights were to be seen, the road was deserted.", + "location": "France, near Beine (Yonne)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE - Jeanine VALLEE: \"Unusual Phenomena in Space\", hardcover LAFFONT 1978, p. 161", + "extract from Astronomy, Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of France", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1683" + }, + { + "date": "9/22/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The most troubling case was the incident at the Drum military camp during the night. For thirty minutes, the officer on duty and a small number of soldiers observed an object of round shape, red-orange, moving above the camp. At least three times they heard a noise that they later compared to the buzzing of a generator or a disc rotating. During this half hour, the mysterious machine flew, making tight turns, accelerating, rising, descending. It mainly flew at a fairly low altitude, as the buzzing was perceptible on the ground.", + "location": "Canada, Drum", + "ref": [ + "Donald E. KEYHOE: \"The UFO File\" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.135", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1684" + }, + { + "date": "9/24/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 3:30 p.m. Witnesses: the crew of a USAF B-29 bomber. A mass of metallic or luminous fragments, up to 3 feet in length, passed the B-29 in a rush for 15 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Charleston, West Virginia.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cf. Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1685" + }, + { + "date": "9/29/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A large cigar-shaped craft was observed above Denmark. Below it flew several discs spinning on themselves at an extreme speed. From several points of the territory the presence of the mother spaceship and several discs in the sky was reported.", + "location": "DENMARK", + "ref": [ + "Donald E. KEYHOE: \"The UFO Files\" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.144", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1686" + }, + { + "date": "9/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 9pm, farmer Le Maziff stepped out of his house. He then saw a diffuse halo, in which was inscribed a shape resembling a dirigible balloon. This thing was around 30 metres long and 12 metres high. It landed in a meadow, a few hundred metres away from the farm. In this pasture there were cows. Le Maziff called his brother, his wife, and his farmhand. A slope and trees hid the craft from them, but there was a light that illuminated all the meadows. Strongly impressed, the witnesses did not dare to approach it and did not realise how it flew away. The next day, the farmer noticed that one of his cows had become like mad: he had to have it slaughtered.", + "location": "FRANCE, Saint Samson (Morbihan)", + "ref": [ + "GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 72", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1687" + }, + { + "date": "9/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) There were 13 reports of UFO sightings, 11 of which were at the border with the Soviet Union. The other two were from Kazerun and Seravan (at the border with Baluchistan). The luminous objects were mostly round and flew at very high speed, the observations lasting only a few seconds at most. In three reports a deafening noise was associated with the observation of the object.", + "location": "IRAN, various locations", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's: a Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 203", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1688" + }, + { + "date": "10/1/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 7:40 p.m. Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. C.C. McLean and one other witness. An object of a milky white color, in the shape of a powder puff, hovered for 5-10 minutes before quickly flying away on an arcing trajectory. At the end of the 22 minute observation, a loud bang was heard.", + "location": "USA, Pascagoula, Mississippi.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1689" + }, + { + "date": "10/6/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"This evening, we crossed in full flight a mysterious object that was moving at a lightning speed above our aircraft.\" Testimony of the aviators François Cavasse (32 years old) and Michel Clément (31 years old) who provide the regular service London-Orly-Nice: \"At 7:28 pm, we were flying over Draguignan and the Var department, when my co-pilot Clément drew my attention to the evolution of a strange-shaped luminous object. We immediately compared its shape to that of an elongated egg. The trajectory of the object was absolutely straight and horizontal. Its speed, lightning, was regular. The \"egg\" was entirely lit, but with a white light, not blinding, reminiscent of that produced by neon. Thus, we were able to follow its course for 30 seconds without leaving it out of sight.\" The craft left in its wake a trail representing twenty to twenty-five times its length. The smoke released, white slightly bluish, had the appearance of dots. We estimated the lightning speed of the craft to be two or three times that of a jet engine running at full power. (...) The flying egg was traveling at 2 to 3,000 km/h. It seemed much bigger to us than a normal transport plane. [note from vog: even more detailed account and other testimonies in \"Lueurs sur les Soucoupes Volantes\", Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME, 1954, pages 169 to 175]", + "location": "FRANCE, Draguignan (Var)", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde\" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 p. 86-87", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1690" + }, + { + "date": "10/14/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Mariska Ferruzzi Piantanida was at the edge of a wood when she saw, in the clearing, a silver globe motionless, at 40 meters altitude and 30 meters away. \"It looked like a lamp post placed at the tops of the trees\". After five minutes, the phenomenon began to move slowly, on a semi-circular trajectory. Excited, the witness shouted: \"A flying saucer!\" gesturing and making signs. The object then came towards her. It had a disc-shaped phosphorescent green color and left a black smoke tail. At the closest she saw that it was a flattened globe, thinner towards the bottom, cut like the neck of a bottle and widening in the shape of a nacelle. The object then rose slowly, then quickly disappeared from view. The entire observation lasted from 7 to 8 minutes.", + "location": "ITALY, Signa", + "ref": [ + "CISU, file 5203, UFO in Italia I, 153-156", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1691" + }, + { + "date": "10/14/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 1400 people residing in Lens and Oléron reported another machine taking the shape of a cigar followed by a whole convoy of discs. According to the testimonies of Oléron, hundreds of filaments, resembling fibers, detached from a disc while it was performing a series of zigzags. It was claimed to have been taken as in a spider web. [note from vog: at this date and in these places I have not found anything like this in the work of French authors and researchers..., however, see October 17th...]", + "location": "France, Lens and Oléron", + "ref": [ + "Donald E. KEYHOE: \"The UFO File\" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.145", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1692" + }, + { + "date": "10/15/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Felix Fize and his companions saw from the construction site where they were working, around 7 pm coming from the southwest a kind of whitish cloud that was advancing quickly. When it presented itself in profile coming to their height they saw that in reality it was a metallic cylinder of a silver yellow, with a rounded nose. It measured about 30 m long by 6 m in diameter and was flying at an altitude between 600 and 800 m. The back of this cylinder disappeared into a kind of cloudy haze. The craft passed over the construction site, being almost vertical and heading towards the northeast. On the cylinder three huge portholes or windows brightly lit from an interior source very white and inside 5 or 6 living beings (they were moving) visible up to the waist. Kaki clothing, thick glasses and helmet. Very low noise, like a rustling.", + "location": "FRANCE, near Nîmes-Courbessac", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V. - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 240, 241", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1693" + }, + { + "date": "10/17/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Yves PRIGENT, general supervisor of the town's college, along with his wife, his three children and a professor, observed a column of luminous cloud at night. (Henry DURRANT \"Le livre noir des S.V. - Laffont 1970 p.29, cites Aimé Michel in \"Lueurs sur les S.V.) \"The object was whitish, with perfectly clear outlines. White smoke was coming out of the top. The strange cylinder was preceded by about thirty balls without clearly defined outlines, resembling smoke flakes... The objects traveled in groups of two, following a broken trajectory, marked by a rapid and short zigzag. It happened that two objects moved away: a whitish trail then connected them, like an electric arc\" (Michel BOUGARD: \"La chronique des OVNI\" - Delarge 1977, p.83) There was also the emission of \"angel hair\" (Henry DURRANT: \"Le dossier des OVNI.\" - Laffont 1973 - p.149) Many witnesses saw a strange inclined cigar passing through the blue sky, accompanied by a plume and dozens of luminous balls surrounded by a ring that advanced in a zigzag. An abundant trail fell to the ground, in the form of filaments that disintegrated in a few hours. Were these Virgin's threads spider secretions? Something else?", + "location": "FRANCE: Oloron (Basses Pyrénées).", + "ref": [ + "very detailed in: \"Lueurs sur les Soucoupes Volantes\", Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME, 1954, pages 176 to 180", + "Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unexplained Cases, p. 60 to 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1694" + }, + { + "date": "10/19/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 6:58 p.m. Witnesses: crew of a USAF C-50 transport. A round, yellow light, with a glowing red edge, estimated to be 100 feet in diameter, flew at approximately 350-450 m.p.h. for 20 seconds.", + "location": "IN FLIGHT, 500 miles south of Hawaii.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1695" + }, + { + "date": "10/27/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Customs employee Gachignard reported seeing a shining object gliding between two hangars and coming to a stop a few hundred meters away from where he was. The aircraft was pointed at both ends and was about 4.50m long and 1m thick in the middle, with about half a dozen small square windows from which a soft yellow light radiated. Gachinard ran to get a closer look. When he got to about 50m away, it suddenly emitted a shower of sparks, rose into the air, and then shot forward at such a low altitude that it almost hit the fence surrounding the airport. The incident occurred around 2:30am. (Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse\" trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 97,98). It was 2:03 when a small light appeared on the left, flying over the runway, not very bright but clearly visible. Its speed was that of a jet landing. (...) It stopped right at ground level without slowing down, 100m to its right. The witness headed towards the craft (which was his job) and in 30 seconds was about 50m away. He then became scared, stopped, and took out his gun. At that moment, the object emitted a hissing sound and instantly shot off at a lightning speed without any air displacement. It was a dark grey object, 5m long and 1m thick, pointed at both ends and tapered. Four square windows, 20cm on each side, emitted an unstable, pulsating light, first blue, then vaguely green.", + "location": "FRANCE, Marseille-Marignane", + "ref": [ + "see also: \"Lueurs sur les Soucoupes Volantes\", Aimé Michel, éd. Maison MAME, 1954, pages 181 to 190", + "M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier rapport complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 61, 62", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1696" + }, + { + "date": "10/27/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ten days later (after the Oloron case) at 4 pm, a similar squadron slowly passed over Gaillac before disappearing with a dizzying ascent speed. But here the saucers seemed to turn and a bluish glow ran along their edges, while all the other aspects agreed with those observed in Oloron, including the fall of glass wool (Jean PLANTIER: \"The Propulsion of Flying Saucers by Direct Action on the Atom\" ed. MAME 1955, p.114) At 4:00 pm, Mrs. Dore, residing on the Toulouse road, was intrigued to hear her chickens cackle in a strange way. Instinctively she looked up thinking that a buzzard or other bird of prey was flying over her farm and had triggered panic terror in the yard. Unusual objects were moving in the sky. Her son and wife and her father-in-law Mr. Corbières had come as well as neighbors. The sparkling objects in the sun came from the southeast, slowly spinning on themselves, grouped two by two. The witnesses first saw four of them. Flying low they swayed slowly and were animated by a rotational movement. Then a dozen other similar devices joined the first ones. In the middle of these last objects was a kind of long flying, whitish cylinder, which emitted a plume of white smoke. From the whole squadron - and especially from the plume of smoke - pieces of a strange material resembling glass wool detached themselves. But on contact with the fingers - because several people touched this material - this cotton disintegrated, became gelatinous and completely disappeared. Ten minutes later this strange formation flew over Gaillac before moving away towards the Lot and Garonne. (..) some of these filaments had caught on the telegraph wires or the branches of trees. The atmosphere of ideal purity facilitated observation. The slightest details could be seen. The objects, of perfectly circular shape, had a bulging part in the center, like the hat of a boater.", + "location": "FRANCE, Gaillac (Tarn)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 p. 148-149", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1697" + }, + { + "date": "10/29/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two gendarmes on patrol were left stunned when they saw sixteen unknown type craft hovering above their heads. Their amazement was complete when a rain of \"steel wool\" came out of them and disintegrated on the telephone wires and trees.", + "location": "FRANCE, Toulouse region", + "ref": [ + "Moustique n° 1505, 28.11.1954, p. 15 - article by Bart Brem", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1698" + }, + { + "date": "10/31/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 7:40 p.m. Witness: Lt. James Allen. An orange object resembling a tire, 80 feet long and 20 feet high, flew at the top of the trees, flew over Allen's car, whose radio stopped, then rose at a 45° angle at a dizzying speed, at the end of the observation which lasted one minute.", + "location": "USA, Fayetteville, Georgia.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1699" + }, + { + "date": "10/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. August 2, 1952) Angelucci meets \"Neptune\" by chance, at a bus stop, dressed like anyone else on Earth. This is proof that extraterrestrials can live incognito among us.", + "location": "USA, Los Angeles", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "Continued: end of summer 1953", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1700" + }, + { + "date": "10/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: August 1952, Bakersville) Two individuals appeared in the backyard of Cecil Michael's garage. Cecil recognized the two occupants of the saucer from the month of August. They were dressed in a costume from another age: a monk's hood covered their head, a Roman tunic covered their body down to their knees, and in addition to the sandals they had on their feet, a kind of calf bandage was wrapped around their legs, revealing the skin with each turn! These apparitions or visions lasted until January 1, 1953. Cecil was the only one to see these entities, but one day his dog barked furiously at them as if he perceived their presence in some way. When a customer arrived, the two figures gradually faded until they disappeared completely. Cecil claimed to have received an implant in his skull. At the time this notion was totally unknown. Yet Cecil said he was forced to follow these two tormentors who made him get into their saucer and took him to visit the Planet of Hell! During this journey (in spirit, said Cecil) which lasted 4 days in dream time for four hours of real time, something extraordinary happened. Every time the garage phone rang, Cecil was brought back, then taken away again when the problem was solved! On the planet of Hell he saw small dark-skinned humanoids obeying the orders of a normal-sized human being, who threw corpses into a gigantic sea of fire. (...) Cecil was ordered to publish the account of his experiences, which he did in 1955, while continuing to run his garage. (1952, October to 1953, January 1)", + "location": "USA, Bakersville (California)", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, the unmasked invaders\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 81, 82", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1701" + }, + { + "date": "11/3/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two RAF officers, Lieutenants Johnson and Smythe, were flying above Kent at 7000m altitude when, to their right at about ten kilometres away, an object flying at great speed appeared. \"It was like a giant tennis ball, emitting a blinding light.\" At the moment their plane crossed the dazzling bolide, their engine began to splutter and their compass went wild. A radar station of the 256th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment of South East London had picked up the echo of the mysterious object. (1952, 3rd November)", + "location": "ENGLAND, in flight, Kent", + "ref": [ + "Charles GARREAU: \"Alert in the Sky: The Abduction Files\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, pp. 37, 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1702" + }, + { + "date": "11/12/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 2:20 a.m. USAF 779th AC&W Radar Station; An unexplained target was tracked for 1 hour and 28 minutes at an altitude of 158,000 feet (30 miles) and at a speed of 240 m.p.h.", + "location": "USA, Opheim, Montana.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1703" + }, + { + "date": "11/13/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 2:43 a.m. Witness: U.S. meteorologist, Earl Oksendahl. Five oval objects, with lights around the perimeter, flew in a V formation for about 20 seconds. Each object seemed to change position, vertically, during ascents and descents, as if to maintain the formation. It came from the northwest, made a 90° turn above the witness, and left towards the southwest.", + "location": "USA, Glasgow, Montana.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1704" + }, + { + "date": "11/16/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On that day, a police report was filed by one Nello Ferrari, 41 years old, who was working in a field near his farm in Castel-Franco (Emilia). Suddenly, a reddish glow spread around him. Looking up, he saw a craft made up of two overlapping discs, about twenty meters in diameter, from which a motor noise was coming. The saucer was hovering only about ten meters above the peasant. At that moment, he heard words spoken in an incomprehensible language (like: Verren... iirg... unch) by three \"men\" dressed in rubber clothing and whose faces were protected by a transparent material globe. After that, Nello Ferrari said, the upper disc of the craft folded onto the lower disc and the craft rose into the sky at a dizzying speed. \"I'm still terrified by the sight!\" he told the police of Castel-Franco to whom he recounted his adventure.", + "location": "ITALY, Castel-Franco (Emilia)", + "ref": [ + "Il Giornale dell'Emilia 18.11.52 - CISU file n° 5204", + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde\" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 p101", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1705" + }, + { + "date": "11/20/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Beginning (note of vog: not really, see already 1946) of the Adamski case, which, in the early afternoon, would have made contact with an inhabitant of Venus. (cfr all ufological and other authors as well as (Desmond Leslie and Georges Adamski: \"The S. V. have landed\" - J'ai Lu/Pygmalion 1971) With his group Adamski is 16 km inside the desert. They see a cigar-shaped spacecraft. Mrs. Bailey wanted to film. Shortly after, interceptor fighters pursue the saucer. Adamski moves away from the group, goes into a canyon and there he makes his meeting with the Venusian. From this contact Dr. Williamson will have the evidence: he will see the footprints in the sand.", + "location": "USA, Desert Center (California)", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued on December 13", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1706" + }, + { + "date": "11/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In November 1952, around the same time as Adamski, a certain George Williamson had an encounter with a Venusian, if we are to believe his book published in 1957. In fact, he dialogued with the entity through the medium John McCoy! Williamson formed a small group of alleged contactees, among which was a \"Mr. R\" who received messages from extraterrestrial entities by radio. Other members of the team obtained communications from the same sources through automatic writing, using a Ouija board and other modes of reception by telepathy! Here too we are moving away considerably from the materiality of these extraterrestrial beings of the first hour... previously (November 1952)", + "location": "USA, unspecified location", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 77", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1707" + }, + { + "date": "11/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) John McCoy, medium of George Williamson, (...) was able to communicate himself with entities both extraterrestrial and from higher spheres (including archangels!) Some of these correspondents had the following names: Hilarion, Sanat Kumaru, Koot Hoomi (of whom occultist Helène Blavatsky said was one of her spiritual guides) etc..", + "location": "USA, unspecified location", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 79", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1708" + }, + { + "date": "11/24/1952 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) November 24, 1952. At Belle Ile-en-Mer, Friday evening, Mr. Pascal Gauci, a traveling salesman, driving on the road to Locmaria was surprised, upon arriving at the place called \"La Butte\", to see on his left a luminous ball whose diameter seemed to him to be 3 or 4 times that of the moon. This ball was motionless in the sky. After a few seconds it moved slowly to the left, maintaining the same altitude. At times this ball flattened itself as if it were pivoting on its transverse axis, losing at that moment its orange tint to take on a white tint. Then it descended slightly, stopped before returning to its right and rising back to its starting point. It thus made three or four of these maneuvers before disappearing in the southwest direction. (\"La nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest\") (Jean François BOEDEC: \"Les OVNI en Bretagne, Anatomie d'un Phénomène\" ed. Fernand Lanore, Paris 1978, p. 30) At the place called \"La Butte\" the witness Pascal Gauci observed a luminous ball which seemed to turn on itself at low altitude. Its color changed from orange to white. Oscillations. Diameter: from 10 to 12 times that of the moon. (November 24 (22 or 21?) 1952)", + "location": "FRANCE, Belle-Ile en Mer", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier rapport complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 64 which dates from November 21 or 20", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1709" + }, + { + "date": "11/22/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Father Carlos Maria, merchant Lasimone, and 6 other witnesses first saw a large disc briefly. The vehicle's engine stalled. A little further away, they saw 4 discs or halos of light arranged in a square. One suddenly lit up with a red light and approached. There it stopped for a few seconds before returning to its original point. The things were still there when, 20 minutes later, the travelers resumed their journey.", + "location": "OUBANGUI-CHARI, Bocaranga region", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace No. 7, p.2 - SOBEPS 1973, extracted from the book \"Lueurs sur les Soucoupes volantes\" - Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME 1954, pages 136 to 145", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1710" + }, + { + "date": "11/27/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A UFO was seen above Nedin, a suburb of Auckland, by Mr. J.P. Burke, an 8-year pilot aviator. Mr. Burke states that he was awoken by a metallic noise, quite similar to that of a jet engine. Immediately going to his window, he saw at about 1,800 meters altitude an object resembling a giant cymbal, about the size of a Dakota and surrounded by a gray-blue light. Mr. Burke estimates that the speed of this UFO was between 400 and 450 km/h.", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Auckland", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde\" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 p. 174", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1711" + }, + { + "date": "11/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Writer Dino Kraspedon declared that he saw five UFOs on the mountains and then entered a ground machine and contacted the visitors. The device was a bell-shaped 90 m wide. One of the occupants, a man over 1.8 m tall, told him that they lived on Io and Ganymede where there were not only large races, medium-sized races like on Earth, small races, but also races with white, red, and black pigmentation, just like on Earth. No confirmation is known of Kraspedon's story.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Angatuba", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued April 53", + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 109", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1712" + }, + { + "date": "11/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A small flying saucer of barely 25 cm in diameter landed and a child was burned.", + "location": "IRELAND, near Dublin", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 336", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1713" + }, + { + "date": "12/4/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, the pilot of the F 51, who will be called Earl Fogle since the secret services forbid citing the real names of military witnesses, was 20 km from his base (Laredo) when an object of blue color almost collided with the fighter plane. The unknown device rushed at full speed towards the F 51, whose position lights were however well lit. At the last second it avoided the plane and passed along it at an astounding speed. Fogle saw the object literally buck like a bouncing ball, then come back towards him as if it was preparing to make a second passage as dangerous as the previous one. Fogle quickly turned off the position lights and started to dive. His adversary followed him in a dive until 600 m. Then it took altitude again, described a wide turn towards the base of Laredo, and changing direction again, turned at a very tight angle while rising into the night at an unimaginable speed.", + "location": "USA, Laredo (Texas) in flight", + "ref": [ + "A. RIBERA: \"These Mysterious UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 180, 181", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1714" + }, + { + "date": "12/6/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A B-29 bomber was returning to its base after a night exercise and was flying over Florida at about 5000 m altitude. On board were Captain John Harter and Lieutenant Sid Coleman. At 5:25, Sid Coleman sat in front of the radar. Suddenly two spots appeared on the screen. They seemed to be moving at an incredible speed of 8700 km/h. Then a third point joined them. At this moment Captain John Harter exclaimed: \"I see four craft!\" Immediately he radioed: \"Unknown objects at 3 o'clock right.\" The men of the B-29 rushed to the portholes and saw objects rushing towards them at more than 8000 km/h. Then they disappeared. A few moments later they reappeared and the game started again. This lasted several minutes. The aircraft appeared and disappeared in turn to the great astonishment of the crew. Finally they rushed towards a huge cigar that seemed to hover in the sky and wait for them. They rushed into it and the immense object disappeared in turn. (Jean PRACHAN: \"The Bermuda Triangle Secret Base of UFOs\" - Belfond 1978 - p. 113-114) also see:", + "location": "USA, Gulf of Mexico, Florida", + "ref": [ + "\"Glimpses of Flying Saucers\" - Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME 1954, pages 114 to 118", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1715" + }, + { + "date": "12/12/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (GESAG, GS 1273) On Friday, December 12th at around 4:20 PM, Mr. Undorf, the director of the Casino, observed from the Charlier slope a luminous disc with an apparent diameter of 10 to 15 cm that was rising vertically. The disc emitted a luminous ray of about ten meters behind it. When it had reached a certain altitude, it suddenly continued (without turning) its trajectory horizontally towards Zeebruges. A man from Ghent, who was in Trooz Avenue in Blankenberge at the same time, also observed this phenomenon.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Blankenberge", + "ref": [ + "Brugsche Courant, 17.12.1952, archive search by Jim Gérard on 7.12.1977", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1716" + }, + { + "date": "12/13/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: November 20) The Venusian is back, in a saucer \"Scout-Schiff\". Through the open window, a hand is making signs. The photographic event, upon development, will show strange hieroglyphs, which suggest that it is the writing of Atlantis", + "location": "USA, California, Desert Center", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1717" + }, + { + "date": "12/15/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of Viking IX, altitude 217 km.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, photo", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1718" + }, + { + "date": "12/24/1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A saucer was observed flying above Mount Carmel. Those who saw it said that they were two objects in the shape of an ellipse. The mysterious objects were seen by students and their teachers in Acco. The young people chased the saucers, on foot, for two minutes. A colonel said that the objects were flying in close formation, one behind the other and then one next to the other. (...) It was on the front page of the Maariv newspaper on December 25, 1952. There will be no more UFOs over Israel until 1978.", + "location": "ISRAEL, Haifa", + "ref": [ + "\"The Return of the Angels\" - UFOs in Israel, Past and Present - Barry Chamish", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1719" + }, + { + "date": "End of 1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Towards the end of 1952, the Sunday Times of Cape Town, South Africa reported that a \"rocket\" had been seen above Table Bay. It was said to have gone straight up and then come down again, but it is not known whether it had come out of the water or had dived in. A police launch patrolled the area as it was thought that it might be a distress rocket, but there was no boat in the vicinity. (1952, end of the year)", + "location": "SOUTH AFRICA", + "ref": [ + "Yvan T.SANDERSON: \"The Invisibles Under the Seas\" Albin Michel 1979 p. 51", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1720" + }, + { + "date": "1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One night, the wife of a railway employee heard knocking at her door. As she was alone at home, she leaned out the window to see who it was. She vaguely saw two squat silhouettes and almost at the same time a large round object rose in the sky, followed by a blue-green trail. The next day, the police came to investigate and noted that the shrubs planted in front of the house had their branches torn off, chopped, as if an enormous object had weighed on them. (1952,)", + "location": "CANADA, Sherbrook (Nouvelle Ecosse)", + "ref": [ + "Peter KOLOSIMO: \"Shadows on the Stars\" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 355, 356", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1721" + }, + { + "date": "1952", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1951, Labrador Desert) The third one crashed on the eastern shore of Woods Lake between Minnesota and Canada. Some journalists who arrived at the scene before the police were able to approach the last one. They said they had seen something that looked like a large plate 15 to 16 meters in diameter, very shiny, with a low dome made of steel and Plexiglas in the center. They spoke of a nuclear-powered device, but according to other details that have come to us, we tend to think that it was rather a perfected version of the vehicle invented by Miethe. Canada has admitted that it is trying to build a flying saucer (...)", + "location": "CANADA, Woods Lake", + "ref": [ + "Peter KOLOSIMO: \"Shadows on the Stars\" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 325", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1722" + }, + { + "date": "Early 8/1952 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An article published on June 28, 1952, in the \"Saarbrücker Zeitung\" announced in the sky of Sptizberg, a large metal disc. According to it, six Norwegian jet pilots were flying over the Hinlopen Strait when their radios were jammed by strange parasites. While the formation was describing a loop and looking for the cause of the phenomenon, its leader, Captain Olaf Larsen, had seen, lying in the snow, a huge disc made of a blue-colored metal. Accompanied by a rocket specialist, a certain Norsel, several officers put on skis: the disc was empty of occupants. It measured 38 meters in diameter (etc ... with Russian inscriptions, always according to the Saarbrucker Zeiting) IN REALITY: big journalistic hoax. (Donald E. KEYHOE: \"The UFO File\" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.49, 50) A flying saucer was discovered in the inhospitable snow and ice of northeastern Spitzberg, (...) The object looked like a silver disc made of an unknown metal, with jet engines spinning the disc around a small dome of transparent plastic material. In this dome there were several instruments. There was also enough space to accommodate atomic bombs or others. (Henry DURRANT: \"The Black Book of UFOs\" - Laffont 1970 - p. 150-151; he cites Controversial Phenomena, vol.1, n ° 2, March-April 1964, pp 13, 14 and thus locates the case in 1963).

In the Stuttgarter Tageblatt there is a report dated September 4, 1955 with a statement from Colonel Gernod Darnbyl who allegedly said: The fall of this disc in Spitzberg is a very important event (Frank EDWARDS: \"UFOs a Serious Business\" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 75 to 80) In \"Le Monde\" of August 9, 1952, there is a AFP dispatch of Friday 8, at 12:03 dated Bonn, according to which a saucer (etc ...) The information comes from an article in the German periodical \"Der Flieger\". \"Le Monde\" specifies that it does not have the means to verify the assertions of the author: Dr. Beck, unknown to the \"Wer ist Wer\" - the German \"Who's Who\". As for \"Der Flieger\" it is a small magazine devoted to aeronautical questions. (1952, (beginning of August?))", + "location": "NORWAY, Spitzberg", + "ref": [ + "Michel MONNERIE: \"The Shipwreck of the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Nouvelles Editions Rationalistes, Paris, 1979, p. 140, which considers this kind of press cut as a hoax to feed the myth", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1723" + }, + { + "date": "1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1921) One day Villa suddenly felt an impulse and felt compelled to go to the beach. There he met a man 2.10m tall. This stranger knew his name and all the things about Villa's life. The stranger's name was Riese and he came from another planet. They went to a place where there was a saucer on the water. He got on board and saw many other people. These people were extraterrestrials and had a base on the Moon as well as another on the moon of Mars, Phobos.", + "location": "USA, New Mexico", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued on June 16th 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1724" + }, + { + "date": "1/8/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 7:15 a.m. Witnesses from the 82nd Interceptor Battalion, including their leader, all on the ground. A green circular object flew towards the SW for 15 minutes with vertical and horizontal oscillating movements, under the clouds.", + "location": "USA, Larson AFB, Washington.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1725" + }, + { + "date": "1/9/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Early in the evening of the 9th, a B-29 bomber piloted by Captain George Madden was flying over California. His co-pilot, Lieutenant Frank Briggs, occupied the right seat. The night was clear and the two men could see Santa Ana some 4900 meters below them. The sky was empty of any other aircraft. Captain Madden was checking his onboard instruments when a sudden light caught Briggs' attention. Coming from the right, at a phenomenal speed, a V-shaped formation was rushing towards the bomber. The lieutenant shouted to warn his commander, who immediately veered left. For a fraction of a second, the strange objects abruptly braked, then abandoning their triangle formation, resumed their vertical ascent and disappeared. The apparition had lasted a total of five seconds.", + "location": "USA, Santa Ana (California)", + "ref": [ + "Donald E. KEYHOE: \"The UFO File\" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1726" + }, + { + "date": "1/17/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 3:55 p.m. Witness: J.J. Sackett. An object of golden-green color, shaped like a Goodyear balloon, twice as long as wide, flew horizontally at 400 m.p.h., stopped, then rose vertically making a new stop. Observed for 22 seconds.", + "location": "GUATEMALA, near Guatemala City", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1727" + }, + { + "date": "1/28/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 1 p.m. Witness: the owner of Love Diving Co, R.W. Love, occupied in searching for lost radio-controlled drones, saw a flat, white disc, 18 to 20 feet in size, flying above him for 6 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Pt. Mugu, California.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1728" + }, + { + "date": "1/28/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 6:05 p.m. Witness: USAF T/Sgt. George Beyer. Five green spheres 25 feet in diameter flying in a V formation, then taking a single-file formation and at that moment the rear part of the objects became red. Observation lasted 12 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Corona, California.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1729" + }, + { + "date": "1/28/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A F-86 pilot was performing a \"round-Robin\" flight at 9:35 PM. At an altitude of 1800 m he saw a bright light to his left and began to climb to get closer. In two or three seconds the light changed from white to red, then back to white and suddenly transformed into a perfect triangle. This triangle split into two triangles placed one above the other, then the phenomenon disappeared. Ground radar had followed the chase. (Inforespace No. 8, p. 2 - 1973 - SOBEPS) It was around 9:35 PM and the pilot thought it was a star or another aircraft. Having climbed to 3300 meters he noticed that the spot was lower than him. At that moment the strange phenomenon changed to orange before becoming bright white again, the color changes lasting a total of fifteen minutes. After that, the object changed shape; from cylindrical it became triangular before splitting into two triangles that overlapped. Finally, the whole thing suddenly disappeared, as if someone had blown out the candle.", + "location": "USA, Moody, Dawson and Robin Bases", + "ref": [ + "Moustique No. 1507 of 12.12.54, p. 17, article by Bert Brem", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1730" + }, + { + "date": "1/29/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was past one o'clock in the morning. An ex-intelligence officer of the USAF, Lloyd C. Booth, was returning to his parents' farm. He was approaching the house when he heard strange noises: the pigs penned up in their enclosure behind the barn were grunting and the horses were rearing in the stable. He told the authorities that after searching he discovered a disk hovering at low altitude above a clump of trees nearby. It was light gray in color and was radiating a luminescence as if it were lit from within. It had the shape of a half egg. Booth headed towards the object and fired several shots from his .22 long rifle. He could hear the sound of the impacts before the object disappeared from his sight. Following this incident, numerous cows and other livestock died inexplicably.", + "location": "USA, Conway (South Carolina)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 p. 104", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1731" + }, + { + "date": "2/17/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 10:04 p.m. Witnesses: 2 officers and three airmen from the USAF AC&W.; Visual and radar observation. The object seen with the naked eye appears to be brighter than a star and changes colors. It is seen flying slowly for 5 minutes until 10:09 p.m. The radar received an unidentified echo at 10:08 p.m. from an object moving in the same direction and at the same speed for 17 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Port Austin. Michigan.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1732" + }, + { + "date": "2/18/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: December 13, 52 Desert Center) Driven by an inner impulse, Adamski went to Los Angeles and was approached by two extraterrestrials who live incognito among us. On the outskirts of the city, the saucer with the Venusian was waiting for him. Adamski got on board and was taken aboard the \"mothership\", he had a vision of the universe and a master answered his questions. (February 18, 1953)", + "location": "USA, Los Angeles", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued on April 21, 1953", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1733" + }, + { + "date": "2/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 6:40 PM, Mmes d'Arras, Reignier and Mlle Tellier were walking back from the station on D 43. A pale blue light, surrounded by small candle flames, then an ovoid object emitting pale blue flashes, at the speed of a cyclist, approached the electric wires in a horizontal trajectory, while yellow-clear sparkles zigzagged constantly up to 2m from the witnesses and stuck to the electric wires afterwards. A loud buzzing sound was audible.", + "location": "FRANCE, Biache St Vaast-Fresne les Montauban", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni: le premier rapport complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 65", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1734" + }, + { + "date": "3/11/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Various shooting exercises were taking place on the Yuma base field. A group of about twenty officers were participating. Suddenly, to the east of the field, twelve extremely bright objects emerged at low altitude at a fantastic speed. Before the controller had recovered from his surprise, the objects were flying over the base at several thousand kilometers per hour, describing a large circle and passing again over the field at reduced speed. Then they accelerated lightning fast and disappeared while gaining altitude. They were discs of metallic appearance, moving without noise and without leaving any trails. (...) [note from vog: probably again reliable first-hand information, communicated only to a Frenchman?] (1953, 11 March)", + "location": "USA, Yuma (Arizona)", + "ref": [ + "Charles GARREAU: \"Alert in the Sky: The Abduction File\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p.31", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1735" + }, + { + "date": "3/14/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 11:45 p.m. Witnesses: radar and visual observation by 101 members of the crew of a P2V-5 patrol plane. A group of 5 to 10 colored lights, gathered in the sky over a distance of 90 to 100 feet, flew slowly to the left of the plane. The group was also targeted on radar for 5 minutes.", + "location": "JAPAN, north of Hiroshima", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1736" + }, + { + "date": "3/27/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 7:25 p.m. Witness: the pilot of a F-86 jet fighter flying at 700 m.p.h.. An orange glowing circle flew at 900 m.p.h., and executed three large circles. The pilot chased the object for 4 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Mt. Taylor, New Mexico.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1737" + }, + { + "date": "Spring 1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The machine tool factory Oerlikon, Buhrle and Co. gave birth to a DCA rocket with an nitric acid propellant. It has a length of 5 meters, a takeoff weight of 250 kg and a combustion end speed of 750 meters/second. The Oerlikon rocket takes off from a mobile launch chassis, it is guided by a director beam and can fight airplanes at altitudes of up to 20 kilometers. The tests carried out in the spring of 1953 would have gone satisfactorily. (1953, Spring)", + "location": "SWITZERLAND", + "ref": [ + "\"The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future\" -Hans K. Kaiser, Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 123, 124", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1738" + }, + { + "date": "4/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. November 52) One Sunday morning, Dino Kraspedon's doorbell rang. It was an extraterrestrial! He was about 1m 80 tall. He spoke Greek and Latin, but spoke Portuguese very well and English a bit less well: he had an accent. He said he came from Ganymede, a satellite of Jupiter. From 1953 to 1959, Kraspedon claimed to have regular conversations with this entity, sometimes even in public places, in the street, etc... .", + "location": "BRAZIL, Angatuba", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1739" + }, + { + "date": "4/21/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: February 18, 53) Adamski returns to Los Angeles and meets the extraterrestrials in the hotel lobby. He is taken to a larger vessel with which he makes the journey to the mothership of the \"Saturn\" type. There is a large laboratory. Then a master comes to explain things to him.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "following September 1, 53", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1740" + }, + { + "date": "5/1/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 11:35 p.m. Witnesses: the pilot and radar operator of an F-94 jet interceptor as well as the operator at the control tower. A white light evaded interception for 30 minutes.", + "location": "CANADA, Goose AFB, Labrador", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1741" + }, + { + "date": "5/16/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:15 PM many people (note from vog: this seems inaccurate, there was only one witness, the photographer in question) from the region of Bouffioulx saw a classic flying saucer pass in the sky: flat, circular, luminous. At one moment it stopped abruptly by tilting. For a few moments it stayed like this, offering the witnesses its beautiful bright round face: almost unique in the whole history of saucers, a detonation accompanied its maneuver, followed by a kind of prolonged vibration similar to that of a sheet of metal that is shaken. (...) (\"Lueurs sur les Soucoupes Volantes\", Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME, 1954, p. 202) Hermann Chermanne, photographer (of the newspaper \"Le Peuple\"), took two striking shots of a strange phenomenon. Reproduced by the Belgian daily \"Le Peuple\" of May 28, 1953.

That evening around 8:15 PM, Hermann Chermanne was joining his home when he suddenly had his attention drawn by an unusual noise that strangely resembled the prolonged vibrations of a sheet of metal. Raising his eyes he saw a long white trail that was left behind by a mysterious object flying at great speed and heading towards the working-class city of the Blanche Borne district. Our reporter had time to trigger his camera once before the object, which had stopped in the sky, turned to then present, it seems, a resplendent sphere surrounded by a whitish halo and satellites that seemed to go in all directions. This phenomenon lasted about ten seconds, then the disc got back in the field before completely disappearing. In the sky the long white trail disintegrated under the effect of the wind. In the region of Bouffioulx and even beyond, many were those who perceived, at the precise moment of the appearance of the phenomenon, a deep and violent explosion. (Henry DURRANT: \"Le dossier des OVNI\" - Laffont 1973 p. 149- 175-176) Hermann Chermanne was photographing a picturesque site near Bouffioulx 7 km southeast of Charleroi in Belgium, when an astonishing roar \"like the sound of a sheet of metal being shaken\" made him turn. He then saw in the sky a \"shining object, surrounded by a whitish halo, from which white particles were falling\". (Yves NAUD: \"Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire\" Famot 1977, volume 4, p. 199) Around 5:30 PM he stopped to rest. As he prepared to photograph a flock of sheep... Etc.. [IN REALITY: this photo would be a hoax cfr \"Science Interdite - journal 1957-1969\" Jacques Vallée, O.P. Editions 1997, p. 121]", + "location": "BELGIUM, Bouffioulx (Hainaut)", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: «Le dossier secret des OVNI», ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p.190, 191", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1742" + }, + { + "date": "5/20/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two miners, John Q. Black and John Van Allen reported that an object with a tripod landing gear had landed on a sand strip around 6:30 PM. A dwarf with wide shoulders filled a shiny bucket with water, carried it into the craft and, seeming to notice Black, jumped into the craft which took off emitting a whistle. A second being was inside the craft, who took the bucket that was handed to him.", + "location": "USA, Brush Creek (California)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 100, 101", + "Continued on June 20, 1953", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1743" + }, + { + "date": "5/22/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Sara Shaw and Jan Whitley were living in an isolated cabin. They were sleeping when a blue beam woke them up at 2:20 AM. At the same time, an eerie silence descended. Jan got out of bed intending to get dressed to go outside and see what was happening, but she felt paralyzed, unable to think and having difficulty breathing. Sara shouted: \"Jan, why are you standing there without moving?\" But she saw that she herself had one foot on the ground and was sitting, while her last memory was that she had stayed in bed. She looked at the clock and couldn't believe her eyes: 4:20 AM! She too had difficulty breathing. She panicked and thought there was a problem with the butane. They both ran to the kitchen, but everything was in order. They went outside. No suspicious smell, but Jan could make out a whitish, vaporous figure with long, flowing hair. This didn't even intrigue her and she went back inside to take care of the dogs and cats. Years later, under hypnosis Sara had memories of being abducted on board a UFO and of a medical visit. Jan, on the other hand, got no such results under hypnosis.", + "location": "USA, Tujunga (Los Angeles)", + "ref": [ + "Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: \"Enquête sur les enlèvements E.T.\" - Plon 1995, p. 248, 249", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1744" + }, + { + "date": "5/23/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Orféo Angelucci, in a car, around midnight, was at the level of Forest Lawn Drive when he noticed a red light on the hood of the car. He stopped on the side of the road and saw a red disc in the sky. At that moment, two green lights left the disc and placed themselves 5 meters away from him. The red object moved away and remained visible from a great distance. It was then that Orféo heard a voice, which first advised him to stay calm and that no harm would come to him. It also declared that it was necessary to gradually prepare the inhabitants of the Earth for the visit of inhabitants of other worlds. It said in particular that \"daily the Earth is observed by a great number of flying saucers, from a few decimeters to several hundreds of meters (...) and that there are innumerable worlds which all possess a different degree of evolution which already visit the Earth.\" Orféo claimed that the voice spoke to him for 3/4 of an hour before the green lights returned to the red disc. (May 23, 1953)", + "location": "USA, Burban (California)", + "ref": [ + "Pierre DELVAL: \"Contacts of the 4th Type\" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 98, 99", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1745" + }, + { + "date": "5/23/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The South African Air Force Command announced that on May 23, 1953, radar operators detected an unknown craft that made six passes over Cape Town at a speed clearly exceeding 2000 km/h. On each pass, the craft remained in the radar range for 16 seconds, at a distance ranging from 11000 to 15000 meters and at an altitude from 1600 meters to 5000 meters.", + "location": "SOUTH AFRICA, Cape Town", + "ref": [ + "\"Lights on Flying Saucers\" - Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME 1954, pages 145, 146", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1746" + }, + { + "date": "5/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. P. Cavallo, a projectionist, was returning from work around 0:30am along the deserted Avenue Ziem, lined with hedges and bushes on either side. He took the opportunity to collect snails that were out in the night dew. He was suddenly surprised by the appearance in the sky of a bright orange cigar-shaped object, with blue sparkles inside, flying at low altitude from south to north in a time span of between 20 and 30 seconds, leaving behind an orange tail of sparks. All this in complete silence. Stunned, the witness stayed in place for about forty seconds. It was then that he felt a presence to his right and, turning his head, he saw a face that seemed human, although very strange. Its expression was like a \"beatific smile\". It had a pale complexion, a bald head, and blue eyes. He could not make out the body hidden in the bushes. With his bicycle in hand, the witness stared at it for a few seconds, wondering who it was - \"maybe a madman?\" - and what attitude to take. However, fear quickly overcame Mr. Cavallo, who, without further ado, jumped on his bicycle and sped down the descent of Avenue Ziem. (1953 (or 1954) May,)", + "location": "FRANCE, Cagnes sur Mer", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 645, 646", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1747" + }, + { + "date": "6/20/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: May 20, 1953, same location) At exactly 6:30 pm, second landing of the saucer at 50 m from the witnesses, and repetition of the same scenario. (Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 177) At the second encounter, in the same mining concession, both of them had gone calmly to tell the police that they had seen a little man dressed in a kind of parka coming down from a silver craft resting on the ground on a tripod. The astonished miners had seen the dwarf take water from a bucket. But, seeing himself observed, said dwarf had quickly returned to his craft which had immediately left with a roar.", + "location": "USA, Brush Creek (California)", + "ref": [ + "Leonard STRINGFIELD: \"General Alert UFO\" ed. France - Empire, 1978, p. 121", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1748" + }, + { + "date": "6/24/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 11:30 p.m. Witnesses: crew of a USAF KB-29 aerial refueler. On radar, an unidentified target approached up to 5 miles, twice, during the 2 minute observation.", + "location": "JAPAN, Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1749" + }, + { + "date": "6/24/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 11:30 a.m. Witness: Weather Observer A/2c R.A. Hill. A flat red triangle and was rotating for 15 seconds, then slowly ascended for 5 minutes, before disappearing from view.", + "location": "GREENLAND, Simiutak, Greenland.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1750" + }, + { + "date": "7/1/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Observation at around 2 pm. Three small men came out of a hatch in the upper part of the UFO, approached the witness, and spoke to him. One of them gave the child a light tap on the cheek and then went back into the object, which flew away at great speed. (Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations of ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - pp. 175 and 179) A 14-year-old illiterate cowherd, Maximo Munoz Hernaiz, was sitting near the cows when he heard a faint whistling sound at around 1 pm, but he didn't turn around. When he did, the machine had already landed. It was about 1.3 m tall and about 30 cm wide. Thinking it was a balloon, he went to take it, but a door opened and small guys started coming out. They were tiny (65 cm) with yellow faces and narrow eyes. The \"thing\" had a door at its top and the small guys jumped out. There were three of them, who surrounded him, and they spoke but Maximo didn't understand. The little guy who was in front of him gave him a slap on the face and then they went back into their machine, hooked up to something, and jumped. They were dressed just like fairground musicians, in blue clothes, with a flat hat with a visor in front and they had a metal plate on their arm. The machine flew away very quickly like a rocket. - There were traces on the ground, examined by the gendarmerie -", + "location": "SPAIN, Villares del Saz (Cuenca)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, pp. 93 to 97", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1751" + }, + { + "date": "7/16/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It is nine o'clock in the morning. It is a clear day, without clouds (...) Little Jacques Simard, twelve years old (...) is accompanied by five of his companions and they go to pick raspberries on the slope of the hills of the farm of Ernest Simard, uncle of Jacques. (...) Suddenly a sound of frantic galloping reaches them. Whinnying, horses come down in terror the slope of the hill (...) under the influence of great panic. At the same time Jacques sees five or six metal discs heading towards the sun. The young boy notices that they are elliptical, that they are shiny like polished metal. (...)", + "location": "Canada, Saint Urbain (Quebec)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Enigmes du temps présent\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1979, p. 69, 70", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1752" + }, + { + "date": "7/31/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7pm a metallic object thirty meters in size was observed by five Poles and two German workers, as it landed in a field near a railway track. It was spherical and surrounded by a flat disk with several openings or apertures.", + "location": "POLAND, Wollin", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"UFOs in the USSR and Eastern Countries\" - Laffont translation 1976 - p. 259", + "Jacques Vallée, Chronicle of Extra-Terrestrial Appearances case no. 114", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1753" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A flying saucer crashed in the Arizona desert and the bodies of the five occupants were immediately loaded, in special coffins, filled with carbonic ice, on board an airplane that arrived the same evening at Wright Patterson, where they were stored secretly. These humanoids, one of which was female, had large heads shaped like an inverted pear, with deep eyebrow arches joined in a kind of awning, large open eyes, holes instead of nose and ears, and skin of a grayish brown. These strange beings had long arms, with four slightly webbed fingers on the hands and no fingers on the feet. Their sexual parts were visibly atrophied, as if they had not used them for a long time.(...) One of these humanoids was still alive when the rescue team arrived, but all efforts to save him were in vain. This flying saucer, found almost intact, had been spotted by the radar of Mount Palomar as it crossed California, obviously in distress and rapidly losing altitude and the radar operators, who knew exactly where it had fallen, had immediately alerted a nearby air base which had immediately sent a rescue team. (1953, Summer)", + "location": "USA, Arizona", + "ref": [ + "Maurice CHATELAIN: \"The Messengers of the Cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, p. 26", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1754" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Roman biologist, Alexandru Sift, was a 16 year old high school student in 1953. He saw a luminous ball descend from the sky and fall into a bush. When he approached the landing site, he was very surprised: nothing seemed to remain of this object several meters in diameter. Suddenly, as he began to move the branches with his stick, it became invisible, as well as part of his hand. At the same time, the sole of his shoes became hot and a cold push, acting on his whole body, forced him to withdraw. Very frightened, Sift ran back to town. (1953, Summer)", + "location": "ROMANIA, near Cluj", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"The Secret File of UFOs\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p. 220, 221", + "Gheorghita 1975", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1755" + }, + { + "date": "8/3/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 12:04 p.m. Witness: Control Tower Chief C.S. Brown. A translucent, round, light-reflecting object flew horizontally, stopped for 7 seconds, flew quickly and stopped again, and was joined by a similar object. They flew away, diverging their trajectories after 56 minutes of observation.", + "location": "USA, Amarillo, Texas.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1756" + }, + { + "date": "8/5/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:05 PM an object in the shape of a ring, red in color, caused confusion in the minds of several witnesses. Eslworth's radar then targeted the object which was flying towards Rapid City, while an F-84 interceptor was sent for interception and managed to get within 3 miles. At that moment the UFO disappeared at an incredible speed, but when the pilot returned to base, the UFO was still following him! Another jet then took off which finally made the unknown object go away. (\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 210) It was in 1953 that one of the most mysterious cases I have had the opportunity to study occurred. On the night of August 5, several people from Black Hawk, in South Dakota, reported that they had seen several strange objects in the sky. Unidentified echoes appeared on the radar screen of a nearby air base. An F-84 jet fighter, guided by radio, took off in their direction. Soon its pilot reported that he saw one, brighter than the brightest star, and going twice as fast as his plane. When he chased it, the glow disappeared completely. On the ground, five civilians had witnessed the pursuit. They confirmed the pilot's words. A little later, a second F-84 was sent towards the object, which continued to appear on the ground radar. This time, the pilot saw a shape, which emitted a variable luminosity. When he rushed in its direction, the indicator of his sight lit up: the on-board radar had detected the target, but immediately, the thing took altitude and flew north. The air base alerted the observation center of Bismarck, in North Dakota, 350 km away. A sergeant went up on the roof, saw the object which soon disappeared. I took care of this case myself, without being able to find an explanation.", + "location": "USA, near Black Hawk (South Dakota)", + "ref": [ + "Charles GARREAU cites Dr. Allen Hynek in \"Flying Saucers: 20 Years of Investigation Mame 1971- p.52-53", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1757" + }, + { + "date": "8/6/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On August 6, 1953, from the top of an airplane, the existence of a mysterious space platform was discovered on one of the Hawaiian islands. None of the world powers knew of the existence of this space base. The pilot who discovered it said it was huge, bluish and metallic. The search order immediately launched yielded nothing; the base had disappeared.", + "location": "USA, Hawaii", + "ref": [ + "S. DELLO STROLOGO: \"What Governments Hide from You About Flying Saucers\" - De Vecchi 1975- p. 135", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1758" + }, + { + "date": "8/21/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Salvador Villanueva states that one of the two humanoids in his presence seemed to understand Spanish while the other spoke it but with a peculiar accent stringing words together without regard for tone or punctuation. (Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations of ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 186 which says August 20) At 6 pm, taxi driver Villanueva was under the chassis of his broken-down vehicle on the main road when he saw two pairs of legs covered with something that looked like \"seamless gray velvet\". Standing up, he saw two pleasant-looking men measuring 1.35 m, dressed in a one-piece garment from neck to toes. They wore wide, shiny, perforated belts, metal collars around their necks, and small, shiny black boxes on their backs. Under their arms they held \"helmets like those of pilots or American football players\". Their small size was not too strange in Mexico, where many Indians are very small, and he concluded that they were aviators, probably from a neighboring South American republic. (...) When it started to rain, they accepted the driver's invitation to take shelter with him in the vehicle. During the night, various remarks began to worry Villanueva and finally this statement came: \"We come from a very distant world, but we know a lot about yours\". At dawn he went with them to their craft, which was parked in a clearing 500 meters from the road, and noticed that although they had crossed a muddy terrain in which he sank deeply, the legs and feet of the little men remained clean: \"when their feet touched puddles of mud their belts shone and the mud moved away\" He was invited to board, but Villanueva spun around and ran away. (Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 109, 110) (...) standing up, he saw an apparition, a little man barely 1.20 m tall. He asked if he knew Mexico, but the entity gave him a description of his planet. Villanueva was invited on board, accepted, and took a trip into space, he thinks he visited the planet Venus. When he returned to the city, his appearance was so strange that the person where he was going to order the part for his taxi, thought he had smoked marijuana.", + "location": "MEXICO, Ciudad Vallejo", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1759" + }, + { + "date": "8/23/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11:00 AM, Mr. T.P. Drury observed a cylinder in the sky and filmed it. (Flying Saucer Review No. 4 - 1971) An object in the shape of a disc emerged from a cloud and made a right-angle turn. T.C. Drury, Deputy Director of the Civil Aviation Department of New Guinea, was a fortunate witness as he had a camera in his hand. He took a film of 94 frames showing the object performing apparently intelligent maneuvers.", + "location": "NEW GUINEA, Port Moresby", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p 211", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1760" + }, + { + "date": "8/24/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: July 18, 52) At 2am, Van Tassel sees the extraterrestrial, although none of his dogs barked. At 100 meters, a round, shiny saucer is barely 3 meters off the ground. The stranger says: \"My name is Solganda.\" The conversation is strange, as Van Tassel barely thinks of a question before Solganda already answers it. Van Tassel can take a ride in the saucer, which runs on a \"crystal battery\". The extraterrestrial also explains to him that humans were only animals and that it was thanks to them that they received spirit.", + "location": "USA, Giant Rock, California", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued: December 29, 54", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1761" + }, + { + "date": "8/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The organizer of the experience, (telepathic contact with extraterrestrials) Albert K. Bender, receives a visit from three men dressed in black (M.I.B.) and quite intimidating: \"..their faces were unpleasant to look at. Their eyes shone like small flash lamps.. a bluish radiance enveloped their whole body.. I could not see their hands, covered by black gloves\"", + "location": "USA, Bridgeport (Connecticut)", + "ref": [ + "following November 5, 1953", + "Jean-Gabriel GRESLE: OVNI, a pilot speaks, ed. Guy Trédaniel, 1993, p. 43,44", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1762" + }, + { + "date": "8/31/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4 o'clock, many people living in Vernon (Eure) witnessed a quite impressive spectacle. Among the witnesses was a police officer, Mr. Henry Buch. (...) \"As I was in the courtyard of my house, with my wife and my young son, our attention was drawn to the roar of a jet plane flying over the town. Having spotted it, we were astonished to see an object - coming from a higher altitude - flying at a dizzying speed towards the ground after crossing the route taken by the plane. To our great amazement, the object stopped its course and remained suspended in the air. After a few seconds of immobility, it took off again, describing circles above the town. This maneuver was repeated several times; it was then that, following the different phases of its evolution, we could discover the presence of three other craft, which were also moving at a staggering speed, to the four cardinal points of the locality. \"These three saucers were at a much higher altitude than the first one. Their luminosity was so intense that we soon had to put on sunglasses to follow their march in the sky. As we asked our landlord to come and witness the phenomenon, my wife spotted a group of \"saucers\", six in number, completely motionless at an approximate height of 5 to 6,000 meters. The strange evolutions lasted about ten minutes and then, suddenly, there was no trace of \"saucer\" in the absolutely clear sky. (...)", + "location": "FRANCE, Vernon (Eure)", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde\" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 p 132-133", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1763" + }, + { + "date": "Late Summer 1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: October 52) Angelucci is taken in an Astrolabe to his extraterrestrial friend, who predicts the worst catastrophes for the year 1986. [note from vog: we saw nothing, did Angelucci die that year?] (1953, late summer)", + "location": "USA, Los Angeles", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1764" + }, + { + "date": "9/1/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. April 21, 53) Adamski meets the extraterrestrials in a bar. They answer a series of questions he has prepared. Then, after playing belote, he takes the saucer to meet the master on board the mothership.", + "location": "USA, unspecified", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued and concluded August 23, 1954", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1765" + }, + { + "date": "9/4/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A woman saw at 9:30 PM, two objects on the ground and three small men of 150 cm in height with an enormous head, wearing a helmet and boots. They ran in the direction of the devices. One entered the elongated object of 5 m in length by 1.5 m wide which extended wings like a butterfly. It put itself in a vertical position, resting on a tripod and took off, as well as the spherical object where the two other creatures had taken place. Traces were found at the location of the observation. (Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU - p. 256, 257) The witness takes the air on the terrace which dominates the city. When standing up to return to her hotel she sees, near a chapel, two objects, one round, the other elongated. Then three small characters of about 1m50 appear, wearing helmets and boots, running as if they did not touch the ground. Two enter the sphere, the other in the elongated object inside which the witness sees 2 or 3 other beings through a transparent opening. The sphere has about 3 m in diameter and seems to be lit from below. At mid-height it is surrounded by a flat annular part which starts to turn very quickly while becoming luminous. The elongated object measures 4 to 5 m in length by 1.50m in height. It passes to the vertical position resting on the ground like on a tripod. Simultaneously, in a noise resembling a jet of steam, the two devices rise in a few seconds and disappear in the stars. Traces on the ground.", + "location": "FRANCE, Tonnerre", + "ref": [ + "GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Facing the Extra-terrestrials\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 46, 47", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1766" + }, + { + "date": "10/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOONS, STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF COSMIC RAYS ON BLACK MICE.", + "location": "USA, unspecified location", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Caldin 1960, 103\"", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1767" + }, + { + "date": "10/6/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7:15 in the morning, members of the astronomical society observed for 30 seconds, an engine in the shape of a bell with a series of portholes that projected rays of light. Below there was another source of light. The engine changed its position and flew off to the north at an incredible speed.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Norwich", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 8 p. 5", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1768" + }, + { + "date": "10/19/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around midnight a D.C. 6 of American Airlines piloted by Captain J. L. Kidd had left the Philadelphia airport fifteen minutes earlier for Washington and was flying at 2400 m. There were some clouds but the moon was shining brightly. The plane was approaching the Conowingo Dam on the Susquehanna. It was the co-pilot who saw the object first: a shining thing reflecting the light of the Moon. It did not look like an airplane and did not behave like one. It had no navigation lights. At the sight of this thing, Captain Kidd reduced his speed. The thing was motionless. The D.C. 6 was quickly approaching. \"Give it a spotlight!\" The co-pilot already had his hand on the switch. The two landing lights soon shone their white beams on the object. A blinding white beam of light shot from the object towards the plane and Kidd realized that the thing was rushing towards him. He had no time to warn the passengers. He pushed the wheel forward. The four-engine plane dived and the passengers were thrown into the air, the dive forming a loop in reverse. At 1500 m Kidd pulled his plane out, and the passengers fell back into their seats and armrests. The pilot called National Airport and reported the accident. He was told that there were no other planes in the air and... that there would be medical personnel upon arrival.", + "location": "USA, between Philadelphia and Washington", + "ref": [ + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse\" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 63, 64", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1769" + }, + { + "date": "10/24/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) FIRST FLIGHT OF THE SINGLE-SEAT F-102 DELTA JAGGER FIGHTER OF GENERAL DYNAMICS (CONVAIR). In 1948 CONVAIR already flew its first supersonic Delta (XF-92A). (...) The rear of the F-102 is elongated and large, and the shape of the F-102 Delta thus obtained is impressive: wingspan 11.6 meters, length 20.83 meters (this is the ancestor of the F 15, F 16 etc..) Of the first model, 24 copies were transformed by the SPERRY firm into radio-controlled aircraft.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft\" - Bill Gunston - Elsevier-Séquoia 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1770" + }, + { + "date": "10/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Albert K. Bender, editor of the magazine \"Space Review\", in his October 1953 issue mentioned that he had found the key to the mystery of flying saucers, but he could not disclose the affair, since he had been forbidden to do so. He ended his article by warning ufologists to stay vigilant. After that, Bender's magazine was no longer published. Later, in an interview, Bender claimed that three \"men in black\" had ordered him to stop any publication on UFOs. He would have complied, as he had a real fear of these men. Later he published a book \"Flying Saucers and the Three Men in Black.\"", + "location": "USA", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1771" + }, + { + "date": "11/5/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. March 15, 1953 and August 1953) (K.Bender) The International Flying Bureau and its foreign branches suddenly cease their activities. Its president simply tells the responsible people: \"The secret being known, any research becomes useless\". He voluntarily enters a psychiatric clinic (???? it must REALLY be crazy to do that...) and will not reappear until ten years later, greatly diminished.", + "location": "USA, Bridgeport (Connecticut)", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Gabriel GRESLE: OVNI, a pilot speaks, ed. Guy Trédaniel, 1993, p. 44", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1772" + }, + { + "date": "11/28/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Pedro Serrato and Francisco de Teixeira saw in the bay of Los Patos a strange disc-shaped apparatus inside which they were able to distinguish six people of average size, whose hair and skin were red.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Guapore \"Los Patos\"", + "ref": [ + "A. RIBERA: \"These Mysterious Ufos\" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 227", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1773" + }, + { + "date": "12/17/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Captain Christiansson, a former RAF fighter pilot, was flying a DC 3 between Malmoe and Stockholm. Suddenly, above Halsingborg, the event occurred. (It was then 14:30 local time): \"We were flying at 2,000 meters altitude,\" declared Captain Ulf Christiansson, \"when I saw something that I initially thought to be a jet fighter. Its silhouette was very thin and it approached us at a terrifying speed. In a few seconds, it passed under my DC 3 at an altitude of about 1250 m. I immediately asked my mechanic, Olle Johansson, to observe it, and together we later compared our impressions. I had never seen anything like it. It was a perfectly symmetrical, spherical-looking object, something like a robot. Of a metallic white color, it left no apparent trail in its course above the clouds. Visibility was excellent. We were flying north with the sun on our right when the saucer cut across our route in a northeast direction. I must say that I had never believed in stories of flying saucers or other such objects until now. But I am eager to know now the result of the investigation opened by the Swedish Air Force.", + "location": "SWEDEN, Halsingborg", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde\" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 p. 150-151", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1774" + }, + { + "date": "12/28/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 11:55 a.m. Witness: Yuba Airport Manager, Mr. Dick Brandt. A saucer with a bright blue light reflecting off the building flown over, hovered during the one and a half minute observation.", + "location": "USA, Marysville, California.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1775" + }, + { + "date": "12/29/1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Barney Wayne photographed this mysterious craft: [note from vog: round, saucer-shaped, apparent width according to the buildings flown over, about 4 meters, so on the 19cm x 13 cm photo, the UFO measures 2.2cm by 6mm]", + "location": "RHODESIA, Bulawayo", + "ref": [ + "Moustique n° 1508 of 19.12.54, p. 15, article by Bert Brem", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1776" + }, + { + "date": "1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11 o'clock, Mrs. S. went to the grocer's, by a small sunken path. Suddenly she observed 6 to 8 orange balloons, but not luminous, which followed the path, progressing by leaps, without touching the ground. They passed very close to the witness who even thought of bringing one back for her children, but a feeling of mistrust prevented her. The night before, around 9:30 pm, she had observed a strange moon, bigger than normal, of a brilliant white and without the characteristic shadows of our satellite.", + "location": "FRANCE, Feignies (Nord", + "ref": [ + "L. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier rapport complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 64, 65", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1777" + }, + { + "date": "1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1953, a squadron of AD-35s was performing combat maneuvers when a large rocket came towards them. After a rapid deceleration, bringing it to the speed of the planes, it stabilized at about 300 m from them. The squadron commander gave orders over the radio for the planes to get to the same altitude. Instantly, the UFO tilted in such a way that its back pointed outside the attack axes of the planes. An enormous flame shot out. The craft immediately took on a considerable speed. Without this tilting movement, the powerful jet would undoubtedly have killed some, if not all of the pilots.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Donald E. KEYHOE - 1973 - Trans. \"Les Etrangers de L'Espace\" Ed. France-Empire coll. Press Pocket 1975 p. 61", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1778" + }, + { + "date": "1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1953 I was based at R.A.F. Coltishall, in Norfolk, as a Meteor night fighter jet pilot. During one of our routine night flights, one of our crews, Captain F/OJ. Allison, and radar operator F/OI. Heavers, reported the observation of a cigar-shaped UFO, with an inner green light, visible through windows. Upon entering the flight room, they were both very excited after the landing. They claimed that the object must have been extraterrestrial due to its speed and unusual shape. The next day we learned that another night fighter jet crew from the 85th Squadron, flying near their base at R.A.F. Maidstone, in Kent (over 100 miles from Coltishall) had reported an identical incident, occurring just three minutes after that of our crew. Three minutes to cover a distance of 100 miles, that means the UFO was travelling at around 2000 m.p.h., a speed far beyond the capability of an English aircraft at that time. (...)", + "location": "GRANDE BRETAGNE, Coltishall, Norfolk", + "ref": [ + "Gordon W. Cammell, R.N.Z.A.F./R.A.F., Retired, on the Internet in May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1779" + }, + { + "date": "1953 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two men in a truck, travelling from Peterborough to Ashford, stopped around 2:30am to take a rest. They had passed Ashford by about six miles. They parked the truck under the trees and lit a cigarette. The next thing was strange. Suddenly, B.T. saw the driver lying on the ground in front of the passenger seat, looking out the window. B.T. then opened the window on his side and saw at the level of the trees, a round, black, solid object. There was a blackout and the next thing B.T. remembers is the driver shaking him saying it was 5:40. These two men also reported a two day period of missing time during their military service at an RAF base near Ashford in 1948. (Inaccurate date, between 1953 and 1955)", + "location": "ENGLAND, Ashford, Kent", + "ref": [ + "BUFORA, \"Late Sightings\" Internet 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1780" + }, + { + "date": "1953", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1939, USA, unspecified location) According to the story, it was a Venusian who solicited her in 1953, introducing herself with the surprising name of Diane. But even more astonishingly, this pagan and Venusian virgin did not appear in the entrance of a flying saucer, but in a church! And that, in front of 26 witnesses, it is said! [followed by 1957, USA, Fontana] (1953,)", + "location": "USA (unspecified location)", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, the unmasked invaders\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 78", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1781" + }, + { + "date": "1954 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCHING OF HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOONS FOR STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF COSMIC RADIATION ON TWO MONKEYS. (1954, unspecified date)", + "location": "USA, unspecified location", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Caldin 1960, 103\"", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1782" + }, + { + "date": "1954 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) THE RHESUS MONKEY \"MIKE\" ANESTHETIZED, IS LAUNCHED IN AN AEROBEE 3 WHICH REACHES 153 KM. THE DEVICE IS RECOVERED. (1954, (around...))", + "location": "USA, Wright Patterson", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 49, 1980, p. 14, 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1783" + }, + { + "date": "Early 1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the first quarter, Mr. V.D. discovered near a football field in the locality, an object 70 cm long and 35 cm wide having the shape of a semi-circular wing, whose composition seemed to be based on a grayish, semi-transparent graphite. (1954, beginning of the year)", + "location": "BELGIUM, Leopoldsburg (Limbourg)", + "ref": [ + "GESAG cat. n° 1276", + "Comment from GESAG: a precise description of this strange object and the sketches drawn seem to indicate that it would be a debris from a German V1 of the last war", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1784" + }, + { + "date": "1/4/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 9pm: \"A rounded and luminous craft\" landed on a runway of the Marseille-Marignane aerodrome (and this was not the first time!) M. Chesneau, a firefighter on duty at the Boussiron hangar, saw the craft. While he was alerting the control tower by phone, the craft took off and disappeared. But the alerted authorities searched and discovered a hundred metal debris among which several small rods about fifteen centimeters long, curved at one end and ending at the other end with a ball, a bit bigger than a marble.", + "location": "FRANCE, Marseille-Marignane", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"Le livre noir des S.V.\" - Laffont 1970 - p.117-118", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1785" + }, + { + "date": "2/7/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) FIRST FLIGHT OF THE LOCKHEED MODEL 83 STARFIGHTER SINGLE-SEATER. IN QF VERSION IT IS CONVERTED INTO A REMOTE-CONTROLLED DRONE TARGET AIRCRAFT. IN THIS CASE ITS SPAN IS 6.68 METERS FOR A LENGTH OF 16.69 METERS. CHARACTERISTIC SHAPE WITH THE FRONT PART IN A SHELL, THE WING AND THE TAIL AT THE LAST THIRD OF THE AIRCRAFT. (February 7, 1954)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft - Bill Gunston - Elsevier-Séquoia 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1786" + }, + { + "date": "2/15/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Astonishing photo taken by the young Stephen Darbishire, on the hill where he usually went to photograph birds. He was accompanied by his 8-year-old cousin Adrian Meyer, who saw the UFO first. Stephen, stunned, took two shots without worrying about the focus of the camera. (Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" Fleuve Noir 1956 - pp. 19-24) \"The object shone like silver in the sun's rays. I took a photo. I had barely finished when the flying saucer rose at a dizzying speed and disappeared into the clouds. The sun's rays had strongly illuminated it and I had been able to notice that it was made of a transparent plastic material but through which I could not distinguish anything. It had three landing wheels underneath, a cabin with portholes and a dome at the top. The saucer made no noise except for a breath at the time of the ascent.” (February 15, 1954)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Coniston (Lancashire)", + "ref": [ + "Moustique n° 1507 of 12.12.54, p. 16, article by Bert Brem", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1787" + }, + { + "date": "2/18/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Cedric Allingham, a writer, amateur astronomer, and ornithologist, declared to have seen a saucer land. A man of about 1.8 meters emerged from the craft and approached Allingham. This being was described as similar to a man in all respects, except for having a very high forehead. He wore a one-piece garment, including shoes, but no helmet. He also had tiny tubes coming out of his nostrils. The witness and the man conversed through signs. Photos were taken and published of the saucer and the Martian. (Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974 - p. 15) He was able to take several photos. Three hours later the craft returned, quickly lost altitude, and landed on the ground 50 meters from the witness, emitting a dull noise. Allingham managed to photograph the descent. The figure that emerged from the door was slim, wearing a very tight suit, and could just as easily have been an Englishman. He was at least 1.8 meters tall, his complexion was tanned, and his hair was quite short. He had the appearance of a terrestrial. Two tiny tubes came out of his nostrils, they were face to face and smiling amicably. The stranger, through gestures and signs, made it understood that he came from Mars and not from Venus. He had to fly away, accepted with gratitude the pen that Allingham offered him and embarked... (February 18, 1954)", + "location": "SCOTLAND, Lossiemouth", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"The Secret File of UFOs\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p. 159", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1788" + }, + { + "date": "3/5/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) UFO photos, from a patrol plane above the city of Rouen", + "location": "FRANCE, Rouen", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"The Secret File of UFOs\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p. 115", + "Philippe SCHNEYDER: \"UFO, First Balance\" - ed. du Rocher 1983, photo insert after p. 154", + "photo Nicap", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1789" + }, + { + "date": "3/24/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7:15 PM Mrs. Harding was called outside by her daughter, showing something in the night sky. To the north of their position, above the sea, an orange fireball with a black trail was zigzagging down. Its apparent size was that of the sun, as was its brightness. The object silently exploded, it was rather an explosion of light, but kept its shape of an orange ball and plunged into the sea. The strangest thing was that they saw this thing still illuminated under the water and this for an hour after immersion. The trail changed color, it became gray before dispersing. There was no audible sound, neither when the object was in the air, nor when it plunged, nor when it was under the water. Another witness saw something similar from Gwynedd. This witness specifies that after plunging into the sea, the object rose back into the sky and then had a gray trail. It is however not confirmed that the two testimonies concern the same object. (1954, 24 March)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Dyfed and Gwynedd (Wales)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 165", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1790" + }, + { + "date": "3/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Rubem Hellwig had encountered twice a small device that did not come from this world and had spoken with its occupants. The machine shaped like a melon or rugby ball was about the size of a Volkswagen and was not far from the road where Hellwig was driving at 5 pm. He stopped and headed towards the UFO. The crew consisted of two tall men about 1.60 m tall, with a brownish face and no helmets. One of them was inside the device and the other was collecting specimens of grass. They spoke to Hellwig in a strange language, but he still understood what they were asking to know, the place where they could get some ammonia. He indicated the nearest town. With blue and yellow flames of great brightness, the device silently disappeared. The next day, early, he met what seemed to be the same machine but this time with a different crew, a tall man of good appearance and two women. They had light brown skin, long and silky black hair and large dark slanted eyes. All three were dressed the same way: a brown suit resembling suede with zipper closures. They said they were scientists, and were also surprised that unlike other people seen, Hellwig did not flee in terror. Hellwig specified that they could easily pass for natives of the Earth.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Santa Maria", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 111", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1791" + }, + { + "date": "4/8/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 4:30 p.m. Witness: Lelah Stoker. A white dome-shaped disk, with a humanoid suspended underneath, glided over the water, landed, and an occupant in a tight-fitting green suit walked around. Then it departed, very, very quickly. Observation lasted 30 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner) A lady, whose apartment overlooked Lake Michigan, saw a shining object going back and forth close to the water. She called the Coast Guard, but when the cutter approached the object hid in the shoreline bushes. A small being of human appearance emerged, wearing a tight-fitting green suit and helmet. When the cutter left, the being re-entered the craft which returned to the lake. It eventually disappeared. (April 8, 1954)", + "location": "USA, Chicago (Illinois)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 48 of 1979, p. 30", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1792" + }, + { + "date": "4/23/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 9:30 a.m. Witnesses: The Robinson couple. An object of the appearance of a dollar coin, with a dome and a flashing light, made a buzzing sound like a swarm of bees. It hovered, tilted, flew horizontally, then rose vertically without tilting. It lifted stones from the ground during its movements. Observation lasted 4 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Pittsfield, Maine.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1793" + }, + { + "date": "4/24/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 6:10 p.m. Witness: D. Robinson. (note from vog: coincidence? The observers from the day before have the same surname and see almost the same thing...) A large oblong silver object, with a dome and flashing light, flew horizontally and then rose vertically. Observation of 15 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Hartland, Maine.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1794" + }, + { + "date": "4/24/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On that day, around 3 pm, woodcutter Roger Mougeolle, 37 years old, was cutting wood in Bois-de-Champ with another man when he heard a loud noise. He saw three UFOs passing above him. Their slow speed and size gave the impression of an enormous mass. Two of the objects flew over them. The witnesses (who are the other witnesses?) saw one of the three objects descend, with a noise similar to that of a train running over a metal bridge. The UFO landed 50 m away, not touching the ground (remaining 40 cm away). It was huge: 300 m long, 60 m high. Mougeolle approached it and walked around it. He placed his hand on a cold and hard hull, then tapped it with his fist and then with the back of his axe, then with the blade. At that moment he slowly backed away to a rock on which he leaned: he felt paralyzed, stuck to the rock and watched the departure of the craft which rose slowly.", + "location": "FRANCE, Mortagne par Bruyères", + "ref": [ + "Question from vog: did any investigator go to the Bois de Champ to see if there was a clearing at least 300 m long?", + "M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 69; Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London, 1989, p. 60, 6 ", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1795" + }, + { + "date": "Spring 1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 02:40 (or 22:00?) the witness was walking home on a small path. He heard a sound like a hammer striking an anvil. 20 to 25 meters further he heard voices. After an avalanche on the path, he took a path crossing a private property. He was on a terrace, bordered by a wall of dry stones on which olives and oranges were grown. He went down a few steps to continue his path on a lower terrace. There he came across an incredible sight. About ten meters in front of him was a luminous and shining object on the ground. It was disc-shaped, more curved on the top, with a small dome on its upper part. The left side was shining like gold. The diameter was about 5 meters and the thickness 1.50 meters. On the left was a standing being, 1.60m tall and very thin with harmonious proportions: it gave the witness the impression of a single piece, very tight, enclosing the head. It shone with a white light \"like a crushed firefly\". The being had its back to the witness. When it arrived, it turned its head: to the witness's surprise there was a kind of veil that started from the forehead, cut off sharply at the height of the chin. There was a bulge at the height of the nose. The being uttered some words to a second character that the witness had not yet discovered. The words were not understood by the witness. The second being was presumably under the craft, it seemed to be crouching. At the call of the first one it took a step or two back while staying bent, before turning abruptly while standing up. It was smaller than the first one and with less harmonious proportions. It was dressed in the same way and wore the same kind of veil. It had something on its stomach resembling a flashlight. It brought its hand to it and immediately from this object held in both hands, a beam of white light came out.

The witness immediately felt paralyzed. He could no longer move but continued to see and hear. He had difficulty breathing. The two beings spoke again between them, and the n° 2 approached the witness at 60 cm: it came up to his neck, giving him a height of about 1.45 m. He then lifted his veil with his left hand and raising his head towards the witness, as if to show him well: he grimaced horribly, his lips apart revealing all his teeth. High and wide forehead, protruding cheekbones, pointed chin. Thin nose like an eagle's beak, regular and white teeth, beard sprinkled on the right cheekbone, swarthy skin. Widely spaced eyes, slightly oblique, large and globular. At first the witness thought the orbits were empty: then he saw a white globe, without iris or pupil. From the left eye a large tear of a thick and brown liquid descended to the corner of the lips: it was horrible to look at. He lost consciousness. When the witness regained his senses, the craft had taken off, being at 60 or 70 m and turning on itself. (L.D.L.N. \"Mysterious Flying Saucers\" - ALBATROS-ETAPES 1973 - p. 133 to 137- M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: Ovni, the first dossier... Lefeuvre 1979, p. 69, 70) (..) The being dropped his veil which fell on his face and, with his arms, twice, he made eloquent gestures, as if to encourage the witness to follow him (...) The witness saw them disappear into the craft without being able to specify where, he did not notice any opening although he heard a dull sound of metal closure. Then he lost consciousness... (1954, Spring)", + "location": "FRANCE, Gorbio place-name \"Le Beauriqueau\". (Alpes Maritimes)", + "ref": [ + "Erich ZURCHER: \"The Appearances of Humanoids\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 155, 156", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1796" + }, + { + "date": "5/7/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF VIKING X, STATIC ENGINE TEST EXPLODES, SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT ALTITUDE 218 KM.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: \"Ley 1958, M.W. Rosen, N.Y. 1958", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1797" + }, + { + "date": "5/20/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Nigel Frapple, 18 years old, was riding his bicycle around 2:00 in the morning, when a terrifying light illuminated the nearby fields. Stunned, the witness got off his bike and saw a huge saucer-shaped craft about 15 m in diameter slowly approaching, flying less than 30 m behind him. The craft was topped with a dome about 3.50 m high, with a bright orange light at its summit. The base was dark, contrasting with the orange color of the cylindro-conical body and the intense glow spinning at the top of its cockpit. The spacecraft thus evolved for 5 minutes, emitting a low hum, then rose at great speed to quickly disappear.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Bruton - Ringwood", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 35", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1798" + }, + { + "date": "5/24/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF VIKING XI, ALTITUDE 254 KM, RECORD FOR SINGLE LIQUID FUEL ROCKET WITHOUT BOOSTER. (May 24, 1954)", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, M.W. Rosen, N.Y. 1958", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1799" + }, + { + "date": "5/24/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. M. Ferrier, D.L. Falwasser and Hodder, all from New Plymouth, took off at 6:50 from Bell Block in a Cessna. They were headed for Tahora. During the flight, to the east, in the direction of Taumarunui, three unusual objects appeared. The Cessna was then halfway between Uruti and Tahora, it was 7 o'clock in the morning. Continuing their journey, they could not believe their eyes: in the sky about 7000 feet above them, giant oval-shaped discs were hovering. They were of a reddish-orange color and a reddish flame was coming out of them. Continuing their flight at 135mph, and after three more minutes, the men then saw other strange craft in front of them, in a linear formation. Then suddenly, at an enormous speed, the objects shot up into the sky out of sight. (May 24, 1954)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Bell Block", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 224", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1800" + }, + { + "date": "5/1954 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness, aged eight, was tending to a sheep when he heard several whistles. He then saw two objects, approximately 2 m in diameter and 1.5 m high. One was spinning in circles and the other was rising and heading north. He noted the presence of two humanoids in the other object. One of them, with long arms, seemed to be touching something while the other seemed to be looking at the witness. They were dressed in blue, a kind of cuirass, they had large heads and seemed to be seated. The witness felt paralyzed with fear. (1954, May (?))", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Fregim-Oporto", + "ref": [ + "collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing by Victor Lourenco", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1801" + }, + { + "date": "6/1/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) American pilot Charles Kratovil of Transworld Airlines, aboard the four-engine line Paris-New York, saw in flight an object of white color, in the shape of a disk. The object first evolved parallel to the plane, to disappear in the clouds. A few minutes later it reappeared. It was a diaphanous spheroid of the apparent size of a basketball. Warned by radio, the eight employees of the Boston airport control tower replied that they also saw it and alerted the military authorities. A squadron took off immediately. The pilot, co-pilot and flight engineer saw the object for 10 minutes. Kratovil then received two radio messages from the military: \"As the fighters approached, the object gained altitude. It is about 3000 m above them (who were flying at 15,000 m) and the object continues to climb\". The second message said \"that a weather balloon had been released from Grenier at 04:00 local time. At 10:19 it was above Boston and had reached an altitude of 24,000 m. It corresponded approximately to the given dimension and its diameter was about 33 meters\". (June 1, 1954)", + "location": "USA, near Boston", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out on the S.V.\" - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 36, 37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1802" + }, + { + "date": "6/11/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Dr. Percy Wilkins made an observation from an airplane. During this trip from Charleston to Atlanta, around 10:45 in the morning, his gaze fell upon two bright oval-shaped objects, about 3 km away, remaining above a cumulus bank. He described them as having the appearance of polished metal reflecting the sunlight. Suddenly a third UFO appeared. As the two he had noticed first continued to sway gently above the clouds, the third began to move at an accelerated speed, described a curve and disappeared behind another cloud. These things had an oval shape, a shiny copper color and a thin edge.", + "location": "USA, Atlanta (Georgia)", + "ref": [ + "Henry Durrant: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 33", + "Frank Edwards: \"The S.V. Serious Affair.\" - Trans. Laffont 1967 - p. 43, 44", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1803" + }, + { + "date": "6/24/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 3:30 pm, the pilot of an \"Ouragan\" was preparing to land, initiating his turn when he saw two objects moving parallel to his own trajectory. He made a turn to intercept them and found himself 3 km behind them, instead of at their level! \"The two objects appeared ovoid to me, seen from the end and connected by a beam. Their distance apart was 40 meters, their altitude 9000 meters.\" They were moving at supersonic speed and were \"wobbling\".", + "location": "FRANCE, Brétigny", + "ref": [ + "GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 238, 239", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1804" + }, + { + "date": "6/25/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 5:05 p.m. Witnesses: experienced private pilot John Mark, aboard his Navion lightplane; and the radar at Dayton, Ohio airport, observed a very large target at the same location. An object of aluminum or silver appearance, with an inverted cone on top, and a diameter of 60 feet. The phenomenon flew horizontally, hovered, and rose at a dizzying speed. Duration of 3 to 5 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Indian Lake, Ohio.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1805" + }, + { + "date": "6/26/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Suborbital flight with dogs Lisa and Rizika on board", + "location": "USSR,", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: Nieuwenhuis 1988, 52", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1806" + }, + { + "date": "6/29/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The crew of a British plane was followed for 80 miles by seven strange objects. Captain James Howard, pilot of the New York-London airliner, said that the mysterious escort disappeared when an American interceptor came to the scene. The BOAC plane was at 19,000 feet about 150 miles southwest of Goose Bay when the objects appeared. \"They were suddenly there,\" said Captain Howard. \"They seemed black, and I swear they were solid. They were about 5 miles away. They accompanied us for 18 minutes. There was a large central object that seemed to be able to change shape as if it were made of jelly. Sometimes it had the shape of a double wing, sometimes like a sphere with a tail. The other six objects were in front and behind it. The ten members of the crew confirmed the observation as well as those who were not sleeping among the 51 passengers. (\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 226) On June 30, 1954, Captain James HOWARD, his crew and the 51 passengers of the BOAC Stratocruiser \"Centaurus\" saw at 01:05, off the coast of Labrador, a large flying saucer accompanied by 6 small objects. At 01:07 the shape of the large object changed, taking the shape of a delta wing with slightly curved sides, two small objects in front and four small objects behind. At this moment the things changed shape again, from the delta shape the large object became an ovoid narrow, then a kind of wide crescent with clearly rounded tips. It was to starboard about 5 miles away. Around 01:20 the military fighter sent from Goose-Bay base sent a message saying that he was approaching the civil aircraft. Gradually the objects began to literally vanish. At 1:23 the last object disappeared. (Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 46 to 49) (Charles GARREAU: \"Alerte dans le ciel: le dossier des enlèvements\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p.39).", + "location": "LABRADOR, Goose Bay,", + "ref": [ + "\"Dossiers OVNI\", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Hors série, p. 19, locates this the day before, June 29", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1807" + }, + { + "date": "6/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 2:30 PM, Franco Premi, a farmer, was at the edge of the field near the road, on his tractor. Suddenly his dog, who was accompanying him, became agitated, while a very high-pitched whistle was heard. A strange saucer was landing in a grassy area about 20 meters away, with a kind of tripod support coming out of its belly. Once the craft was on the ground, the whistle stopped, the dog calmed down and the witness, getting off the tractor, went to hide behind some bushes. The gray, but transparent craft in its lower part had the shape of a mouse, without the tail, the lower part being slightly curved, while the upper part was very rounded. The length was estimated at 10 meters, the width at 7 m and the height at 3 meters, without the feet, which were one meter high. After 2 or 3 minutes, two beings dressed in a blue-azure suit came out from underneath. They were well two meters tall, they wore a helmet surrounding their head and descending low on the neck. At the front, a dark visor prevented them from seeing their features. These beings walked with difficulty, opened the craft in three places under the hull and took out a metal piece which they placed on the ground. After a few minutes, they put the piece back in place. One of the beings went to the wheat field, observing the plants (still small), but he did not pick any. He returned to his companion, still under the craft. Together they then looked at the countryside grasses. They took some and put the samples in a small container that seemed to be made of glass. After other looks at the countryside, they returned on board. A few moments later the saucer rose vertically and the high-pitched whistle was heard and gradually the landing gear was retracted into the craft. Once the craft was gone, the witness went to see the landing site and he felt a strong ozone smell. There were some traces of the landing gear, but no plants on the site seemed to be affected by the presence of the craft. (June 1954)", + "location": "ITALY, Torre de Picenardi", + "ref": [ + "CISU, D/archives - 5401 with the mention: RR3, not investigated, possible hoax. Sources: GdM 4, 42, 37-38; UFO in Italia II, 45-48, report G.O.R.U.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1808" + }, + { + "date": "6/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 11-year-old Laili Thindu reportedly told authorities in Nairobi that he had seen strange lights coming from the direction of Mount Kenya and flying near his village of Kirimukuyu. The lights hovered above a neighboring village where the sound of drums celebrating a wedding could be heard. The objects projected beams of light and the drums became silent. The next morning it was said to the child that the entire population of this village and the livestock had been \"burned\" to death by the light beam. (June 1954)", + "location": "KENYA, Nairobi, Kirimukuyu", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Confrontations\" - Laffont 1991, p. 164, 165", + "unverified case", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1809" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) General Assembly of World Geophysicists. Geophysics is a very wide science. It deals with both earthquakes and terrestrial magnetism, as well as (note from vog: hmm! hmm!...) the \"Mohole Project\". The Congress made an important decision and resolved to dedicate two consecutive years of scientific resources to geophysics, that is 1957 and 1958. (...) Extra-terrestrial things became fashionable and there was a worldwide epidemic of \"flying saucers\", hundreds of brave people declared to have seen flying saucers piloted by Martians or Venusians.... (1954, Summer)", + "location": "Italy, Rome", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 13, 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1810" + }, + { + "date": "7/2/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man encountered large six-armed beings who hypnotized him and left him in a state of shock.", + "location": "CANADA, Garson (Ontario)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 48 of 1979, p. 30", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1811" + }, + { + "date": "7/13/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Six women returning home after singing in the choir suddenly saw in the night sky what looked like a missile coming from Whangarei and heading towards the west coast. They were stunned as the craft glided slowly at low altitude, with a yellow glow at the front and an emerald green coloration at the back, so intense that it lit up the whole area. An inhabitant of Hokianga Road, already in bed, was woken up. He came out of the house to see what was happening. The man was scared as the object flew so low that he thought it was going to hit the nearby hill. Nothing was found during the immediate search. (July 13, 1954)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Dargaville", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 226", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1812" + }, + { + "date": "7/30/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 10:15 a.m. Witnesses: Hughes Aircraft test pilots Englert and Peterson, aboard a B-25 bomber. An object of metal, pencil-shaped, flying slowly and hovering for an unspecified length of time.", + "location": "USA, Los Angeles, California.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1813" + }, + { + "date": "7/30/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Buck Nelson, a resident of a rural area, claimed to have encountered humanoids from a flying saucer and received them at his home. During the observation of the disk's landing he said: \"The most extraordinary and frightening experience occurred when I tried to signal the disk with my flashlight. A beam of very intense light, much hotter and brighter than the sun, came out and hit me violently, making me fall. As I suffered from lumbago and nephritis, I was afraid to move, to get up and take another hit. I only watched the disks until they disappeared. But when I tried to get up, I was surprised to find that my pains were gone: they have not bothered me since\".", + "location": "USA, unspecified", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 65", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1814" + }, + { + "date": "7/30/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:15 in the morning, the captain and crew of the Dutch steamship \"De Groote Beer\" as well as the 463 passengers saw a gray, disk-shaped object fly through the sky and disappear into the clouds. Captain Boshoff, who had 40 years of navigation experience, had never seen anything like it. (\"Ufo's: a Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 226) The captain of a Dutch ship, en route to New York, reported that members of his crew had observed a flat object emerging from the sea. The captain had looked at it through binoculars: first the object was gray, then the bottom part became luminous and there were luminous spots around its perimeter.", + "location": "ATLANTIC OCEAN, 130 km east of New York", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 173", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1815" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An employee of the Gibord factory in Boussac was pedaling along the road to Bette at around 9 pm. He saw a luminous circle land in a field and two helmeted men, carrying antennas, come out of the craft. Frightened, he accelerated his pace, feeling as if he was pedaling in the void. He felt as if he was being drawn towards the craft. Finally, after a long detour, he arrived home and remained stunned for several days. Another peasant is said to have encountered strange unknowns in the countryside around the same time, again in the vicinity of Bette. (1954, Summer (probable date))", + "location": "FRANCE, Bette (Creuse)", + "ref": [ + "J.G. DOHMEN: \"A identifier et le cas Adamski\" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 100", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1816" + }, + { + "date": "8/7/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4:15 PM in somewhat cloudy weather, a UFO under the cloud ceiling (at 1300 m) in the form of a dark disc flew against the wind. The color of the crown continuously changed from a silvery hue to pink and then blue. When it passed to red, the outlines of the UFO were blurred. It swayed slightly like a spinning top. Around 10:30 PM two other people made a similar observation. (August 7, 1954)", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Zurich", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 78", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1817" + }, + { + "date": "8/7/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two brothers, aged 11 and 13, reported having witnessed a landing of a craft and having seen the pilot emerge. The observation began with the perception of a buzzing sound. They then saw a luminous, multicolored spherical object descend next to the barn and hover there. A kind of rod extended downwards from it and acted like a ladder, at the top of which an opening appeared and a very tall man (approx. 2.4 m) emerged. He was wearing a black \"leather\" suit that left his head uncovered. He was carrying a kind of machine gun. This man had a completely human appearance, of white race, but with large round eyes. He had short, black hair cut in a strange way. There were other witnesses to the scene, in addition to the children, and it lasted about an hour.", + "location": "CANADA, Hemmingford (Quebec)", + "ref": [ + "Skylook n° 92 - July 1975", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1818" + }, + { + "date": "8/11/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 8:55 p.m. Witness: P.L. Percharde, electrical engineer and vice-administrator of Moeller Shipwrecker Co., in Okinawa. A line of blue lights, below a blue circle with a black center. It flew over the boat before going up, illuminating and agitating the clouds. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). A rescued boat anchored just outside of Yoron-Jima. A round blue light descended from the sky to 200 or 300 feet above sea level, passing over the boat. Estimated to be 100 feet in diameter, it rose and flew through the clouds, the light illuminating and \"agitating\" the cloud layers. (August 11, 1954)", + "location": "JAPAN, Yoron Jima, near Okinawa.", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: a Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press inc. 1999, p. 227", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1819" + }, + { + "date": "Mid 8/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An Indian woman met a dark-skinned, long-haired space man who was laughing uproariously and predicted terrible disasters in the near future. (1954, mid-August)", + "location": "USA, Oklahoma", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 48 of 1979, p. 30", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1820" + }, + { + "date": "8/16/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Edmond Carnpagnac (C), a former artillery officer and former head of Air France's technical services in Madagascar, now retired, came to testify before the committee. The following phenomenon occurred on August 16, 1954 in Tananarive and was observed by several hundred witnesses. At 5 pm, while the Air France agency staff was waiting for the mail to arrive, someone spotted in the sky a 'large green ball moving at great speed. The first thought of the witnesses was that it was a meteorite. The phenomenon disappeared behind a hill, they thought that the green ball was going to hit the ground and they would perceive the shock. Yet it reappeared a minute later. Passing right through the observers, it revealed itself to be a kind of metal rugby ball preceded by a clearly detached green lens with sparks escaping from the back. According to the witnesses' estimate, the \"ball had the length of a DC4 plane, that is about forty meters. The green lens detached at the front at a little less than 40 m, with sparks coming out at the back. The craft flew over Tananarive at an estimated height of 50 to 100 m, an estimation made possible by comparison with the height of a nearby hill. As the craft moved, the lights of the shops went out and the animals showed real concern. After flying over Tananarive, the craft left towards the west. Passing over the city's zebu park, the craft caused a violent reaction of fear among them. Surprisingly, since normally these animals showed no emotion at the passage of Air France planes. Two or three minutes later, an identical craft was observed 150 km away above a farm school. Again, the herds were taken by panic. If the observed craft was the same as the one in Tananarive, its speed must have been around 3,000 km/h. According to C, General Fleurquin, commander-in-chief in Madagascar, convened a 'scientific commission to conduct an investigation into these phenomena. No trace of this investigation could be found in the archives of the Air Force, however number 6 of the Gepa (Group for the Study of Aerospace Phenomena) bulletin of the second semester of 1964 described this observation.", + "location": "MADAGASCAR, Tananarive", + "ref": [ + "COMETA Report, 1999", + "And did the GEPA, a civilian and private ufology group, at least make one or another verification before publishing???", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1821" + }, + { + "date": "8/20/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Edith Jacobsen and her sister Asta went with their uncle to pick blueberries in the early afternoon. Uncle Halvdan Jacobsen went off taking a different path, the two young women stayed together. They began picking and then saw at some distance a man coming towards them smiling and waving his hand. He was dressed in a kind of long khaki tunic, tight at the neck, his waist was held in by a wide belt. He had long brown hair, light eyes slightly slanted, and a very tanned complexion. Surprised, they returned his greeting, as he seemed friendly. He spoke to them in a soft voice and although they knew English and German in addition to Norwegian and had some knowledge of French and Russian, they could not understand a word he said. He took out a kind of pencil and a sheet of paper and drew them some orbits of the solar system, then invited the women to follow him. They did, intrigued. In a clearing they discovered a lenticular craft resembling two overturned saucepan lids with a kind of dome at their axis. The craft, gray-blue, measured 4 to 5 m in diameter and 1.50 m at its axis. Wanting to get closer, the stranger dissuaded them by gestures. He opened a hatch at the base of the dome, entered the craft and closed the door. A faint buzzing sounded and the disc took off slowly spinning on itself. At 40 m in height it hovered for a few seconds, accelerated its rotation and disappeared at an incredible speed. [note de vog: ce cas est cité dans les \"lettres de Ummo\", comme étant un canular… étant des E.T. eux-mêmes, ils devaient le savoir n'est-il pas? \".]", + "location": "NORWAY, Oeydalen (Mosjeeon)", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 79 à 81", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1822" + }, + { + "date": "8/23/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 1:00 AM: A column of light was seen at night by Bernard Miserey. He informed the police station the next morning; they replied that two officers on their rounds around one o'clock had seen the same phenomenon. A military engineer on the RN 181 also saw it. (Henry DURRANT \"Le livre noir des S.V. - LAFFONT 1970 - p. 29, cites Aimé Michel in \"Lueurs sur les S.V.\") \"I discovered a gigantic vertical cigar, motionless and silent, apparently stationed above the north bank of the river at about 300 meters altitude. I was contemplating this amazing spectacle for a moment when suddenly, from the bottom of the cigar, an object in the shape of a horizontal disc emerged, which first fell in free fall, then slowed down and suddenly tilted and flew horizontally across the river in my direction and became very bright. For a very short time I could see the disc face on. It was surrounded by a halo of bright light. A few minutes after it had disappeared behind me to the south-west at a prodigious speed, a second object similar to the first detached itself from the lower end of the cigar and maneuvered in the same way. A third followed, then a fourth. There was then a slightly longer interval and finally a fifth disc detached itself from the still motionless cigar. This one fell much lower than the previous ones, down to the level of the new bridge where it stopped oscillating slightly. I could then clearly see its circular shape and its red luminosity, more intense in the center, attenuated on the edges and the ardent halo that surrounded it. After a few seconds of immobility it tilted like the first four and started off in an arrow, but towards the north where it was lost in the distance, gaining altitude. Meanwhile the luminosity of the cigar had disappeared and the gigantic object which may have been 100 meters long had melted into the darkness. The spectacle had lasted about three quarters of an hour. ( 1954, August 23)", + "location": "FRANCE: Vernon (Eure)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"Le dossier des OVNI\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 37-38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1823" + }, + { + "date": "8/23/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man approached an object that looked like an aluminum trailer; nearby two small beings in silver clothes grunted like pigs. The craft flew away taking on a fiery red color.", + "location": "FRANCE, Lugrin (Thonon)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 35", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1824" + }, + { + "date": "8/23/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. September 1, 53) Adamski is brought aboard the mothership one last time. The extraterrestrials declare that their mission on Earth is complete.", + "location": "USA, unspecified", + "ref": [ + "Hans Richter: \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "but this is not the end, following April 25, 55", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1825" + }, + { + "date": "8/30/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the Royal Canadian Air Force base at 5:40 Henry Durdle, on duty in the mess, saw a bright object coming from the northeast that rushed towards him at a terrifying speed. Durdle, panicked, thought for a moment that it was a distressed plane, but there was no sound. Slowing down its course, the object took the shape of a disk topped with a turret, with a rotating, blinding light at the top. The disk, inclined towards the ground, appeared concave and embedded by one of its edges in a kind of parallelepiped with a slightly curved surface. At the periphery hung some kind of intertwined luminous rings. The device was at the height of a streetlight pole. Through a rectangular opening in one of the lateral faces, Durdle saw control organs: levers and buttons. Durdle alerted his colleagues who were then able to see the strange device move. Soon it was only perceived as a ball of light.", + "location": "CANADA, North Bay (Ontario)", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 88, 89", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1826" + }, + { + "date": "8/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Carrière was on vacation with her husband and her six children. One morning, as she was returning from doing her shopping in the village, she saw a kind of black balloon land, from which a very small man with a horrible face, all black, descended. Another had remained in the craft. The one who had come down stayed on the ground for only a few seconds and quickly got back on board. The craft took off immediately without making any noise, leaving behind a very white trail. In a nearby meadow, Mrs. Carrière noticed that two cows had fallen to the ground and were writhing as if they had been tortured. The farmer and his wife, as well as Mrs. Carrière, were paralyzed, as if struck by lightning.", + "location": "FRANCE, St Sauveur-La-Sagne (Puy de Dôme)", + "ref": [ + "GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 206", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1827" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 3pm, Mr. Div and 6 other children were playing a game and climbing a path between the Château de Buron and the Allier river. At 25 or 30 meters away, two small figures, about 90 cm to 1m tall, dressed in shiny silver diving suits, their heads wrapped in a huge helmet of about 50 cm in diameter made of the same material, with a flat circular visor, were busy at a collapsed wall made of dry stones (basalt). They were picking up pieces of 1 to 2 kg, taking them with both hands, taking a few steps and putting them in a box while bending over, without bending their legs. Then they would go back to the wall. They moved slowly. After two minutes of observation, one of the young boys, scared, ran away. The others followed immediately. (1954, Summer (or 1956))", + "location": "FRANCE, Château de Buron", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 66, 647", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1828" + }, + { + "date": "Late Summer 1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. and Mrs. Krings were driving towards Brussels from Antwerp between 6 and 7 pm. They stopped, as did other motorists, to look: \"An object shaped like a pear, apparently cut in two in the direction of the width, and as if placed on a flat base similar to a plate, flew to our right in the direction of the metropolis. Its progress was diagonal. It was dragging luminous cables where the orange color predominated over the gray.\" (1954, late summer)", + "location": "BELGIUM, between Antwerp and Brussels", + "ref": [ + "J.G. DOHMEN: \"To Identify and the Adamski Case\" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 155", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1829" + }, + { + "date": "8/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 6:30 PM, Mr. and Mrs. J.D. and Mr. and Mrs. F. had left Couvin by car and were heading to Olloy. About 2 km from the village, they suddenly saw an oval object of about 8 to 9 m in diameter crossing the road only about 10 m in front of the car. The object was moving quickly, spinning on itself at about 30 m above the ground in the direction of the French border (approx. NNO towards SSE). The largest diameter was surrounded by a phosphorescent, dazzling green band. No sound was heard and the duration of the incident is estimated to have been a few seconds. (August-September 1954)", + "location": "Belgium, Olloy sur Viroin (Hainaut)", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, cat. n° 1068, sources: SOBEPS, Willy Breidenbach's investigation Dec. 74 and J.L. Vertongen, comment on the Franco-Belgian coal basin study 77", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1830" + }, + { + "date": "9/2/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) John J. Swain, 12 years old, the farmer's son, was returning to the farm around 8 pm on his father's tractor when he suddenly noticed a tiny man less than 6 meters away behind an embankment. The small silhouette had a very long nose and very long ears and when it moved it seemed to \"fly\". John saw the creature \"fly\" over a small hill towards an object shaped like a saucer hovering about 1.5 meters off the ground. \"The thing opened\" and the little man jumped inside, the \"thing\" lit up and moved away at a considerable speed. (...) Police called and tracks found. (September 2, 1954)", + "location": "USA, Coldwater (Kansas)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 178, 179", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1831" + }, + { + "date": "9/7/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Emile Renard, a mason, and Yves Degillerboz, his worker, both on bicycles, saw at 7:15 in the morning, a saucer resting in a field, whose shape resembled a truncated haystack covered with an immense overturned plate. The apparatus was oscillating slightly. As the witnesses approached, smoke escaped from the lower part of the device, which took off and disappeared. The gendarmerie conducted an investigation.", + "location": "FRANCE, Acheux en Amiénois - Harponville - Contay", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 257", + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" - Fleuve Noir 1956 - pp. 79 and 123 - he cites two dates (including 8.8.54) in different places for the same case", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1832" + }, + { + "date": "9/10/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Antoine Mazaud, a farmer, returning from the fields at 8:50 PM, encountered about 1500 meters from his home in a path between two hedges, a normal-sized individual wearing a helmet walking towards him. Great surprise on both sides but Mazaud, worried, made a gesture of defense with the pitchfork he was carrying on his shoulder. The individual quickly advanced towards him, smiling, with his hands outstretched, to convince him of his good intentions. While uttering incomprehensible words he grasped Mazaud's hands and shook them warmly. Then, before Mazaud had recovered from his surprise, he jumped over the embankment bordering the path and jumped into a strange device in the shape of a large metallic cigar 3 to 4 meters long. The unlit apparatus took off vertically emitting a curious buzzing of a hive, passed under the high-tension wires and disappeared towards the west.", + "location": "FRANCE, Mourieras-Millevache (Corrèze)", + "ref": [ + "Aimé Michel: \"M.O.C.\" - éd. Seghers, p. 56 à 60", + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 125", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1833" + }, + { + "date": "9/10/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The \"Marius Dewilde\" case was widely commented on in ufology literature. Summary. Dewilde had gone to bed as usual around 10:15 PM. (other authors say his wife and son were already in bed but he was still reading by the fire) A few minutes later the dog started to bark. Dewilde got up, put on his pants and went out with a flashlight. The dog came towards him crawling. On the nearby railway track Dewilde then saw a dark mass. Having heard footsteps and surprised in the beam of his flashlight, 6 m away from him, two small creatures resembling men, wearing a shiny helmet. They were between 1m and 1m20 tall. He had wanted to block their way in the garden and at that moment a blinding light beam came out of the object and stunned him. He saw a door open in the dark object and then the object started to rise straight up, then at full speed, roaring. (Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse\" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 96, 97) \"It was between 10:15 PM and 10:30 PM, I was reading when the dog started to bark. My wife and the kid were already in bed. I went back to my reading, but as the dog wouldn't stop barking, I took my flashlight and went to see. Thereupon I noticed along the track a dark mass. (...) But the dog starts barking again. Instinctively I look in the direction where the beast is turning, pulling on its chain, and I see in the shadows something moving on the small path, on the other side of the house. I point my flashlight in that direction and I see two silhouettes rushing towards the railway track. I prepare to pursue them. But I changed my mind when I noticed their extraordinarily small size and their head enclosed in some kind of bell. Believe me, I felt like turning around. So I stayed two meters away from them, watching, when from the dark mass on the line a green ray fixed on me. I don't know if it was the effect of this ray or if I was paralyzed by fear, in any case I was like nailed to the ground. A few moments later the ray went out. The mass swayed, then it rose into the air, vertically, without noise and no faster than a helicopter, leaving behind it a black smoke. Once at a certain height it looked like a ball of fire and it disappeared at a dizzying speed. (...) The object reminded me more of a flat lid. It was closed on all sides. I didn't see the two little beings getting in, the green light was blinding me so much that I couldn't see anything anymore.\" (...) [note from vog: during the night Marius Dewilde drove 25 km to tell his story to the gendarmerie, which didn't deign to open, then he went to Onnaing to the police station. Commissioner M. Gouchet said that Marius Dewilde was trembling with fear...] (1954, 10 September)", + "location": "FRANCE, Quarouble", + "ref": [ + "Moustique n° 1503 of 14.11.1954, p. 15 to 18, article by Bart Brem.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1834" + }, + { + "date": "9/12/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the afternoon, a truck driver spotted a dome-shaped object approaching vertically and landing behind a clump of trees 50 meters from the road. Through a gallery surrounding the craft, human-like beings were visible. The witness stopped, ran towards the craft: at that moment it emitted a green ray that paralyzed him. The craft took off vertically and slowly moved away with a blast of air at departure.", + "location": "FRANCE, Quarouble", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier dossier complet..\" - Lefeuvre 1979, p. 78", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1835" + }, + { + "date": "9/14/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 5 pm, Georges Fortin was working in the fields when from the thick cloud layer emerged a luminous blue-violet cloud whose regular shapes resembled those of a cigar or a carrot. This shape had a rigid aspect and its movements were carried out in blocks: like a gigantic engine surrounded by vapors, at 400 or 500 m altitude. Everywhere in the countryside, the other peasants had dropped their tools to watch. Suddenly, the thing had been motionless for several minutes, a white smoke shot out from the lower end, first towards the ground, as if in free fall, then slowed down progressively, initiating an upward spiral around the phenomenon. After other maneuvers, a small shiny metal disc appeared, reflecting like a mirror the reflections of the large object. (...) total duration: more than half an hour. Other witnesses: Louis Grellier, Mrs. Vve Pizou, MM. Pérochau, Mercier and their wives, Daniel Bonifait (followed on 24-7-67: Simon la Vineuse) etc..", + "location": "FRANCE, Saint Prouant (Vendée)", + "ref": [ + "Aimé Michel: \"M.O.C.\" Ed. Seghers, p. 33 to 35", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1836" + }, + { + "date": "9/15/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, a mysterious craft landed a few meters away from a group of people who were immobilized due to a breakdown on a departmental road. An entity fled in front of two witnesses who, despite their fear, attempted to make contact with it.", + "location": "FRANCE, Feurs (St Etienne)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier dossier complet..\" - Lefeuvre 1979, p. 79", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1837" + }, + { + "date": "9/17/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Near Cenon, a farmer encountered a being in a diving suit who made friendly gestures to him. This individual was very small and had an inhuman and incomprehensible voice. The witness was unable to move the entire time of the encounter. The being entered an object that was placed on the road and flew away \"like lightning\", projecting a greenish light. (Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" -1967- Trans. I Read 1974 - p. 36) Yves David de Montgamé was riding his bicycle to Cenon. It was 10:30 pm. He arrived at the place called Pontereau when he suddenly felt a malaise. It was like tingling, prickling all over his body. He had to stop and thus the light of his bicycle no longer illuminated. To his great surprise he realized that his malaise was not increasing but that he was simply paralyzed. He then saw an object three meters wide and one meter thick. He felt horror overtake him: he could not move and he saw this strange object. Suddenly he saw a silhouette come out of the machine: it was a small being with human features. He approached, touched him on the shoulder and spoke to him in a voice that was not human and that he did not understand. The little man retreated to the machine where he entered. It became greenish and shot off into space at a lightning speed. Yves David returned to normal and trembling with fear he jumped on his bicycle to go home.", + "location": "FRANCE, Cenon", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"All about Flying Saucers\", ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p. 203, 204", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1838" + }, + { + "date": "9/19/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The whole population of the town witnessed the event. It was around 8:30 pm and in the courtyard of the residence Mr. Vernhet and his wife were chatting with the chief medical officer of the medical center, the head of the gendarmerie and the Rev. Father Vyard. Their attention was suddenly drawn to a bright point surrounded by a halo that was quickly growing. The light came from an ovoid craft topped with a dome and rays of light seemed to be coming out from each side. This craft moved in complete silence. After turning around for a few moments in the vicinity of the town, it lit up a powerful beacon, sometimes pointing up and sometimes down, and continued to move like this for half an hour. When it moved away, the witnesses clearly saw two oval-shaped luminous halos forming in the presumed location of the craft.", + "location": "COTE D'IVOIRE, Danane", + "ref": [ + "Charles GARREAU: \"Alert in the Sky: The Abduction Files\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p.111", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1839" + }, + { + "date": "9/21/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 9:45 p.m. Witness: airport guard. An object 10'x5', light blue metallic color, shaped like a walnut, with a nose in glass or plastic, with a door, with openings or vents in the nose. Buzzing softly it hovered, before landing vertically at 50' feet. A blond man, about 1m 75, 1m 80, appeared, spoke in a foreign language, tapping the guard on the shoulder, returned to his craft, fastened his harness, pushed a button and took off with the nose of the object raised, began to hover for a few moments before climbing vertically. Observations of 2-3 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner) Time: 10:45 p.m. (...) The UFO was oblong in shape, 10 feet long and 5 feet high, of a metallic light blue color. In the front there was a section in Plexiglas, blue too, containing the \"pilot\". At each end of the UFO there were two appendages with 4 arms supporting some kind of wings. An orange light shone in the front of the craft. The civil guard, Mr. Monteiro, was alerted to the presence of the object when he heard a sound like that of the wind passing through high tension or telephone cables. The object landed about 30 feet from the witness, nosing down in the maneuver; it flew over the witness at about 30 cm. Mr. Monteiro did not see any landing gear. A man with blond hair, 1m75 to 1m80 tall, came out of a door in the Plexiglas section and approached the witness. However, there was no attempt at conversation. The contact lasted from 2 to 3 minutes and ended when a car arrived. The pilot boarded and the craft rose almost vertically accelerating and quickly disappearing into the night sky. The weather was clear and visibility unlimited. (September 21, 1954)", + "location": "ACORES, PORTUGAL, Sta. Maria-Ponta Delgada", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 37", + "collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenço; \"Diario Popular\" 3.10.54; MUFON Journal; FSR; CEAFI", + "said the witness", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1840" + }, + { + "date": "9/22/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11 o'clock, two employees of the Webster Gas Company were returning from Bracken to Marshfield. (...) At 180 meters altitude and 200 meters distance to the southwest was an object somewhat in the shape of a boomerang, with a short and a long wing, very narrow, silent, covered in some kind of plastic or very thin material. It was slowly spinning. When the wing passed in front of the sun, the sunlight seemed to shine through. It was dark brown in color, with two black stripes near the end of the wing. \"We watched it for a few minutes (while stopped) and it rose to a height of 450 meters, still with the same spinning motion and at the same rate of rotation. It descended more slowly than it had risen, to 150 meters, stopped spinning and then plummeted, emitting a plume of smoke or vapor, stopped all maneuvers and fell into a small wood.\" The witnesses rushed there, but did not find any object: only two places where the ground was completely pulverized, but did this have anything to do with the object? (J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979 - pp. 175 to 177) Marshfield, Missouri. 9 a.m. Witnesses: private pilot J.N. Williams, and E.J. Ash. A thin object, initially translucent, then in the shape of an asymmetrical boomerang, descended behind the trees. Ground traces found. Observation of 15 minutes. (September 22, 1954)", + "location": "USA, Marshfield (Missouri)", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1841" + }, + { + "date": "9/23/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Twelve hunters observed at 5 o'clock, a flying saucer at a dizzying speed close to the trees. IN REALITY: it was a hoax set up by the hunters.", + "location": "FRANCE, Thenon (Dordogne)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier dossier complet..\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 84", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1842" + }, + { + "date": "9/24/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Cesar Cardoso was driving on a two-lane rural road near the village of Almaseda, not far from the border with Spain, when he heard a strange buzzing sound. Suddenly the engine of his car was sputtering and he stopped on the side of the road. There he tried several times, turning the key, to restart the engine. He only got noises resembling nails being shaken in a metal box. So he got out to open the hood. The buzzing sound he heard grew louder and there, lower than him, near the crest of a hill, he saw a silver disc about 13 m in diameter.

\"Three entities in shiny aluminum uniforms came out, they were about 2 m tall. The entities walked on the hill, stooping from time to time to pick up some of the vegetation that grew there: flowers, leaves, twigs and they put all this in a shiny box. The extraterrestrials saw Cardoso and three other Portuguese along the road: they began to make signs to them, inviting them to come near the saucer. We refused and they did not insist. They got into their craft which rose vertically and left at an extreme speed in a shower of sparks. (\"Flying Saucers Uncensored\" by Harold T. Wilkins, The Citadel Press, New Jersey, 1955, page 55. ; \"Diario de Lisboa\" for September 28, 1954.) [IN REALITY: this was a hoax set up by Cardoso's nephew, Francisco Antonio Fereira, who admitted the hoax in an interview, later published in the newspaper \"Diaro de Lisboa\" on October 1, 1954]", + "location": "Portugal, Almaseda", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD report this case on September 20", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1843" + }, + { + "date": "9/24/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 09:00. Two women, Mrs. Widow Geoffroy and Miss Gisèle Fin, gave independent accounts of a dark gray disc, 6 m in diameter and 1 m high, seen in a clearing. A man of normal size was standing near the craft. He was wearing dark clothes and some kind of cap. Miss Fin approached to within 30 m of the craft and said that the man was busy repairing it. Traces were found in the grass.", + "location": "FRANCE, Becar", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 260", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1844" + }, + { + "date": "9/25/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:35 PM Louis Perret from Paris and a friend were walking along the banks of the Marne. A craft descended vertically and landed silently 20 meters away from them. Two beings descended, 1.10 meters tall, their faces covered in fur. \"As I was paralyzed by a ray (no description) one of them rushed towards me and ripped off my pants. My friend shouted and the two beings got back into their craft which rose vertically and disappeared.\"", + "location": "FRANCE, Joinville le Pont", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier dossier complet..\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 86", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1845" + }, + { + "date": "9/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night the witness was returning home by bicycle. The sky was clear and the Moon was visible. On a meadow he saw a \"saucer\". Crawling and hiding in the bushes, he approached. He observed how small men wearing classic helmets had come out of the device with instruments. They set something up on the ground and the witness saw a flash of light come out of it. He then saw a screen on which a face appeared that seemed to be talking. But from the place he was in, he couldn't hear anything. The devices were then dismantled and reloaded by one of the little men while the other, with a kind of shovel, took a clump of grass which he carried towards the device. He started an animated conversation with his companion during which he pointed to the thicket in which the witness was. Frightened, the man closed his eyes, unable to move. When he opened them again, he saw the little man holding a branch of the bush in his hand, who headed towards the \"saucer\". Immediately after, the saucer rose. The witness then left the place but, presumably, at that moment he was seen and a powerful beam of light was directed at him. He fled as quickly as possible while the light and the saucer disappeared. (1954, September (before the 26th))", + "location": "BELGIUM, Wattou (Flanders)", + "ref": [ + "Source: \"Ons Zondagblad\" 26.9.54, signed Walter Cabu, journalist. In his letter of 9.3.72 Mr. Cabu said that it was a letter from the witness - no coordinates on this person were found. GESAG cat. n° 446", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1846" + }, + { + "date": "9/26/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 2:30 PM, Mrs. Leboeuf (née Lucette Salin), who was looking for blackberries (or mushrooms?), suddenly found herself, due to the barking of her dog, Dolly, in front of a creature resembling a child in a plastic bag, which she had initially taken for a scarecrow. It had eyes bigger than human eyes. In place of hair, a blackish mass, and wearing a transparent diving suit, its head in a kind of bell. It had no arms. She was petrified and when this being tried to approach her by hopping, she screamed and ran away, hiding in the bushes and trembling with fear. This creature entered a flat and circular machine which took off towards the northeast with a faint whistle. Traces. Witnesses strongly impressed. (Jimmy GUIEU: Black-out sur les S.V.\" - FLEUVE NOIR 1956 - pp. 157-160) Mrs. Leboeuf, terrified, sees a small being in a diving suit approaching her while her dog and those of the neighborhood bark. Then a disk rises from the ground whistling, tilts and disappears at very high speed. Traces are discovered on the ground and vegetation.", + "location": "FRANCE, Chabeuil", + "ref": [ + "Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, pp. 60-63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1847" + }, + { + "date": "9/27/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 02:40 the Roche couple saw \"something round like a red tomato\" 100 m from their home. This thing had 5 or 6 vertical rods on top of it. Mr. Roche said it was something like an overturned bouquet. After 20 minutes, this thing still in place, the couple went to bed.", + "location": "FRANCE, Bessèges", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 148 to 149", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1848" + }, + { + "date": "9/27/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:30 pm, it was pouring rain. Four children playing in the barn, came out hearing the dog barking furiously. The eldest threw himself almost on the \"ghost\" which had the shape of a piece of sugar split at the bottom, making legs. The small stones and the rubber-tipped dart thrown at it, bounced off the unknown with a tin sound. So it was not a ghost and the child approached ready to play, ready to touch. But an invisible and icy pressure pushed him to the ground. The little sister who ran up, saw the tin ghost move away swaying. Frightened, the children fled towards the house while the UFO, a red ball, oscillated in the meadow. (Jacques POTTIER: \"Les Soucoupes Volantes\" - DE VECCHI - 1974 - p. 31) IN REALITY: In the book by Gérard Barthel and Jacques Brucker: La grande Peur Martienn - Nouv. Ed. Rationalistes, Paris 1979 - it appears that this case, was unmasked, otherwise, said, would probably be only a hoax of the children. Unless it is a journalistic one. To be verified.", + "location": "FRANCE, Prémanon (Haut Jura)", + "ref": [ + "OVNI Présence n° 36 -janv. 1987", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1849" + }, + { + "date": "9/28/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 5:45 PM an object shaped like a bucket landed on the ground, jumping and emitting flashes and smoke.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Tournai", + "ref": [ + "Source: La Voix du Nord, and Fernand Lagarde, comm. of 72. GESAG cat. n° 674", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1850" + }, + { + "date": "9/28/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the \"Grand Tertre\", Mr. Mercier had noticed this afternoon that someone had stolen grapes from his vineyard. He decided to stay late to catch the thieves. He was surprised at around 10:30 pm to see a luminous mass fall from the sky about 50 m from him, he found himself \"paralyzed\" while 3 characters came out of this light and were busy. He fainted and when he came to, everything had disappeared. He then fled, terrified.", + "location": "FRANCE, Bouzais", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 261, 262", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1851" + }, + { + "date": "9/28/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11:10 PM at \"la Butte Rouge,\" two SNCF employees, Emile Gérard and Victor Paroux (not Bernard and Potraux), who were bringing a locomotive from Nantes to Auray, saw a dark object take off producing a violet light and follow them for 15 seconds before suddenly veering off and changing direction. Mr. Paroux was so scared that he fell ill and had to see a doctor.", + "location": "FRANCE, St Nicolas de Redon", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier dossier complet..\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 93, 94", + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 262", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1852" + }, + { + "date": "9/30/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On Thursday, September 30 (not October 1) around 1:00 PM two masons, MM Romain De Bastiani (Sébastiani?) and Bruno Burato (Buratto?) at the Saint Louis quarter, approached to within 100 m of an object shaped like a cigar, 3 m long and 80 cm wide, which rose from the ground vertically with a very soft whistling. The pointed part of the object was yellow, the rest brown. (From the front extended two appendices that touched the ground).", + "location": "FRANCE, Blanzy", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 263 which cites October 1 and gives the names and details in parentheses", + "M. FIGUET: J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 94, 95", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1853" + }, + { + "date": "9/30/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jean-Claude Delmotte, 10 years old, was walking along the path of the chapel on the edge of the Chéreng woods. 300m away he saw a dark sphere that became yellow-orange. The yellow light became more intense and began to shine brightly. The sphere took off vertically with a low noise and threw sparks downwards. Only the young witness and his little friends Lison and Besanger found footprints of \"webbed feet\" about 16 cm long. During the investigation the ground was trampled by horses and carts.", + "location": "FRANCE, Chéreng (Nord)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET: J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 95, 96", + "following October 3, 1954", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1854" + }, + { + "date": "9/30/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two road workers, Bernard Goujon and Armand Pichet, were working on the road. It was 5:10 pm. Their attention was drawn to a craft that was losing altitude and landed 300 m away from them next to a square of poplar trees. \"I wanted to approach it, but when I got to 150 m I was literally rooted to the spot by an invisible force. However, I saw it much better. The craft was resting on three legs and had a diameter of about 6m. A few seconds later it rose from the ground in complete silence, became very bright and moved away at a speed much higher than that of airplanes.\" (GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 144, 145) IN REALITY: the hoaxers confessed their trickery to the investigating magistrate.", + "location": "FRANCE, Maisoncelles en Brie (Seine et Marne)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET: J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier dossier complet...\" éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 656, 657", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1855" + }, + { + "date": "9/30/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At sea, between Brest and Rouan, the crew of the tanker Port-Lyautey observed, at dusk, an object that came to touch the surface of the sea then flew vertically. It emitted a red flame and ceased to be visible.", + "location": "FRANCE, Brest, at sea", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronicle of ET Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 262, 263", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1856" + }, + { + "date": "9/30/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:00 PM, as Céleste Simonutti was returning home near La Flotte-en-Ré, he saw a bright light. Fearing a fire, he rushed to the scene and observed a luminous sphere 12 m in diameter suspended at 1 m altitude. The sphere then turned red and then blue before flying away. Two other witnesses.", + "location": "FRANCE, Ile de Ré", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 263", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1857" + }, + { + "date": "9/30/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man saw in a field a disc-shaped object and its crew of 14 small men dressed in green.", + "location": "USA, Dearborn (Michigan)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 48 of 1979, p. 31", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1858" + }, + { + "date": "9/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Albert Sion was trying out a motorcycle he had just bought. At the height of the Cuges woods, in the Var region, his engine stalled and refused to start again. He then saw, fifteen meters away from him, a flying saucer resting on a mound. He wanted to approach it but suddenly felt paralyzed to the point of falling seated. Then the object took off and disappeared from his view in thirty seconds. Before leaving on his motorcycle, whose engine had finally started, Sion had noticed that his watch had stopped. It even had to be repaired.", + "location": "France, Valbarelle", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués\" - ed. Ramuel 1999, p. 144", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1859" + }, + { + "date": "9/30/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mme XX, fearing a rain shower, brought in her laundry around 1:30 PM. From the garden, behind her home, the view extended over a valley to a height topped by an old mill. In a field, to the left of the road leading to the mill, she saw two shiny objects in the shape of discs on the ground, a few meters apart and 100 m from her. She called her husband, who came. They observed two small beings who approached each other, headed towards their respective apparatus which they reintegrated as if they were merging into it. The objects took off and disappeared. (1954, September 30th or October 1st)", + "location": "FRANCE, Toulouse", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, le premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 99", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1860" + }, + { + "date": "10/1/1954 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A farmer saw at around 6:15 pm in a field a white apparatus. Later flattened grass was found at the site of the phenomenon. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 263) M. Vanhamme came to see his animals in the pasture, he had 40 of them including 10 white oxen. \"I counted 11,\" he will say, \"then I realized that the eleventh was actually a shiny rectangular device located 400 m away from me. I advanced towards it. Then I heard a whistling sound similar to that of a steam engine. The device left the ground quickly and disappeared.\" (1954, October 1 (approximate date))", + "location": "FRANCE, Ressons sur Matz", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 102", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1861" + }, + { + "date": "10/1/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:45pm three (two) cyclists saw an orange object in front of them, shaped like a beehive. A strange being wearing a diving suit was standing next to the craft. When they got to 70m from him, the object moved away very quickly. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 266)(Jimmy GUIEU: Black-out sur les S.V.\" - FLEUVE NOIR 1956 - p. 163 with the mentions between parentheses) Bernard Devoisin and René Condette, on bicycles, saw a craft shaped like a cereal stack that took up the whole width of the road: 3 meters high, 3 meters wide at its base. Bernard Devoisin saw on the left of the craft a humanoid whose size did not exceed 1 meter. He was wearing a diving suit. He disappeared behind the craft, which then rose gently to 1 meter above the ground, without making a sound. Then it moved away at a speed of about 50 km/h (GARREAU et LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975, J'ai Lu, p. 34, 35) Bernard Devoisin, 18 years old and René Coudette 19 years old saw at 150m from them, resting on the tarred road, an orange mass shaped like a hive. (...) The one who was riding in front saw something moving and took it for an animal. They suddenly realized that it was a small being wearing a diving suit (...)", + "location": "FRANCE, Ligescourt (Somme)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 103", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1862" + }, + { + "date": "10/1/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7pm two young people saw a bright white disc moving in the sky. It dove to the ground and two very tall men dressed in white emerged, making gestures. The witnesses, panicked, fled.", + "location": "FRANCE, Jussey", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 263, 264", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1863" + }, + { + "date": "10/1/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Croix d'Epine: Jacques Vallée, who puts October 2, 1954 at 8 pm) At 7:50 pm Ernest Delattre was returning to his house on a scooter when an egg-shaped object, brightly lit, landed on the left side of the road 15 m further. He saw short and dark shapes resembling potato sacks, moving near the object. He accelerated, saw the object the size of a small car move away while its color changed from orange to blue and then to a bluish gray. The witness fainted while he was telling his story. Without being consulted, two people from neighboring villages reported having seen the object.", + "location": "FRANCE, between Lormaison and St Crepin Ibouvillers -", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, First Complete Dossier...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 104", + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronicle of ET Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 265", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1864" + }, + { + "date": "10/1/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:00 PM (8:00 PM?) near St Jean d'Angély, two businessmen Messrs. Estier and Phelippeau who were returning from Royan, saw a small man cross the road in front of their car. Having stopped immediately, they saw the silhouette disappear into the woods.", + "location": "FRANCE, La Roulerie", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronicle of UFO Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 264", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1865" + }, + { + "date": "10/1/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) As he was returning home at 10:00 PM, Gilbert Prudent saw a bright object on the side of the road 50 meters away from him. The engine of his cycle stopped. It had a flat part and a kind of mushroom on top. As the witness approached, the object became dark and rose vertically with a faint whistling sound.", + "location": "FRANCE, Branges near Louhans", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 105", + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 264", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1866" + }, + { + "date": "10/2/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Five witnesses, located to the right of the airfield, observed at around 7:30 PM an object of round shape going pointed at each side. On the round part several violently lit portholes were noticed. They saw the object descend vertically, make two stops of about one minute each, and then appear to land.", + "location": "FRANCE, Feniers", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 108", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1867" + }, + { + "date": "10/3/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 0:15 Marcel Sénéchal was cycling back to St Amand les Eaux. He was following the towpath of the canal that runs alongside the Scarpe. At the exit of Nivelles he heard someone speaking in a language he didn't understand. \"I turned my head and below the path, in a pasture, I saw in the faint light of the moon, a ball of about 3 m in diameter. Next to it were two small beings, no more than 1 meter tall, they were talking. They had big heads. Their clothes were luminous.\" Frightened, he ran away. The next day he made a statement to the gendarmerie.", + "location": "FRANCE, Nivelles (Nord)", + "ref": [ + "GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 132", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1868" + }, + { + "date": "10/3/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 5:45 in Bressuire (Deux-Sèvres), Angelo Girardo on a moped on his way to work saw a luminous object \"like a barrel standing in the grass\". A small man was standing 2 or 3 meters away. He was wearing a kind of dark suit but was bareheaded. He made signs to the witness, but the latter, not at all reassured, fled. (Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" - Fleuve Noir 1956 - pp. 148-149 which mistakenly dates this to September 27, 1954, and whose description would be doubtful) The witness was riding a bicycle on the RN 148B. When he arrived at the grain silos of the agricultural cooperative of Bressuire, he found himself facing a circular object, 3 m in diameter, resting on the road. Surprised, he got off his bike. He saw near the object a small being dressed in a diving suit who made signs for him to approach. Surprised by fear, Girardo walked backwards without taking his eyes off the being. The latter returned to the apparatus and entered it. A few seconds later the disc rose at a dizzying speed. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 96)

IN REALITY: The newspaper articles (Le Figaro of October 4, 1954, La Croix, Paris Presse, L'Aurore, France-Soir, Libération of October 5, 1954) constituted the only source of information for ufologists who cited this RR3. They did not refer to the journalistic source consisting of two articles from the regional daily La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest of October 4, 1954, p. 2 and 3 of the Deux-Sèvres edition. It took 17 years for someone, René Pascaut, to go and find the witness. (They Met Extraterrestrials, (Ed. A. Lefeuvre, 1978, pp. 177-178). - Also reported by A. Gamard in E. Zurcher, Les apparitions d'humanoïdes, Ed. A. Lefeuvre, 1979, pp. 176-177) R. Pacaud thus revealed that it was a hoax. Angelo Girardo, the witness, having died, he had gone to see his wife. She told him that her husband had invented the story because he loved to make his friends laugh. Gérard Barthel and Jacques Brucker, in La grande Peur Martienne, also mentioned that we were dealing with a mystification, according to the statement of one of A. Girardo's sons.", + "location": "FRANCE, Bressuire", + "ref": [ + "OVNI Présence n° 36 January 1987", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1869" + }, + { + "date": "10/3/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 8:00 and 8:45 PM, about forty witnesses saw two immobile balls of fire in the sky at 500 meters altitude, moving vertically at times. Suddenly they transformed into a kind of flying cigar horizontally almost out of sight, then returning to the initial spot in the form of a spinning top. Quite a long time after their definitive disappearance, a bright light persisted in the sky. (Jimmy GUIEU: Black-out sur les S.V.\" - FLEUVE NOIR 1956 - p. 182) IN REALITY: At 9:30 PM the Moon was setting in a crescent in the southwest. Optical illusion caused by a stratus cloud formation.", + "location": "FRANCE, Marcoing, Quend, Hérissart, elsewhere in the North", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 657 à 660", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1870" + }, + { + "date": "10/3/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the edge of Lake La Pause between Mont Brun and Preissac, a miner from Rouyn, around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, was about to leave for home. \"Suddenly, I felt a strange tingling in my back and at the same time I saw that the water of the lake was rippling over a width of ten feet, there was a shadow advancing on the water. I looked up. About fifty feet above my head on the right I saw a kind of big copper or bronze cauldron, with small spikes in the metal, so close was the thing to me. I had never been so scared in my life. Without the slightest noise, flying at about ten miles an hour, the machine went to land on the edge of the lake in a small clearing. I didn't hesitate, I took the oars and headed for the craft, very agitated, because this was not normal. I was about fifty feet from the shore when I saw a door open in the round mass which was about thirty feet in diameter and twenty feet high. Two small and very agile men descended and began to pick up \"mosses\". It looked like they were wearing some kind of plastic bag on their heads and they had a white rubber suit on their whole body, I didn't see any \"zipper\". I was quite surprised and didn't dare make a move.

They picked up grass for a good ten minutes and sometimes they \"gargled\" words that I didn't hear very well. They had a strange way of bending over: the lower back bent \"square\" without having to round the back. They had their faces almost on the ground. Finally one of them straightened up completely facing the lake where I was. He raised his hand and I noticed that he had steel claws. He didn't move for a good ten minutes. Through the plastic I could clearly see his round and shiny eyes. I was sweating buckets out of fear, those two minutes were the longest of my life. Then with a supple step he ran towards the saucer, the other one ran too looking at me through his plastic bag. They closed a hatch in the side of the craft which immediately rose without a sound. The water began to ripple all around me. Then the thing became bright red, it overturned about half a mile from me and it left so quickly towards the sky that I could barely follow it with my eyes.", + "location": "Canada, near Rouyn", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"All about Flying Saucers\" ed.; Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, pp. 167-169", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1871" + }, + { + "date": "10/4/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:10 AM, Mr. Lacambre saw at 200 meters from his home, at the edge of the stream, a small being strangely dressed. It was small (90cm), brown, wearing a wide leather belt, leather shoes, and a slip. Under each arm it carried an object shaped like a pear. The witness returned home to take his hunting rifle. Sneaking back, he found the small being bent over, drinking a sip of water from the hollow of his hand. Then he picked up some stones and put them in his belt. Mr. Lacambre approached to within 12 meters and heard a sound pronounced by the creature: \"ortou\" or \"ortin\". It then flew vertically and in 30 seconds disappeared.", + "location": "FRANCE, Saint Perdoux", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 116-117", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1872" + }, + { + "date": "10/4/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 6 pm. Eliane Berteaux, a ten-year-old girl, had just driven the cows into a meadow. She was riding her bike back when: \"A little ahead of me, about twenty meters to my left, I saw something like a camping tent. As I got closer I saw a hatch open on the top of this thing which wasn't a tent, but a 3m tall object that looked like a big egg. It was resting on the ground on a rectangular foot. The hatch was about 1m tall and 60cm wide. A small man appeared. He jumped to the ground. His head was surrounded by a square shape. His eyes were very piercing. His arms were hanging but seemed to be made of one piece, with the fingers welded together. He was wearing clothes with long, reddish-brown fur. He advanced towards me. I got scared and ran away without looking back.\" Mr. Antoine Barrois, 70 years old, saw a luminous object, very bright red, rise up but he didn't worry about it. Another witness heard a noise, a kind of buzzing.", + "location": "FRANCE, Villers le Tilleul (Flize)", + "ref": [ + "GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975, J'ai Lu, p. 26, 27", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1873" + }, + { + "date": "10/4/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Garreau, a farmer, saw an object the size of a cart land in his field. Two men of normal size came out through a sliding door. They were wearing khaki uniforms and seemed to be of European type. They shook the witness's hand and said something like \"Paris? North?\" (according to another version they uttered incomprehensible words). They petted the witness's dog and left at an astonishing speed. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronicle of ET Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. I HAVE READ - p. 267) IN REALITY: It would be a mistake: landing of a NATO helicopter.", + "location": "FRANCE, Chaleix", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"UFO, First Complete Dossier...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 664, 665", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1874" + }, + { + "date": "10/5/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An Italian fisherman was approached by a mysterious individual of human appearance, dressed in red, who spoke to him in a language incomprehensible to the fisherman. The stranger left before the Italian had time to call his wife.", + "location": "ITALY, Roverbella (Mantua)", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black out on the S.V. - FLEUVE NOIR 1956 - p. 196", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1875" + }, + { + "date": "10/5/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Pierre Lucas, a baker, was drawing water from a well at 4:00 in the morning when he noticed an object at some distance. It was a round object about 3 m in diameter from which emerged a dwarf with an oval face, covered in hair, with eyes as big as crow's eggs (or pigeon's eggs in Jimmy Guieu's version) who touched his shoulder and spoke to him in an unknown language. The dwarf left and the object flew away. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 268) Pierre Lucas, a baker's worker who was occupied in drawing water in the bakery courtyard suddenly observed, at some meters from him, a \"flying saucer\" of 3 meters in diameter placed on the ground. Astonished, he saw a creature of 1 m 20 in height come out of it who approached him before touching his shoulder while articulating incomprehensible words. Mr. Lucas kept his cool and headed towards the bakery, followed by the unknown. In the light, the witness was able to make out the strange visitor: he had an oval face, covered in dark hair, and, striking detail, enormous eyes. The young man immediately called his boss for help, but the creature re-entered its craft which took off immediately, leaving one to believe that it was not only more evolved than us in terms of technique, but also in terms of prudence... » (1954, 5 October)", + "location": "FRANCE, Loctudy (Finistère)", + "ref": [ + "Jean François BOEDEC: «Les OVNI en Bretagne, Anatomie d'un Phénomène», ed. Fernand Lanore 1978, p. 103", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1876" + }, + { + "date": "10/5/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7:15 the road worker Narcy saw an object near the road between Voilecomte and La Neuville. In his report to the police he declared to have seen a hairy dwarf, dressed in a kind of orange jacket, who went back on board the vessel whose one of the sections had the shape of a cigar under a flat disc. Between the two sections there was a porthole through which the entity entered the object. Traces were found at this place. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 269) He saw in a field a circular object of 10 m in diameter. \"I was at a hundred meters. I stopped. I then saw a small being, 1.20 m tall who seemed to be dressed in a long-haired cloak. I lay down and I called. The little man turned around. He looked all around him, then he went into his machine. This one took off immediately and it disappeared in the clouds. At the moment of the take-off there was like a big vaporous commotion under the craft\". (GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 33, 34) IN REALITY: Mr. Narcy had invented this story to excuse himself for a delay to his work. The press published this denial. (1954, 5 October)", + "location": "FRANCE, Voilecomte - Mertrud (Haute Marne)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 665", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1877" + }, + { + "date": "10/6/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 6 o'clock, Joseph Roy was on his way to work by bike: the night was still very dark. He saw in front of him at low altitude a blinding light, which went out. When he arrived at the place where the light had disappeared, he saw in a field near the road, a kind of giant shell 3 m long, vaguely lit by some kind of portholes. In front of this machine was a small dark figure. The witness was scared. He literally sprinted to the gendarmerie.", + "location": "FRANCE, L'Isle sur Suippes (Marne)", + "ref": [ + "GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 210, 211", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1878" + }, + { + "date": "10/6/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11:30 PM, a woman riding a bicycle saw in a field next to the road an orange, then green light coming from an object shaped like a turtle with a dome on top. The light went out and she could see two human forms, one of them armed with a rod and seeming to look for something. Suddenly a strong light illuminated the object and the woman saw two small cyclops without noses, with flat faces but with two holes above their mouths. Frightened, the witness screamed and the object disappeared with a faint buzzing sound.", + "location": "FRANCE, Cozes (between Bordeaux and Royan)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 128, 129", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1879" + }, + { + "date": "10/7/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) René Margaillan (Margaillou?) saw at 2:30 pm an object that had landed in a field. It was hemispherical and had a diameter of about 25 m (note from vog: all other authors say: 2.50 m). The witness felt short of breath and paralyzed. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 271) He saw a strange craft, stopped his team, blocked the brake and moved towards the phosphorescent apparatus. It was of metallic appearance and measured about 2.50 m high, and was roughly spherical in shape. Intrigued, the witness looked long at this spacecraft, then, suddenly, he saw nothing. The craft had spontaneously disappeared.", + "location": "FRANCE, Monteux (Vaucluse)", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V. - FLEUVE NOIR- p. 198", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1880" + }, + { + "date": "10/7/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 6:30 pm, the two Lansellin children witnessed the landing of an object that was red and luminous, shaped like an egg on a black lid, and saw two occupants that looked like normal men, dressed in black and with faces too (sic). Frightened, they ran back home.", + "location": "FRANCE, Hennezis", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V. - FLEUVE NOIR- p. 199", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1881" + }, + { + "date": "10/7/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Marcel Guyot was returning from work around 19:30 near this village. His son followed the same route ten minutes later. Both of them saw, at a level crossing, three objects on the ground, which were producing a bright white light. One of them was circular, the other had the shape of a cigar (note of vog: and the third?) (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 271) IN REALITY: The local correspondent, in need of a copy, who was at the café where a story was being told, telephoned his editor the incredible story which was widely disseminated in the press.", + "location": "FRANCE, St Etienne sous Barbuise", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 665, 666", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1882" + }, + { + "date": "10/9/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Welliquet, a postman, reported having seen an elongated craft in the countryside at the place called \"La Belle Thérèse\". Two people occupied the craft which rose into the air. (\"Le Soir\" 11.10.54 - list by Daniel BUKENS, Remicourt, Belgium.) The people had an appearance that was almost human. When questioned in 1967, the witness changed his statements and said he had only seen a streak in the sky. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 272) The real name of the postman is Williquet. He observed an object that was luminous and left a streak. The phenomenon was heading towards Waremme. All of this was seen from very far away. The rest is journalistic hoax.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Huy (not Braives) (Liège)", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, cat. 27, inquiry by Roger Lortihoir of 14.4.68", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1883" + }, + { + "date": "10/9/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4:00 PM, Jean Bertrand saw while driving on the road in front of him a shiny metallic sphere. The upper half seemed to be made of a transparent plastic material. Two figures of human appearance were standing inside. The craft quickly rose and headed east.", + "location": "FRANCE, Carcassonne", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronicle of ET Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 273", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1884" + }, + { + "date": "10/9/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three children who were roller skating around 6:30 pm, Gilbert Calda, Daniel and Jean-Pierre Hirsch, near the cemetery, saw an object land close to them. The object was near the cemetery resting on three legs, it had a diameter of approximately 2.50m. A dwarf of about 1.20m dressed in black, with a face covered in hair, large eyes, came out directing a blinding light at them and spoke some words in an unknown language. The children turned in time to see the object take off. Robert Magnin, 16 years old, observed the scene from afar.", + "location": "FRANCE, Pournoy la Chétive (Moselle)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 273", + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 137", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1885" + }, + { + "date": "10/9/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7:00 PM, Mr. Barrault was riding his bicycle when he suddenly saw a being dressed like a deep-sea diver directing two beams of light at him. He had no-heel boots and his eyes were very bright. He walked on the road for a minute then entered the forest. The witness was paralyzed during the duration of the incident. The being had a hairy chest and there were two lights, one above the other, in front of him. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 273, 274) IN REALITY: an investigation by L.D.L.N. showed that the witness had been the victim of a prank organized by an 18-year-old young man who had disguised himself and whom he had perfectly recognized. Everything else was just the invention of a journalist in need of a story.", + "location": "FRANCE, Lavoux (Vienne)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 666", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1886" + }, + { + "date": "10/9/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 8:30 PM, on National Road 631, at La Caiffe, J.P. Mitto was returning from Toulouse with two other people when they saw two small beings, the size of an eleven year old child, crossing the road, about 5 meters in front of the car, and then jumping into a meadow. Immediately stopping, the witnesses saw a large convex disk rise vertically. It was about 6 meters in diameter, orange in color, and was literally sucked into the sky. There were brown and oily spots at its location. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronicle of ET Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 274) IN REALITY: \"The Martians were us\" This big headline had just concluded a series of hoaxes organized by two Parisian journalists, Messrs. Michel Agnelet and Pierre Laforêt. (...)", + "location": "FRANCE, Briatexte (Tarn)", + "ref": [ + "Erich ZURCHER: \"Humanoid Appearances\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 179 and 181", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1887" + }, + { + "date": "10/9/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Willi HOGE, a cinema operator, saw in the evening, 50 m from the road in a field, a quite bright blue light. Believing it to be a crashed plane, he approached a bit and saw a cigar-shaped craft immobilized at 1.50m from the ground. The thing was surrounded by a bluish light. Under the craft he saw 4 men, about 120 cm tall, with a rather wide torso, and the head too big in relation to the body. They had thin legs and were dressed in a kind of suit resembling rubber. The witness did not approach any further, just observing. After ten minutes the creatures got back on board using some kind of ladder. Then the craft took off vertically, appearing then only as a shining disc. (October 9, 1954)", + "location": "GERMANY, outskirts of Munster", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V. - FLEUVE NOIR- p. 205, 206", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1888" + }, + { + "date": "10/10/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) New observation by Marius Dewilde. \"It was between 11:30 and noon when my three and a half year old son came to tell me that there was a car on the track. I went out: 50 meters away, a device of the same shape and size as a month earlier, was on the same track, but on the one that passes on the other side of the house. There was a rectangular opening at the base of the dome of the device. All around there was a series of bumps whose meaning I did not understand and a row of portholes. Beings dressed in dark gray overalls were busy around. I was advancing towards the device and a being came to meet me. He spoke in a foreign language. He stroked the child's head. Then the creature grabbed a chicken, stroked the child again. (..) A door closed the entrance and the object took off towards the east. [note from vog: Marius Dewilde died on October 1, 1996]", + "location": "FRANCE, Quarouble", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 54 to 58", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1889" + }, + { + "date": "10/10/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:15 Michel Toutain was riding his bicycle towards Blanville when his machine seemed to be struck by inertia, despite his owner's efforts. Intrigued, he got off his bike, turned it over, checked the derailleur, and got back on: impossible to make it move forward. 500m away to the right, a luminous object then caught his attention. It was a red ball with, 4m above it, a greenish part resembling the lid of a washing machine. Between this cabin which housed four silhouettes, a luminous point changed color in connection with the movements that this assembly then began to make. During a sudden change of direction it became green, then pink during a horizontal displacement, and disappeared while gaining altitude, becoming blue. During all this time, about fifteen minutes, the witness was still struggling with the bike, which had only gone 200m. At the moment of the object's disappearance, a luminous ball split into two parts. M. Josse, who was passing with his truck near a small wood, saw the final phase of this observation.", + "location": "FRANCE, Marville-Moutier-Brule", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 141, 142", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1890" + }, + { + "date": "10/10/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 06:30, Roger Thiriet, a prison guard in Ecouvres, was riding a motorcycle when he suddenly saw an object of aluminum color in the shape of a plate, with a dome and two portholes. It had a diameter of about 2 m and a height of 1 m and immediately moved away.", + "location": "FRANCE, Charmes-la-Côte (Meurthe et Moselle)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronicle of ET Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 274, 275", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1891" + }, + { + "date": "10/11/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, the inhabitants of an isolated farm a few hundred meters from the village were awakened by an abnormal whistling. Through the shutters they distinguished a blinding light, fixed on the side of the hill. A few minutes later they saw a luminous ball rise vertically and disappear quickly. Police report. At 1:30 a.m. farmers were awakened by a whistling in Doncourt-Village, and saw a flat object land near the woods. Soon it rose very quickly vertically and flew away. The ground was scorched. The police took samples.", + "location": "FRANCE, Moncourt (not Doncourt) (Moselle)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 275", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1892" + }, + { + "date": "10/11/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Near La Carie, MM Gallois and Vigneron in a truck felt an electric shock at 04:30, while the car headlights went out. They saw an object in the pastures about 50 m away. It was cylindrical and quite thick and three small beings were standing next to it. No visible light, except for a small reddish point. The two witnesses were paralyzed until the object left. Mr. Chaumeau, independently of the other two witnesses, saw a luminous object flying over the woods of La Carie.", + "location": "FRANCE, Corbigny - Sassier (Nièvre)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 275, 276", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1893" + }, + { + "date": "10/11/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 6pm a police officer observed a metallic-looking craft, heading towards Montpellier. The object seemed to be composed of cigars stacked on top of each other. It disappeared very quickly.", + "location": "FRANCE, Nîmes", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 151", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1894" + }, + { + "date": "10/11/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A round object 4 m in diameter landed in a meadow. It emitted a powerful red light and took off with tremendous acceleration when witnesses Carrière, a garage owner, Gardelle, a farmer, Ginestre, a shoemaker, and two other people approached. Mr. Gardelle felt an electric shock. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 277, 278) IN REALITY: an investigation by L.D.L.N. showed that the garage owner Carrière had taken advantage of his equipment to deceive several of his friends.", + "location": "FRANCE, Montbazens", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 146 and 667", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1895" + }, + { + "date": "10/11/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:30 PM Spirite Stramare returned home and saw near an intersection, an engine of blue color composed of two superimposed discs. They have the approximate dimension of a \"gardener's umbrella\". Three small beings stand next to it. They wear dark gray, tight uniforms and are wearing aviator helmets. Frightened Stramare gets off his bike and runs to hide behind a tree, about twenty meters from the engine. The three beings enter between the two discs, the upper disc lowers revealing an antenna about 1.50m high and the device takes off with a noise similar to that caused by a small electric motor. (GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face to the extraterrestrials\" - DELARGE 1975 - I Read p. 171) IN REALITY: the witness had to do with one of the hoaxes organized by the journalists of \"Saturday Evening\" who were at that time at the intersection of the roads of Fronton and Villemur, equipped with their diving suits and all the equipment: rockets, fireworks etc.. to play \"Martians\". Note that the witness saw three beings, while the journalists were only two.", + "location": "FRANCE, Saint Alban (Haute Garonne)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET / J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, first complete file ...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 667, 668", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1896" + }, + { + "date": "10/11/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two truck drivers pursued across fields an enormous disc-shaped UFO with a dome, which had flown over them above the road.", + "location": "ALGERIA, Lavarande, Oran", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 306", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1897" + }, + { + "date": "10/11/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jules Martin, a colonial teacher on leave, observed two beautiful \"Martians\" near an object on the ground. The two women were wearing leather boots and gloves, as well as shiny helmets. Before leaving, they kindly agreed to give an autograph to the teacher. (Saturday Evening of 14.10.54 - comm. J.L. Rivera) IN REALITY: the witness would have invented from scratch this alleged encounter", + "location": "FRANCE, Ile d'Oléron", + "ref": [ + "Erich ZURCHER: \"Les apparitions d'Humanoïdes\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 179", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1898" + }, + { + "date": "10/12/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At dawn, around 04:00, Ange Hurle and Pierre Vidal see a giant rocket taking off about a hundred meters from their house, emitting an intense light. The two men go to the place where the craft took off. The grass is compressed on a circular surface of 5 meters in diameter. In the center, four footprints appear to have been left by the feet of a heavy machine. Air police investigation.", + "location": "FRANCE, outskirts of Toulouse", + "ref": [ + "GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 112", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1899" + }, + { + "date": "10/12/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Yvonne XXX saw at 6:20 a white ball three meters in diameter, seemingly transparent, descend to 50 cm from the ground and 60 to 70 m from her. Inside this object she saw two silhouettes, one larger than the other. It seemed to be two men wearing some kind of suit.", + "location": "FRANCE, Vernosc-les-Annonay", + "ref": [ + "Erich ZURCHER: \"Les apparitions d'Humanoïdes\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 201", + "M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 55 and 153, 154", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1900" + }, + { + "date": "10/12/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening, Mr. Laugère saw a metal object in the shape of a torpedo resting on the ground, near a gas-oil tank. A small being covered in fur was standing next to it, emitting incomprehensible sounds. Mr. Laugère went to get some friends. When they returned, the craft had disappeared. (GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 105) IN REALITY: It was some railway workers who had decided to play a good joke on a too credulous colleague. One of them had dressed in an old goat skin and, while grunting, had waved a lamp in front of Mr. Laugère, while another railway worker fired off a firework rocket to simulate the departure of the UFO.", + "location": "FRANCE, Montluçon (Allier)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 668", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1901" + }, + { + "date": "10/12/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A saucer landed in the morning in the capital where it attempted to abduct a terrified man. Gashim Faili declared that upon waking he had discovered the saucer 18 m away from him, parked in the middle of the street in a populous area in the south of the city. Emitting a magnetic force, the flying saucer tried to draw him aboard, but his screams alerted the neighbors, forcing the pilot of the craft to take off. (Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" - FLEUVE NOIR 1956 - p. 209). An object in the shape of a disc approaches very close to the ground in a heavily populated area. Chasim Faili, one of those who observed the event, screams when he thinks he is going to be kidnapped; a crowd gathers and the craft takes off. The report continues with a description of the operator of the machine, who is said to have been small and dressed in black.", + "location": "IRAN, Tehran", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"En quête des humanoïdes\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 51", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1902" + }, + { + "date": "10/12/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:00 PM, farmer Franzesko Beuc saw an object and a pilot of small size entering the craft. It glided along the road for 30 meters then quickly rose up. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 278) The farmer returned to the farm and saw a vehicle resembling a 4CV supported by 4 wheels of 40cm in diameter, motionless on the side of the road. A meter away from the craft, he found himself face to face with a small being wearing a cap and leather clothing. Having addressed this mysterious visitor, the latter quickly climbed into the craft which, after rolling for about thirty meters on the road, took off like an airplane and gained altitude.", + "location": "FRANCE, Orchamps", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 154, 155", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1903" + }, + { + "date": "10/12/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Jean Marty witnessed the landing of a luminous disc. After the disappearance of this craft, the witness discovered \"laid on the grass\" two sheets of glossy white paper, covered with printed letters. They were two sheets of a brochure written in Indochinese which mentioned the entries of ships into the ports of Indochina as well as the arrivals of fish.", + "location": "FRANCE, Leguevin", + "ref": [ + "GESAG sub.cat. of cat. n° 465, \"La Libre Belgique 15.10.54, Paris-Soir 15.10.54, La Croix 16.10.54 and Paris-Presse 15 and 16.10.54", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1904" + }, + { + "date": "10/12/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Ste Marie d'Herblay du Val d'Oise cited by Quincy and others on the date of October 16: erroneous) (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 157) Gilbert Lelay, 12 years old, saw at 4 pm (10:30 pm?) a flying craft land in a meadow. \"It looked like a cigar and it shone like a glowworm. I was about ten meters away and I didn't dare approach. There was a man right next to it, dressed in grey. He had boots on his feet. He looked gentle and he approached me. In one hand he was carrying a ball that was shooting out little violet flashes. He took off his hat and scratched his forehead, he put the other hand on my shoulder and said to me kindly: \"Look, but don't touch.\" Then, laughing, he got back into the craft and flew away.\"", + "location": "FRANCE, Erbray near Châteaubriant (Loire Atlantique)", + "ref": [ + "\"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 278 which mentions October 12 in its chronology", + "Henry DURRANT: \"Premières enquêtes sur les Humanoïdes ET\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 53,54 which places the date on October 16", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1905" + }, + { + "date": "10/12/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the afternoon, on the road to Port-Lyautey, a French engineer saw a small being, about 1.20m tall, enter an object which soon flew away. The being was wearing a silver suit.", + "location": "MOROCCO, Mamora Forest", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 51", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1906" + }, + { + "date": "10/13/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A small RAF training aircraft crashed around 8 o'clock, near the village of Monceau Imbrechies on the Franco-Belgian border. The pilot is unharmed, but other troubles await him. A spokesman for the British Embassy in Brussels has indeed declared that the aircraft in question had been stolen that morning from the Avanton Morley airfield in Norfolk. The pilot, a young soldier of the RAF, flew as long as his tank had fuel, then he tried to land but did so so badly that he completely damaged the plane. Safely out of the wreckage he went to the nearest farm. The alerted gendarmes brought the adventurous aviator to Chimay where he is detained pending the arrival of the British Air detachment, Colonel Peter Townsend. In any case, the incident caused some excitement in the village: the peasants working in the fields had taken the Englishman for a Martian landed from a flying saucer. Indeed, the young man was disheveled, dirty, and spoke an \"unknown\" language (La nouvelle Revue de Lausanne", + "location": "BELGIUM, Monceau Imbrechies (Hainaut)", + "ref": [ + "GESAG cat. n° 1822", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1907" + }, + { + "date": "10/13/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Carcenac observed a strange white object at a high altitude. He looked at it through binoculars and saw a kind of flexible, wavy disk moving very quickly. This thing exploded in mid-air while a much smaller object seemed to emerge from the mass, following its trajectory south. The fragments of the wavy disk scattered in the sky and began to fall gently like shreds of fabric or paper. All the witnesses of this strange explosion rushed to collect the silver filaments clustered like spider webs and crumbling under their fingers. Part of it was deposited at the gendarmerie. This strange material sublimated without leaving any traces. (Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 223,224) IN REALITY: the journalists of \"Samedi-Soir\" had launched a rocket which, on its return, had made the witnesses believe in the fall of \"Virgin's threads\".", + "location": "FRANCE, Graulhet (Tarn)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 669", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1908" + }, + { + "date": "10/13/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7:35 PM, three witnesses, MM Olivier, Pérano and another witness, saw a 4 m diameter disc and a small humanoid being in a diving suit. In relation to the body it had a large head and two enormous eyes. The clothing shone and glimmered like glass. The craft was surrounded by a kind of misty brightness. One of the witnesses approached up to 20 m of the craft where he was paralyzed, while the craft took off at great speed throwing him to the ground. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronicle of ET Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 279) (Michel BOUGARD: \"From SV to UFOs\" SOBEPS 1976 - p. 211) IN REALITY: Returning from Graulhet, the journalists from \"Samedi-Soir\" decided to have fun at the expense of the Toulousains. Wearing their diving suits they maneuvered in front of a red Bengal fire and fired a fireworks rocket.", + "location": "FRANCE, Toulouse, Bourrassole", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"UFO, first complete dossier...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 669", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1909" + }, + { + "date": "10/13/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two witnesses saw two individuals dressed in shiny clothes emerge from an apparatus and pick flowers, branches, and twigs, then fly away.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Castelibranco", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 52", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1910" + }, + { + "date": "10/13/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A group of young boys, including one named Bastiaan, were returning in the evening towards the village, after having played all afternoon in the heather. Bastiaan, who had stopped to tie the laces of his shoes, straightened up when he heard the cries of his friends. Like them, he then saw at a few hundred meters in the sky, above the pines, a strange thing. Nobody thought of fleeing. It was round, terribly large, at least twenty meters, and motionless, oscillating slightly above our heads, Bastiaan specifies. At this moment, the witness believes that he and his companions were immobilized by fear. The surprise passed, the boys then ran towards a young oak grove, in which they hid lying on the ground. As strange as it may seem, everything was silent, no branch moved, even the crows were silent. Slowly the phenomenon began to descend to remain in hover at a good meter from the ground. According to Bastiaan it was totally made like an airplane, of aluminum, round, without rivets or welds, but showing small windows on the circumference, like portholes. All topped with a protrusion of glass, a dome perhaps made of plastic. Then, coming out of the machine, one does not know how, three small creatures appeared. They looked like dwarves. They could not be taller than one meter to one meter twenty and wore a gray-green diving suit, topped with a large round helmet, which suggested that they had large heads. One could not see their face, partly hidden by the glass part of the helmet. Moreover, Bastiaan specifies, night was falling. At this moment, one of the boys, Pierre, son of the postmaster, stood up, arms outstretched as if to surrender. But he suddenly started to moan, trembling on his legs. Surprised, the creatures then looked in the direction of the young boys and returned to their craft which began to oscillate. The thing reddened, illuminating the heather and the first trees of the wood. The next moment there was nothing.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Keerbergen (Brabant)", + "ref": [ + "Hubert Lampo \"Zeg maar Judith\", archives of the \"Volksgazet\" and \"Nieuws van Antwerpen\" - Van Utrecht convers. with Hubert Lampo on 5.9.84, GESAG cat. n° 1773", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1911" + }, + { + "date": "10/14/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Several witnesses saw seven small beings who fled in a phosphorescent object when they approached. It took off immediately. It is said that unknown seeds were found at this location. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronicle of ET Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 279, 280) IN REALITY: hoax set up by hunters.", + "location": "FRANCE, St Ambroix", + "ref": [ + "Erich ZURCHER: \"The Appearances of Humanoids\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 181,182", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1912" + }, + { + "date": "10/14/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:15 PM José Casella was cycling home when he suddenly saw on the road in front of him an oval object, about 5.50 m in diameter and 1 m in height. The disc was gray topped with a dome and it emitted a soft whistle. When Casella was only 6 m away, the object took off. Observation confirmed by other people.", + "location": "FRANCE, Biot", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronicle of ET Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 280", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1913" + }, + { + "date": "10/14/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At dusk, farmer Duvivier observed the landing of an orange sphere. He approached it. It had the shape of a flattened dome, a diameter of about 5.50m and emitted a blinding light illuminating the countryside in a radius of 200 meters. It was transparent and inside one could see a dark silhouette. After staying at ground level for ten minutes, it flew away to the north; while at its location a bright cloud descended gently to the ground. On returning home, the witness noticed that his clothes were covered with a white film of adhesive substance, roughly similar to paraffin.", + "location": "FRANCE, Méral (Mayenne)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 280, 281", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1914" + }, + { + "date": "10/14/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 8 PM a dark-colored craft, in the shape of an elongated egg topped with a dome, resting on a kind of tripod of 60cm. It had a diameter of 4m and a height of 2m. A human figure of normal size was in front of the craft. It seemed that the dome was also occupied. Wanting to approach, the witness was paralyzed. The UFO headed towards La Rothière.", + "location": "FRANCE, Brienne", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 165", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1915" + }, + { + "date": "10/14/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. and Mrs. Dumeige and Mr. Lourdel in a van on the D 216 arrived around 9 pm at the place called \"La Folie\". They saw a very bright light that seemed to land in a field not far from the road. Mr. Dumeige stopped and everyone got out. That's when they clearly saw near the light, six or seven small beings walking in a line. Frightened, they quickly got back on the road, leaving the craft and its occupants behind.", + "location": "FRANCE, Domart en Ponthieu/Conde-Folie", + "ref": [ + "M.FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 167, 168", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1916" + }, + { + "date": "10/15/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Damien Figuères was walking with his dogs not far from the St-Assiscle pool, when a reddish sphere landed and a tall figure, dressed like a diver, walked around it. The dogs barked at him. He got on board the craft which flew away silently. [IN REALITY: according to OVNI Présence n°33/34 Dec. 1985: it would be a \"slow bolide\" seen all over France and elsewhere.]", + "location": "FRANCE, Perpignan", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 282", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1917" + }, + { + "date": "10/15/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Early in the morning a bright object crossed the sky coming from the west, followed by thousands of spectators, most of whom thought they had seen a flying saucer. (...) there are no two reports that are alike (...) A schoolmaster was able to take two photos of the object: it was big, bright and reddish in color (...) \"I saw the object,\" said Janos Horvath, \"it moved faster than any plane can do in horizontal flight while I was on Vaspaya Street. It emitted a green light like that of a flare, but after ten seconds it suddenly went out.\" [IN REALITY: according to OVNI Présence n°33/34 Dec. 1985: it would be a \"slow bolide\"] (October 15, 1954)", + "location": "HUNGARY, Györ", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les Pays de l'Est\" - trad. Laffont 1976, p. 247,248", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1918" + }, + { + "date": "10/15/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:00 PM, the witnesses saw an object shaped like a cigar resting on the ground. Length approximately 30 m, height 6 m. A fog enveloped the ends. Through the portholes the witnesses could make out helmeted silhouettes. Could this be the same craft seen a little later in Nîmes? (GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 77) IN REALITY: according to OVNI Présence n°33/34 December 1985: it would be a \"slow bolide\" seen all over France and elsewhere. ANOTHER REALITY? Hoax that ends badly for at least one of the witnesses. Ottoviani is indeed prosecuted in the Correctional Court for slander. (October 15, 1954)", + "location": "FRANCE, between Le Vigan and Vallerangue (Gard)", + "ref": [ + "Erich ZURCHER: \"Les apparitions d'Humanoïdes\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 182", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1919" + }, + { + "date": "10/15/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the airfield, an object in the shape of a yellow cigar with bright portholes, 30 m long and 6 m in diameter, was seen on the ground at 19:50 by mason Félix Fize and his workmates. Silhouettes wearing helmets covering their heads could be seen inside. A kind of fog was observed at both ends of the ship.", + "location": "FRANCE, Nîmes-Courbessac", + "ref": [ + "See the contradictions between the report of Jacques Vallée and that of Jimmy Guieu: FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, first complete dossier...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 1669, 170", + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronicle of ET Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 282", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1920" + }, + { + "date": "10/15/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At night, six objects resembling giant eggplants moved silently. They disappeared at a dizzying speed, after hovering for a few moments.", + "location": "FRANCE, Ambes (Gironde)", + "ref": [ + "FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 171", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1921" + }, + { + "date": "10/15/1954 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A farmer who was leading cows to the pond suddenly saw an object flying above his house. The terrified cows scattered, throwing the farmer's daughter to the ground, while the object emitted a jet of light. The farmer ran into his house and fainted, while three other witnesses saw the craft depart. The machine was dark, surrounded by short blue and yellow flames. It had the shape of an egg and flew at about 15 meters from the ground. It was an intense source of heat. The small pond was found dried up and haystacks caught fire, while the livestock suffered from strange burns. (Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 55). On October 16th near Rovigo, several peasants saw a metallic disc about ten meters in diameter descending slowly towards them, hovering. Terrified, the men fled, hiding among the nearby bushes. The craft landed about a hundred meters away from them. After a few minutes of immobility it took off vertically in a silent flight, quickly accelerating its speed. At the place where it had landed, the peasants discovered a fairly deep crater 6 m in diameter and they noticed that six poplars had been carbonized in the surroundings. (1954, October 15th (16?))", + "location": "ITALY, Boaria (Rovigo)", + "ref": [ + "Charles GARREAU: \"Alert in the Sky: The Abduction File\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p.57", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1922" + }, + { + "date": "10/16/1954 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An object landed approximately 30 m away from a woman who fainted. The witness suffered from a skin disease following the incident. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 283) Jeanne Rossignon went to get the cows to milk them at the farm. When she arrived at the top of a small hill, she found herself facing a craft on the ground at a very short distance. Almost at the same time, she fainted. When she regained consciousness, the craft had disappeared. She managed to return home but had to go to bed. A strange dermatosis appeared which would not disappear until very slowly: for several days the young woman's skin resembled a frog's skin. (1954, October 16 (approximate date))", + "location": "FRANCE, Thin-Le Moutiers (Ardennes)", + "ref": [ + "GARREAU et LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975, J'ai Lu, p. 29, 30", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1923" + }, + { + "date": "10/16/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Veterinarian Henri Robert, who was crossing the village in his car, saw at nightfall 4 objects at about 300 m altitude, flying slowly in formation. Suddenly, one of them fell to the ground with a movement of a falling leaf, 10 m from the witness who felt an electric shock while his engine stopped, his headlights went out and the car stopped while the object touched the ground. Unable to move, Dr. Robert saw a figure of about 1.20 m tall moving in the light of the object, then everything became dark. Some time later the headlights came back on by themselves and Dr. Robert saw the craft take off towards the north. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronicle of ET Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 283-284) He saw at a distance of 2.5 km and at 300 m altitude 4 overlapping circles of orange color. The one at the top detached itself from the group at a dizzying speed and rushed towards me, in two seconds it was placed a few meters in front of the vehicle zigzagging close to the ground. At the same time I feel a very strong electric shock. My car does not obey me, it is like crazy. This lasted about fifteen seconds, then the craft left towards the group which immediately disappeared. But the witness's emotions are not over. He tells: \"Arriving at Bailleur-Neville, at the crossroads of La Motte, 3.5 km from the first appearance, 150 m in front of me, in my headlights, I see a being about 1.20m tall, quite corpulent, arms and legs spread apart. I barely have time to notice that his clothes are grayish blue, because the headlights go out. They come back on 2 to 3 seconds later, but the little being has disappeared. Instinctively I accelerate and have time to see on the edge of the embankment, a cylindrical craft that took off at that moment and rose quickly towards the north. \"(Pierre DELVAL: \"Contacts of the 4th type\" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 195, 196) IN REALITY: According to Claude MAUGE, this case would be more than doubtful. It would be one of those cases where it is known that the witness is either alcoholic, or drugged or mentally ill. This case should therefore be taken with the greatest caution.", + "location": "FRANCE, Baillolet", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1924" + }, + { + "date": "10/16/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A history and geography professor claims to have seen an orange glow in the bushes that intrigued him. Approaching, he saw a round object 5 m in diameter, with a kind of diver nearby, 1 m tall, who approached the witness emitting several times the following sounds: \"ka-a-lo-o-tri-to-onn\". He then entered the craft through a kind of porthole, and the craft quickly rose vertically.", + "location": "FRANCE, Lesparre-Médoc", + "ref": [ + "FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 176", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1925" + }, + { + "date": "10/17/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Painter Raffaele Castello saw during his nighttime walk at Cap Massulo, an enormous disk of 5 m in diameter descend a hundred meters to land on the terrace of the villa of the writer Curzio Malaparte. Stupefied, he saw 4 small men descend from the disk, wearing a kind of flight suit, who stayed near their craft for half an hour. Bluish glows were constantly escaping from the craft in all directions. Then the creatures went back into the disk which rose with a soft humming sound and then disappeared at altitude in the direction of Sicily. (Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" - FLEUVE NOIR 1956 - p. 224, 225) IN REALITY: Hoax for publicity purposes according to our correspondent in Turin who conducted the investigation on site.", + "location": "ITALY, Capri", + "ref": [ + "OVNI Présence n° 33/34 Dec. 1985", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1926" + }, + { + "date": "10/17/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Guy Puyfourcat, 22 years old, who was returning from the fields leading a mare by the bridle, was surprised to find the animal was nervous. Emerging from the side of the road an object gray in color about 1.50 meters in diameter flew over him. The mare rose to a height of 3 meters and the witness had to let go of the bridle. Then the animal fell like a mass and was unable to move for 10 minutes. Finally she got up and tried to walk, but she was trembling with fear. The object had long since flown away at great speed. The witness himself felt nothing. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronicle of ET Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 283 which cites the date of October 16) At around 9:30 in the morning the witness brings his mare to go and get a rake left the day before in a meadow. (...) At this moment three piercing cries, like wild bird cries, are heard and at the same time a craft rises with a whistle. (...) The beast fell on its side and remained motionless for 10 minutes on the ground. The events took place on Sunday, October 17", + "location": "FRANCE, Cier de Rivière - Haute Garonne", + "ref": [ + "FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, first complete dossier...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 177, 178", + "and not October 16", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1927" + }, + { + "date": "10/17/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Maxime Pignatelli was trying to hunt a thrush with his dog, near the confluence of the Durance and the Canal de Brillance, when at 2:30 pm he saw on the ground, 40 meters away from him, an object about 4 meters long and 1 meter high, topped with a dome from which two helmeted figures emerged. The witness fled, the dog ran towards the object but soon retreated, walking with difficulty, as if partially paralyzed.", + "location": "FRANCE, Villeneuve (Alpes de Haute Provence)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 284", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1928" + }, + { + "date": "10/17/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The stories reported in the newspapers often have no basis in reality. Such is the case with this one from Reuters: Two motorcyclists near Toulon suddenly saw a flying saucer parked in the middle of the road. Mariro Rapellini and Pierre Ottoviani explained that as they slowly approached the saucer, which was only resting on two feet, a man of average height wearing a gray jumpsuit emerged. They began a polite conversation in French, and the occupant assured them that he was not a Martian but French. He asked for directions and after receiving them he entered his saucer which flew away with a loud noise.", + "location": "France, between Hyères and Toulon", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 231", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1929" + }, + { + "date": "10/18/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ms. Paquet was tending to her cows at the place called \"Côte de la Chambre\" around 10 o'clock. To her astonishment, she heard a language she couldn't understand, a conversation coming from a heather field. Then two men emerged and approached to about fifty meters from Ms. Paquet. One of them turned towards Mr. Blanchon's mill, gave a cry, accompanied by a gesture. Two other men then appeared, descending towards the small Rozeille river, joining the two first and all of them disappeared. A quarter of an hour later, Ms. Paquet's dog started barking and she saw a dark-colored cigar-shaped craft rise without a sound, disappearing at a reduced speed towards the southwest. The men were about 1m80 tall and were wearing black or dark blue overalls.", + "location": "FRANCE, Moutier-Rozeille", + "ref": [ + "FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 184, 185", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1930" + }, + { + "date": "10/18/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 5:30 PM, the gamekeeper Bachelard was driving in a van, it was still daylight. Coming out of a bend, Mr. Bachelard felt a strange numbness, a kind of paralysis. At the same time, the engine of the vehicle was misfiring and running out of breath. The speed dropped to 30 km/h. It was then that he saw in a nearby field off the road a large cigar with pointed ends, about ten meters long, about 2.50m high, of brown chocolate color with drawings in the shape of rectangles that seemed to grid the ends. The object was motionless, silent, without light or porthole. A few minutes later, Mr. Bachelard, without knowing how, found himself in Couhay, off his normal route. Farmers saw him arrive with a pale and decomposed face, obviously under the effect of intense fear. For several weeks the witness did not dare to go out in the evening or pass through the same place again.", + "location": "FRANCE, Chambois (Puy de Dôme)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 283, he dates it from the 16th instead of the 18th of October", + "GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 199", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1931" + }, + { + "date": "10/18/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Albert Géraud, 15 years old, was riding his bicycle on the D216 when he saw a light that changed from green to yellow. It descended in jerks and reached the road. Frightened, the witness felt his legs paralyzed. The saucer was on the ground and inside was a small being covered in hair from head to toe, looking at Albert: its eyes were big. Suddenly the object rose, causing a strong gust of wind towards the witness and disappeared in the direction of Lion d'Angers. The witness was prostrated for several days.", + "location": "FRANCE, Andigné/St Martin du Bois", + "ref": [ + "FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 182, 183", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1932" + }, + { + "date": "10/18/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:40 pm, the Lherminier couple saw an object in the shape of a red cigar, diving towards them leaving behind a red trail and landing near the road. Once they reached the top of the hill, they found themselves face to face with a thick, human-like figure, about 1 meter tall. This creature wore a helmet and its eyes emitted an orange glow. One of the witnesses fainted. Four other people saw this object in different places. The countryside was lit up for 2 or 3 kilometers.", + "location": "FRANCE, Fontenay Torcy", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 285", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1933" + }, + { + "date": "10/18/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A red, long and wide trail is seen above the hamlet \"Campagne\". (list by Daniel BUKENS, Remicourt, Belg.) At 9:15 PM Jean Destexbe on a motorcycle sees it at the crossroads of Faime. It is observed by two gendarmes on the road from Waremme to Huy at the same time, an automobile driver observes it at the outskirts of Waremme and at the stadium, two children mention it. (La Cité -Mons and La Libre Belgique of 19.10.54) IN REALITY: this phenomenon is identified as a meteor for a set of testimonies ranging from Arlon to Turnhout, on an SSE to NNO axis.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Waremme (Liège)", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, GS0147", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1934" + }, + { + "date": "10/18/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Labassière and other people saw at 9 pm two discs in the sky: one was orange, the other red and a kind of luminous green bridge connected them. They landed, a dwarf came out of each craft, and went into the other without any sign being exchanged. After this change of pilots, the two objects flew away in a dazzling flash. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 285, 286) \"We saw, flying at low altitude, a luminous object in the shape of a balance. It was the swaying of the two objects that suggested to us the image of a balance\" report the motorists who stop to see what it is. After a few seconds, the luminous beam uniting the two plates dissipates, disappears. They land on the ground not far from the witnesses who see in the luminosity of each of the two crafts, two small beings (so: 4 beings in total). The two crews head towards each other, cross without stopping and change of craft. The two balls then take off in a dizzying way and disappear in a few seconds.", + "location": "FRANCE, Royan (or near Saintes)", + "ref": [ + "FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 187, 188", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1935" + }, + { + "date": "10/18/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Miss Bourriot saw at 10:45 PM, a bright red light on the R.N. 437 near the old factory. Near the light were three beings: two dwarves and a man of average height. They crossed the road in front of her. The craft rose from the ground and flew over the lake at great speed.", + "location": "FRANCE, Vezenay, Lake Saint Point (Doubs)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 286", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1936" + }, + { + "date": "10/18/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A farmer saw a bright disc descend onto the roof of his farm, slow down for a moment, then speed away. This brief encounter stunned the unfortunate peasant: indeed, his watering trough had been emptied in a flash and the docile cow that had the misfortune of being in the path of the object went into a wild dance in which it seriously injured itself.", + "location": "Italy, near Genoa", + "ref": [ + "Jean PLANTIER: \"The Propulsion of Flying Saucers by Direct Action on the Atom\" ed. MAME 1955, p. 104", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1937" + }, + { + "date": "10/20/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 02:30 Lazlo Ujvari was suddenly confronted by a man wearing a jacket, boots, and a helmet like a pilot, who pointed a gun at him and said something he couldn't understand. When Ujvari spoke to him in Russian, the man responded in the same language, asked if he was in Spain or Italy and how far away he was from Germany. When he asked for the time and Ujvari replied \"2:30\", the man took out his watch and said \"You're lying, it's 4 o'clock\". Then he wanted to know how far away and in what direction Marseille was. He made Ujvari walk in front of him on the road and they approached a gray vessel with an antenna on top (2.5 m in diameter, 1.50m high). When they were about 30 m away, the stranger ordered him to move away. He obeyed but looked back from time to time and saw the object rise straight up, with a sewing machine noise, then take an oblique trajectory.", + "location": "FRANCE, Raon-l'Etape", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" - FLEUVE NOIR 1956 - p. 226", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1938" + }, + { + "date": "10/21/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4:45 PM, Jennie Roestenberg and her two children had observed an object in the shape of a disc, aluminum in color, while it hovered above their house. She declared that she had seen, through two transparent panels, two men with white skin, long hair falling on their shoulders and a forehead so wide that all features seemed to be gathered in the lower part of their faces. They wore transparent helmets and blue-turquoise clothing that reminded of a ski outfit. The object hovered at an inclined angle, while the two occupants examined the scene \"severely, not in an unfriendly way, but almost sadly, with compassion\".", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Ranton (Shrewsburry)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of the Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 17", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1939" + }, + { + "date": "10/21/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man who had just put his car in the garage saw a strange being dressed in a luminous garment, about one meter twenty tall, standing near a tree. When the creature saw the motorist, it sent him a beam from some kind of torch. The witness remained paralyzed until he made a movement to tighten the fist that held the garage keys, which seemed to free him. He leapt forward to attack the creature, which rose from the ground and flew away in a nearly silent whirl. The 37-year-old witness arrived home in such a state of depression that he had to go to bed with a high fever. [IN REALITY: it was a hoax set up by the individual who wanted to make himself interesting.]", + "location": "ITALY, Parravici d'Erba (Como)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Other Dimensions\" - trans. Robert Laffont 1989 - pp. 43, 44", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1940" + }, + { + "date": "10/22/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The students of Jerome Primary School saw in the blue sky an object shining in the shape of a cigar, which was making circular movements at a great altitude. The object stopped and then left at great speed. Then beautiful tufts of a soft white like cotton fell and this lasted three quarters of an hour. They were long fibers like angel hair for Christmas trees. By holding them at the ends they could be stretched without breaking, where they were stretched they became shiny. The part held in the hand disappeared very quickly, but one could make a small ball by rolling a thread between the fingers. After a while the fingers became green. This disappeared by washing with hot water. In one place there was even a canopy of filaments above the road. (Inforespace #52 of 1980 p. 8) During a football match, 15,000 spectators observed a passage of flying saucers that dropped a substance similar to spun sugar or angel hair. (October 22, 1954)", + "location": "USA, Marysville (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Gabriel GRESLE: OVNI, a pilot speaks, ed. Guy Trédaniel, 1993, p. 45", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1941" + }, + { + "date": "10/22/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the Erchin woods, Casimir Stawski (not Starovski) encountered at 3:30 pm, a strange being of small size, with a voluminous silhouette, large oblique eyes and a body covered in fur. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronicle of ET Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 280) ... completely covered in fur, oval eyes, the whites protruding considerably from the orbits. The nose flattened at the base. He had a kind of cap on his head with a ruffle around the forehead, from which very long hairs escaped. He seemed to have no fingers and his shiny, closed hands held two \"metal rods\" about 30 cm long. Casimir Stawski heard a noise of broken branches: he then saw in the middle of a thicket two tubes shining like nickel. He approached and then distinguished the tawny mane, then the humanoid, who approached without speaking. Casimir fled at full speed.", + "location": "FRANCE, Lewarde", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, First Complete Dossier...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 195", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1942" + }, + { + "date": "10/22/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7:15 PM, Casimir Szimura was riding his motorcycle on the N 43. He saw an illuminated craft in front of him. His motorcycle suddenly stopped. He could see inside the craft, which resembled a submarine, four small occupants and some \"furnishings\". One of them came out and approached the witness: its head reached the level of Szimura's shoulder. They exchanged a handshake. It spoke to him in a language resembling Chinese for a few minutes. The witness was scared and dazzled by the craft. Then the being returned to the craft, which flew away at a dizzying speed. The handshake gave him such strength and liveliness of mind that he felt like a different man.", + "location": "FRANCE, Ecaillon", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 196", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1943" + }, + { + "date": "10/24/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 5:30 pm a child saw a man come out of a strange craft. \"His clothes were red and had the look of iron. He walked with stiff legs, had long hair and a hairy face. His eyes were as big as a cow's.\"", + "location": "FRANCE, Les Ergots", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Chronicle of ET Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 288", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1944" + }, + { + "date": "10/24/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A silver disc-shaped object with a halo was seen flying over the military base. After making a 60° arc it disappeared in a few seconds. (Inforespace n° 10 - p. 4 -1973 - SOBEPS) Five UFOs were seen on October 24, 1954, for several hours above the air base of Gravatai. (October 24, 1954)", + "location": "BRESIL, Gravatai (Rio Grande do Sul)", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"The Secret File of UFOs\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p. 123, 124", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1945" + }, + { + "date": "10/25/1954 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Colonel Carmelo Papotto was making his usual inspection tour of the farm guards in the early morning when, as he approached a recently plowed area, he saw something like a snowflake silently descend from the sky to the ground. The object landed a few tens of meters away from him. It had the shape of an aerodynamic car with a tail like a rudder. The fuselage was 6 m long and 3 m wide. The lower part of the craft seemed to be made of a metal with a color similar to aluminum. The upper part, made of a transparent material, was divided into sections. On the nose there were two lateral headlights and in the center, a small external ladder. The object seemed to rest on 6 wheels, 4 in front in pairs and 2 in the back. Carmelo Papotto, having approached, seemed to also glimpse under the fuselage two horn-shaped tubes and on it he distinguished at the prow and stern two rods similar to radio antennas. Cylindrical tubes came out of the rear part, similar to machine gun barrels. The object was illuminated as if it were in broad daylight by a very white light that radiated with a halo of about 4 m. Inside, 6 men were fully dressed in yellow and had their faces covered. \"One of them had a human face, because he had to uncover it to blow into a tube\" Curiosity pushed Papotto to approach the object but, having put his foot on the small ladder to see more closely, a violent electric discharge that passed through his hand on contact with the metal of the ladder, pushed him back. One of the pilots gesticulating in his direction invited him to stay calm. Another one removed a wheel and then put it back, pushing a button that lowered a kind of casing on it. Inside, seats, control consoles, and a kind of radio device manipulated by a man wearing a cap with electrical wires were glimpsed. The crew was so busy around the internal mechanisms of the craft that Papotto was able to draw a sketch of the object on a cigarette packet. After about twenty minutes the craft rose from the ground without making any noise; vertically up to about fifty meters and then, at a dizzying speed, disappeared to the west. (...) (1954, October 25 (or 23?))", + "location": "LIBYA, Tripoli", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - pp. 27 to 29", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1946" + }, + { + "date": "10/26/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening, Aimé Boussard, a farmer, suddenly found himself in the presence of a normal-sized individual (1.60m) wearing a kind of suit with two pale green lights on either side of the helmet. This individual directed two blue beams of light towards him and he was thrown back. No craft was observed. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 289) IN REALITY: the witness was known as a disagreeable braggart and had been beaten up by some young people. Taking advantage of the context and the numerous sightings at the time, he had invented this story to explain his bruises to his advantage.", + "location": "FRANCE, Alleyrat - La Badière", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 670, 671", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1947" + }, + { + "date": "10/28/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A resident of Milan returning from an outdoor cinema, noticed a glow inside a sports field surrounded by a rather dilapidated wooden fence. He had seen a fairly large object that shone like a very weak fluorescent lamp, resting on the ground. He had seen small dark shapes moving between the object and him. Frightened, he had ridden his bicycle at full speed towards the outskirts. 500 m further on he had encountered a group of peasants to whom he told his story. They all went back to the scene together. The peasants had seen the object and the beings like him. There must have been 25 of them, no more than a meter tall, all wearing a bulky apparatus connected to the front of their transparent helmet. They wore light-colored pants, gray jackets. Several cars and a truck loaded with rotten fruits had stopped to see what was attracting people along the fence, some people had broken down the door and entered the field. Seeing this, the little beings threw themselves into the object entering it through the base and a moment later the object buzzed, rose up not fast enough to avoid the peasants throwing dozens of rotten oranges at it, some of which had reached their target.", + "location": "ITALY, outskirts of Milan", + "ref": [ + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse\" -trans. Laffont 1967 - p. 168 to 170", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1948" + }, + { + "date": "10/28/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A sentry was about to fire on three beings standing near a dome-shaped craft, resting on the platform of the lighthouse. The sentry was immediately paralyzed and felt the premonition that it was useless to fire. The crew re-entered the UFO, which took off vertically, buzzed, inclined and disappeared silently at very high speed. (October 28, 1954)", + "location": "URUGUAY, Isla de Lobos", + "ref": [ + "Science et Vie, Special Edition 1997: 50 Years of UFOs, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, pp. 60-63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1949" + }, + { + "date": "10/29/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 9 p.m. Witnesses: four Portuguese civilians. An object, like a stovepipe, with a central bulge and short wings of a length of 3 m, a diameter of 90 cm and wings of 1 meter long, wings which are concave at their ends, all of gray color. Makes a gurgling sound while gliding and disappears in the light of the landing lights of an airplane. Observation of 4 to 5 minutes.", + "location": "ACORES, Terciera Islands.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1950" + }, + { + "date": "10/30/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Rosa Lotti was crossing a field to go to church and was carrying a large bouquet of carnations in her arms. Suddenly two \"Martians\" 1 m tall, dressed in a diving suit, appeared in front of her, babbling incomprehensible words and seizing the flowers. They then quickly went towards a hemispherical craft 2 to 3 m high which was located not far away in a meadow, which took off immediately. Mrs. Lotti filed a complaint and the carabinieri who came to the scene discovered traces. (Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" - FLEUVE NOIR 1956 - p. 233) On November 1 around 6:30 pm Rosa Lotti met two strange creatures (...) They had the face of a man but the body of a child and were dressed in a gray suit and a helmet. They were very agitated and spoke very quickly between themselves in a language resembling Chinese. They had beautiful eyes and seemed very intelligent and friendly. They had big protruding teeth, a bit like those of a rabbit. (...) The oldest one took her bouquet of flowers, gave her two carnations back and went to carry the others into the saucer. (...) He came back with two small packages which he handed to her but Rosa took the opportunity to run away through the woods (...) (Maurice CHATELAIN: \"Les messagers du cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, p. 86) IN REALITY: Mrs. Lotti would have attributed the facts that had taken place more than twenty years earlier in another part of Italy, a story that was told around the fire, like a legend...", + "location": "ITALY, Cennina (Arezzo) or near Florence", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1951" + }, + { + "date": "10/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Moleaner was fishing on the banks of the Lot. He saw at a hundred meters away various luminous phenomena, then a craft in the shape of a saucer which softly and silently landed on the Lot. A small being came out and filled a bottle with water from the river. After a few seconds the being re-entered its craft which flew away at a fantastic speed.", + "location": "FRANCE, Villeneuve sur Lot", + "ref": [ + "M.FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, premier dossier complet...\" - Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 99,100", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1952" + }, + { + "date": "10/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7 o'clock in the morning, the 12-year-old schoolgirl from the hamlet of Montessuy was on her way to catechism. She saw a flying saucer hovering close above her head, from which two strange beings with long knives emerged. The beings left without even touching the ground. The child was in a state of shock.", + "location": "FRANCE, Dommartin (Plouezoch)", + "ref": [ + "M.FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, premier dossier complet...\" - Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 102", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1953" + }, + { + "date": "11/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6 in the morning, it was raining, soldiers Christophe De Devi and Zopina were going to get milk when they heard a faint humming sound like that of a \"solex\". A white spherical object, like chrome metal, was resting on the ground near a ravine. At its circumference shone an orange-colored luminous band. It had a tail similar in shape to the rudder of an airplane. The military approached to within 10 meters. A man was in a kind of circular passage located at the bottom of the craft. He was wearing a pilot's suit, had curly hair and a tanned complexion. A door opened and a second man jumped out, he looked strangely like the first and addressed him in a language unknown to the two witnesses. These two \"men\" then headed towards the military who fled, only stopping in front of the chapel of the hospital. There they found their comrades, soldier Roch and nurse Issoujon who were returning from the kitchens. All four saw the UFO take off and gain altitude at a lightning speed. (November, 1954)", + "location": "FRANCE, Frejus", + "ref": [ + "Guy TARADE: \"S.V. and civilizations from beyond space\" - J'AI LU 1969, p. 176, 177", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1954" + }, + { + "date": "11/4/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) José Alves was fishing near the Padro River. Suddenly a luminous craft landed a few feet away from him: \"It looked like two overturned bowls on top of each other. The diameter of the object was about 4.50m\". He noticed a kind of sliding door, which opened to let three humanoid figures in white suits with fitted caps pass. They picked some plants and took some water before getting back on board their vehicle, which immediately took off. (Jean FERGUSON: \"All about Flying Saucers\" ed.; Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p. 196) At night, José Alves, the fisherman, saw a luminous object land near the place where he was, the Pardo. Three small men dressed in white, wearing some kind of caps, emerged from a door. They seemed to have black skin, picked some leaves and grass, took some water from a tube, and then the craft flew away. (November 4, 1954)", + "location": "BRASIL, near Pontal", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 64, 65 and 112", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1955" + }, + { + "date": "11/4/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Newspaper \"Het Belang van Limburg\" 6.11.54 \"a flying saucer lands in Diepenbeek\") IN REALITY several people from the Lutselus area saw a radar reflector falling into a tree, supported by a parachute with registration signs of the American army.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Diepenbeek, Lutselus (Limbourg)", + "ref": [ + "GESAG cat. n° 1214", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1956" + }, + { + "date": "11/5/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:10 Raymond R. saw a device making a sound like a large transformer and emitting an orange light, resting in a pasture. Next to it were three men in dark suits. One of them held a box that emitted a three-meter-long beam of light. The other two held objects that looked like weapons. Another witness felt tingling on his face as he ran away. Four photos of the scene were taken. After the object left, a whitish substance and a three-meter-diameter circle remained on the ground, where the soil had the appearance of ash. (Jacques Vallée: \"Chronique des apparitions ET\" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 291, 292) (GARREAU et LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975, J'ai Lu, p. 50 à 55) IN REALITY: a long investigation conducted by Messrs. Barthel, Brucker and Monnerie revealed: that no one remembers anything happening in the village, that the only person who could be Raymond R. is deceased, that a young man matching the description of the young man was found, but that he does not remember seeing a UFO", + "location": "FRANCE, La Roche en Brenil (Côte d'Or)", + "ref": [ + "Erich ZURCHER: \"Les Apparitions d'Humanoïdes\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 185,186", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1957" + }, + { + "date": "11/8/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 150 people rushed to go observe in a stadium an strange luminous object. It was a cyclist who had given the alarm. It was 10:30, the object rested on 3 legs, had a dome that diffused a blinding white light. Near it stood two small beings that emitted guttural sounds. A man who had let loose his dog against the dwarves, was bitten by the animal that had turned against its own master. The object took off with a siren whistle. (1954, 8th November)", + "location": "ITALY, Monza", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 10 p. 4", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1958" + }, + { + "date": "11/9/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two villagers claim to have seen a flying egg land in a pasture, a few meters high. Screams seemed to come out of it... (Inforespace n° 10 p. 4) In fact, it was a resident of Malonne, traveling by car on the road to Bois de Villers, who was blinded by a strong light and forced to stop. He then saw a ball of fire falling on the municipality of Bois de Villers. The witness added no other details", + "location": "BELGIUM, Bois de Villers", + "ref": [ + "GESAG investigations of 72 and 74, GESAG cat. n° 2189", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1959" + }, + { + "date": "11/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The named Roelants de Lisseweghe was returning home by bicycle around 21:30. At the height of the Blauwe Toren (Blue Tower) and the St Joseph dairy, he suddenly saw a blinding light coming from the sky, landing with a slight noise on the concrete road. At that moment the light went out and the craft remained motionless for two minutes. Roelants, who had suddenly braked, found himself 50 meters from the object and did not dare to approach it any closer. A few moments later the thing rose vertically and then moved away towards Holland. During the ascent the light was visible again. After the departure of the object, Roelants approached the landing site to examine the area with his flashlight. He discovered no trace that could justify that a flying saucer had landed there. He nevertheless claims that at the same place he picked up a small elongated box containing a parchment covered with unreadable writing. (Brugsche Courant 10.11.54) On November 3, 1973, the witness was found and contacted at his home and, with the help of Jean Bastide, the GESAG was able to determine that the small ivory case contained an extract in Hebrew from Deuteronomy XI 12-21 and constituted a mezuza, a Jewish religious protection fixed near the house or worn around the neck of the believer. There would probably be no connection between the observation and the find. ( 1954, November (before the 10th))", + "location": "BELGIUM, Dudzele (West Flanders)", + "ref": [ + "GESAG cat. No. 197", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1960" + }, + { + "date": "11/10/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A farmer and his family saw a disc land. Two beings of normal size, with long hair, wearing suits emerged. The witnesses, in a car, saw them arrive with their arms raised, but were scared and fled.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Porto Alegre", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 10 p. 4", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1961" + }, + { + "date": "11/13/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A lenticular spacecraft landed on the railway and was seen by a railwayman. It was 03:30. Three very small men in brightly colored suits came out and examined the ballast with a light. When they saw the witness they hurriedly got back into their craft which disappeared at great speed. A professor from Urai, close to the landing site, saw a luminous craft in the sky at around the same time. (November 13 (or 14), 1954)", + "location": "BRAZIL, between Cogonhas and Urai", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" - FLEUVE NOIR 1956 - p. 235", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1962" + }, + { + "date": "11/14/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A farmer named Amerigo Lorenzini found himself in the presence of a shining craft that had the shape of a cigar. Anxious, he hid behind a wall. After a moment, three small men descended. They wore clothing with metallic reflections. They seemed to be looking for something, then they stopped in front of a rabbit hutch, feeling the rabbits while emitting noises that resembled a language. Amerigo, afraid of being robbed, ran to get a gun and pointed it at them. The little beings turned towards him, Amerigo felt a strange weakness overtake him and his weapon slipped away while the intruders seized some rabbits. They got back into their cigar which flew away leaving behind a shining trail.", + "location": "ITALY, Isola (La Spezia)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on Humanoids ET\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 100", + "Jean FERGUSON: \"All about Flying Saucers\" ed.; Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p.196", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1963" + }, + { + "date": "11/14/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At nightfall Martial Pipers was returning home by bicycle. Suddenly a bright light struck him in the chest, immediately setting fire to his clothes. As a result of this misadventure, Mr. Pipers suffered from nervous depression. He saw no craft and was wondering how this green light burned him without him feeling any shock. (Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out sur les S.V.\" - FLEUVE NOIR 1956 - p. 237) A gardener saw a device that had landed near the road, at night, and was emitting a very bright light. His clothes were partially burned when he approached it. (Charles BOWEN: \"En quête des Humanoïdes\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 67) A curious event occurred in the night of Tuesday 16th in Wasles-Audemez, Briffoeil. Mr. Martial Pipers, a gardener, was returning from Vézon by bicycle, around 9 pm, when after being suddenly blinded by a light beam, he noticed that his clothes had caught fire! After putting out the flames, Mr. Pipers returned home. [IN REALITY: The exact date remains confused, even after the GESAG investigation of 11 and 12.4.70, GS 2481, on 11.6.71 the GESAG received a letter: it would have been a joke organized by Pipers' friends, the affair was mentioned in the press which did not report it. cfr GESAG INFOLINK of April 1996, \"Les incidents de type I en Belgique dans le cours de l'année 1954\"] ( 1954, November 14 (or 16))", + "location": "Belgium, Wasmes-Audemets-Briffoeil (Tournai)", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, cat. n° 38 ref. W T", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1964" + }, + { + "date": "11/16/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Sanmartin meets an entity from another planet 1 km from Moncloa Square, on the bridge overlooking the highway to La Coruna. The mysterious being wears a transparent one-piece suit covering him entirely. He has long blond hair falling in curls on his shoulders. He is as beautiful as an ancient statue. He puts a hand on Sanmartin's shoulder, signals him to wait, and near the bridge an staircase appears which the stranger takes and disappears into the darkness. After 3 to 4 minutes he returns, squeezes Sanmartin's hand so hard that he does not understand, then takes the staircase again and disappears. A dark saucer, without any light, then takes off from somewhere near the bridge. In Sanmartin's hand a violet stone with yellow spots and a sign painted in violet. The stone measures 12 x 4 x 2 cm. (continued on November 16, 1957) (Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998) A space stone given by an extraterrestrial to the Midrilene nurse Alberto Sanmartin. (Semenario Pueblo Magazine, Madrid, Saturday 29.9.1956) Two of the nine symbols engraved on the stone show the fuselage of a UFO.", + "location": "SPAIN, MadridBetween 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning Alberto", + "ref": [ + "Lou Zinnsstag: \"The Violet Stone Tablet\" p. 117 to 121", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1965" + }, + { + "date": "11/27/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One hundred people witnessed the passage of a flying saucer at 8:30 PM. The object flew slowly and was described as \"a flying boat\" with a bright light at the back. Amazingly, the object approached the ground and landed vertically. Three people \"dressed in Western clothing\" emerged and waved their hands, causing the people to panic and lock themselves in their houses. The craft stayed on the ground for five minutes and then took off vertically, flying away at great speed. (November 27, 1954)", + "location": "INDIA, Kariambkam (Madras)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 232, 233", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1966" + }, + { + "date": "11/28/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Gustavo Gonzales and José Ponce were in the cabin of a truck driving towards Petare, in the outskirts of Caracas, around 2 o'clock in the morning to pick up fresh vegetables to sell at the market in the early morning. They found the road blocked by a luminous object in the shape of a disk that was 2 m off the ground. Gonzales had stopped the truck and the two men sat for a moment looking at the strange object in amazement. Then, driven by the same impulse, they both got out and approached the object. When they were about 7 m away, they had seen coming towards them what had seemed to be a kind of hairy dwarf. Gonzales had grabbed the creature and lifted it. It weighed about 16 kilos. The little being had freed itself and had given Gonzales a shoulder blow that had sent him sprawling on his back. Not waiting for anything else, Ponce had run to the police station. Before Gonzales could get up, the little adversary had jumped a meter in the air and had dived onto Gonzales who then noticed that his eyes shone in the truck's headlights like a cat's yellow eyes. Having managed to get on one knee, Gonzales had taken out a knife and when the creature had sent him a punch, he had noticed that instead of hands, it had webbed and clawed extremities. He had tried to stab it with his blade, but the knife slid as if on steel. Another of the little men had come out of the craft and had pointed at Gonzales a small tube with a bright light beam. Blinded, Gonzales had thought he was dead. When he had regained his sight he had seen the object rise above the trees and disappear into the night. Fortunately for the witnesses, a doctor from Caracas who had been called for a night consultation had seen everything and he agreed to make a statement. (Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse\" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 157 à 159) In the middle of the night, in the outskirts of Caracas, two truck drivers see their road blocked by a big luminous sphere. One of them tries to capture a small hairy and clawed being that approaches, but he is pushed back and then blinded by the weapon of another dwarf. Two other creatures carrying various samples return to the UFO which takes off and disappears.", + "location": "VENEZUELA, Petare, Caracas", + "ref": [ + "Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, p. 60 to 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1967" + }, + { + "date": "11/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Mozin couple were on their way back to Maubeuge around midnight. In the distance, they saw lights on top of a small hill and thought there had been an accident. They quickly covered the distance to the light and discovered, 100 m away, on the side of the R.N.2, a craft, with an open door, and inside a \"Michelin Man\" seeming to move slowly on the threshold. The craft, a kind of large shell, rested on feet, was of a whitish metallic color like galvanized sheet metal and on the walls were vertical lines spaced 10 cm apart. The being, about 1 m 20 tall, resembled the Michelin Man: it was very large, with boudins around the arms and legs. Wearing large boots, it had a bulky helmet almost as wide as its shoulders, giving it a large head. The light came from the open door and spread onto the road. The interior was a non-blinding white. The witnesses saw conduits or large cables going down into the craft with some kind of handles or switches. They began their observation from a distance of 100 m and passed close by, at 4 or 5 m. The car headlights went out as soon as they were a hundred meters away, but the engine did not stop. When they had passed the thing by a hundred meters, the headlights came back on without the driver intervening. (November 1954)", + "location": "FRANCE, Belle Hôtesse near Beaufort", + "ref": [ + "L.D.L.N. \"Mysterious Flying Saucers\" - ALBATROS-ETAPES 1973 - pp. 119-122", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1968" + }, + { + "date": "11/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Philip Molava, 13 years old, was outside late at night, feeding his rabbits. He then saw a small ovoid disk flying nearby. The next day he was very ill, taken to the hospital, and the doctors suspected food poisoning. The boy was in bed, partially paralyzed. He reported that around two in the morning, three veiled silhouettes materialized next to his bed, in a kind of fog and then he lost consciousness. In any case, the next day he was completely healed. He tells me that following this event he has frequent astral outings, OBEs and receives telepathic messages concerning the dangers faced by humanity. (November 1954)", + "location": "ENGLAND, Croydon (Surrey)", + "ref": [ + "Randles 1988", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1969" + }, + { + "date": "11/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Charles Noel Martin, an atomic physicist, in a communication to the Academy of Sciences on the long-term effects of experimental thermonuclear explosions, addressed the UFO phenomenon. According to the atomist, the atomic mushroom which is strongly ionized will fragment and be carried by the winds around the Earth, this ionization can be the origin of plasma ball formations. (November 1954)", + "location": "France, Paris", + "ref": [ + "Christian DE ZAN: \"Guide du Chasseur de Phénomènes OVNI\", ed. De Vecchi 1980, p. 27", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1970" + }, + { + "date": "12/9/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Farmer Olmira Da Costa e Rosa was tending to his green bean plantations when he observed a stranger standing near a machine that was almost on the ground and resembled a cream-colored colonial helmet surrounded by a fog. It made a sound similar to that of a sewing machine. Another individual was examining the fence, while a third was inside the apparatus, head and arms visible. As the witness dropped his pitchfork, one of the men picked it up and returned it to him after examining it. The unknowns entered the machine, motioning to the witness not to approach, and flew away. They were of normal size, had wide shoulders, long hair, very white skin, and slanted eyes. They wore brown jumpsuits and shoes without heels.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Linha da Vista (Venancio Aires)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, pp. 69 and 114", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1971" + }, + { + "date": "12/10/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jesus Gomez and Lorenzo Flores were hunting rabbits along the road. Having fired all their cartridges, they decided to go back. They noticed in the bushes, at a short distance, a shining object. They thought it was a car that had gone off the road. They went into the bushes to take a look. They found themselves a few meters away from an object resembling two huge shiny bowls connected by the edge. In their opinion it was 3 m in diameter, it stood 1 m from the ground and was spitting fire from the base. \"Then we saw four little men come out. They were about 90 cm tall. When they saw us they all four grabbed Jesus and tried to drag him towards the object. I could only grab my empty gun and hit one of them with it. It seemed like the gun had hit something hard like rock. I hurt my hands and my gun broke. It was too dark to see their features, but they had a lot of hair on their body and were very strong.\" When he was seized by the little men Gomez had been stunned by something. Flores had dragged his friend onto the road and when Gomez had come to his senses they had run as fast as they could to the police station where they arrived with their clothes all torn and bearing deep scratches.", + "location": "VENEZUELA, between Chico and Cerro de la Tres Torres", + "ref": [ + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse\" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 156-157", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1972" + }, + { + "date": "12/11/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Near the location of the observation of December 9, Pedro Morais heard his chickens stirring and saw an object \"which had a bottom like a huge polished copper cauldron\" hovering. In a nearby field he saw two small human-like beings, dressed in a kind of \"yellow sack\", take a tobacco plant and a chicken, then fly away leaving the farmer amazed.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Linha Bela Vista", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 70 and 116", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1973" + }, + { + "date": "12/16/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening three friends stopped in the park of the Ministry of Agriculture of San Carlos. Jesus Paz had barely taken 10 steps when he called his friends for help. They found him lying on the ground, unconscious and bleeding. Not far from him, they saw a small furry creature of human shape fleeing in the direction of a shiny saucer-shaped object resting on the grass. One of Paz's companions, Luiz Meija, a member of the National Guard, had barely time to pick up a stone and throw it at the disc when it began to rise with a loud roar. Paz was taken to the city hospital and the doctors declared him to be in shock. He had long and deep scratches on his right side and along his spine. They looked like claw marks. He told the police that he was heading towards a flower bed, his steps muffled by the thick grass, when suddenly he almost stumbled upon a furry creature examining the flowers. He had tried to avoid it, but the creature had attacked him first by scratching and tearing his shirt, then by hitting him on the neck, which had knocked him out.", + "location": "VENEZUELA, San Carlos.", + "ref": [ + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse\" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 155, 156", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1974" + }, + { + "date": "12/19/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At night, jockey José Parra saw six small creatures loading stones into a saucer-shaped machine. He tried to avoid them and flee, but he was paralyzed by a violet light beam directed by one of the little men, while the others entered the craft which flew away. Shortly after midnight, in the same city, an employee of the sanatorium saw a craft on the ground. Another employee saw the craft three hours later. (...) (1954, December 19th and 20th)", + "location": "VENEZUELA, Valencia", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of the Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 71 and 117, 118", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1975" + }, + { + "date": "12/21/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) According to John Keel in 'Operation Trojan Horse' in 1954, Dr. Charles A. Langhead of the University of Michigan had telepathic communications with Asthar, a high-ranking member of the Intergalactic Federation. The entity told him the world would end on December 21, 1954, but assured him and his family would be saved by a spaceship. On the appointed day, the doctor and his family went to the agreed-upon place. They are still waiting.... (1954, before December 21)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 77", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1976" + }, + { + "date": "12/29/1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: August 24, 1953) Van Tassel receives the following communication: \"The space fleet under Ashtar has its headquarters on Nirbue (Venus) and two vessels, the Schare and the Shanchea, are stationed in orbit there. Shanchea has a length of 2500 m. but is not visible, as it does not reflect the light of the sun\". He is also explained the principle of Integration, a device that produces negative ions.", + "location": "USA, Giant Rock, California", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1977" + }, + { + "date": "1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. 1937) In the meantime, Elisabeth Klarer is now 44 years old. One morning, around 10 o'clock, she sees a wonderful saucer descending. It has the shape of a cross and is topped with a white dome and measures 18 meters wide. Anxious, she wants to run away, but something prevents her. Through one of the three windows she sees a man standing, he seems to have only stumps for arms. His gaze hypnotizes her. She knows that the saucer will return.", + "location": "SOUTH AFRICA, Drakensbergen", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1968", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1978" + }, + { + "date": "1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Joseph Wanderka is part of an anti-fascist group and often unemployed for this reason. He has a moped and rides around the Vienna area. On one of these rides, he sees a shining object, in the shape of a cigar, the size of a passenger plane. [continued 1955]", + "location": "AUSTRIA, Vienna", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1979" + }, + { + "date": "1954", + "desc": "(Translated from French) George King claimed to receive messages from a Venutian named Aetherius who allegedly visited his planet in his etheric body. George King also claimed to have had a guide on the planet Venus called Patana.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 85", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1980" + }, + { + "date": "1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. April 1946) Howard Menger meets a young girl who resembles the \"Stein Girl\". Later he realizes that Marla is actually reincarnated and is his soul double. He then remembers a previous life with her. He creates a group of which he is the spiritual leader. Like Angelucci and Van Tassel, he prepares people for future extraterrestrial contacts.", + "location": "USA, High Bridge, New Jersey", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued September 1956", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1981" + }, + { + "date": "1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of Dan, probe, 2 stages with Nike booster type, altitude 108.5KM.", + "location": "USA, unspecified", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, photo", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1982" + }, + { + "date": "2/4/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of Viking XII, altitude 231 km.", + "location": "USA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, M.W. Rosen, N.Y. 1958", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1983" + }, + { + "date": "3/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness, a painter, wishes to keep the strictest anonymity. In the month of March 1955, occupied in painting a landscape, he saw a circular aluminum-colored craft slow down and descend vertically from the clearing where the easel was set up. The craft had 8 to 10 m in diameter, topped with a dome, and landed 50 m from the witness. A kind of door opened slowly and he saw a person descend, dressed in a gray or light brown suit, wearing a helmet. After looking more closely he realized that this being was a woman, of great beauty, with blond strands protruding from the lower and side edges of the helmet. She looked at him smiling, took a few steps, but stayed 5 or 6 m from her craft. The woman picked up a number of small stones which she arranged two by two on the ground between him and her. There were 10 pairs of stones. She pointed her index finger at him, at her, and at the first pair of stones. She pointed to the other pairs of stones and pointed to herself, and to different points on the horizon. The witness thought he understood that she had established contacts with 10 different people.

He expressed his desire to visit the craft, but she answered with incomprehensible words and it seemed to him that she promised to return three days later. The witness returned wondering if he had dreamed. He was nevertheless at the rendezvous on the 3rd day and the mysterious woman as well. In March and April she returned 7 times, but it was only the last time that the witness was able to visit the craft. She also agreed to the request made each time by the witness to leave him something tangible, a proof. That day he received a kind of cylindro-conical object shining like aluminum, 45 cm long, 20 cm wide at the large base and 6 to 8 cm in the small one. It weighed about 2.5 kg. When held in the hand the metal turned into a kind of glass or opalescent material. In short it was an extremely powerful long-range view, requiring no focusing, allowing to see clearly even at 17 kilometers.

Shortly after the investigator visited the witness, he became ill and had to flee, pursued by 4 men in black, who gave him no peace. The witness literally \"disappeared\". [vog: which is still the most elegant way for a fiction author to get out of trouble ... and avoid an investigation.]", + "location": "FRANCE, unspecified location.", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Black-out on the S.V.\" - FLEUVE NOIR 1956 - p. 245 to 253", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1984" + }, + { + "date": "3/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 9 o'clock, the witness and his wife were driving slowly up a hill near the highest point in the area. Through the leafless trees, he saw a strange object on the ground 10 meters from the road. The object was a strange mass of fairly bright colors, mixed with blue, green, and gray, with a dome resembling mica, slightly translucent, topped with a red cone, the tip pointing upwards. The bottom of the craft was hidden by the grass. In front of this thing, beings wearing tall hats, 80 to 90 cm high and of various colors, were maneuvering. (1955, March-April)", + "location": "FRANCE, Chizé Forest \"Buffe à Jasse\"", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 214", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1985" + }, + { + "date": "4/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In April 1955, Leo Childers would also have had the immense privilege of taking a trip in a saucer-shaped spacecraft piloted by an Extraterrestrial who told him he was Commander Marcosan.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 85", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1986" + }, + { + "date": "5/14/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Droguet, residing at the girls' college, found himself upon returning from the cinema around 11:45 pm (0:15?), in the presence of a craft, stationary at 1.50 m from the ground, in the courtyard of this school establishment. Paralyzed by surprise, or by a blue-green ray that illuminated him immediately, he distinguished two small humanoids, dressed in diving suits with helmets, one of which was taking samples of the large gravel in the courtyard alley. (Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 92) (...) \"Under the craft I distinguished a black hole from which hung a kind of metal ladder with only a few rungs. When they went back up I distinctly heard a metal noise coming from their soles and the ladder. When they were inside it was raised. I then felt a kind of suction. The craft, still lit, rose higher. It was circular and seemed to turn on itself. In the center there was the black hole that I had noticed and which seemed motionless. When the craft was higher than the trees, everything went out and I saw nothing more.", + "location": "FRANCE, Dinan (Côtes du Nord)", + "ref": [ + "GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Facing the Extra-terrestrials\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 142, 143", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1987" + }, + { + "date": "5/23/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Midnight. Personal witnesses from the Air Force: I.J. Shapiro and E.C. Ingber. For 5 minutes, two thin rectangles in a vertical position were seen low on the horizon, while two black ovals with a blue light were higher up.", + "location": "USA, Cheyenne, Wyoming.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1988" + }, + { + "date": "5/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) My mother saw it first. She was working in the garden, pulling weeds and tending to her flowers. She was about to put away her tools to go and prepare the afternoon coffee, a sacred tradition in our family. She must have shouted to get our attention as my father and I were in the attic, where he had his workshop. He was busy and didn't find the event important enough to come down. I rushed to the window which faced south, but I couldn't make out anything unusual; I tumbled down the three floors and joined my mother in the garden: that's when I saw it. What I observed was a grey metallic cigar or maybe a disc seen from the side, with a transparent bubble on top. It had the apparent size of a full Moon and it hovered silently in the sky above the Saint Maclou church. I don't remember seeing it leave. My mother told me that the object went away leaving behind it like flakes of a white substance (...) The next day I met my friend Philippe at school, we were revising together for the baccalaureate exams. He mentioned having seen the same strange object from his house less than a kilometer away from my position, on a higher ground. He had observed it through binoculars and confirmed my description\". (1955, May (a Sunday))", + "location": "FRANE, Pontoise", + "ref": [ + "personal observation by Jacques Vallée, cfr his book \"Forbidden Science, journal 1957-1969\" O.P. Editions 1997, p. 26,27", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1989" + }, + { + "date": "5/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) R. Hunnicut was driving at 4 o'clock in the morning towards Loveland and in the lights of his headlights he suddenly saw what seemed to be three men kneeling on the right side of the road. Thinking there was an injured person, he stopped to offer his help. He then discovered that these silhouettes were not human, about 90 cm tall, gray in color, including their clothing. These clothes seemed very tight and stretched on the chest \"crookedly\" which seemed abnormally strong on the right side and protruding from the shoulder to the armpit. To this bulbous part hung a slender arm that seemed much longer than the arm on the other side. The legs and feet were not discernible, hidden in the vegetation, but the witness had the impression of \"something bagged.\" The head reminded him of \"a frog face\" especially because of the mouth, a thin line cutting across the smooth and gray face. The eyes had no eyebrows, the nose was indistinct, the top of the skull gave the impression of painted hair, apparently consisting of rolls of fat running horizontally from the top of the eyes, over and around the entire head. The one in the middle of the three had appeared first with an arm raised above his head and seemed to hold a dark chain or stick that emitted blue-white sparks. When the witness approached, the entity lowered the object to his ankle. (...) One of the creatures made a gesture that the witness understood as a defense to get closer. (1955, May (instead of March))", + "location": "USA, Branch Hill", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 181, 182", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1990" + }, + { + "date": "6/5/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Lenticular flying object photographed, very bright underneath, rounded dark top. (Jacques POTTIER: \"Les Soucoupes Volantes\" - DE VECCHI - 1974 - p. 24) Mr. Muyldermans takes 3 photographs of a silver-gray UFO, of a disc-like appearance: the first photo shows an object in the sky, the second reveals a large condensation trail while the UFO is moving through it, the third shows the object moving away, leaving behind a small luminous trail. (Inforespace n° 11, p. 4) the photos are published in (J. Allen HYNEK and Jacques VALLEE: \"Aux limites de la réalité\" - ed. Albin Michel 1978, p 144) and (June 5, 1955)", + "location": "BELGIUM, Namur, St Marc)", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"Le dossier secret des OVNI\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p.167", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1991" + }, + { + "date": "7/3/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Wesley Symmonds of Cincinnati was driving through Stockton towards Florida and saw four creatures with \"stalked eyes\" near the road. Her drawing shows small bipeds with thin arms, large eyes, and pointed chins. The two in the background seem to be turning away, a third was bent over what seemed to be a stick held in its hand, and the fourth had its right arm raised and was facing forward. It had large protuberant eyes, something resembling a cap on its head, no visible mouth, a long pointed nose, and a chin that ended in a sharp point. Its long arms ended in appendages resembling claws. (July 3, 1955)", + "location": "USA, Stockton (Georgia)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 181", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1992" + }, + { + "date": "7/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three young people arrive in Melbourne with what they say is a photo of an entity. A bright object had fallen from the sky. They searched and found chipped, shining metal pieces and 50 meters in front of them, there was a moving silhouette. From behind it looked like a toad, and from the front it seemed humanoid. Some sort of green slime hung from its knees. Its feet and hands seemed to be covered in a sheet metal armor. Photos would have (would have, this conditional deserves special attention...) been taken just before the thing disintegrated in front of their eyes. (July 1955)", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, near Eucla", + "ref": [ + "\"Daily Telegraph\" Aug 2 1955 - Keith Basterfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1993" + }, + { + "date": "7/17/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 11 o'clock Mrs. Elizabeth Klarer, who was walking in the mountainous region with a simple small camera box, saw a low, metallic-looking flying disc entering and exiting scattered clouds. The object seemed to be making an erratic flight, seemed to land, and then rose again. She was able to take 7 black and white photographs of the phenomenon. [note from vog: I have not found this information in Elizabeth Klarer's biography anywhere...]", + "location": "SOUTH AFRICA, Drakensberg Range (Natal)", + "ref": [ + "CDROM - SPACE ODYSSEY", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1994" + }, + { + "date": "7/22/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 5:30 p.m. A resident of Mt Adams observed an object shaped like a pear, flying low above his house. The object discharged a dark, reddish-brown, liquid substance which burned his arms and hands. A peach tree above which the object was located was found dead the next day, with the leaves and stems curled up, as if having suffered extreme frost. Plant samples and liquid were submitted to the AFOSI of the Air Force at Wright Patterson, who warned the witness a few days later that it was a violent poison.", + "location": "USA, Cincinnati (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "C.R.I.F.O. Newsletter, Vol.2", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1995" + }, + { + "date": "8/21/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) RR3 - Evening, 7 adult witnesses and 4 children, duration: 4 hours (...) One of the witnesses had seen a UFO land in a ravine near the Sutton farm. When he returned he told his adventure. He was gently mocked and no one thought about it anymore. An hour had not passed when the dog started barking violently in the yard. Two of the men in the house went to the back door to see what was going on. A small luminous man with huge eyes, his arms raised above his head \"as if he was being robbed\" was slowly approaching the house. In this region, the material level of the witnesses and the social contingencies mean that they shoot first and talk afterwards. The two men did not fail to follow the rule, one pointing a 22 long rifle and the other a hunting rifle. They fired together when the \"ufonaut\" was no more than about six meters away from them. The shots echoed, they say, exactly as if they had been fired into a bucket. The visitor had a sudden jerk and immediately disappeared into the night. Soon another visitor showed up at the window and was likewise greeted with rifle shots. The wire mesh that protects the window still bears the mark (the bullet pierced it) of this defense against the invader.

The men then went out to see if they had killed the intruder, and as the first in line had momentarily stopped under a small projection of the roof, those who followed him saw a clawed hand descend to touch his hair. New shots, this time directed against the creature on the roof and against another one noticed in a nearby tree. This last one was apparently hit directly but it floated to the ground and ran away. Not much can unsettle a Kentucky farmer more than the inefficiency of his firearms and soon the whole family had barricaded themselves in the house. From time to time the visitors showed up again at the windows. About three hours later the family unanimously decided that the siege had lasted long enough and the eleven occupants of the house piled into two cars and raced into town to alert the police. It was 11 o'clock at night. Given that it certainly takes a great stimulation for a family of eleven people to cram into two cars, cover a dozen kilometers at full speed and come to ask for the help of the police, one can judge the terror of the Suttons. They returned to the farm accompanied by policemen who scrutinized the place, pointed their spotlights in all directions, made a great noise, but found nothing. (J. Allen HYNEK: \"UFOs, Myth or Reality? - trans. Belfond 1974, p. 180 to 185, 278", + "location": "USA, Kelly-Hopkinsville, Kentucky", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1996" + }, + { + "date": "8/22/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 2:00 PM, in the Douglas garden, the children followed the capricious maneuvers of UFOs, sometimes silver, sometimes semi-transparent. They hovered, disappeared, returned. The flight of the UFOs was accompanied by musical sounds. An object landed and a small being wearing a kind of shiny disc at its waist came towards them. A second character also appeared", + "location": "USA, Casa Blanca (California)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 11, p 4 - 1973 SOBEPS", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1997" + }, + { + "date": "8/25/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 10:55 p.m. Sgt. Ralph Weber of the Hamilton County Police, patrolman Ernest Nehrer and Maurice Wiseman and many other witnesses observe a red glowing object hovering vertically from the Fernald Uranium station near Ross, after being first reported by police on Hamilton Pike. The object is described as something resembling an airplane engine, but emitting sparks and surrounded by a reddish glow. The object is seen descending from 100 to 300 feet, then rising vertically. At times it would tilt to the side, as if having difficulty maintaining its hover. The Atomic Energy Commission launched an investigation. (The Cincinnati Post 8-26-55) Witnesses observe three fighter planes engaging in a dogfight with three circular UFOs, with no damage to either party. After a few turns the UFOs break the circle, accelerate and disappear. The incident is tracked by SAC radar: Strategic Air Command [note from vog: Otto Binder seems to have information no other American author possesses, strange...]", + "location": "USA, Cincinnati, Ross (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Gabriel GRESLE: OVNI, a Pilot Speaks, ed. Guy Trédaniel, 1993, p. 46", + "Otto Binder, p. 36", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1998" + }, + { + "date": "8/25/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11pm two witnesses called the Green Hills police: they had encountered a \"green man\" 1m to 1m 20 tall, glowing a dark green, who in 3 steps covered a distance of nearly 15 meters. He had luminous eyes with a black center, and something blurry around the head like a hat. In the newspapers the next day it read: \"Little green man chases teenagers, police chase lights, a ghost man crosses the streets\". (August 25, 1955)", + "location": "USA, Green Hills", + "ref": [ + "The Cincinnati Post 8-26-55", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_1999" + }, + { + "date": "8/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Dejean, living in the Gironne district, was busy putting the hook on the window of her bedroom around 10 pm when she saw two objects on the ground in a meadow near the Ayguecau stream, resembling eggshells with beautiful lights. Next to these objects were two beings about 90 cm tall, bald headed. Mr. Dejean got up, watched the spectacle and took his gun to go warn the neighbors. The dog barked and immediately the two craft flew away quickly. The neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Araignon only saw two reddish stars. - Ground traces.", + "location": "FRANCE, Cazères", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 218", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2000" + }, + { + "date": "8/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A group of children aged 4 to 14 had seen saucers and little men. One boy said he was climbing a tree when the first of a series of saucers arrived. A silver arm waved at him, he said, and \"I began to float in space from the roof of a house\". How did he get to that roof? \"He sort of slid in there\". Other children in the group had seen the boy fall straight off the roof, landing on his head but not getting hurt. Another child said he saw a man about 90 cm tall come out of a saucer that had landed in the nearby field. The creature had a \"big red mouth, big red eyes and four diamond-shaped things where his nose should have been\". Another boy said he saw a strange man carrying two guns with which he paralyzed two of the boys. (August 1955)", + "location": "USA, Roverside (California)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of the Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 183", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2001" + }, + { + "date": "9/15/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:55 PM, Mr. Kolesnikof was leaning in a ditch to ease his back pain. Suddenly it became bright and in a clearing of the forest, he saw a flying rocket whose luminosity spread over a radius of about 1000 meters. At the front, the rocket was veiled by a reddish halo, on the side a brief jet of luminous lines of various colors, on the right side 3 rows of portholes: 25, 26 and again 25, making 76 portholes lit from the inside. Two curious wings in the shape of half crescents arched towards the front from which three precise points emitted luminous arcs of different colors, at a precise cadence. The craft moved slowly and silently at 10 meters above the tall oaks. It could measure 375 to 400 meters. A streak of fire came out of the end of the rocket, three times the length of the craft. The wind that had been blowing strongly a few minutes before had completely stopped. Mr. Kolesnikof saw 3 wild boars brush past him: they fled the trajectory of the object.", + "location": "FRANCE, Wissembourg/Lauterbourg", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 221, 222", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2002" + }, + { + "date": "9/16/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Near Boisseuges an unusual whistling sound attracted the attention of the young shepherd M. Frigoul at around 6 pm. He saw a dark mass descend from the sky. A strong gust of wind made him fall. The object measured 3.50 m in length and 2 m in height. It looked like a machine with an opening from which he saw a staircase. There were two occupants. One of them had a red face, a bald head and very small teeth. They picked some plants and flew off to the northwest.", + "location": "FRANCE, Boisseuges", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"Le dossier des OVNI\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 72", + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronique des apparitions E.T.\" DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 294, 295", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2003" + }, + { + "date": "9/16/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) This observation took place in the night of September 16 to 17, 1955, at the Titicus Reservoir in the Northern Westchester County, state of New York. I reproduce this account, word for word as it appeared in the magazine of a New York organization called Civilian Saucer Intelligence (Civil Intelligence Service on Flying Saucers), extremely serious, but which unfortunately was dissolved 10 years ago (1969). \"The couple arrived at the lake to fish for perch with a spoon shortly before midnight. Around 1:30, they were in a small cove on the north shore of the lake, which is about 5 km long and which is oriented east to west. Mrs. Bordes was rowing while her husband was untangling the fishing lines. For the first time in their lives, they had not caught a single fish. It was pitch black; there was no moon, and the clouds hid the stars. At this moment, Mrs. Bordes saw a strange object rise out of the water between the boat and the shore, at a distance of only a few meters. It was a luminous pink sphere - at least seen from above it appeared spherical - about the size of a basketball, with darker plates.

The object rose about thirty centimeters and then fell back into the water with a loud splash. Mr. Bordes, standing at the back and his back turned, thought that a big fish had jumped. Mrs. Bordes is a rather more intrepid than average young woman who likes to fish and hunt at night, but the spectacle was so abnormal that it scared her; she took up the oars and rowed straight to the shore. Her husband, still absorbed in his task, swore and protested, until suddenly he also saw something. He whispered: \"Shh! I think I see a phenomenon!\" Mrs. Bordes, petrified, then saw the \"phenomenon\" too. About 200 meters southeast, towards the middle of the lake and apparently floating on its surface, two parallel lights shone, like fluorescent tubes of a bluish white. They had a wavy but rigid shape; they did not undulate. Their length seemed twice that of a 5 m boat. Above these \"serpents\" there was a less bright round light, and of a more yellowish white. Much smaller than a full moon, and less bright than a car headlight, at a distance of 200 m it appeared to be the size of a basketball. It did not hover in the air but was apparently attached to a solid body, visible only intermittently as a grayish shape in the darkness. They were able to observe that this round light was regularly eclipsed on one side and then became round again, giving a very clear impression of a rotating lighthouse; and if it did not project a visible beam, they could see each other when the light shone towards them. (1955, September 16-17)", + "location": "USA, (New York)", + "ref": [ + "Yvan T.SANDERSON: \"The Invisible Under the Seas\" Albin Michel 1979 p.83-85", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2004" + }, + { + "date": "9/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Richard Price, 8 years old, was playing with a friend near the Troy cemetery. The children heard a surprising noise: like a steam locomotive. They walked in that direction, but the little girl, scared, stopped. Richard continued alone, saw a small ET in military uniform with a belt and transparent helmet approaching and allowed himself to be taken aboard a hexagonal-shaped vessel where he witnessed a special projection: a kind of interactive virtual reality. He discovered an orange planet, ETs, the variety of their ships and witnessed a battle between two galactic fleets. The film allowed him to participate in the events. Then he was taken to another room where he underwent a medical examination and an implant was inserted into his sex. (...) In 1989, the implant broke: part of it was expelled through the skin, then the rest came out two days later. At MIT, Professor Pritchard was interested in it: the implant would be metallic, coated with a biological material. After a while, Pritchard announced that the implant was not metallic but organic: 90% carbon, traces of oxygen and nitrogen...", + "location": "USA, Troy (New York)", + "ref": [ + "Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: \"Investigations on ET Abductions\" - Plon 1995, p. 267, 268", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2005" + }, + { + "date": "10/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of an Aerobee, the emission of the sodium vapor trail is visible up to Amarillo in Texas.", + "location": "SA, White Sands", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, 288", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2006" + }, + { + "date": "12/18/1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1979, magazines put on their front page the claims of Professor Sergei Boshich, saying that a dozen debris of a space ship that exploded on December 18, 1955 were floating 1240 miles above the Earth and had been discovered by Russian scientists at the beginning of the 60s. He added that the extraterrestrial vessel must have measured 70 m long by 33 m wide, that there were computers on board, dome antennas and portholes and that the bodies of the extraterrestrials must still be there.", + "location": "USSR-SPACE", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 100", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2007" + }, + { + "date": "1955", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. 1954; Vienna) Wanderka is on a motorbike in a place called Arbesthal, he is following a forest path. He notices something very bright through the trees. Curious, he continues on foot, the engine in his hand and finds a metallic saucer, 2.50m high and 10 to 12m wide in a grassy clearing. All around the object is smooth and metallic and no windows appear. Yet there is an opening, square, 2m on each side, from which a ramp of 4m in length emerges. Inside everything is lit up, Wanderka takes courage and crosses the ramp. Inside there are 6 people, all about 1.80m tall, with beautiful smooth faces like those of children. They are wearing grey matte suits: the fabric is smooth, it does not show any weaving. There are no buttons or other seams on the uniforms. The whole thing is one piece. The people are blond and have mid-length hair, around the neck the opening of the suit is round, without opening. The place is lit up by indirect light as he does not see any lamps. Wanderka does not see any structure, yet he supposes that behind the people there must be a wall. A bit surprised to find himself facing these people, Wanderka apologizes for his intrusion. He gives his identity and address. One of the group responds to him: \"According to the standards on Earth, we are from somewhere around Cassiopeia.\" Very surprised, Wanderka asks them how it is that they speak German so well. And the answer comes: \"We have learned it.\" The voice is almost feminine, like that of some mature women. Yet they have a slight foreign accent. As a good socialist, Wanderka asks them what they are doing here, after having explained to them the political system in his country. The extraterrestrials tell him that at their place there is no longer any class division. Wanderka asks them if they can intervene to change certain things on Earth. To his astonishment they answer him: \"You, people of the Earth, must solve your problems yourselves.\" Wanderka then describes to them the situation in the world, the famine in some countries, the social injustice in his own, in such vibrant terms, that the extraterrestrials start to cry. Moved to see their grief, Wanderka does not know what to do, he bids them farewell, the extraterrestrials respond with a small bow. Wanderka takes his motorbike and leaves.", + "location": "AUSTRIA, south of Vienna", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter: \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued in June 1973", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2008" + }, + { + "date": "Early 1956", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two gendarmes, MM. Barboule and Simon, were coming from Cassagnac around 01:00 in the night and were pushing their bicycles up a small hill. They then heard a noise that was getting louder, like that of a truck engine. Above them appeared a craft of about ten meters in diameter. They could make out some sort of nozzles from which short, reddish glows were escaping. At the same time, an extremely violent hot breath pressed them against the wall of a building next to which they had stopped. The craft landed a little further away on a flat piece of land. Shortly afterwards, a white ball emerged from the upper dome and, at a low speed, made two laps around the Castelai hill, then returned to the craft, passing silently 50 meters away from the gendarmes, who were still pressed - out of fear? - against the wall. Meanwhile, four figures had come out of the craft and were moving around. Shortly after the ball's return to the craft, the figures got on board. The takeoff was immediate, with a deafening noise, but without any glows or flames. The inhabitants of Barre des Cévennes had been woken up that night by a loud noise above their heads. (1956, beginning of the year)", + "location": "FRANCE, Barre des Cévennes (Lozère)", + "ref": [ + "GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 119, 120", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2009" + }, + { + "date": "2/23/1956", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Spectacular solar eruption today.", + "location": "SUN", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2010" + }, + { + "date": "3/1956", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: June 1946, High Bridge) Starting in March 1956, Howard Menger took care of welcoming the extraterrestrials who were to stay on Earth: their hair had to be cut, they had to be provided with clothes and informed about Earth customs. They brought their own dried food and mainly ate fruits, vegetables and whole wheat bread. They had previously learned the language of the country they were going to live in, thanks to an impressive linguistic transformer-converter, both visually and audibly, to their brain cells. Through this system they could assimilate 3 languages in one week.", + "location": "USA, unspecified", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"The Enigma of the E.T.\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 146", + "following July 4th 1956", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2011" + }, + { + "date": "3/1956", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 3 o'clock in the night Major Cunningham of the USAF and Sgt. Lovette were outside in a sand dune field, looking for debris after a missile test. At a certain moment Sgt. Lovette was behind a dune and out of sight when Major Cunningham heard him scream, a scream of terror or agony. Cunningham thought Lovette had been bitten by a snake and running towards the scream, he saw Lovette being carried away in what appeared to him to be a silver disc, hovering 3 to 5 meters in the air. Major Cunningham described what appeared to him as a long object, like a flexible tube, wound around Lovette's legs and carrying him away in the disc. Cunningham watched helplessly as the disc quickly disappeared into the sky. He ran to the jeep and reported the incident by radio to Missile Control, who confirmed a radar echo. A search party was organized to find Lovette and Cunningham was admitted to the White Sands dispensary for observation. The search for Lovette lasted three days, and eventually his naked body was found 10 miles from the disappearance site. The body was mutilated: tongue excised, incision under the chin extended to the larynx and esophagus. He was emasculated and enucleated, the anus was excised and part of the colon. Completely exsanguinated corpse. Nearby were birds of prey, which no doubt had been fighting over the corpse, dead themselves. Death apparently dated back two days. At first Cunningham was suspected of having killed Lovette, but then he was acquitted.", + "location": "USA, near Holloman Air Force Base.", + "ref": [ + "prepared and reported by John Lear - USA", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2012" + }, + { + "date": "4/8/1956", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A bright light was followed by a civilian airliner with Captain Raymond Ryan as pilot and William Neff as first officer. As incredible as it may seem, the civilian plane was ordered to pursue the UFO. On April 16, the two pilots gave an interview on the \"Meet the Millers\" talk show in Canada and the incident is described in \"the Fund for UFO Research, Inc. -The UFO Evidence, Vol.1, by Richard Hall/NICAP.\" where you can also find a copy of the audio cassette of this interview recorded by Bill Weitzel (April 8, 1956)", + "location": "USA, New York State, in flight.", + "ref": [ + "for a fee, of course", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2013" + }, + { + "date": "4/1956 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Professor Joao de Freitas Guimaraes was walking along the bay between 7:10 and 7:15 PM and had sat down on the sand. Suddenly the water became clearer in the strait between Bela Island and Sao Sebastiao, then a jet of water rose up and he saw a round craft heading towards the bay. There it dropped an anchor made of a rope with spheres. Two men jumped out of the craft and came towards him. They had the appearance of human beings. They were quite tall (1.75m), fair-skinned, with long hair, wearing a one-piece green suit. They had light eyes and a sharp gaze. (...) So he got on board. The conversation was held telepathically. (...) When he returned, his watch had stopped, but he thought the journey had lasted 30 or 40 minutes. (Perrin Jack R. \"The Mystery of UFOs\" - J'ai Lu/Pygmalion 1976 pp. 59-65) Joao Freitas de Guimaraes is a professor of Law at the Catholic University of Santos. In May 1956 he was in Sao Sebastian, called for a military justice case. (...) they had long blond hair, fair skin, thin eyebrows and clear, calm eyes. Their green suit covered their feet and hands. The professor asked them if they had a breakdown in the machine: no answer. He repeated his question in French, English and Italian, with no more success. He had the impression that they wanted to show him around the machine and he followed them. On board there was a third person. [followed by a similar sequence as in Perrin, with telepathic conversation and warning against atomic dangers] (1956, April or May (approximate date))", + "location": "BRAZIL, Sao Sebastiao", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2014" + }, + { + "date": "6/1956", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Roland X. was cycling and when he came out of a hollow path around 6 o'clock in the morning, he saw a bright object on the ground, which resembled a miner's leather hat. The main body, whose darkest part was hidden by vegetation, was topped with a kind of cockpit. He observed without daring to approach. Suddenly he saw a gray, robustly-shouldered being, the size of a 9-year-old child, wearing a diving suit, who was moving without haste. He disappeared from the witness's sight without him being able to say how. Then the object rose, described a spiral, inclined and moved away in absolute silence. The witness said that between the object and him there was an energy that paralyzed him and forced him to turn away his gaze. Afterwards he had difficulty pedaling.", + "location": "FRANCE, Feyzin", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 225", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2015" + }, + { + "date": "7/4/1956", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: March 1956, USA) Howard Menger is invited to board a saucer, rises to 1500 m and observes everything that is happening below through a powerful magnifying lens. Then he does a teleportation experiment, round trip of 13 km from there, which lasts about 15 minutes", + "location": "USA, unspecified", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"The Mystery of the E.T.\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 146, 147", + "follow-up: 1956, second week of August", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2016" + }, + { + "date": "8/1956", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1956, July 4th) Howard Menger makes his first space voyage in a saucer which completes an orbit around the Moon which he contemplates through a screen. During the same month he receives a message from a Great Instructor who disembarks from a UFO. (1956, August, second week)", + "location": "USA, unspecified", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"The Enigma of the E.T.\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 147", + "following 1956, September 1st", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2017" + }, + { + "date": "8/13/1956", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Complex series of visual and radar observations, both from the ground and from aircraft, for nearly six hours. The UFOs are sometimes isolated, sometimes in a flight formation. Sometimes they are stationary, sometimes they move at very high speed, or else play cat and mouse with the fighters (aircraft) (Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, pp. 60-63). The magazine Astronautics and Aeronautics published a study of the case by Thayer, the Condon Commission's radar expert, in September 1971. For the record, let us note that on several occasions, and notably in 1976, Philippe Klass, editor of Aviation Week and Space Technology, attempted to criticize these works and reduce the case to a series of ordinary events (meteors, radar propagation anomalies, etc.). The incidents began at Bentwaters Base, preceded between 9 and 10 pm by unusual radar control approach observations, which we will not detail. (...) Thayer concluded his article in the Astronautics and Aeronautics magazine thus: \"Considering the high credibility of the information and the coherence and continuity of the reports, as well as their high degree of 'strangeness', this UFO case is certainly one of the most troubling known to date. (1956, August 13-14)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Lakenheath (Suffolk)", + "ref": [ + "'COMETA Report, 1999", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2018" + }, + { + "date": "8/22/1956", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ms. P. was riding a moped around noon when she was overtaken by two enormous nickel-plated motorcycles, absolutely silent. Each was ridden by two sumptuously dressed passengers wearing a moiré fawn-colored jacket. They were gloved, helmeted and hermetically booted. Five hundred meters further on the two motorcycles were stopped side by side in the middle of the road, blocking it. Ms. P. had to pass them on the extreme left despite the lack of space, as the machines were enormous, of an unusual size. The travelers turned towards her. Their faces were totally hidden by thick smoked glasses: neither cheeks nor chins were visible. The witness, very impressed, looked back ten meters further on, but the road was deserted, the motorcycles had disappeared without a sound.", + "location": "FRANCE, Céret", + "ref": [ + "Pierre VIEROUDY: \"These UFOs that announce the Superman\" - Laffont 1979, p. 265, 266", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2019" + }, + { + "date": "9/1956", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1955, same place) For 10 days Howard Menger and his group prepared for a trip to the Moon. In September 1956 it took place. (Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998) (cf: 1956, August, second week) Howard Menger is taken in a much larger craft which circles Venus and shows him its surface from 30 m high, like in a kind of 3D movie. Still in September he is taken to the Moon, after a 10-day one-way trip in a saucer, the necessary time to subject his organism to a treatment allowing him to adapt to the vibrational frequency of our satellite. He takes pictures, collects moonstone and visits the underground installations. Howard Menger gives lectures and writes books to expose what he experienced.", + "location": "USA, High Bridge, New Jersey", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"L'énigme des E.T.\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 147", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2020" + }, + { + "date": "9/1956", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An ex-sheriff, out hunting, had an encounter with a small man of 1.2m in height, who appeared to be entirely human. He was wearing a red and gold cape, tight green trousers, a gold-coloured jacket, and small boots. There were no buttons or other fastenings on the clothing. After a minute of facing each other, the small being ran towards a pile of gravel and disappeared.", + "location": "USA, Lake Wilson near Chester (California)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 360", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2021" + }, + { + "date": "9/1956", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11:20 PM, Mr. Follon was riding his Solex and was about to cross Barentin when he saw a bright light, resembling a barn fire. As he crossed the town, he saw nothing, but on the hill a strong light was visible again in the direction of the St Jean du Cardonnay plateau. He decided to go and see. He then saw along the N 13bis (Le Havre-Rouen) 8 to 10 people hidden behind the plane trees. At 60 m there was the saucer, hovering 80 cm above the ground (diameter 12 to 13m, height 9m, antenna on the top). 3 to 4 human-shaped silhouettes visible through the 35x50 cm windows seemed to be doing some work. From underneath the small antenna, gray-green flames of about 10 cm were coming out. After 10 minutes, these flames grew to approximately 7m, and a very powerful beacon illuminated 300m to the south. The noise produced by this device became very loud, as the witness, who was a bit deaf, could hear it very well. The craft rose at an angle of 45° for 500 m and then disappeared at the speed of our jet planes. The witness was troubled for 15 to 20 hours after this observation.", + "location": "FRANCE, Le Houlme", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 228", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2022" + }, + { + "date": "9/1956", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around midnight, the two witnesses in the car, near a chestnut tree, were stopped by a \"breakdown\" of the engine. The driver got out and examined it. Suddenly he shouted, and the two witnesses tumbled into the ditch near the cornfield to hide. About 200 m above them was a huge silent mass, like the volume of a five-story house. After 5 minutes a light shot out from the edge and it unrolled like a rope ladder, slowly, to sweep the area. The surroundings were lit up but had distorted colors. The witnesses stayed crouched for an hour and a half, with this thing above them. Suddenly the craft rose vertically and disappeared in the direction of the Loire.", + "location": "FRANCE, Serdon", + "ref": [ + "J.C. BOURRET: \"La nouvelle vague des S.V.\" - France Empire 1975, pp. 73-77", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2023" + }, + { + "date": "1956", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Trygve Jansen and Mrs. Buflot were in the car in the evening and were driving towards Ski from Oslo. At the Gjersjoen bridge an object came at great speed, flew over the lake for a moment and returned towards the road. At one point the light followed the car, approached it 6 or 7 times and the occupants were scared. As the road left the lake, the object suddenly flew in front of the car, stopped above the road. Jansen braked, but the car stopped abruptly, all by itself, and when it stopped moving the object slowly approached it by descending. Right in front of the car the object stopped again, then suddenly rose into the air at a prodigious speed and disappeared vertically. When the object was in front of them, the witnesses had a tingling sensation on their faces. When they arrived home Mrs. Jansen noticed that the car, normally a dull beige, was of a sparkling greenish color. The next day it had its normal color again. The two witnesses did not feel well, but this sensation disappeared the next day. The saucer was a shiny disc with wings. It seemed to rotate on itself and at its top it had a kind of dome, the bright color emanating from it was pale green. It spread in waves and at times this light illuminated the whole forest.", + "location": "NORWAY, near Lake Gjersjoen", + "ref": [ + "B. Le Poer Trench - 1960: \"The People of the Sky\" - I have read - p. 124 to 126", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2024" + }, + { + "date": "1956", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Inhabitants of these sparsely populated Andean regions reported in 1956 the presence of strange giants on the snowy slopes of Mount Macon (over 6000 meters) where huge tracks had been discovered in the snow. A year earlier, a huge cigar-shaped craft had been seen flying over the region; it was reported to have landed in the Cordillera or crashed against a peak. Furthermore, large quantities of condors and eagles were found dead, and many of their nests were ravaged and destroyed in the same region where the giant footprints had appeared.", + "location": "ARGENTINE, Desert of Atacama", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of the Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 118", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2025" + }, + { + "date": "End of 1956", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A 12-year-old girl lost consciousness immediately after feeling herself floating above the ground. She woke up in a very large room in the company of two men in silver suits. Again she lost consciousness and later she was found in a paddock, where other witnesses had just seen a flying saucer. (1956, end of year)", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, near Hughenden, Queensland", + "ref": [ + "Keith Basterfield - Ufora", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2026" + }, + { + "date": "1956", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1954) 18 months after the observation of the saucer, Elisabeth Klarer sees it again in the same place. She runs to meet the man who had come out of the craft and they embrace. She recognizes him as her soul mate. He is a tall blond, close to two meters tall, and he wears a cream-colored garment. He has gray eyes and high cheekbones like Asians. Both of them board the saucer and settle on a cross-shaped couch. His name is Akon and he comes from another solar system. They take off and position themselves near a mothership. Akon tells her that she is his soul mate and that she will give birth to a son for him (note from vog: a vein at 45 past!). Originating from Venus, Akon's race lives somewhere in the outskirts of Proximus of Centaurus, on the new planet Meton. (...) Eight months later Akon comes to fetch Elisabeth and she gives birth to a boy, Ayling, on the planet Meton. (...) In the meantime (note from vog: it is not said how long) her son Ayling is himself the commander of a space ship.", + "location": "SOUTH AFRICA", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2027" + }, + { + "date": "1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the same time, the fashion of rockets was spreading. England undertook to make its own models and tried them in Australia on the Woomera Field. Its best engine, the Skylark, would rise up to 193 kilometers of altitude in 1957.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Woomera", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 12", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2028" + }, + { + "date": "2/13/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) RO - 02:30 - 5 witnesses - duration 5 minutes. The objects were visually observed by three air traffic controllers and by the director of operations who was in the city to monitor an air mission. They were also tracked on radar by N.C.O.I.C. and by G.C.A. for three to five minutes. They were about 10 km behind an airliner and moving twice as fast. One of the objects split into two and another one made a 180° turn. Identification requested by I.F.F.: no response. The light spot on the radar screen was about the same size as that of a B-47. The objects seemed to remain stationary and then suddenly accelerate and shoot away. (February 13, 1957)", + "location": "USA, Lincoln AFB (Nebraska)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"UFOs, Myth or Reality?\" - trans. Belfond 1974 - pp. 108, 109, 275", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2029" + }, + { + "date": "2/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) ...\"a remarkable letter from an Englishwoman living in South Africa. Her house was situated high on a hill above a large valley with a river running through it. One night in February 1957, she saw a 'Moon' moving and emitting multiple flashes. She got out of bed and went to another room where she opened the window overlooking the valley. The 'Moon' moved towards the house with a rapid zigzag motion, changing shape to become a golden oval balloon, flying above the roofs. She smelled a smell similar to that of an overheated radio. At one point the phenomenon passed behind a tree: the object was then visible in part from each side of the trunk. It disappeared at great speed.\"", + "location": "SOUTH AFRICA (unspecified location)", + "ref": [ + "Science Interdite - journal 1957-1959\" Jacques Vallée, ed. O.P. Editions 1997, p. 133", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2030" + }, + { + "date": "3/6/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness saw a UFO at a distance of less than 150 m, around 2 pm. First through the back window of his house on the road to Great Meadows, then from the back yard. The weather was clear, under a low cloud ceiling. First the dogs barked and looked at the object. Its shape resembled a top hat, with a rounded cap of 9 to 12 m high, a horizontal diameter of at least 15 m above a slightly upturned edge protruding at least 3.50 m to 4.50 m at the bottom of the cap. This edge appeared smooth, completely sealed, slightly curved, without openings or portholes, or bays, or slots of any kind, nor on the rest of the object of a uniformly white, dull, clean, texture reminiscent of pipe clay. A moderate northeast breeze was blowing, and the object remained hovering almost stationary, like a boat at anchor, swaying. At the same rhythm and at the same time it emitted a rumble or buzz that increased and decreased regularly. Under the object he seemed to see, not to see, to see again, strips or filaments of a material that sparkled like Christmas tree garlands. Suddenly, with a slight suction noise, the object rose almost vertically, obliquely towards the northeast through the cloud layer, where it ceased to be visible. (March 6, 1957)", + "location": "USA, Hope (New Jersey)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979, pp. 149-151", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2031" + }, + { + "date": "4/4/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) FIRST FLIGHT OF THE BAC LIGHTNING PROTOTYPE with the wing inclined at about 30°, giving it a general triangular shape. Its total wingspan is only 10.6m for a length of 16.25m. Max speed 2415km/h at 12200m, ceiling higher than 18290m, autonomy without additional tanks: 1290km. Jet aircraft, two Rolls Royce Avon engines.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN", + "ref": [ + "\"Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft\" Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2032" + }, + { + "date": "4/14/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) RR2. Around 3:00 PM, three witnesses (two elderly women: Mmes Garcin and Rami and independently of them an apiarist Louis Boglio), duration: 1 to 2 minutes. It seems that a curious metallic machine in the shape of a spinning top and about 1.50 m high landed on a road about a hundred meters from two old French peasants. At the same time, a deafening noise of shaken metal rose from a metal signpost planted 6 or 7 meters from the landing area. This sign had been shaken by violent shocks. A man who was about 300 m away heard the women's cries and the crash of the sign. He arrived in time to see the spinning top jump from the ground to a height of 6 meters, turn and land again this time on another road, branching off the first. While it was turning, it flew over another signpost, and this one vibrated just as loudly, as if it had been violently shaken by successive blows. However, the machine was absolutely silent. It did not pass close to a third sign that was in the vicinity. The compass placed near the signs that had vibrated showed a deviation of some 15°. (J. Allen HYNEK: \"Les OVNI, mythe ou réalité?\" - trad. Belfond 1974 - p. 141, 163 to 165, 277) (Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, p. 60 to 63) Yet one who has some aeronautical knowledge will find strange resemblances between this UFO and a small French helicopter, used since 1954. This is the SO-1221, better known as the Djinn. (...) EDF will use the SO1221 as the Bell47 for its line surveillance. (...) aerial prospecting for mining could justify a low-level flight. The region is known for its bauxite mines from which aluminum is extracted. In this period of the 1950s, France was looking for uranium on its territory (and elsewhere) to ensure its nuclear future. (...) in the May 1958 issue of Transmondia, pages 22 to 24, the proof that in May 1957 (date cited in the article!) people from the Var and the Alpes Maritimes were able to observe Djinns from the Hélicoptère Service Briand of St Raphael flying over their region at low altitude (between 0 and 300m).", + "location": "FRANCE, Vins sur Caramy (Var)", + "ref": [ + "E.Maillot 21/02/2000 - Mail-list: OVNI-SCIENCES", + "... etc...", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2033" + }, + { + "date": "4/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8 o'clock in the morning, while driving his 404 van, Mr. Senes was about to take the last turns of the Grasse road. He was surprised to see that the top of the hill in front of him was brown, covered with dead leaves, although it was spring. This brown plate blocked the road. The witness felt the van braking, he shifted to third gear, the engine was stuttering, then to second gear and then he saw the brown plate moving backwards. It was at this moment that he saw the saucer-shaped craft taking off to the left of the road. The craft was rather blurry, the saucer was made of matte aluminum, some kind of rods connected an upper disk to a larger lower disk. (April 1957)", + "location": "FRANCE, near Figanières", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 229, 230", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2034" + }, + { + "date": "4/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The motorcyclist witness broke down on the road. He then saw at 15 m from the ground a disk of 20 m in diameter and 5 m thick and hid in a ditch. He saw the disk descend towards the ground and heard a sound similar to that of air escaping from a valve. It had a metallic blue-green appearance and some kind of elevator emerged at the base. Inside, a man of about 1 m 70 made a gesture of friendship to the witness. He was wearing a plastic suit. The motorcyclist was invited on board and discovered other people sitting in front of control panels. There was a splendid clarity. Then he was taken back and the disk flew off towards the northwest. (April 1957)", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Pajas Blancas (Cordoba)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 12 - p. 4 - 1973 - SOBEPS", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2035" + }, + { + "date": "5/10/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:50 PM, Michel Fekete was riding his bicycle when he saw an object hovering 30 cm from the ground and next to him were 4 small men. The police found on the site fragments similar to lava. Six other witnesses confirmed this apparition, including Mr. and Mrs. Iklef and Lepot. The luminous object alternated between red and white pulsations, with the red phase being the longest. When it was white it was more blinding than a projector. It was 50 m away from the group of witnesses. The occupants were about 130 cm tall, with a gray-beige body and an abnormally large black head, they were swaying as they walked. The object flew away when a car arrived.", + "location": "FRANCE, Ayette (Pas de Calais)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronique des apparitions E.T.\" DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p.296", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2036" + }, + { + "date": "5/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Miss Stichler was occupied in the barn at 6 o'clock in the morning, when she heard a turbine sound and looked up. A flat object, in the shape of a saucer, about 6 m in diameter with a ring of one meter in width, had appeared above the barn, at 4.50m from the ground. When it stopped, one side inclined towards her, she saw a man dressed in light gray with a very tight helmet and a wide cape of a shiny gray, perched on the ring of the UFO. His feet and legs seemed to be hidden from view in the lower part. He was facing Miss Stichler, seemed to be of average size, had very sunken eyes, a long face with a \"mocking\" expression and he was quite dark-skinned. At the very moment that Miss Stichler overcame the initial shock, the object moved towards the southeast with a \"whirl\" sound and disappeared from view at the speed of lightning.", + "location": "USA, Milford", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 192", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2037" + }, + { + "date": "6/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The emotion was very strong when a group of five panicked young people recounted their encounter with a UFO. The craft had landed in a wheat field outside the town, rested on spherical landing gear and was pierced with a series of portholes. Samples of soil taken later emitted a phosphorescent glow. The wheat grains were healthier and more vigorous than the other ears around. An incredible increase in the size of insects was observed. A spider, by chance trapped in the container containing a sample of soil taken, presented a size ten times greater than normal.", + "location": "Canada, Galt (Ontario)", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"The Secret File of UFOs\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p 37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2038" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1957 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Luciano Galli left his home at 2:20 PM to go to his workshop near Via Castiglione when a black Fiat 1100 stopped in front of him. Out of it came a tall, swarthy man with very black eyes but he had a face that inspired trust and invited friendliness. This man was wearing a double-breasted grey suit, a collar, a tie and spoke Italian fluently. At the wheel was another man in a light suit, he never spoke. This stranger asked Galli if he remembered him (which he did, he had already seen him a few times) and \"Don't you want to come with us?\" \"Where?\" \"Have faith, nothing will happen to you.\" Galli got into the car. Around 2:30 PM they arrived at \"il buco del Preto Santo\" where a flying saucer was waiting. A bit scared, Galli entered it and was immediately \"photographed\" and went on a journey, seeing the earth move away and become small. Through the portholes he discovered the silhouette of an immense dirigible at least 600 m long. Through six small openings disks were entering and leaving. These openings were as big as hangars, each able to hold at least 50 disks. At least 500 people, men and women were there, wearing shiny plastic or silky materials. These people told him they were from Venus. He was back around 5:40 PM. He confirms that he made the journey with his physical body. (1957 (or 1959?) July 7th)", + "location": "ITALY, \"il buco del Preto Santo\" near San Ruffillo", + "ref": [ + "Perrin Jack R.: \"The Mystery of UFOs\" - J'ai Lu/Pygmalion 1976, pp. 44-48", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2039" + }, + { + "date": "7/25/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Throughout the night the Soviet artillery fired against formations of hundreds of flying saucers, while powerful searchlights swept the sky: without result.", + "location": "USSR, Kuril Islands", + "ref": [ + "Antonio RIBERA: \"Trial of the UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1977, p. 102", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2040" + }, + { + "date": "7/27/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Very early in the morning. Witness: J.L. Siverly. A thick disc, of an ice blue color, with a honeycomb (hexagons) top plane and descended below the crest of the hills for 10 minutes. A jagged middle band, the base had four rounded protuberances. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). (1957, July 27 or 29)", + "location": "USA, Longmont, Colorado.", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE – Jeanine VALLEE: \"The Unusual Phenomena of Space\", ed. bound LAFFONT 1978, p. 23 and 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2041" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Another flying saucer crashed in the same Arizona desert, after crossing the American territory at an incredible speed, recorded on radar and estimated at more than 20,000 kilometers per hour. The accident site was immediately surrounded by security services and four humanoid corpses were removed from the craft, with great difficulty as it was impossible to twist or cut the metal it was made of. The bodies of the humanoids were severely burned and it was impossible to distinguish their features, but their silver suits were absolutely intact, despite the terrible temperature that had burned the bodies. These corpses, which were about 1.20m long, were immediately sent to Wright Patterson where they are still kept cool, as well as the wreckage of their saucer, which is now in a shelter with several others. (1957, Summer)", + "location": "USA, Arizona", + "ref": [ + "Maurice CHATELAIN: \"Les messagers du Cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, p. 26", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2042" + }, + { + "date": "8/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) IN AUGUST 1957 THEY MADE AN INTERCONTINENTAL MULTI-STAGE ROCKET TRAVEL APPROXIMATELY 8000 KILOMETERS. THEY DID NOT HIDE THEIR ASTRONAUTICAL ASPIRATIONS. (August 1957)", + "location": "USSR, Baikonour", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 13", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2043" + }, + { + "date": "8/5/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A couple observed a metallic-looking, disc-shaped UFO. The top part was rotating on the bottom part. It had alternating white and red lights. The witnesses heard a kind of clicking sound.", + "location": "SWEDEN, Gotland Island", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 353", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2044" + }, + { + "date": "8/23/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Elise Blanc approached an object resembling an aluminum trailer. Two small beings in silver clothing, grunting like pigs, were standing next to the object. The object took on a flamboyant color and flew away.", + "location": "FRANCE, Lugrin (Thonon)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 257", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2045" + }, + { + "date": "9/4/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During a training flight, Captain Lenos Ferreira saw a sparkling light point at a height of Granada, which changed from intense green to bright red. Behind him, the pilots of three other planes also spotted it. When Ferreira decided to head towards Cordoue, the UFO followed the squadron. The pursuit lasted 40 minutes. During this time, the object dropped four luminous rings that spread around the plane. The object and its satellites then made a dive, causing panic in the squadron. They disappeared shortly afterwards. The observation was marked by an interruption of the radio link. At the same time, the Coimbre Observatory recorded an abnormal variation of the magnetic field. (Inforespace n° 12, p. 5 - 1973 - SOBEPS) Air Base of Ota - At 9:15 pm a witness observed above this airport, a light of 20 cm in apparent size.", + "location": "PORTUGAL - SPAIN, in flight", + "ref": [ + "collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenço", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2046" + }, + { + "date": "9/20/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 8 p.m. Witnesses: S/Sgt. H.T. O'Connor, S/Sgt. H.D. Bridgeman. An object, shaped like a bottle of Coke without the neck (i.e. cylindrical) translucent and fluorescent. This object moved erratically from north to south for 5 to 10 seconds, stopped for 4 to 5 minutes, then resumed its movements and passes.", + "location": "JAPAN, Kadena AFB, Okinawa.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2047" + }, + { + "date": "9/26/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three oblong-shaped objects with portholes were observed by 300 people at sunset. They hovered near abandoned oil wells. One of the objects measured 150 m long and 20 m high. In the sunlight it sparkled like a pearl. On the fuselage there were painted circles like a series. This object eventually landed. It stayed on the ground for 20 minutes. An occupant came out, looked at the derricks and went back into the craft. Through binoculars this monstrous being was 1 m tall and moved by jumping.", + "location": "USA, Yellow Falls (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace #12 p. 5 - 1973 - SOBEPS", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2048" + }, + { + "date": "10/4/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Greatest Joke in the History of Science. In 1957, the whole world held its breath waiting for the American satellite. The \"Project Vanguard\" had received monstrous publicity. (...) But the triumph was for Moscow with the launch of Sputnik I, a 58 cm diameter ball weighing 83 kg. It contained a small radio emitter that sent signals through four long antennas and it turned around the Earth between 226 and 950 km of altitude at a speed of 28000 km/hour. As its trajectory surfaced most of the globe, it could be observed everywhere, at dawn or at dusk, while it was illuminated by the sun and the ground was in shadow. (Fell on January 4, 1958) (\"Astronautics\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 17) But at the same time as it, the last stage of the carrier rocket had been satellited too. This element, whose weight has been estimated at two tons, gives an idea of the mass of the rocket.", + "location": "USSR, Baikonour", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 65", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2049" + }, + { + "date": "10/5/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Antonio Villas Boas saw, around 11 pm, on the ground of the enclosure, through the window of his room, a fluorescent and whitish circular reflection, like a car headlight directed from top to bottom, but he could not distinguish its origin. The luminescence headed towards his window, then disappeared. His brother Joao was also a witness. (following October 14) (Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 125) It all started the night of October 5, 1957. There had been a dinner with friends at the farm, and we had gone to bed later than usual, at 11 o'clock. I was in my room with my brother, Joao Villas Boas. Because of the heat, I decided to open the shutters of the window, which overlooked the farm courtyard. That's when I saw, right in the center of the courtyard, a silver and fluorescent reflection, brighter than the moonlight, illuminating the whole ground around. It was a very white light, and I don't know where it came from. It was as if it had fallen from very high, like the light of a car headlight shining towards the ground and spreading its light all around. But in the sky, there was nothing visible, nothing from which the light could have come. I decided to call my brother and show it to him, but he is a very incredulous person, and he said it was better to go to bed. So I closed the shutters and we both lay down to sleep. But some time later, unable to overcome my curiosity, I opened the shutters again. The light was still there, in the same place. I kept watching. Then, suddenly, it started to move slowly towards my window. Quickly, I closed the shutters...so quickly that it made a loud noise and woke up my brother who was already asleep. Both of us, in the darkness of the room, watched the light enter through the small shutters of the shutters, then continue in the direction of the roof and shine on the tiles. There, finally, it went out and did not come back.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Sao Francisco de Sales (Minas Gérais)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2050" + }, + { + "date": "10/8/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At three o'clock in the afternoon, four inhabitants of the Fiji Islands saw (...) a metallic object that began to descend from the sky in a gliding and silent flight. The four people were in a motorboat (...) one of the men proposed to approach to offer help if necessary. (...) the strange object was stationary at about 60 m above the water (...) it was describing a circle around a fixed point. (...) They distinguished the silhouette of a man inside the apparatus (...) and as soon as he became aware of the approach of the Fijians, he immediately directed a beam of light so powerful that not only were they blinded, but (...) very weak. (...) the boat pushed by the waves moved away to about 160 meters. At that moment the silhouette of the man disappeared and, at great speed, the object rose and was soon out of sight. (...) [note from vog: the source of this information: New Zealand Herald of 21.10.1957] (1957, 8 October)", + "location": "Fiji Islands, Nawaca", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.48, 49", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2051" + }, + { + "date": "10/9/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Yeager saw on the 9th of October, a bright circular object descend behind a hill. It flew away two minutes later. The next day, she was feeding the animals when a UFO appeared 2 m from the ground causing the animals to flee. Two small dark beings emerged and went into the woods. The object remained on the ground for two minutes then flew away. The search for the occupants was in vain. At the same time, a bus driver saw two craft in a field near the first landing site. (1957, October 9th and 10th)", + "location": "USA, Schenecdaty (New York)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 12 p. 6 - 1973 - SOBEPS", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2052" + }, + { + "date": "10/10/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A door opened automatically on the object. Two people appeared, then two more, and then two more again, and finally a seventh one passed between the two groups formed by the first six. All of them watched the truck for three minutes. All these people looked like Earth men but they were of smaller size, had long hair on their shoulders and their clothes were luminous on the chest. When these little men looked at me I entered a state similar to a trance and I felt the strange sensation that they were telling me: \"We come in a peaceful mission..\"(Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 62,63) A Spanish naval officer Miguel Espanol and a companion, who were traveling by truck to Ceres, encountered a huge UFO. First high in the sky, bathing the whole region in light, the craft descended and made the truck stall. The craft had at least 170 m in width and 40 m in thickness, in an oval or saucer shape, with a long \"antenna\" coming out of its dome and topped with a red light. The hovering monster turned off all its lights and the two men saw seven small beings the size of a child, with long hair and dressed in luminous suits, appear in an open panel of the craft. They silently regarded each other for three minutes.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Quebracoco", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 121", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2053" + }, + { + "date": "10/14/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 9:30 and 10:00 PM, Antonio Villas Boas, working with another brother, tried unsuccessfully about twenty times to approach a dazzling white light that seemed to hover 100 meters above the field. It had the size of a truck wheel and projected rays in all directions. Finally it went out. (Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 125) The second episode occurred in the night of October 14. This must have happened between 9:30 and 10:00 PM, although I cannot guarantee it since I had no watch. I was working on the tractor, plowing a field, with my other brother. Suddenly, we saw a very bright light - so bright that it hurt the eyes - motionless at the northern end of the field. When we saw it, it was already there, large and round, about the size of a cart wheel. It seemed to be at an altitude of about 100 meters, and it was a red light, illuminating a large portion of the ground. There must have been something inside the light, but I cannot affirm it positively, because the light was much too strong for anything else to be seen. I called my brother so that we could go together to see what it was. He did not want to, so I went alone. When I got close to the thing, it suddenly started moving and, at an enormous speed, it passed to the south part of the field, where it stopped again (...)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Sao Francisco de Sales (Minas Gerais)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2054" + }, + { + "date": "10/15/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Antonio Villas Boas was plowing the field alone, as usual, with a tractor. He saw a big red star among the others, it began to grow and came towards him, quickly, like a flash. It stopped 50 m above him, a shining object in the shape of an egg, so bright that the lights of the tractor headlights could no longer be seen. Villas Boas remained petrified with terror for two minutes. The object plunged towards the ground 10 m from the tractor. It was like a large elongated egg, with 3 long conical protuberances on the front in the shape of glowing rods, on the top a kind of flattened dome that kept turning slowly on the ground, at a terrifying speed in the air. The object landed on 3 telescopic feet. Villas Boas then tried to flee in the tractor, but the engine stopped, then on foot: he was taken by the arm by a small creature from which he quickly freed himself, but 3 others immobilized him by lifting him off the ground. Screaming and vainly writhing he was taken towards the UFO: the ascent of a frail staircase allowed a new fight, but he soon found himself in a square room, with polished metal walls. The door closed and he had to go into another oval room. It was furnished with a curious table and revolving armchairs. He was undressed and naked like a worm he saw another being approaching him who anointed him with a liquid with a sponge. He had to go into the next room: two other creatures took blood and skin samples from him at the sampling sites. He was left alone for half an hour in this room furnished only with a bed where he was invited to rest. He felt bad, plus there was a smell like burnt fabric, he wanted to vomit. A kind of gray smoke escaped from very many small tubes on the wall at the height of his head. Suddenly a \"woman\" enters. She is completely naked. She is of a different beauty than the women of the Earth, with long fine and soft blond hair and large almond-shaped blue eyes. She has a pointed chin and she takes him in her arms, makes him understand her desire. Villas Boas is surprised to be able to get sexual excitement and they lie down for a normal mating. After a short break, a new assault of desire and Villas does her honor. He felt like a stallion who had to improve the herd: the woman grunted and gave him the impression of being lying with an animal. They separated. Shortly afterwards, the woman left, his clothes were returned to him and nothing was missing. Then he had the advantage of taking a tour on the bridge and then he was signaled to go down. The object takes off. (Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on Humanoid ET\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 125 to 132) A very close encounter, which could only be an invention intended to prove the virility of the hero. (1957, night of October 15th to 16th)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Sao Francisco de Sales (Minas Gerais)", + "ref": [ + "Science and Life, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unexplained Cases, p. 60 to 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2055" + }, + { + "date": "10/25/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (The names in the text are pseudonyms - the real names are known to the Brazilian ufology group) The young Laiz was dying of advanced stomach cancer. The night was terrible with suffering, the injections had no effect, and the whole family was gathered around the dying one. Suddenly a strong light illuminated the right side of the house. The sister of the patient went to the window: there was a saucer there. Through a hatch two small beings came out. The beings entered, they were the size of a ten-year-old child, with long blond-red hair, elongated eyes like the Chinese, dressed in white. The back, wrists and chest shone. They approached Laiz's bed who groaned in pain with wide open eyes. No one spoke. The two little men arranged the things they carried on the bed, made a gesture to the father of the family who began to tell them the whole case of Laiz, without words, by telepathy. The men then illuminated the girl's belly with a white light: everyone saw the inside of the belly. With an instrument that made a squeaking sound pointed at the stomach, everyone saw the ulcer. It lasted a small half hour. Miss Laiz fell asleep and the beings left, not without having communicated to the father the medicine to be administered for a month. They gave him a hollow ball that contained thirty small white pills: she had to take one a day. Miss Laiz was really cured and on May 14 the governess sent this testimony to Dr. Olavo Texeira Fontes.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Petropolis", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: First Investigations on ET Humanoids - Laffont 1977 - pp. 58-63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2056" + }, + { + "date": "10/30/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 21 hours - Two witnesses in a car observe a phenomenon blocking the road. It is described as \"big as a house\" (5 m high, 10 m long) with two protrusions. It seemed to be made of aluminum for half and was luminescent, producing a glow. They tried to go around it, the engine of their car (new model 1957) stalled, began to skid. Despite this, when they moved away the engine resumed normally. When they saw it, the thing was at a distance of 80 to 90 meters", + "location": "USA, Casper (Wyoming)", + "ref": [ + "Jan Aldrich 10/97; Loren Gross “UFOs: A history, 1957; 10/1 to 11/2", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2057" + }, + { + "date": "10/31/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around midnight, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bourgeois returned from the cinema. They saw an object like a dark \"Micheline\" resting on the track. The upper part was lit up with square lights like those of a wagon, their color was red-orange fire. This device rose into the sky and took the shape of a red disc. The impression of the witnesses was to see a cylinder seen from the side and then from the end.", + "location": "FRANCE, Longchaumois", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 235, 236", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2058" + }, + { + "date": "11/4/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On October 3rd, the launch of Sputnik II (Beta 1 rocket) which exceeded 508 kg, was loaded with scientific equipment and carried a passenger, the little dog Laika. (1957, November 4 (Moscow date))", + "location": "USSR, Baikonur", + "ref": [ + "Charles Noël Martin \"Artificial Satellites\" PUF Paris 1958, p. 52", + "\"Astronautics\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 18", + "Recovery April 14, 1958", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2059" + }, + { + "date": "11/3/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two sentinels of the Itaipu fort were on patrol when they saw an orange light coming from the sea increasing in size. As they watched, their amazement turned to terror as the object came directly above them, hovering at a height of 100 meters. Its diameter was at least equal to the wingspan of a DC 3. Suddenly a buzzing sound was heard and the men felt an intense heat. One of them collapsed, while the other managed to take shelter under the gun carriage. His screams eventually alerted the other soldiers. Suddenly all the lights in the fort went out and the emergency generator failed. The sentinels were burned to the second and third degree, but curiously the areas not covered by their clothing were not affected.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Itaipu (Santos)", + "ref": [ + "Science et Vie, Special Edition 1997: 50 Years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, pp. 60-63", + "Johannes von BUTLAR: \"UFO, We Are Not Alone\" - Presses de la Cité 1979, pp. 127, 128", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2060" + }, + { + "date": "11/6/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Reinhold Schmidt, 48 years old, claimed to have seen a kind of vessel in the shape of a cigar landing in a field. He said he had a conversation with four men and two women on board. He declared that the passengers of this spacecraft spoke English and German and that they told him that at the right time, he would know what they had come to do on our planet. After a pleasant conversation, which according to Schmidt would have lasted about twenty minutes, the visitors took their place in their craft which rose into the air exactly like a helicopter. (A. RIBERA: \"These Mysterious UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 233, 234) They were Saturnians. Two of the men had mustaches. Curiously, this hairiness is not mentioned in his little book. (...) One of the Saturnians told him that Jesus Christ had risen and returned to his original planet, Venus. ...", + "location": "USA, Kearny (Nebraska)", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"UFO, the Unmasked Invaders\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 87", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2061" + }, + { + "date": "11/6/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At dawn, 5:40, Richard Keyhoe, a telephone employee, was driving towards Playa del Rey when the engine of his car, as well as those of three other cars, including those of Ronald Burke from Redondo Beach and Joe Thomas from Torrance, stalled. When the drivers got out of their vehicles to see what was wrong, they saw on the beach an ovoid spacecraft enveloped in a blue mist. Two men, about 5'2\", emerged from the UFO and asked questions to Keyhoe and the others, such as \"where we were going, who we were, what time it was, etc.\" Their skin seemed yellowish-green in the morning light but otherwise they looked normal. They wore black leather pants, white belts, and light-colored jerseys. They spoke a kind of English but Keyhoe couldn't understand them. They then returned to their craft which disappeared into the sky. The craft had the shape of an egg, tanned or cream-colored, with two metal circles surrounding it and on which the object rested, according to Keyhoe. (November 6, 1957)", + "location": "USA, Vista del Mar (California)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of the Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 190", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2062" + }, + { + "date": "11/6/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Everett Clark (12 years old) opened the door at 6:30 in the morning to let his dog Frisky out. In doing so, he saw a strange, oblong object without a particular color in a field a hundred yards away. He thought he was dreaming and went back inside. Twenty minutes later, he saw that the object was still there and Frisky was standing next to it with some of the neighbor's dogs. Near the craft were two women and two men dressed in ordinary clothes. One of the men tried several times to catch Frisky but had to give up for fear of being bitten. Everett then saw these people talking to each other \"like German soldiers\" in a movie he had seen, walk straight into the side of the object, which flew away without making any noise.", + "location": "USA, Dante (Tennessee)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll.; J'AI LU, p. 67", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2063" + }, + { + "date": "11/6/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At dusk, John Trasco went out to feed his dog and saw an egg-shaped object in front of his barn. On the way he encountered a three-foot being with a mastic-colored face and large frog eyes who said in bad English \"We are peaceful people, we only want your dog\". The strange being was specifically ordered to return from whence it came. It ran away to its machine, which flew away a few moments later. Trying to catch the creature, Trasco received some green powder on his wrist which washed away. However, the next day he still had some under his nails. The entity was wearing a green suit adorned with shiny buttons, a Scottish-style cap and gloves from which, at the end of each finger, shone an object. (November 6, 1957)", + "location": "USA, Everittstown (New Jersey)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll.; J'AI LU, p. 67, 68", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2064" + }, + { + "date": "11/7/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Truck driver Malvin Stevens of Dyersburgh from the Cook Truck Line coming from Memphis and driving towards Meridian reported having encountered three small men. He recounted that at first he had thought the object was a weather balloon. It had only one propeller blade at each end and a third propeller at the top. Stevens got out of his truck and encountered three small men coming out of the object. They were about 1.2 meters tall, wearing gray clothing and had \"faces like white dough\". They seemed friendly and eager to talk, but he couldn't understand their babbling. \"I stayed there for what seemed like an eternity,\" he said. \"They returned to the machine which flew off.. straight ahead.\"", + "location": "USA, near Meridian (Mississippi)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 187, 188", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2065" + }, + { + "date": "11/16/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1954, Nov. 18 Spain, Madrid) Sanmartin meets another extraterrestrial in a bar in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A beautiful woman with very white and long hair who comes and sits near him and indicates that she is willing to answer his questions. (note from vog: of the kind \"you come darling?\"....) They finally talk about general banalities. Suddenly the woman stands up and disappears into the crowd.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Sao Paulo", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2066" + }, + { + "date": "11/18/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The weather is stormy. Cynthia Appleton, mother of two young children, sees a pink light bathing the landscape outside her window. In her living room materializes a tall blond being wearing a grey jumpsuit. This being telepathically tells her not to be afraid, that he does not want to take her away. He comes from the planet Gharnasvarn, would like to stay on Earth, but there are too many wars. Without a screen he materializes a kind of holographic image to show her two UFOs (Adamski saucer type) flying in space. He also tells her that his race is very interested in \"Titium\". Before dissipating he promises to come back.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Aston (Birmingham)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"En quête des humanoïdes\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 18, 19", + "Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: \"Enquête sur les enlèvements E.T.\" - Plon 1995, p. 138, 139", + "see January 7, 1958.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2067" + }, + { + "date": "11/23/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An USAF lieutenant in a car had to stop at 6:10am since the engine suddenly cut out. Having got out to detect the cause of the breakdown, he heard a sharp buzzing and saw to the right of the highway, 300 or 400 m away, 4 objects in the shape of discs, stopped on the ground. He headed towards these never-before-seen machines and managed to get to within 15 m of the first object. They were all identical: discoid, luminous, with a diameter of around 15 m, a transparent dome made of another material, the light diffusing from the inside out, all over the body of the objects. They had three hemispherical landing gear of around 60 cm in diameter, made of a dark material. From the ground to the top of the dome they were between 3 m and 4.50 m in height. The objects were surrounded by a darker annular part seeming to be animated by a rotational movement. When he got to 15 m the buzzing suddenly became so sharp that it hurt his ears, and the objects took off, rising to 15 m, retracting the landing gear, and slowly at 15 km/h they left towards the north, crossing the highway, skirting the small hills 800 m away, and disappearing behind them. The observation lasted around 20 minutes and the witness saw no openings of any kind on the discs. He examined the ground where they had been stationed and apart from the slight hollows left by the landing gear, there were no traces. After the UFOs left, he was able to start his car again, which functioned normally. (November 23, 1957)", + "location": "USA, 50 km from Tonopah (Nevada)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979, pp. 179-181", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2068" + }, + { + "date": "12/16/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 2 and 3 in the morning Mary M. Starr was awoken by bright lights coming through the window of her second-floor bedroom in the cottage (4.50m from the ground - view to the north). Looking out, she saw an object that had stopped just 3m from the house. It seemed to be 6m long, 1.80m high and was dark grey or black, with brightly lit portholes. The object stopped at around 1.50m from the ground - it had no protrusions. Through the portholes Mrs Starr saw two shapes crossing each other, going in opposite directions. They seemed to have their right arm raised and it reminded her of waiters holding a tray. She didn't see any hands. They were wearing some kind of jacket, their head was square or rectangular and red-orange in colour, with what seemed to be a red bulb in the middle of the \"head\". Feet were not visible. A third shape appeared on the left and Mrs Starr leaned forward to get a better look at its face. At that moment the portholes went dark and the whole hull began to shine while a kind of antenna 15cm long rose from the top of the object at the end closest to the witness (...)", + "location": "USA, Old Saybrook (Connecticut)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 190, 191", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2069" + }, + { + "date": "12/1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Fred Taylor and Franck Dickenson observed at night a red and shining object in the sky above the marshes. This object was in free fall. They went home to get flashlights and returned to the scene. Shortly before midnight Taylor and Dickinson found a small smoking crater in the moor. A mini-saucer was there. When this object finally cooled down, the two men pulled it out of the hole and with a knife managed to open it. Inside they found 17 pages of an unknown kind of parchment paper, covered with indecipherable hieroglyphs. The Ministry of Defense and the RAF considered this event to be a hoax. The analyzed saucer turned out to be made of an unusual alloy of copper. When the affair calmed down, the 17 pages of writings were entrusted to the lawyer Anthony Parker of Scarborough. Recently (1997) Mr. Parker passed away and Stephen Balon, 10 Woodlands Avenue, Pinnington, Leigh., Lancs. WN7 3hl -U.K. took up the case. He has no idea what happened to the \"saucer\". He hopes that someone can inform him.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Silpho Moor - Scarborough (North Yorkshire)", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Folklore Center – Internet 13.3.1997", + "please look in your drawers, it's important!", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2070" + }, + { + "date": "1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Aline (fictitious name) is 5 years old, it is night and she is peacefully sleeping in her room. The shutters, windows and door are closed. Suddenly the child wakes up in terror discovering two luminous balls very close to her which do not light up the room. And these balls are speaking. The girl only remembers one phrase: \"We will come back to get you..\" These balls were \"material\" but one could make out the blurred outlines of two rabbit ears and a smiling mouth. They disappeared quickly. (...)", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, canton of Neuchatel", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Our Masters the Extraterrestrials\" - Presses de la Cité 1992, p. 27", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2071" + }, + { + "date": "1957", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. 1953, USA, unspecified location) During a conference of Dana Howard in Fontana, a small silhouette of Diane appeared for half an hour and a very short message was heard: \"I am the spirit of the women floating on the sea of life\".", + "location": "USA, Fontana (California)", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, the unmasked invaders\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 78", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2072" + }, + { + "date": "Early 1/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 8 and 10 PM and for 20 minutes five witnesses observed the descent of a saucer with a mixed crew. Two witnesses observed the phenomenon from the tall grass, the other three from inside the house through a slightly open door. A luminous object arrived at great speed in a vertical descent and remained in hover at 2 m from the shore of the lagoon. The farm was 390 m away. The object was round, 10 m in diameter and 3 m high, topped with a dome resembling a hat. Of metallic and shiny appearance, it emitted an intense light of clear red, causing a burning sensation in the eyes. This light entered through the windows and the cracks in the dwelling where it was completely diffused without giving any shadow. Suddenly, two tall beings of about 2 m in height appeared near the object, wearing white suits with a wide white belt. They had a wide face and hair falling on their shoulders. \"They look like saints,\" said the little girl. White race, barefoot. Three other characters also appeared, of small size, 1.40 m approximately in brown suits, belt of the same color, wearing boots, white race and long hair. These three small beings stayed near the craft all the time. The two tall beings went back and forth between the craft and the fence, the last time opening the door and approaching 60 m from the house. At this moment the wife called the husband hidden in the grass, the beings turned around and returned to the object, which became brighter and took off. No reaction from the animals of the farm, nor from the 5 dogs of the witnesses. (1958, beginning of January)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Lagoa Negra, Viamao (Rio Grande do Sul)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 22 August 75, p.30 to 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2073" + }, + { + "date": "1/4/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A lumberjack saw a giant entity emerge from a UFO that had landed. The entity returned to the craft which then flew away.", + "location": "NORWAY, Stavanger", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 346", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2074" + }, + { + "date": "1/7/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: November 19, 1957) The being manifests itself again accompanied by a smaller superior being. The two entities congratulate Cynthia for speaking of the previous visit and announce that they are in contact with scientists. Soon, they say, men will make a kind of light cannon that will be talked about a lot. The visit is brief, something in the atmosphere prevents the beings from materializing for longer. After their departure, Cynthia has itching and buzzing and the room smells of sulfur. (continued on February 7, 1958) (Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: \"Enquiry on E.T. Abductions\" - Plon 1995, p. 139) In January 1958, two identical characters appeared at her home in the same way. One of them claimed to come from a country of Venus called Ghanas Vahn.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, near Birmingham", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, the unmasked invaders\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 78", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2075" + }, + { + "date": "1/16/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Shortly after 12 o'clock, the Almirante Saldanha, a Brazilian Navy research vessel, was preparing to leave the Island of Trindade. (...) Captain Viegas was on the deck with several of his scientists and crew members, when suddenly an object in the shape of a Saturn came into view from the east. It flew over the island, went straight to the Desejado peak, at which point it made a sharp turn to head east-northeast. Mr. Barauna managed to take some excellent photographs of the phenomenon. (1958, January 16 (or 18))", + "location": "BRAZIL, Island of Trindade", + "ref": [ + "Science et Vie, Special Edition 1997: 50 Years of UFOs, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, p. 60 to 63", + "Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 176-177", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2076" + }, + { + "date": "1/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 1:30 in the night, a woman in a car was going to see her son and was driving carefully in a snowstorm. Suddenly she saw what looked like a large airplane carcass on the road. \"A large shape and a thin rod, at least 50 feet high, seemed to be shrinking and sinking into the ground\". As she approached, the car stopped completely and, in panic, the witness desperately tried to restart it. Suddenly she saw two suspended forms spinning around the rod that was sinking into the ground, they looked like four-legged animals, but then suddenly everything disappeared and the shape rose into the air: a saucer that zigzagged ten feet above the ground. It rose further and disappeared. Then the car lights came back on and she was able to start it again. She went to the scene of the event: in a one-foot-wide hole the snow had melted and one could see grass. The grass was warm, but there was no digging around it.", + "location": "USA, New York", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU - p. 28 and 29", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2077" + }, + { + "date": "1/31/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First launch of an American satellite, Explorer 1 reached the planned orbit. It was time because a series of failed launches had shaken people's confidence that the USA would ever be capable of doing as much as the Russians.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's: a Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Prss Inc. 1999, p. 256", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2078" + }, + { + "date": "2/1/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Vanguard technicians were dismissed (due to the Russian success and the American failure) and the Army was asked to lend its rocket \"Jupiter\" prepared by von Braun. It was this rocket that successfully put the first American satellite, the \"Explorer I\" into orbit on February 1, 1958. Still a very modest satellite compared to the Sputniks since its mass did not reach 14 kg.", + "location": "USA, Cape Kennedy (Cape Canaveral)", + "ref": [ + "Continued 31.3.70", + "\"Astronautics\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 18", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2079" + }, + { + "date": "2/7/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: January 7, 1958) An unknown man rang the doorbell, saying he had burned his hand and asking for help. When he removed his hat, revealing his long blond hair, Cynthia recognized him. He asked for boiling water and plunged his hand into it. After injecting himself with white light to protect himself from terrestrial bacteria, he applied a jelly to his hand which immediately restored the skin. The extraterrestrial gave her a kind of lesson and promised to return on the 7th of the following five months to complete the teaching. He did not dematerialize, but left in a black limousine driven by an alien with an olive complexion. After his departure, Mrs. Appleton found a fragment of dead skin at the bottom of the bowl used by the visitor to treat himself. The sample was given to a biologist at the University of Manchester. (continued: March 11, 1958) (Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: \"Enquête sur les enlèvements E.T.\" - Plon 1979, p. 139) Mrs. Appleton had a second contact, this time with two characters who appeared in the same way. On this occasion they spoke to her in English but with a foreign accent, articulating carefully. The first form (her contact of November 18) had long hair falling on her shoulders. The second and apparently the oldest of the two had shorter, curly hair on her ears. Mrs. Appelton was informed that they only appeared to her because her brain was properly tuned for such contacts. She was told that she was seeing a projection of entities and that she should not touch them. (...) she said she had experienced other visits since the first two, including one where an entity appeared at her door and asked her to bandage his injured hand.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, near Birmingham", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"En quête des humanoïdes\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 19", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2080" + }, + { + "date": "3/11/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. February 7, 1958) The alien materialized as if on a television screen and explained that a terrestrial bacterium had contaminated him, preventing him from keeping his appointments. He promised to return three months later, in May.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, near Birmingham", + "ref": [ + "Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: \"Enquête sur les enlèvements E.T.\" - Plon 1979, p. 139, 140", + "following August 18, 1958", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2081" + }, + { + "date": "3/17/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Vanguard Project was not abandoned for all that: after force failures, the Navy finally managed to place on its trajectory, March 17, its tiny \"pamplemousse\" of 1.5 kg.", + "location": "USA, Cape Kennedy", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 18", + "VANGUARD 1, BETA 2", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2082" + }, + { + "date": "3/26/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) After several episodes of Army-Navy rivalry, there then followed the success, due to the Army, of \"Explorer III\" (Gamma 3), on March 26. [continued 26.6.58]", + "location": "USA, Cape Kennedy", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 18", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2083" + }, + { + "date": "3/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Shortly after noon, the legionnaire on duty heard a whistling sound seeming to come from the sky. When he looked up, he saw an enormous object about 300 m in diameter, descending to about 45 m from him. The most remarkable thing was not the object itself, but the intense conical beam of a light green emerald coming from below and directed towards the ground. Instead of shooting to give the alarm or taking the phone, he stayed to stare at the object for more than three quarters of an hour: he declared that these pale green and emerald colors were the most beautiful, calming and fascinating he had ever seen. The object took off in a classic way: first a whistling, then an elevation to an altitude of about 90 m and finally an ascent at a dizzying speed towards the northwest. When the object left, the man was filled with sadness.", + "location": "ALGERIA, Bouahmama", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Other Dimensions\" - trad. Robert Laffont 1989, p. 58, 59", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2084" + }, + { + "date": "4/14/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) After 2370 revolutions Sputnik 2 (USSR) falls at 01/50 TU.", + "location": "NEAR MARTINIQUE", + "ref": [ + "Charles Noël Martin \"The Artificial Satellites\" PUF Paris, 1958, p. 52", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2085" + }, + { + "date": "5/15/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of \"Sputnik III\", third Russian satellite which imposed itself by its mass of 1.3 tons. First use of solar batteries.", + "location": "USSR, BAIKONOUR", + "ref": [ + "\"L'Astronautique\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 19, 63", + "Fell on April 6, 1960", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2086" + }, + { + "date": "5/15/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A Colombian farmer, working in his fields with his workers, suddenly saw \"a man at least 3 meters tall, green in color, appearing to be naked, and whose skin, resembling that of a crocodile, was crossed by deep transverse wrinkles. The arms, very long, almost reached the ground\". The story might be laughed at, if it did not evoke, with troubling coincidences, a similar event that occurred on February 12, 1952 in Flatwood (Virginia).", + "location": "COLOMBIA", + "ref": [ + "Charles GARREAU: \"Flying Saucers: 20 Years of Investigations\" - Mame 1971- p. 77", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2087" + }, + { + "date": "6/26/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Re-entry off the USA coast of Explorer 3 launched on March 26, 1958.", + "location": "USA, SPACE", + "ref": [ + "Martin Charles Noël, \"Les satellites artificiels\" PUF Paris 1958, p. 67", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2088" + }, + { + "date": "7/9/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The payload of the huge intercontinental missile Atlas exploded in mid-flight just minutes after launch: during the day, \"luminous globes\" had been seen. [note from vog: globes? That's what the author claims.... The rocket explosion is one of many that the US Navy has to endure... ]", + "location": "USA, Cape Canaveral", + "ref": [ + "S. DELLO STROLOGO: \"What Governments Hide About UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1975- p. 178", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2089" + }, + { + "date": "7/26/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Success of \"Explorer IV\" (Epsilon 4) due to the Army, echoing the failure by the Navy, of a quantity of Vanguards.", + "location": "USA, Cape Kennedy", + "ref": [ + "follow-up 23.10.59", + "\"Astronautics\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 18", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2090" + }, + { + "date": "8/16/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A dozen people in a boat saw a UFO in the shape of a flat disc hovering above their heads. This object made a few jumps in the air before leaving at a dizzying speed.", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Lake Geneva", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 354", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2091" + }, + { + "date": "8/17/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first lunar probe \"Pioneer 0\" (also known as Able 1) fails due to failure of the first stage of the rocket.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 234", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2092" + }, + { + "date": "8/17/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 7:05 p.m. Witness: A.D. Chisholm. An extremely bright object, initially resembling a bell, then a saucer, flew for 5 minutes, accelerated and flew off towards the WSW. Observation of 6-10 minutes.", + "location": "Warren, Michigan", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2093" + }, + { + "date": "8/17/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (rg: Unsure of date.) \"This Sunday morning I was with my friend (name censored) in Rodney, around 4:30 at Lake Erie, just south of Mopeth, to go fishing. Our equipment being ready, we were sitting at the docks. It was still dark and the sky was very starry. At 4:45 in the direction of the southeast, an intense red light appeared on the horizon and rose in a straight line. In a few seconds the red light became white, much brighter than any star, and rose in the sky on an erratic trajectory. The spectacle made us forget a bit about fishing, and we stayed to observe this light. Sometimes it seemed to blink a bit but always gradually rising. An hour later, at 5:45 dawn was drawing and the sun was about to rise and the light was still rising at an angle of 45° but seeming to move away from us.", + "location": "CANADA, Rodney, Ontario", + "ref": [ + "Department of Defence RG 24 Volume 1784, HQ 940-5, Part 1 n°000121", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2094" + }, + { + "date": "8/18/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: March 11, 1958). In the late afternoon Mrs. Appleton saw the E.T. enter calmly through the door leading to the courtyard, which was open. Why hadn't he come earlier? A lesson on the theme of \"what is time\". He gave her an object that the investigator could immediately decode. It was a piece of metal with some signs on it. Later, when Mrs. Appleton met the investigator, she could no longer find this proof, which had been carefully stored in an envelope. However, she remembered some signs and drew them from memory. The investigator recognized signs that Adamski claimed to have received from the Venusians, and at that time this was enough to discredit the case, which is currently (1995) being looked at more closely. Needless to say, the University of Manchester never gave the results of the analysis of the E.T.'s skin fragment", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, near Birmingham", + "ref": [ + "Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: \"Investigation of E.T. Abductions\" - Plon 1995, p. 140", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2095" + }, + { + "date": "8/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Just after dawn, two \"giants\" estimated to be 6 meters (!) tall and dressed in a bright red garment were observed by three witnesses. The entities were climbing the side of a hill and were only seen from behind.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Minduri", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 123", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2096" + }, + { + "date": "9/1/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 2:45 AM, Mr. Donniou was on his way to work on his moped. As he left Gouzon, he saw strange lights, then a strong beam of light with perfectly sharp edges, rising vertically into the sky. Around the base of this beam, close to the ground, was another multicolored beam that suddenly went out. Then there was a sound like a sharp crack, like a branch being broken. Then an object resembling a large aluminum funnel pointed downwards rose vertically: 6m in diameter, 5m high. It disappeared, turning red.", + "location": "FRANCE, Gouzon \"Pont Chanté\"", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 237, 238", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2097" + }, + { + "date": "9/1/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:30 PM, 11 km before Laval coming from Paris, the witness suddenly saw an object motionless 10 m above the ground and 150 m to the left of the road. It had the shape of two cones with a common base and showed a row of around 10 openings in its middle part. It must have been around 20 m wide, had a metallic appearance, with a red light (like that of traffic signals) shining through the windows. The witness had time to stop and maneuvered so as to be able to light up the object with his headlights. During the whole duration of the observation, a whistling sound similar to that of a jet could be heard. The object rose very slowly, then quickly ascended until it was out of sight.", + "location": "FRANCE, Laval", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronique des apparitions E.T.\" DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p.297", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2098" + }, + { + "date": "10/2/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 2:30 p.m. Witness: naturalist Ivan Sanderson. A dark grey object, shaped like a flat-bottomed gherkin, flew erratically and looped for 15 seconds.", + "location": "USA, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cf. Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2099" + }, + { + "date": "10/11/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) SECOND ATTEMPT TO LAUNCH A LUNAR PROBE. PIONEER I (ETA 1) TURNED BACK AT 114,000 KM (\"To the Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 234) PIONEER 1 FELL BACK THE NEXT DAY (1958, October 11th and 12th)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 126", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2100" + }, + { + "date": "10/28/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7:55 PM Jean Boyer was returning home to Beylon de Montmaur. He had reached 700 meters from the bridge over the Buech, without even thinking about it. When he arrived near the bridge in the Cote des Egaux, he saw a luminous disc suspended above the bridge and the valley below. A railway bridge passing over the road bridge and the valley cast the oval shadow of the disc. He ventured onto the road bridge and stopped near the railway bridge. He got out of the car and looked up, noticing that the object was perfectly round and contained a smaller circle. Boyer estimated the disc to be 120 meters long and 300 meters in altitude. After two or three minutes of observation, the witness was truly frightened when the disc began to sparkle with a dark red and then rose vertically at an incredible speed, without making any noise. Then he was hit by a strong wind, as were the five other witnesses who, like him, had observed the phenomenon.", + "location": "France, near Pont la Dame", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's: A Century of Sightings\" by Michael David Hall, Galde Prss Inc. 1999, p. 259", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2101" + }, + { + "date": "10/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Witnesses: Mme Côte Suzanne and Defrasne Césaire, farmers. It was about 8 o'clock. Between the house of Suzanne Côte and her neighbors Defrasne there is a vast wasteland where the grass barely covers the rock. About 10 m away is a pile of stones 7 to 8 m in diameter, 1 m high. On her way home, Suzanne felt a breath coming over her, her hair flew as if sucked and without her having time to make a gesture, she saw, passing a few meters above her head and producing a very perceptible whistle, three discs flying towards the pile of stones. These objects, which could be compared to plates or perhaps to rings, each measured 20 to 30 cm in diameter. Their plane was parallel to the ground and they were arranged in a triangle of at least 1 m side. One of the discs was clearly yellow, another was clearly red, the third was bluish. The triangle formed by these discs was animated by a slow rotational movement in the direct sense. Arriving near the stones, this composite triangle was less than a meter from the ground. It circled the pile and made three circular tours around the rubble. It then continued its trajectory, its whistling momentarily interrupted, seemed to accelerate its pace and passing behind the Defrasne house, flew in the direction of Evillers where it disappeared.", + "location": "FRANCE, Renédale (Doubs)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"Le dossier des OVNI\" - Laffont 1973 -p. 47-48", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2102" + }, + { + "date": "11/8/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Third attempt to launch a lunar probe. The third stage of the rocket did not ignite and Pioneer II did not reach even 1000 KM in altitude.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"To the Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 234", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2103" + }, + { + "date": "11/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An AT unit from the Aberdeen area was on a weekend exercise in the vicinity of Braemar and Ballater. During the maneuvers the two young soldiers were to guard a small hill. Well equipped they dug a trench for shelter. In the early hours of dawn they heard a strange gurgling sound coming from behind the trees a few hundred meters from their position. As they decided to go and see, two huge silhouettes emerged from the shadows and headed towards them. They froze, horrified, as the creatures were more than 2 m tall. The gurgling sound seemed to be the sound the creatures made while conversing with each other. (...) dressed in strange clothing that hampered their pace. Terrified, the soldiers spun around and ran away.", + "location": "SCOTLAND, in Deeside", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974 p. 20, 21", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2104" + }, + { + "date": "12/6/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Fourth attempt to launch a lunar probe. Pioneer III (Theta 1) falls back in Africa after a leap of 102,000 km from the ground, although the mass of the device was reduced to less than 6 kilograms. (1958, December 6th and 7th)", + "location": "USA/AFRICA", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 234", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2105" + }, + { + "date": "12/13/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"Gordo\" the monkey makes a jump of more than 2700 km in a Jupiter rocket and reaches an altitude of 550 km. The capsule is lost. (Inforespace #49, 1980, p. 14, 15) Capsule with monkey Gordo (also named \"old reliable\"), 15 minute flight, capsule lost at sea.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 126", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2106" + }, + { + "date": "12/20/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On their way back from a ball in Hoganas, Hans Gustavsson, 25 years old, and Stig Rydberg, 30 years old, saw a particular light through a gap in the pine trees at 02:55. They left the car to go towards the light. They saw a disc-shaped craft resting on three legs, about 1 meter high and 4 to 5 meters long. It was luminous but not dazzling. Suddenly they were attacked by 4 creatures, lead-gray in color, about 1.20 meters tall and 35 cm wide. They seemed to have no limbs and looked like skittles, but when they attacked they firmly grasped and tried to drag the men towards the craft, which they had no grip on because they had the consistency of jelly. They smelled like old marshes. The struggle lasted from 4 to 7 minutes and suddenly they were only paying attention to Hans who had clung to the post. Stig had taken the opportunity to run to the car and honk. Immediately they let go of Hans who fell to the ground. [note from vog: IN REALITY: Swedish investigators learned in 1989, 31 years later, from one of the two \"witnesses\" who had a kind of late remorse that this case was a hoax. They had the idea of this \"close encounter\" betting on significant financial returns. They gave numerous paid lectures, told their story to many magazines for cash and coins. He concluded by saying that \"UFO is a very good business\" but he still regretted duping so many people.]", + "location": "SWEDEN, Domsten", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - pp. 106 to 111", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2107" + }, + { + "date": "12/28/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A farmer saw a small UFO 2 m wide, cut in half a tree 12 m high. The tree was cut at a height of 3 m from the ground.", + "location": "Northern Ireland, Portglennone", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 345", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2108" + }, + { + "date": "12/30/1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: Wasserbillig, May 25, 48) Hans Klotzbach sees a spaceship, above the bridge crossing the Rhine between Mainz and Kassel.", + "location": "GERMANY, between Mainz and Kassel", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "following 18 May 60", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2109" + }, + { + "date": "1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A resident of Goulburn was fox hunting. He had an unusual encounter and shot at it, hitting something that emitted a terrible noise. Then there was a flash and something burning, pierced the sleeve of his jacket and left a small mark on his arm. The burn itself took a year to heal, but the mark had first grown, so that it measured two and a half inches by three. It exactly reproduced the shape of the planet Saturn: a globe surrounded by a ring. (1958,)", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Goulburn (New South Wales)", + "ref": [ + "Bruce CATHIE /P. TEMM \"Harmonic 695\" - ed. Sylvie Messinger 1981, p. 150", + "Continued on December 28, 1968, same place", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2110" + }, + { + "date": "1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A young girl observing a UFO, came close to an object and a \"man\". She vaguely remembers being inside the flying object, but is completely unable to say how she returned home.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Gippsland (Victoria)", + "ref": [ + "Chalker, Bill. Personal Investigation & (1989). 'Abducted ?'. Australian Penthouse. Nov. p37.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2111" + }, + { + "date": "1958", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1958, Trevor James (Trevor James Constable) published a book dedicated to his psychic contacts with an Ashtar who gave him a different speech than the one given to George Williamson (November 1952). According to James's Ashtar, all the peoples living beyond our Moon (sic) are of an ethereal nature and they possess vessels that move at the speed of light! When it seems necessary to them, they can show themselves to our eyes in the form of human beings similar to ourselves and have a material appearance such that the person who sees them has no reason to think that they can be different.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, the unmasked invaders\", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 79", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2112" + }, + { + "date": "7/11/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On July 11, 1959, an unidentified flying object was seen by a group of people near the town of L'Ain, France. The object was saucer-shaped and was described as having a silver color and a red light. It was seen flying at a constant speed and disappeared on the horizon.", + "location": "L'Ain, France", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2113" + }, + { + "date": "7/11/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the same time, the X-15, another rocket-powered aircraft, helped to better understand the problems of flight in this still poorly explored zone, which no longer belonged entirely to aeronautics and not yet completely to space. The first X-15, released from a B-52 bomber, made its first free flight in 1959.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 162", + "continued June 1962", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2114" + }, + { + "date": "1/2/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The experiment was attempted by the Russians. They launched \"Lunik I\" towards the Moon, but the craft missed its target, passing about 7000 km from the lunar surface and continuing on its route. It eventually fell under the influence of the Sun and was condemned to perpetual orbit as a planet. (following September 12, 1959) (Astronautics - Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 53) Let us cite the measurements taken by the space probe \"Lunik I\". At first glance, the number of 26 impacts recorded in 36 hours of interplanetary flight per square meter of exposed surface may seem alarming. But the meteorite detector was in this case sensitive to the shock of masses of the order of a millionth of a gram... (...) It has become a planet of the Sun under the name of \"Metchta\"", + "location": "USSR, Baikonour", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Pocket, 1967, p. 33 and 235", + "Dream", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2115" + }, + { + "date": "1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) France set up a small Peenemunde in Vernon in the Eure. They put into the world Vveronique\" a 1300 kg rocket, which, tested in Colomb-Bechar, reached a height of 200 kilometers in 1959. (1959,)", + "location": "FRANCE, Colomb-Béchar", + "ref": [ + "\"L'Astronautique\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 12", + "see 1960", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2116" + }, + { + "date": "2/21/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Dock workers at the Gdynia port see a glowing object fall into the middle of the harbor basin and their description is so precise that the exact location of where it fell can be determined. The maritime authorities then send three divers who enter the icy water and first announce that their search is hampered by a thick cloud of mud. They eventually manage to surface with a metal piece. After being previously examined by the Polish Navy, the piece was sent to the Gdynia Polytechnic University. (...) Several days after the glowing object plunged into the port waters, men assigned to guard the surrounding beaches stumbled upon a strange figure: a kind of man crawling, completely exhausted, on the sand. This creature spoke no known language and was dressed in a kind of uniform. Part of his face and hair seemed burned. He was brought to the University hospital where he was kept in isolation and examined. But it soon became clear that it was impossible to undress this creature because the uniform had no means of opening: it was not made of a usual substance such as wool or fabric, but of a metal that could only be cut with special tools and after much effort. The doctors noted that the organs of their patient were very different from ours: the circulatory system was completely new to them and the number of fingers and toes was not normal. The creature remained alive until a kind of bracelet was removed from him. The remains were then sent to the USSR for further examination. The Polish ufologists quickly established a link between the metal object and the creature on the one hand and UFOs and everything related to them on the other.", + "location": "POLAND, Gdynia", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\". French translation Laffont 1966 - p.23 - 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2117" + }, + { + "date": "3/3/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The americans succeeded in making the Pioneer IV carrier rocket function at all levels, and this tiny 6 kg probe, missing the Moon by 50,000 km, became in turn a solar planet.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 235", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2118" + }, + { + "date": "3/12/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening, young Kim Marks (6 years old) was getting ready for bed, when he told his parents that a man, dressed in a red jacket and pants with white trim, was in his room. The man, about 150 cm tall, had a crimson face. The child and the entity observed each other in silence for more than a minute. The dog, which accompanied the child, had no special reaction.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Urnong Landing - South Australia", + "ref": [ + "Keith Basterfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2119" + }, + { + "date": "3/26/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 12:45 p.m. Witness: T.E. Clark. An object shaped like a barrel, dark red in color, 20 feet long, 6 to 7 feet high, descended behind the trees during the 3 minute observation. (1959, March 26 or 27)", + "location": "USA, Corsica, Pennsylvania.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2120" + }, + { + "date": "3/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Not far from this settlement, on the coast of the Baltic Sea, soldiers saw a triangular object of four meters emerging from the sea creating a strong turbulence. It flew away, made a tour around the barracks and disappeared at high speed.", + "location": "POLAND, Kolobreg", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\". French translation Laffont 1966 - p.262", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2121" + }, + { + "date": "3/29/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Horst Raps, 26 years old, is taking a walk (on medical prescription, he suffers from his lungs) Around 8 pm he sees a light descending from the sky. He approaches it and sees a shining object hovering one meter above the ground. It is a saucer of blue and purple light, topped with a dome that sends out beams of light. Fascinated, he sees a staircase come out and a large humanoid figure in multicolored uniform appears. The apparition speaks correct German and comes to warn the witness of great dangers. It sets a rendezvous and forces him to return to the same place three days later.", + "location": "GERMANY, Lampertheim near Mannheim", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued April 1, 59", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2122" + }, + { + "date": "4/1/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Horst Raps is faithful to the appointments set on the 29th. He can board and in a minimum of time the saucer moves away to land on Alpha Centauri. There he notices that there are different races of people, that the dwellings are dome-shaped, and that multicolored flowers are cultivated. (1959, April 1st and 18th)", + "location": "GERMANY, Lampertheim", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2123" + }, + { + "date": "4/15/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man on a bicycle saw a luminous disc-shaped UFO, which seemed to be made of glass. This object was close to the ground and made a buzzing sound. When it took off, the UFO lifted the cyclist to about 7 m in altitude, then it fell back down, quite slowly.", + "location": "DENMARK, near Svendborg", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 324", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2124" + }, + { + "date": "5/20/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 5:30 PM two hunters saw an image that appeared to be that of a disc-shaped object, 150 m away. They described the appearance as an engine made of aluminum or silver metal or polished glass, and 2-2.5 m high. They also added that it seemed to have a dome of one meter radius. After the object left, they found flattened grass.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, near Tres Lomas (Pampa)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE – Jeanine VALLEE: \"Les phénomènes insolites de l'espace\", ed. bound LAFFONT 1978, p. 74, 75", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2125" + }, + { + "date": "5/28/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) FEMALE MONKEYS \"ABLE\" AND \"BAKER\" REACH 500 KM IN A JUPITER ROCKET. THEY ARE RECOVERED SAFE AND SOUND. (Inforespace n° 49, 1980, p. 14, 15) FLIGHT DURATION 15 MINUTES", + "location": "USA, Cape Canaveral", + "ref": [ + "Henk Nieuwenhuis, Artis in de ruimte, Van Wijnen - Franeker 1988 p. 19", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2126" + }, + { + "date": "Spring 1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A TU 104 was flying normally when suddenly a glow was noticed inside the passenger cabin, near the corridor leading to the cockpit. This glow suddenly took on a solid form, becoming a luminous disc about 50 cm in diameter. It remained motionless in a vertical position. The passengers were alarmed, someone shouted \"Fire!\" A pilot from the crew immediately came with an extinguisher, but he saw neither fire nor object, as it had disappeared! The situation had just returned to normal when, suddenly, the object reappeared! Slowly it moved through the cabin, from window to window. Paralyzed by fear, the passengers did not make the slightest movement. After making its inspection tour, the disc returned to its initial position and vanished forever. (1959, Spring)", + "location": "In flight, between Alma Ata (Kazakhstan) and Moscow (USSR)", + "ref": [ + "Guy TARADE: \"S.V. and Extraterrestrial Civilizations\". - J'AI LU 1969, p. 219, 220", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2127" + }, + { + "date": "6/27/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) RR3. (at dusk, about 25 witnesses, duration: 3 hours) Excerpt from notes taken by Reverend Gill: Time: 6:45 PM. Sky: some low cloud formations. Saw a bright white light to the northwest. 6:50 PM: called Steven and Eric. Steven arrives, confirms, not a star. 6:55 PM sent Eric to get people. Object at the top moving - a man? Now three men, moving, luminous, doing something on the bridge. Gone. 7 PM: men, 1 then again 2. 7:04 PM gone again. 7:10 PM cloud cover at 600m altitude. Man 1, 3, 4, 2 (appeared in this order), thin blue electric projector. Men gone, projector still there. 7:12 PM men 1 and 2 reappeared, blue projector. 7:20 PM projector off, men gone. 7:20 PM UFO passes through a cloud. 8:28 PM sky cleared above, big cloud above Dogura. Saw UFO up high. Called people from the station. Seemed to be descending, growing bigger. 8:50 PM new cloud formation. Big UFO stationary. Others going back and forth in the clouds. When they descend through a cloud, the light reflects off the cloud like a big halo - no more than 600m, probably less. All UFOs very distinct. The \"mother\" ship still big, distinct, stationary. 9:05 PM cloud formations, numbers 2, 3, 4 gone. 9:10 PM number 1 gone above us in a cloud. 9:20 PM \"mother\" back. 9:30 PM \"mother\" gone, crossing the sea towards Giwa. 9:46 PM UFO reappears above us, hovering. 10 PM still stationary. 10:10 PM hovering, gone behind a cloud. 10:30 PM very high hovering in a break in the sky between clouds. 10:50 PM very cloudy, no sign of UFO. 11:04 PM heavy rain.

The following night they returned (...) It was still luminous and sparkling, but it seemed closer and clearer. And then there was this figure on the bridge, well that's what I call the top. And it was the teacher who said: \"I wonder if it's going to land on the playground\". I replied: \"Why not?\" And then we made big signs - Hello, Hello! - and you can imagine how surprised we were when they returned our signals. And then Eric who was still with me - he never left me - and another boy waved their arms and the figures also waved both arms in response. (1959, June 27th and 28th)", + "location": "PAPUA, Boianai", + "ref": [ + "Maurice CHATELAIN: \"The Messengers of the Cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, pp. 43, 44", + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"UFOs, Myth or Reality?\" - trans. Belfond 1974 -pp. 175 to 179, 278", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2128" + }, + { + "date": "6/26/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (note in passing the difference in date) Several disc-shaped objects manifest in the evening of the 26th, for four hours, to several dozen witnesses, including Father W. Gill. Silhouettes are seen on the closest one. The same scene is repeated the next day, and signs are exchanged with the entities. There are about sixty similar observations in the region in two months. Confusion with planets? [note from vog: this seems out of the question to me: the indigenous populations of these regions know their night sky much better than we do] (1959, June 26th and 27th 1959)", + "location": "BOIANAI, PNG", + "ref": [ + "Science and Life, special edition: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, pp. 60 to 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2129" + }, + { + "date": "6/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Argentine Navy was perplexed in not being able to identify a submarine. It had the shape of a huge fish (it might have been a huge fish!) with a wide tail like the stabilizer of a B 17. It moved and maneuvered very quickly. It was impossible for them to identify it and we do not know the rest of the story.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, near Buenos Aires, at sea", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 170", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2130" + }, + { + "date": "7/13/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Frederich Moreland was crossing a paddock to milk her cows. She looked up and noticed a bright green light among the clouds. (...) she saw two large intense green lights quickly descending from the sky. (...) Everything was bathed in this green light described as \"sticky and horrible\". (...) She took shelter behind some trees planted in the middle of the paddock (...) It was then that she realized that the two green lights were part of a large bell-shaped object that was emitting a strong heat. The object stabilized at the height of the roof of the house. The witness estimated its wingspan to be about 10 m. She heard a low humming. Two rows of openings located on the middle part of the craft emitted orange glows. The lower part, on the other hand, had a metallic green color. Suddenly the portholes went out. The top of the dome-shaped object made of a material as clear as glass lit up and Mrs. Moreland clearly distinguished two men wearing shiny costumes (...) the material of these uniforms had the shine of aluminum or silver paper. Their faces were covered with a translucent mask. One of the beings stood up and seemed to look at something specific inside the craft. Then he sat down next to his companion. Then the openings on the side of the object emitted orange flames, the craft tilted slightly and shot into the sky where it disappeared with a soft noise that seemed sharp to the amazed witness. (...)(Jean FERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.44, 45).", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Blenheim", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 344, 345", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2131" + }, + { + "date": "7/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In July 1959, engineer Juan Porta Massano took a photo of Salvador Dali in Cadaqués. Upon development, a black shape resembling a bottle appeared above the painter's head.", + "location": "Spain, Cadaqués", + "ref": [ + "Archives of Ignacio Darnaude, published in \"Màs Alla\" No. 51 Madrid, January 1999", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2132" + }, + { + "date": "8/7/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) EXPLORER 6 (DELTA 1) TRANSMITTED THE FIRST IMAGE OF OUR PLANET. THIS FIRST DOCUMENT WAS OF QUITE MEDIOCRE QUALITY.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "continued July 1961", + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 20", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2133" + }, + { + "date": "8/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A RADAR OF THE AMERICAN NAVY DETECTS AN INTRUDER ADDING TO THE EIGHT SATELLITES THEN IN ORBIT. THE NEWS FIRST CONFIDENTIAL, APPEARS IN THE PRESS ON SEPTEMBER 2ND. FIVE MONTHS LATER, ON FEBRUARY 11TH 1960, THE SATELLITE STILL TURNS AND AN AMERICAN COMMUNIQUE REVEALS THAT THIS SATELLITE IS OF GREAT SIZE, REFLECTS POORLY THE SOLAR LIGHT AND CIRCULATES ON A POLAR ORBIT. CERTAIN ONES ADVANCE THE HYPOTHESIS OF A SECRET RUSSIAN SATELLITE, WHICH THE SOVIETS DENY IMMEDIATELY. IT MUST BE RECOGNIZED, INDEED, THAT THESE LATTER HAVE THEN NO SATELLITE IN POLAR ORBIT (THE FIRST COSMOS 144, IN FEBRUARY 1967) WHILE THE AMERICANS ALREADY HAVE POLAR DISCOVERERS....", + "location": "USA- SPACE", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 122, 123", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2134" + }, + { + "date": "8/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Not far from a village in Georgia (the name is not given) a UFO is said to have exploded in front of a 43-year-old farmer named Vassili Doubichev. No remains were found except for a \"dead monster\"! A certain Dr. Fiodor Pétrov allegedly claimed that the remains were not composed of carbon but of silicon.", + "location": "USSR, Georgia", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"UFOs in the USSR and Eastern Countries\". French translation Laffont 1966 - p.277", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2135" + }, + { + "date": "9/7/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A couple approached a small UFO, one meter in diameter, that had just landed in a bog. It was ovoid, brightly red, and marked with three dark red lines. Thomas Hutchinson's intention was to take it to the police station. As he reached out, the object rose and flew away.", + "location": "Northern Ireland, Moneymore (Derry)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 346", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2136" + }, + { + "date": "9/12/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. January 2, 1959) SUCCESS WAS ACHIEVED WITH \"LUNIK II\" ON THE FOLLOWING SEPTEMBER 12. THE ACCURACY OF THE SHOT HAVING BEEN IMPROVED, ESPECIALLY BY TELEGUIDANCE, THE ROCKET STRUCK THE MOON AFTER 34 HOURS OF TRAVEL AND WAS PULVERIZED UPON IMPACT. (following October 4, 1959) (\"Astronautics\", Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 53) THE ROCKETEERS OF LUNIK II ANNOUNCED SHORTLY AFTER DEPARTURE THAT THE ENGINE, A SPHERE OF 390 (1511?) KILOS, WOULD REACH THE LUNAR SURFACE ON SEPTEMBER 13 AT 10:05 PM MOSCOW TIME. THE IMPACT OCCURRED, INDEED, WITH ASTONISHING PRECISION, AT 10:02:24 PM IN A POINT LOCATED 800 KM FROM THE CENTER OF THE VISIBLE HEMISPHERE OF THE SATELLITE.", + "location": "USSR, Baikonour", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 235, 236", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2137" + }, + { + "date": "9/24/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 5am a gigantic UFO slowly descended towards the earth and stopped 65m above the head of police officer Robert Dickerson. After a few minutes the object rose and flew over the airport, stopping again to the northeast of the landing field. Wertz from air security and other officials followed the object with binoculars, its radiation now less intense: at the circumference of the disk they saw yellow, red and green beams of light. At 05:10 fighter jets took off from Portland base, while Klamath radar operators were already observing the object. The Redmond employees heard the fighters arrive, and as soon as they dived towards the object, the light beams disappeared, but intense radiation came from its lower part and the object suddenly rose as if catapulted into the sky. One of the fighters narrowly avoided a collision. Three others tried in vain to chase it.", + "location": "USA, Redmond (Oregon)", + "ref": [ + "Johannes von BUTLAR: \"UFO, We Are Not Alone\" - Presses de la Cité 1979 - pp. 141-144", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2138" + }, + { + "date": "10/4/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: September 12, 1959) This high precision acrobatic attempt was made on October 4, 1959 by \"Lunik III\" this vehicle circled the Moon -unfortunately from too far away: 60,000 km - and was able to transmit views of its hidden face, giving astronomers the means to draw, for the first time, a summary map.", + "location": "USSR, Baikonour", + "ref": [ + "continued April 20, 1960", + "\"Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 54", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2139" + }, + { + "date": "10/19/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Retired policeman Cavalheiro Mendes, alone in his cottage, sat down on the terrace at around 00:15. After 5 minutes he felt a fear that intensified so much that he felt uncomfortable, while a heat oppressed him in general but especially on his face. His hair stood on end. He wanted to go inside, but as soon as he stood up he headed towards a small path, crossed the fence: his will seemed dominated by an unknown force. Barefoot he walked, until he reached the beach, he felt weak, wanted to sit down but felt compelled to stagger forward. He then noticed at 150 m an orange glow of a lenticular craft. At 20 m from the craft appeared a male human bust, with large protruding eyes, tanned skin, no beard, straight blond hair combed back. The bust wore a coarse lead-colored jacket with a high collar, without closures or pockets. When he arrived close to the bust the being inclined his head to the left and right and smiled. A kind of banal telepathic conversation ensued. With his arm he made a circular gesture to the right, open hand, fingers joined. In the direction indicated the witness saw a small man of about 1m60 heading towards the craft and disappearing from view. Then the witness heard the sound of the latch of the fence and all of a sudden regained his normal state: it was 01:30.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Pinhal", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 34 p. 24, 25", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2140" + }, + { + "date": "10/23/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Re-entry of Explorer 4 launched on 26.7.58 (but mentioned on 8.8.59???). Location not specified.", + "location": "USA, SPACE", + "ref": [ + "Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 135", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2141" + }, + { + "date": "10/30/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 10:55 PM, Colonel Waldemar Carlos Bastide Schneider and his wife saw two blinking UFOs, diamond-shaped, with an apparent size of 45 to 60 cm. They were hovering 5 m above a wood. With the car headlights and then with flashlights, the Colonel made signals to the UFOs which responded in kind. This game lasted for an hour. Suddenly, the two luminous diamonds disappeared suddenly.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Pont de Camarao (Porto Alegre)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 34 p. 26, 27", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2142" + }, + { + "date": "End of 10/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Moulet and her three children were outside around 6 pm. She saw an ovoid object descending in a horizontal position, the back of it was steel-like and polished, at the front was a strong light and above it a large window above a platform. Through this window about twenty figures were visible: good-looking, tall, wearing white suits with short sleeves, officer collars, fair complexion, wavy blond hair, smiling, with an impression of laughter. The craft gave the impression of a boat cutting through the waves. It moved without a sound. A slight vibration before it left in 2 or 3 seconds. (October, end of 1959)", + "location": "FRANCE, Aubagne/ Madrague de Montredon", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 239, 240", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2143" + }, + { + "date": "12/4/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The rhesus monkey \"Sam\" reached 85 km in a Little Joe rocket.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 49, 1980, p. 14, 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2144" + }, + { + "date": "End of 1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The foreman came to warn the farmer Sesefredo Silveira Gomes that a wheel-less circular object was stopped on a small marshy island. He added that he saw small men coming out of the machine. (1959, end of year)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Tres Cerros", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n°35 - p. 19", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2145" + }, + { + "date": "12/1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 10pm, Lorentz Johnson was on his way home to Skomsvoll when he saw a cigar-shaped, red glowing object with windows hovering at 50m altitude. Suddenly, the UFO ejected two long objects into the fjord. Another witness was present at the scene and although he saw nothing strange, he heard splashing noises. Five years later, a fisherman caught something on the bottom of the fjord that he could not bring up. A colleague with a sonar on board located a sizeable object. This was confirmed in 1968 when a UFO group detected an object 20 feet long at 100m depth. Whatever means were used, it was never possible to bring it up.", + "location": "NORWAY, Namsenfjorden", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 163, 164", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2146" + }, + { + "date": "End of 1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witnesses saw a plane coming down in flames. This fire went out on the edge of the road 8 m above their car. It was a round object about 5 m in diameter, with a copper dome and bumps. A rim made of 3 rings spaced 30 cm apart encircled the object. The rings were not in contact with the body of the object. The outer rings shone like white metal and were of low thickness. The central ring was darker, had a thickness of about 5 cm. Under the craft was dissipating a white luminosity. It inclined at 45° presenting its dome where no opening was visible. During this maneuver the rings remained parallel to the ground. (1959, end of year)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Guaiba (Porto Alegre)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 35 - p. 19", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2147" + }, + { + "date": "1959", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A businessman leaving the hotel in the morning with his new car suddenly saw a cloud-like mass envelop the entire vehicle. He probably lost consciousness. The next thing he knew was that he was alone, without a car in a deserted area of the countryside. Seeing a truck, he signaled the driver and asked him to take him to Baya Blanca. The truck driver, surprised, replied that it was not possible, the nearest town was Salta and Baya Blanca was more than 1000 km away! The businessman looked at his watch and realized that only a few minutes had passed since he had taken his car from Baya Blanca, amazed he got into the truck and went to the local authorities to explain his case. Soon after, the police of Baya Blanca responded by phone that the witness's vehicle was in front of the hotel in Baya Blanca, and the engine was running!", + "location": "BRAZIL, Baya Blanca", + "ref": [ + "R. Jack Perrin: \"The Mystery of UFOs\" - J'ai Lu/Pygmalion 1976, pp. 149, 150", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2148" + }, + { + "date": "1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The \"Véronique\" rocket of 1959 then gave rise to other missiles, one of which, with solid fuel, rose to 150 kilometers in 1960 and reached a speed of 8000 km/h.", + "location": "FRANCE, Colomb Béchar", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics\" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 12", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2149" + }, + { + "date": "1960's (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One evening, a farmer who owns a chicken coop on the edge of Valensole heard the chickens and roosters squawking. Thinking of the fox, he went to check. To his surprise, he saw in the midst of the panicked animals a strange little being who fled at his approach and entered a red sphere that took off from a meadow. (1960's (exact date unknown))", + "location": "FRANCE, Valensole", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, First Complete Dossier...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 647", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2150" + }, + { + "date": "1960 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. and Mrs. Plumauzille were driving on the D 151 around 11 pm. Suddenly, Mr. Plumauzille saw a pinkish red light without a border, at tree height, on the right side of the road. He saw it rise and realized he was only about a hundred meters away from it. Almost immediately, he and his wife saw, on the right side of the road, in the light of the headlights, a mass the size of a large bag of potatoes that quickly shrank, seeming to collapse in on itself. He then saw, as well as his wife, a number of these light gray-brown masses, smaller than the first, moving around in the grass. At least two of them crossed the road and disappeared into the ferns. The witnesses thought that these things moved by contracting, swelling and deflating their bulges, which made them look like an animal trapped in a translucent plastic bag. (Around 1960)", + "location": "FRANCE, La Prodélie/Ayen (Puy d'Yssandon)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 648", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2151" + }, + { + "date": "1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Then, in 1960, it was Buck Nelson's turn to take some trips aboard a saucer. This allowed him to sell many copies of his book entitled: \"My Travels to Mars, the Moon and Venus\".", + "location": "USA (without further details)", + "ref": [ + "René PACAUT: \"They Met Extraterrestrials\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre, 1978, p 186", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2152" + }, + { + "date": "1/21/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"MISS SAM\" THE MONKEY IS LAUNCHED IN A MERCURY CAPSULE AND EJECTED AT 15 KM ALTITUDE.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 49, 1980, p. 14, 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2153" + }, + { + "date": "1/29/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"As we were driving in a break to the evening service, Friday (January 29, 1960), an oblong thing, similar to a torpedo or a giant cigar, suddenly crossed the road, at man's height, in front of the horse, without the latter being frightened, which is really strange,\" wrote to her niece Mrs. Marie Morgenthaler, from Ursenbach in Emmental. \"The envelope of this kind of torpedo seemed to be composed of horizontal colored and luminous bands,\" she specified. \"The colors were moving and I had never seen such before this apparition. I have the feeling that they are not from this Earth. The torpedo arrived through the fields: it looked like a vehicle beacon. The thing then passed between two farms that border the road, and it was only at the moment when it emerged in front of us that we saw what it was. And imagine that this torpedo silently entered the side of the hill, on the other side of the road.\" In a postscript, Mrs. Morgenthaler added: We saw in the newspaper the next day that a luminous object had been seen at the same time in the sky of Berne.\"", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Ursenbach (Emmenthal)", + "ref": [ + "Les Soucoupes chez Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2154" + }, + { + "date": "3/2/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Edgar Schedelbauer, a war-wounded reporter, managed to take the most unusual photograph known as the \"Leibnitz Spider\". He was returning home on his motorcycle at 1:30 in the morning when an illuminated object appeared above the edge of the forest in the east, flew over the clearing, crossed the road and began to loop over the sloping terrain. It also briefly presented its upper part, which had the shape of an overturned bowl, orange in color. The alarming thing approached and remained motionless for 6 or 7 seconds. Schedelbauer, who had thrown his motorcycle into the ditch, clearly felt a thermal radiation and heard a machine noise. Crouching in the ditch, he managed to adjust his camera and capture this extraordinary moment on film. Suddenly, the hovering object above his head emitted a whistle similar to that of a jet engine, rose and quickly moved away to the east. The next day, Schedelbauer hoped to get a good price for his adventure...", + "location": "Austria, Leibnitz", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"The Secret File of UFOs\", De Vecchi, 1978, p. 237", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2155" + }, + { + "date": "Spring 1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first \"midas 2\" infrared alert satellite is satellited. Seven copies were launched in total on polar orbits at 3500 km altitude. In this type of detection it is indeed necessary to have a minimum of distance. (1960, Spring)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 78", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2156" + }, + { + "date": "Spring 1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jeweler Salvatore Cianci was driving near Syracuse when a small creature in shiny clothes and wearing a diving cap appeared in the beams of his headlights. It had no arms, but two small wings. Salvatore Cianci suffered a nervous breakdown. (1960, Spring)", + "location": "ITALY, Sicily", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 121", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2157" + }, + { + "date": "Spring 1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An electronics engineer who was night fishing, heard a shrill whistle and saw a round object with a rotating light land on the shore. Through an opening, two dwarves with abnormally large heads emerged with a hose and pumped water from the river. Later they appeared to be playing like children. Their bodies sparkled with changing colored lights. (1960, Spring)", + "location": "USA, Syracuse (New York)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 101", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2158" + }, + { + "date": "4/1/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF TIROS I SATELLITE, FIRST WEATHER SATELLITE, WEIGHT 122 KG. (\"Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63) THE FIRST GOOD IMAGES (.. OF THE EARTH) WERE THOSE OF TIROS I, WEATHER SATELLITE PUT IN ORBIT BY NASA, ON APRIL 1, 1960. (April 1, 1960)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 20", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2159" + }, + { + "date": "4/5/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A flying saucer of orange color landed and 4 small entities fled when the craft exploded.", + "location": "MOZAMBIQUE, Beira", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 344", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2160" + }, + { + "date": "4/6/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) FALL OF SPUTNIK 3 LAUNCHED ON MAY 15, 1958", + "location": "USSR, SPACE", + "ref": [ + "Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 135", + "LOCATION NOT SPECIFIED", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2161" + }, + { + "date": "4/20/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) RE-ENTRY OF LUNIK (LUNA) 3 LAUNCHED OCT. 4, 59, LOCATION NOT SPECIFIED", + "location": "USSR, SPACE", + "ref": [ + "Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 110", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2162" + }, + { + "date": "4/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Or early May. M. Germain Tichit, a baker, was kneading dough around 2 o'clock in the morning. He heard an unusual noise at the same time he saw flashes of all colors through the window. He went to the doorstep and in the middle of the sloping field was an object in the shape of a spinning top, 10 to 15 m in diameter and 5 m high. The central pivot looked like a bellows that inflated to give the object a horizontal plate on the sloping ground. A metallic cutting sound on top of the noise of the object itself caused a staircase to lower beneath the right side of the object and a small humanoid descended the three steps, stepped onto the ground and advanced. The small being was well built, rather handsome, wearing small boots, dressed in tight trousers and a jacket buttoned in front, gray-green in color, and wearing a helmet similar to that of a fireman of the same color as the jacket. He had a curved saber in a scabbard on his right side, the handle clearly visible. A real whirlwind blew under the object, a kind of hot, stinging wind which M. Tichit felt on his left cheek. The witness advanced towards the creature with the intention of capturing it. The dwarf pilot saw him and pointed a long tube at him which emitted an intense light. The witness then experienced difficulty breathing, bent forward, hands in front of his face, and continued to advance. The being seemed to be frightened, turned around, climbed the ladder and disappeared. The craft rose to about thirty meters, with a whistling sound, and then moved horizontally in waves.", + "location": "FRANCE, Puy du Dôme", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 241, 242", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2163" + }, + { + "date": "5/5/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It is remembered that American pilot Gary Powers was shot down by a Soviet missile, aboard his U-2 spy plane, while he was flying over the USSR above the Sverdlovsk Region. Departing from Pakistan to reach Norway by flying over the Urals, aboard this astonishing apparatus capable of covering more than 5000 km at 27000 meters of altitude, he was to take detailed pictures of certain regions or installations of interest to the American secret services. The photographic device equipped on the U-2 allowed to discover details of only 1 meter. (...) Due to its vulnerability, the U-2 spy plane program was interrupted. (May 5th, 1960)", + "location": "USSR, Sverdlovsk", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2164" + }, + { + "date": "5/13/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) More than a hundred people observed a circular craft of a polished and dark grey, maneuvering and hovering above their heads. It had a bright light on its top and seemed to measure 20 meters in width. At 4 o'clock in the morning the following day, Raimundo Dos Santos saw two discs on the beach and several entities similar to men, small and pale, standing next to them, apparently in conversation. Seeing the farmer, the entities made a gesture to him, but he turned his back and ran away. Coming back later with other men, he discovered the marks left by the discs on the sand. (1960, May 13th and 14th)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Paracuru (Ceara)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 124", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2165" + }, + { + "date": "5/18/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. Dec. 30, 58 between Mainz and Kassel) While Hans Klotzbach was walking in the park, he was suddenly caught in a beam of light. Suddenly one of the extraterrestrials who had taken him in their saucer on May 25, 48 was near him.", + "location": "GERMANY, Mainz", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "follow-up to Oct. 16, 60", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2166" + }, + { + "date": "5/24/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) MIDAS 2 (1960 ZETA 2° LAUNCHED.", + "location": "USA, SPACE", + "ref": [ + "Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 92", + "continued 7.2.74", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2167" + }, + { + "date": "6/10/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 00:15 the driver, with her husband asleep next to her in the car and the two children sleeping in the back, was negotiating a right turn about 24 km from Globe, heading towards California, when she saw a small figure on the right side of the road about 100m ahead. It was as if it was ready to cross, and she let go of the accelerator and the car immediately slowed down as if they were going uphill. Simultaneously, the being faced her, pivoted and ran into the bushes out of the headlights' beam. She stopped abruptly and woke up her husband. The creature was about 90 cm tall, broad shoulders, long arms, dark in color, head shaped like a flattened pumpkin almost. In its head shone two yellow-orange eyes. When it was in profile there was a light radiating beyond its face. She did not see a nose, mouth, or ears. The body was less well defined than the head and she had the impression of hair or fur.", + "location": "USA, near Globe (Arizona)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 193, 194", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2168" + }, + { + "date": "6/10/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Observation at 03:30. Beings were seen moving around a landed UFO. Shortly afterwards it was seen flying over the region and disappearing. (Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 175 and 179) At 3:30 in the morning the witness was returning home with his dog, after a walk in the fields. He saw what he thought were the lights of a car. These lights suddenly becoming bigger and brighter, he hid in the bushes. From this hiding place, he observed, terrified, the coming and going of 6 humanoids around a UFO on the ground. The dog panicked and ran away. After a few minutes the object shot up vertically into the sky. The witness took off running towards his house. He was still surprised to see a searchlight directed downwards, scanning the ground 50 meters from his position.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Algoz (Algarve)", + "ref": [ + "collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenço; \"Diario de Noticias\"-12.6.60", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2169" + }, + { + "date": "6/10/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3 o'clock Carlos Sabinos, 25 years old, and his friend Filipe were out for a walk when they saw an object they took for a car. As they got closer they noticed the craft had a saucer shape and was emitting an unusual and bright light. They hid behind a mound and were able to observe six small beings who were moving around the disc. Later they entered the vehicle which soon rose vertically and quickly. (exactly the same story as the one in Portugal on the same date???) The two men left their hiding place to run towards their house, but while they were running the craft reappeared and swept the ground with an intense beam of light.", + "location": "Spain, unspecified location", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Everything about Flying Saucers\", ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p. 200", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2170" + }, + { + "date": "7/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three workers were inspecting and repairing the Canadian National Railway at a place called Sub-Anville, in the Chapais region. Mr. Georges Godbout, a man in his fifties, communicated this case to us which he witnessed with his two companions. (...) The railway workers were hard at work. Suddenly a shrill noise rises, amplifies, to the point where the men feel unwell. (...) It is then that they see, 300 m in front of them, an object advancing on the railway track. It is dazzling like a well-polished metal that shines in the sun. As only one train passes per day, the men are perplexed. (...) Suddenly the object moves away from the track and hovers a few meters above an inaccessible savannah where it stops and stays a few meters from the ground. The men, disturbed by the noise, \"a whirring of a top\", can see its profile. It is an object in the shape of a top of a metallic green, throwing off luminous flashes. (...) An opening appears in front of the astonished witnesses and a kind of small ladder is placed on the threshold of the craft. A \"being\" well proportioned advances and descends about three rungs. He wears a fitting, greenish uniform. He is about 1 m 60 tall. His head is covered with a helmet that encloses it, and on his face there is a mask like that of a basketball referee. When he comes out he casts a circular glance, but his head does not seem to be mobile, the whole body turns at the same time. (...) He immediately climbs back up. The object rises with an unbearable noise, it flies over the railway track and moves away a little, rises into the sky and quickly disappears into space. (July 1960)", + "location": "Canada, Chapais (Abitibi)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p. 39,40", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2171" + }, + { + "date": "8/2/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hiot were driving from Noulle to Morhinghem around 0:30. Their father-in-law noticed a distant light, and as they left Moulle, they saw a red ball the apparent size of the moon. The object crossed the road obliquely, 3 or 4 meters in front of the car and 2 meters from the ground, forcing the driver to brake suddenly. Then the 5-6 meter wide phenomenon, with a bright red light radiating from a kind of half-sphere larger than a horse-drawn carriage wheel at the base of the object, accompanied them for a kilometer. As they arrived at the first houses, it seemed to go out from bottom to top, as if it was veiling itself starting from the bottom. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 243) Near the hamlet of Difques, two witnesses were followed for more than a kilometer by a red luminous ball. A silhouette was visible inside. (?????) The ball gradually went out from bottom to top.", + "location": "FRANCE, Noulle - Difques", + "ref": [ + "Erich ZURCHER/ \"Les apparitions d'Humanoïdes\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 201", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2172" + }, + { + "date": "8/11/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF DISCOVERER XIII, 635 KG, RECOVERED IN FLIGHT ON NOVEMBER 14, 1960, FIRST! (\"Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63) THE CAPSULE OF THE DISCOVERER 13 SATELLITE IS RECOVERED IN THE PACIFIC. THIS IS THE VERY FIRST TIME THAT AN AMERICAN SATELLITE RETURNS TO EARTH INTACT. (...) ONLY A FEW DAYS LATER, DISCOVERER 14 WAS RECOVERED IN THE GREATEST DISCRETION, IT WAS THERE, ALTHOUGH THE AMERICANS DENIED IT, THE FIRST SPY SATELLITE. (August 11, 1960)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 23 and 25", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2173" + }, + { + "date": "8/12/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF THE ECHO SATELLITE BALLOON, 75 KG. (\"Astronautics\", Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63) ECHO I, A SIMPLE ALUMINIZED PLASTIC BALLOON, THICKNESS OF ONLY 12/1000 OF MM, WHICH, IMMEDIATELY AFTER INJECTION INTO ORBIT, WAS INFLATED BY THE EXPANSION OF A SMALL VOLUME OF GAS CONTAINED IN ITS FOLDS, UP TO TAKE THE FORM OF A HUGE SPHERE OF 30 METERS IN DIAMETER. (...) IT CONTAINS NO FRAMEWORK OR INSTRUMENT, NOT EVEN THE USUAL RADIO TRANSMITTER, IT WEIGHS 75.5 KG, OFFERING AN ENORMOUS SURFACE TO SOLAR RADIATION WHILE OPPOSING ONLY A SMALL INERTIA TO THEIR PUSH. (August 12, 1960)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "continued 24.5.68", + "\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 173", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2174" + }, + { + "date": "8/6/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A SECOND GENERATION (OF INFRARED ALERT SATELLITES) MUCH MORE PERFORMANT APPEARED WITH BMEWS 1 (BALLISTIC MISSILE (or MULTIPURPOSE?) EARLY WARNING SYSTEM). IT WAS THE FIRST REPRESENTATIVE OF A LONG FAMILY OF GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES, PLACED FIRST UNDER 10°, THEN UNDER 63° OF INCLINATION. (August 6, 1960)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 78", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2175" + }, + { + "date": "8/18/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) DISCOVERER 14 (KAPPA 1) LAUNCHED.", + "location": "USA, SPACE", + "ref": [ + "Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 92", + "follow-up 16.9.60", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2176" + }, + { + "date": "8/19/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF SPUTNIK V, RECOVERED THE NEXT DAY AUGUST 20, WEIGHT 4600 KG, FIRST LANDING WITH LIVE ANIMALS. (\"Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63) The USSR SUCCEEDED IN ITS FIRST ATTEMPT AT RECOVERING A SATELLITE, WITH SPUTNIK 5, ON BOARD OF WHICH WERE TWO DOGS \"BIELKA\" AND \"STRELKA\". THIS SATELLITE WAS MUCH LARGER THAN DISCOVERER, AS IT WAS ALREADY A REAL SPACECRAFT, THE VOSTOK. (August 19, 1960)", + "location": "USSR, Baikonour", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2177" + }, + { + "date": "8/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the night, around 3 o'clock, the child Jouffroy got up and went to a meadow behind the house. He returned scared having seen a white and luminous phenomenon. Mrs. Grandmottet then got up to accompany him, she also saw the strange phenomenon and thought she heard a strange noise. She returned to the house and asked Mrs. Jouffroy if she had hung out sheets. The three witnesses then noticed that apparently just behind the hedge, a kind of long white rectangle was placed or very close to the ground. They heard a noise of metal and stones being moved. Afraid, the witnesses went back inside. When a little later they looked out the window, everything had disappeared.", + "location": "FRANCE, Meussia", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 242", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2178" + }, + { + "date": "8/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 3pm, G.P., a merchant from Dijon, was driving a truck with two employees in the center of Brittany. Suddenly, they saw on the road, about 100 meters ahead of them, three figures about 2 meters tall, wearing khaki scuba suits with some kind of helmet on their heads, who immediately turned around. The truck accelerated to about 60 km/h to catch up to them, but they moved faster above the ground and disappeared into an opening in the hedge on the side of the road. When they arrived at this spot, the passengers of the truck saw a saucer about 4 meters high, about fifteen meters above the ground. It rose and disappeared in a few seconds into the sky. Its diameter was about ten meters according to the circle of scorched grass it had imprinted on the ground.", + "location": "FRANCE, Brittany", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"The Enigma of the E.T.\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 84", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2179" + }, + { + "date": "9/16/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) DISCOVERER 14 LANDED ON 18.8.60", + "location": "USA, SPACE", + "ref": [ + "Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 92", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2180" + }, + { + "date": "10/4/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF \"COURIER I\", FIRST COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE, 277 (227?) KG. (\"Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63) BUT THE MOST NUMEROUS STILL ARE THE SPECIFICALLY MILITARY TELECOMMUNICATION SATELLITES. THE VERY FIRST, EXPERIMENTAL OF COURSE, WAS COURIER 1 B, LAUNCHED ON OCTOBER 4, 1960. THIS FIRST RELAY SATELLITE FUNCTIONED FOR A LITTLE MORE THAN TWO WEEKS, UNTIL THE EXHAUSTION OF ITS BATTERIES. (October 4, 1960)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 88", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2181" + }, + { + "date": "10/4/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A cylindrical object emerged from a curtain of rain, stopped abruptly and hovered, before being joined by six small discs. Then, the entire formation moved backwards. The witnesses were a pastor and his wife.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Cressy", + "ref": [ + "Science and Life, special edition: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, pp. 60-63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2182" + }, + { + "date": "10/16/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. May 18, 60) Two extraterrestrials take Hans Klotzbach in a car and drive him to the forest. There is a \"glider\" that takes the three people to a saucer in the sky. They explain to him the relationship between light and color.", + "location": "GERMANY, Mainz", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "following 8 to 11 July 73", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2183" + }, + { + "date": "10/20/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7pm Mr. Faure was returning home when suddenly he was dazzled by a rectangular light at 3 or 4 meters altitude. In the upper part two humanoid silhouettes that seemed to be wearing a helmet of 40 to 50 cm in diameter. The light suddenly went out. When he arrived home the witness was in a state of shock and remained in a state of agitation for several days. At the same time three witnesses from Villemorge, a locality located downhill from Lavaure, saw a silent craft that crossed the sky at great speed towards the south-east. (1960, October 20th and 25th)", + "location": "FRANCE, Montcel by Combronde/Lavaure", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 244", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2184" + }, + { + "date": "10/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) UFO wave. Including observation of \"mother ships\" accompanied by smaller objects. (1960, October and November)", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Cressy region (Tasmania)", + "ref": [ + "who are mistaken about the year - it was in 1959...", + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 310", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2185" + }, + { + "date": "11/13/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 02:45, Rémi Carbonnier was awakened by a green light illuminating his room. He went to the window and saw a round, shining object, 6 m in diameter, resting on three legs, on a railway track, 300 m away. It was emitting orange glows. A dome on the top of the object began to turn, the legs disappeared and the object rose vertically above the trees, without a sound. Less than 20 seconds later it had crossed the hill and disappeared to the southwest. The next day the witness went to the spot and found no trace, but his dog refused to go forward and ran away. (Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 298) The personality of the witness seems to weigh heavily on the credibility to be given to this testimony.", + "location": "FRANCE, La Londe", + "ref": [ + "J.C. BOURRET: \"The New Challenge of UFOs\" - France Empire 1976 - pp. 43 to 50", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2186" + }, + { + "date": "11/14/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) SECRET RECOVERY OF DISCOVERER 13 LAUNCHED ON AUGUST 10, 1960.", + "location": "USA, SPACE", + "ref": [ + "Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 92", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2187" + }, + { + "date": "12/9/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:30 PM a dog barked at a bright object hovering in a park. Three witnesses observed it from separate locations. It appeared to be an oval, luminous craft 4 m in diameter and one could see vague shadows inside. It flew away in a northerly direction. On the ground a circle of yellowed grass was found.", + "location": "FRANCE, Carignan", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of the E.T. Appearances - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 298", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2188" + }, + { + "date": "12/26/1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around two in the morning, the two witnesses were riding bicycles. A few meters from the road, they saw a round or oval, metallic, very shiny, aluminum-colored object. One of them fled in panic, but the other observed the object with four feet resting in the snow. A kind of articulated arm equipped with a light emerged from the craft, and its blue-violet beam, 15 cm in diameter, was directed at the witness's face, immobilizing him. He saw a hatch open, letting out a bright light jet and an indistinct shadow entering the cabin. The module rose, causing a snow whirlwind. After the object had moved away, the witness was again free to move and returned home. The next day, at the landing site, the ground was charred in a diameter of 4 meters and four 30 cm deep and 40 cm in diameter holes were discovered. (...) 22 years later, in 1982, LDLN investigators revisiting the case, the witness was unable to approach the landing site. (...)", + "location": "FRANCE, Canteleu (Seine Maritime)", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Our Masters the Extraterrestrials\" - Presses de la Cité 1992, pp. 186-188", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2189" + }, + { + "date": "1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Klaus Dieter Kaufmann, had to undergo a spinal surgery in 1990. \"How many years ago was the previous operation?\" the surgeon asked him, looking at his medical file. \"But I have never been operated on,\" Kaufmann replied. The surgeon showed him the radiographs to prove the contrary. A strange story from his adolescence then came back to him: he had observed a UFO. The craft shot a blinding flash at him and Dieter-Klaus fainted. He returned home four hours late and suffered from migraines and difficulty concentrating for several days. He had a painful mark on his pelvic region and a wound mark on the lower back. Kaufmann tried to remember the adventure and the memories gradually came back to him. He had entered a state close to trance when he was confronted with small armed creatures with some kind of oxygen tanks on their backs. He became friendly with them and followed them on board the ship, noticing that it did not walk but floated. He found himself in a brightly lit room where two beings with huge, black oblique eyes were standing: frightening. He tried to escape but was unable to move. After a medical examination carried out by beings with webbed fingers, he learned that he could go home and this time he felt like he was being carried out in the arms of someone he could not see but could hear breathing loudly, as if through a tube. He wanted to feel but only found a belt, no chest. A force pushed his hand away and he fainted, regaining consciousness at the place where the adventure had begun. (1960,)", + "location": "ALLEMAGNE, Offenbach", + "ref": [ + "Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: \"Enquête sur les enlèvements E.T.\" - Plon 1995, p. 262, 263", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2190" + }, + { + "date": "1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1991 a 31 year old woman reported being abducted by a large entity and groups of small entities. The abductions occurred in her bed and through her bedroom door, throughout her life. The small entities measure 120 cm and have large ugly heads, with prominent eyes without pupils, dark blue to black in colour. They have only a slit for a mouth, and a very small nose. The larger entities measure 210 cm and seem to command the small ones. She levitated or was carried out of her bed, floating into a circular room, where medical examinations took place, while she was laid on a metal table. Then she would wake up in her bed. Hypnotic regression confirmed the abductions. Throughout her life she was surrounded by poltergeist activity, sensations of presence wherever she lived, children's toys moving by themselves, such as their tricycles, etc. (the whole paranormal panoply). She claims to have implants in her face. The investigation revealed that she was a victim of sexual abuse during her childhood, not by entities from elsewhere, but by men from her very close family. [note from vog: so traumatised enough to become completely schizophrenic...] (Since its birth in 1960)", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Adelaide", + "ref": [ + "UFORA90045. UFORSA/Keith Basterfield.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2191" + }, + { + "date": "1960", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1960, electrician Edwin found a job as a radio mechanic in Durban. His firm hired an inspector named George. George lived in a hotel room and soon the two men became friends, and went fishing together on the weekends. On one of these fishing trips, George brought a radio apparatus, and soon a saucer appeared in the sky while a voice on the radio announced \"This is Wy-Ora (name of the vessel) We are a people from the planet Koldas.\" It turns out that George is actually an extraterrestrial and his name is Valdar. To prove this, George/Valdar speaks in his extraterrestrial language and the saucer begins to perform incredible maneuvers. The world Koldas is in the universe of antimatter. In 1962 George/Valdar returned to his country, leaving the apparatus as a gift to Edwin, to continue to communicate. Which he did until 1964. Edwin was then warned against extraterrestrial saboteur groups, and also learned that a new planet called Epicot was being prepared to cater to the eventualities of repopulation. (1960,)", + "location": "AFRIQUE DU SUD, Durban", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2192" + }, + { + "date": "1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An engine, shaped like a rocket, with four feet, was seen on the ground, as well as two of its occupants and photographed by a doctor from a nearby laboratory", + "location": "USSR, Irkutsk", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT \"The Black Book of UFOs - Laffont 1970 - p. 204", + "according to Flying Saucer Review of May 1967", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2193" + }, + { + "date": "1/22/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:30 pm, a professor from the University of Bordeaux and 3 teachers observed an elongated, shiny, orange object. There was an influence on the car's ignition. One witness felt a slight discomfort and heard (or perceived in some other way) the word \"Zemu\" (note from vog: maybe it was the word \"SAMU\"?) repeated twice.", + "location": "FRANCE, Cestas-Gazinet", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 298", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2194" + }, + { + "date": "1/31/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Chimpanzee \"Ham\" reached 252 km with a Redstone rocket. His capsule was recovered after a 18 minute flight.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 49, 1980, p. 14, 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2195" + }, + { + "date": "2/1/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of \"Samos II\", a retrograde moving satellite.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2196" + }, + { + "date": "2/4/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of Sputnik VIII, the heaviest of all satellites with its 6483 kg. It was recovered on February 26, 1961.", + "location": "USSR, Baikonour", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2197" + }, + { + "date": "2/12/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first test shot towards Venus was executed by the USSR on February 12.", + "location": "USSR, Baikonour", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2198" + }, + { + "date": "1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The craft, \"Venusik\" (643 kg) loaded with scientific equipment, was taken aboard Spoutnik VIII and placed in a circumterrestrial orbit at an altitude of 200 km. From there it was launched towards Venus in the opposite direction of the Earth's movement, with a speed of 27.7 km/second relative to the Sun. Then radio contact was lost and no more was heard from the messenger. (continued 25.2.61) (\"Astronautics\", Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 56) The Venusik probe was sent with the mission of exploring Venus. Launched with remarkable precision, using the technique of a stopover in a terrestrial orbit, this craft has refused to give news since February 27, 1961 and the failure of the transmitter deprived the Russians, for once, of a \"first\" that the Americans brilliantly achieved the following year with their craft \"Mariner II\"", + "location": "USSR, Baikonour", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Pocket, 1967, p. 279", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2199" + }, + { + "date": "4/12/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of Vostok I, first occupied satellite (Gagarine) recovered the same day.", + "location": "USSR, Baikonur", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2200" + }, + { + "date": "4/18/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11am Joe Simonton was drawn by a curious sound of studded tires on a wet pavement. He went into the yard and saw a silver saucer-shaped object, brighter than chrome, hovering close to the ground. The object was 12 feet high and thirty feet in diameter. An opening appeared about 5 feet from the ground and Simonton saw three men inside the craft. One was wearing a two-piece black suit. They were about 5 feet tall, clean-shaven, and resembled Italians: black hair, swarthy skin. Their shirt was trimmed with a turtleneck collar and they wore woolen caps. One of the men lifted a pot apparently made of the same material as the craft and it seemed to Simonton that he was asking for water. Simonton took the pot, filled it. On his return, one of the men was cooking food on some kind of flame-less grill. The inside of the craft was black like raw iron. He could make out panels for instruments and heard a sound like that of a generator. When he made a gesture indicating he was interested in the prepared food, one of the men, also dressed in black but with a narrow red braid on his trousers, handed him three small cakes about 3 inches in diameter with small holes in them. All this had lasted about 5 minutes. The man closest to the witness fastened some kind of belt to a hook on his clothing and closed the opening. The object rose 20 feet and headed south causing such a gust of wind that the pines bent.", + "location": "USA, Eagle River", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of the E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 40-41", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2201" + }, + { + "date": "4/28/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 9 pm, forest guard Vassili Brodski was walking along the 600 m long and 150 m wide frozen lake without seeing anything out of the ordinary. The next morning he walked back and found a stretched out ditch that started on the high bank and disappeared into the lake through a huge hole in the ice: the earth that had been excavated to make this 27 m long, 15 m wide and 3 m deep ditch was nowhere to be found: yet it was about 1000 cubic meters. He informed the military authorities who arrived with their equipment a week later. The submerged part of the broken floating ice was green. On the shore the military found grains of a black material that crumbled between their fingers. Upon analysis they seemed to come from a metal that had been heated as if for welding. (Boris CHOURINOV: \"The two faces of ufology in Russia\" - May 1994, p. 6 and 7) On the morning of April 27, a group of twenty-five hunters and foresters saw an unknown aerial object descend and crash into the ground near a bend where a stream emptied. According to the witnesses it could have been 8 or 10 in the morning. The object was oval-shaped, as big as a long-haul plane and shone with a gray-blue light. It was flying at low altitude and at high speed. It was heading east to west when the crash occurred near the north shore of the lake. There was a loud noise like a strong explosion. (...) [note from vog: this contradicts what the Russian Chourinov says?]", + "location": "USSR, Korb-Ozéro (Karelia)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BERLITZ and William L. MOORE: \"The Mystery of Rosswell, the Space Wreckage\" ed. France Empire 1981, p. 191 to 195 - he cites UFO's in the USSR vol. II 1975 by Félix Ziegel and Gray and Dick: The new Soviet Psychic discoveries\"", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2202" + }, + { + "date": "5/24/1961 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On May 17th 1961 a Russian Lunik type spacecraft took off from the Baikonour base (I couldn't find this information from authors talking about aeronautics...) : on May 24th the Turin and Bochum stations intercepted a man's voice and a woman's voice coming from the capsule: \"We can no longer read the dials. The indicators are no longer clear. There are none... (silence)... There, there, there is something... it's difficult... (silence)... if we don't make it, the world will never know! It's impossible...\" Then nothing more. (...) Could Terechkova aboard Vostok 6 on June 16th 1963 have been the first woman in space? (Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"The Enigma of the E.T.\" - ed. Guy TREDANIEL 1995, p. 33) A woman and a man had been launched on February 17th 1962 from the Baikonour base. On the evening of February 24th, at 8pm, the Bochum, Meudon and Turin stations heard the reports. (...) (1961, May 24th (or 1962, February 24th?))", + "location": "IN SPACE", + "ref": [ + "Jacques POTTIER: \"Flying Saucers\" - DE VECCHI - 1974 - p. 44", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2203" + }, + { + "date": "5/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A UFO in the shape of a cigar flew over the city of Voronezh, causing terror among the population. It was estimated to be between 250 and 300 m long and was at an altitude of about 600 m. When the Mig fighters arrived to intercept it, the UFO fled at an approximate speed of 16000 km/h and disappeared definitively.", + "location": "USSR, Voronezh", + "ref": [ + "Antonio RIBERA: \"Trial of the UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1977, p. 101", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2204" + }, + { + "date": "6/3/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Four people were chatting in the boat, engine stopped, off the Italian coast. Suddenly they were shaken by waves of increasing amplitude. They then saw the water swell into an enormous bubble 1 km away from them. A strange object in the shape of an overturned plate topped with a cone emerged from this bubble of water as if the object was pushing the water away, as if it was surrounded by an air cushion. Once out of the water it stopped for a few seconds at about ten meters from the surface, forming a halo around its base. Then it left at a lightning speed. (June 3, 1961)", + "location": "ITALY, at sea", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - P. 214", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2205" + }, + { + "date": "6/21/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A metal object in the shape of a disc, approximately 100 m in diameter, hovered above the Rybinsk anti-aircraft missile launch base north of Moscow. The object, apparently at an altitude of 6000 m, was first detected on radar and then seen with the naked eye. While it remained stationary, smaller discs emerged from the giant object and began to fly over the base at low altitude. The commander gave the order to shoot down the craft. A first series of surface-to-air missiles were launched: the projectiles rose towards the UFO but exploded in the air when they were 2 km away. The UFO remained stationary and intact in the same place. A second attack was ordered, with the same result. Preparations were being made for a third attack when the small discs descended very low and the electricity was cut off, including that supplied by the emergency generator. After ten minutes the small objects rose back up to the large craft, then it disappeared. The electricity then returned normally. (Antonio RIBERA: \"Procès aux OVNI\" - De Vecchi 1977 - p. 101, 102) (Internet, WUFOC site, which reproduces this account attributing it to Thimoty Good \"Above Top Secret\" with the comment that Good claims his source is a very serious Italian scientific journal….) Defensive missiles were installed around Moscow. At one of the bases, a radar detected a UFO flying at an altitude of 18000 meters and escorted by smaller UFOs. The commander of the Rybinsk base responded with a salvo of missiles. The escort UFOs descended towards the base, whose electrical equipment then stopped working. The missiles exploded well before reaching their targets. When the UFOs rejoined their mothership, the energy returned to the missile base.", + "location": "USSR, Rybinsk", + "ref": [ + "“Dossiers OVNI”, ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Hors série, p. 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2206" + }, + { + "date": "7/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Re-entry of Explorer 6 launched on August 7th, 1959.", + "location": "USA, SPACE", + "ref": [ + "Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 97", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2207" + }, + { + "date": "8/23/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Americans resume their lunar adventure with probes of a new type, weighing 330 kg. These devices, called \"Ranger\", are to take physical measurements during the approach to the Moon, photograph the surface, and drop a capsule containing instruments and a small rocket onto the Moon's surface. This rocket, by means of retro-propulsion, is to allow the capsule and its contents to land without damage. The first two \"Rangers\" were two failures due to malfunction of the rockets.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "continued 29.8.61", + "\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 236", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2208" + }, + { + "date": "8/30/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) RANGER 1, LAUNCHED ON 23.8.61 CRASHES TO GROUND (1961, 29 or 30 August)", + "location": "USA, SPACE", + "ref": [ + "Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 128", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2209" + }, + { + "date": "Late 8/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Hamilton County: Hundreds of people observe a red light moving very slowly at low altitude on a NE to SW trajectory. Above Bond Hill the object rises and explodes in a flash of white light. The weather services received hundreds of calls, as did the airport. According to the astronomical center, it was not a meteor, star, plane, or satellite. (1961, Late August)", + "location": "CINCINNATI, Ohio", + "ref": [ + "Cincinnati Enquirer: August 31, 1961", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2210" + }, + { + "date": "9/19/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) RR3, around midnight, 2 witnesses, duration: 1 hour. Case: Betty and Barney Hill. Returning from their vacation in Canada, the interracial Hill couple was driving late at night on a deserted road, when they saw a UFO descending. It eventually landed, blocking the road in front of them. They were approached by humanoids. A few hours later the Hills found themselves back on the road, but 55 kilometers away and without any memory of what had happened during that time. This persistent amnesia caused them to experience various physical and psychological problems, and eventually they went to see Dr. Simon, famous for his amnesia cures. Having been put into a hypnotic state several times, each of them separately recounted the facts. Their respective versions were quite precise. They reported that they had been taken aboard the craft, treated well by the occupants, more or less in the way humans treat laboratory animals, and then released after being hypnotically instructed to totally forget their experience. [note from vog: various authors cite Betty Hill, several times afterwards, to observe other UFOs, almost on command, to give UFO lectures, etc... ufobusiness...]", + "location": "USA, Whitfield (New Hampshire)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"UFOs, Myth or Reality?\" - trans. Belfond 1974 - pp. 186-192, 278", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2211" + }, + { + "date": "10/21/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) As work continued on the development of more sophisticated telecommunications satellites, an original but controversial formula was tested, known as the \"Westfort\" project. The US Air Force had been working on the project since 1958, which involved launching no less than 350 million 2 centimeter long copper hairs into space. It was expected that these angel hairs, once released from their container in orbit, would stretch out around the Earth to form a belt, a kind of miniature Saturn ring. The size of these metal needles had been calculated to reflect radio waves preferentially on a frequency of 8400 megahertz, or a wavelength of 3 to 4 cm. (...) The first attempt took place in October 1961 from the MIDAS 4 spy satellite. But the needles remained grouped in packets. Two months later, radar observations showed that the ring measured more than 8 km long. This experiment had obviously caused a real stir among scientists, who accused the military of polluting space. Astronomers in particular, led by the Englishman Sir Bernard Lovell. (October 21, 1961)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, pp. 88-89", + "continued May 1963", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2212" + }, + { + "date": "11/10/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (...) the broadcast of the city's station was suddenly interrupted. The electric lights in the studios went out or began to flicker for 30 to 40 seconds. The recording devices registered a considerable increase in static electricity.. (Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\" - trad. Laffont 1976, p. 250-251) November 18, 1961; USA, near Chadron, Nebraska: In the afternoon a strange object passed through the sky above Theodore Goff's farm leaving behind a mysterious substance. It seemed to be very fine metal fibers that draped over the fields, trees, electrical lines, machines. \"It was around 3 o'clock in the afternoon,\" said Goff, \"I had worked in the hangar. As I was coming out, I saw this strange ball flying in the sky, at a tremendous speed, without any noise. I only saw it for a few moments. (November 10 (or 11), 1961)", + "location": "YUGOSLAVIA, Vukovar (Croatia)", + "ref": [ + "National UFOReporting Center - Looking Back - by Bob Gribble", + "....", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2213" + }, + { + "date": "11/18/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF RANGER 2 (ALPHA THETA 1) IT RE-ENTERS ON NOVEMBER 20TH (1961, November 18th to 20th)", + "location": "USA, SPACE", + "ref": [ + "Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 128", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2214" + }, + { + "date": "11/29/1961", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"ENOS\" Male Chimpanzee is launched in a Mercury capsule by an Atlas rocket. It completes two orbits.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 49, 1980, p. 14, 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2215" + }, + { + "date": "1961 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A disc is said to have fallen in this village. The British Army was reportedly the first on the scene, setting up a security cordon to prevent access. Photos were said to have been taken. The object fell on soft ground with little damage, but buried itself a third of the way into the ground. Soon the British were joined by the Russians. Inside the object were 12 small corpses. Photos were also taken of these creatures, as well as during the autopsies. For some of them it was evident that they were not capable of procreation. They seemed to have been made on a production line, all of the same model. They had no digestive system. The disc was reportedly cut into 6 pieces, like a cake, for shipment to the USA to Wright Patterson.. (1961, unspecified date)", + "location": "GERMANY, Timmendorf", + "ref": [ + "FUO n° 1 of 1995, p. 11, 12 - A.J.S. Rayl", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2216" + }, + { + "date": "1/26/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) TEST LAUNCH OF THE LUNA RANGER III PROBE. LAUNCHED AT AN EXCESSIVE SPEED, IT PASSED 36,800 KM FROM THE MOON AND BECAME A PLANET.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 236", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2217" + }, + { + "date": "1/29/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A pilot of the Royal Dutch Air Force experienced an encounter on January 29, 1962. Crossing an unknown object to the east of Holland, he commanded it to descend on several radio frequencies. As the UFO gave no response, he prepared to attack. His F 86, Sabre, was armed with 4 20 mm cannons and a rocket. Cannons armed, rocket in launch position, he sped forward at full power. But he did not have time to get close enough to adjust his aim. The UFO, in one stroke, had put itself out of range.", + "location": "NETHERLANDS, in flight, (east of the country)", + "ref": [ + "Donald KEYHOE: \"The Strangers from Space\" 1973 - Trans. Presses Pocket 1975 - p. 62", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2218" + }, + { + "date": "2/20/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF THE FIRST AMERICAN HABITABLE SATELLITE (GLENN) \"FRIENDSHIP VII\" (1305 KG) RECOVERED THE SAME DAY. (\"Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63) Mercury Capsule. John Glenn sees three flying objects. (Philippe SCHNEYDER: \"UFO, first balance\" - ed. du Rocher 1983, p. 232) (Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"The enigma of the E.T.\" - ed. Guy TREDANIEL 1995, p. 34) At the moment of re-entry into the atmosphere, he claims to have seen through the upper window \"a ball of fire\" following the cabin. (S. DELLO STROLOGO: \"What Governments hide from you about UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1975- p. 181-182) John Glenn, piloting his Mercury capsule, sees three objects following and passing him at different speeds.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "We would really like the three objects to be objectively described, right? Maybe they are just bolts, belts, panels, part of his own launch???", + "J. Allen HYNEK and Jacques VALLEE: \"At the limits of reality\" - ed. Albin Michel 1978, p 83", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2219" + }, + { + "date": "3/1/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 10:35 p.m. Witness: Mrs. L. Doxsey, 66 years old. A golden box approximately 30 cm by 10 cm flew horizontally on the horizon for 3 to 4 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Salem, New York.", + "ref": [ + "'Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2220" + }, + { + "date": "3/4/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Alex Birch, 14 years old, photographed a group of five mysterious objects as they rose into the air. Each of them had the shape of a lens, with a small dome on top. (A. RIBERA/ R. FARRIOLS: \"Proofs of the Existence of UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1975, p. 41 and photo p. 42) IN REALITY: Alex conspired with two of his friends: they drew their UFOs on a window with greasy chalk, then photographed the landscape through this window. Ten years later they confessed their prank and made sure the affair made a sensation again", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Sheffield", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"The Secret File of UFOs\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p. 271, 272", + "see the Bild newspaper of October 7, 1972 and FSR of November 1972", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2221" + }, + { + "date": "4/23/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The LUNAR RANGER IV probe followed an aberrant trajectory and was unable to transmit any photographs or the results of the measurements that the onboard devices were to make. As the transmitter stopped being heard when the craft approached the lunar disc, it can be assumed that this probe crashed on the moon. RANGER V, which, having not obeyed the signals sent from the ground, passed by the moon to become a planet. The launch of the lunar probes then marked a time of pause.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 236", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2222" + }, + { + "date": "4/26/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) IT IS ONLY KNOWN THAT THE USSR LAUNCHED ITS FIRST SPY SATELLITE COSMOS 4 ON APRIL 26, 1962. THEY ARE OF A GOOD SIZE SINCE THEY ARE DIRECTLY DERIVED FROM THE VOSTOK VESSEL.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, Famot Editions 1982, p. 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2223" + }, + { + "date": "4/26/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The American aircraft SR-71, better known as the \"Black Bird\", is of a very intense dark blue color that does not reflect light. It is a strategic reconnaissance and espionage aircraft, manufactured by Lockheed California Co., and is the successor of the famous U-2. It made its first flight on April 26, 1962, and construction for the American Army began in December, under the designation SR71A. Its flight qualities are exceptional, it is capable of reaching an altitude of 24,400 m. and developing a speed of 3,220 km/h", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "also NASA website \"On the Frontier\"", + "STENDEK n° 40, June 80", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2224" + }, + { + "date": "4/30/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: Catania, 25.3.52) Eugenio Siragusa felt an irresistible urge to go to Etna. He drove there and on the way he felt as if an unknown force was controlling the vehicle. He arrived at Mount Manfre, which is 1370 meters high. He got out and continued on foot towards an extinct crater. On the way he saw two silver figures, each 1.85 meters tall, they were blond-haired extraterrestrials. One of them spoke to him in Spanish, saying they were Ashtar Sheran and Ithakar (note from vog: it couldn't be missed...). These two forced him to write messages to the Pope, Kennedy, Kruschev, De Gaulle, the Queen of England, the King of Sweden, and the President of Italy. He did this that same night on his typewriter. He later received a response from De Gaulle. From then until the end of August, two flying saucers were constantly watching his house. The saucers were Alfa 2 and Alfa 8", + "location": "ITALY, Sicily", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "following 4 Sept. 62", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2225" + }, + { + "date": "5/24/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Scott Carpenter was aboard the Aurora 7 capsule when he spotted several large strange objects and took some pictures of them. (A. RIBERA/ R. FARRIOLS: \"Preuves de l'existence des S.V.\" - De Vecchi 1975, p. 46 and photo p. 47) (Scott Carpenter): rumor has it that a UFO was seen and photographed. Carpenter took a photo of the balloon with instruments, ejected from the capsule. On the enlargement of the photo taken through a dirty window, the reflection of the sun is misinterpreted as a UFO. (1989 - listing and research by Harvey S. Stewart) Mercury VII: Scott Carpenter reports that he photographed with a portable camera objects similar to fireflies and that he took what he thought was a good shot of a saucer.", + "location": "SPACE", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK and Jacques VALLEE: \"Aux limites de la réalité\" - ed. Albin Michel 1978, p 83", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2226" + }, + { + "date": "6/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1959, X-15) In June 1962, at an altitude of 76 km, the craft (X-15) breached the ceiling of the domain legally attributed to aircraft, and in August 1963, with the record altitude of 108 km, space was for the first time violated by an aircraft.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 162", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2227" + }, + { + "date": "6/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Following a UFO sighting, a woman was awoken by an intense cold sensation and saw near the house a bald being. She called other witnesses and all of them saw the apparition \"shrink\" and disappear on the spot like a television image when the device is turned off.", + "location": "ITALY, Verona", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Other Dimensions\" - trans. Robert Laffont 1989 - p. 284", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2228" + }, + { + "date": "7/10/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF TELSTAR SATELLITE, 77 KG, FIRST RELAY TELEVISION SATELLITE.", + "location": "USA,", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2229" + }, + { + "date": "7/19/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 2:00 PM, more than 150 Argentine workers, employed by the Auto Union DKW factory in Saucer Viejo (note from vog: translation of the town's name: \"Old Saucer\"... does this place exist in reality? ) a suburb of Santa Fe, northwest of Buenos Aires, saw a cigar-shaped craft quickly crossing the sky in a northeast direction. The UFO flew at 1000 meters altitude and emitted blinding flashes of light. It was silent, had no condensation trail, and quickly ascended before disappearing from sight.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Saucer Viejo", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Roundup 1.13 - Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2230" + }, + { + "date": "7/22/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) THE FIRST LAUNCH, \"MARINER I\", IS A FAILURE", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 59", + "following August 27, 1962", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2231" + }, + { + "date": "7/26/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ricardo Mieres, 17 years old, a student, was riding his motorcycle near Badaja Grande, 5 km from Paranà, when he encountered a creature of very tall stature with a melon-shaped head, very long almost white hair and \"three eyes that stared fixedly without blinking.\" In his terror he tried to flee, but his engine mysteriously stalled. The creature advanced and violently tore off his scarf. It then made \"a half-turn, like a robot\" and moved away, leaving footprints in the sandy ground. The motorcycle worked again and the student rushed to the city to gather a team of motorcyclists and chase the \"robot\" but they only found footprints and the scarf abandoned on the road. (1962, July 26, 27 or 28)", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Paranà (Entre Rios)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 125", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2232" + }, + { + "date": "7/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In July 1962, a UFO was spotted approaching Camba Punta in Argentina. The airport director, Luiz Harvey, cleared the runway. A few moments later, a perfectly round aerial vessel arrived at high speed. It stopped, hovering for three minutes. The Argentine Air Force had been alerted, but no pursuit was attempted. Unfortunately, witnesses, in a state of excitement, wanted to get a closer look at the strange machine and started running towards it. The flying disc quickly disappeared. (Donald KEYHOE: \"Les Etrangers de l'Espace\" - Presses Pocket 1975 - p. 66) The flying object arrived at high speed above the runway and suddenly stopped at an altitude of 1m to 1m 20 from the asphalt. The object was completely round according to the description of Mr. Harvey and a dozen other witnesses, and it was rotating on its vertical axis. During this time, the UFO emitted a blinding light of green, orange and blue. When Harvey and his team approached, the object rose at a dizzying speed.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Camba Punta", + "ref": [ + "The 1962 Ufo-Flap Remembered, Joseph Trainor, Saucer Roundup", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2233" + }, + { + "date": "8/1/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, three fishermen in two boats saw a kind of submarine emerge slowly from the water. Three frogmen came out of the sea and boarded the vessel. One of the fishermen called them through a loudspeaker, but they did not answer, except for one of the three who made a gesture with his arm. When they had boarded the ship, it came out of the water, hovering in place, adorned with red and green lights. A white spotlight came on and was directed towards the fishing boats. Then the lights of the thing went out, the whole craft became luminous orange, began to spin faster and faster until suddenly it shot off in a fraction of a second towards the sky where it disappeared. The fishermen heard no sound other than that of the waves.", + "location": "FRANCE, Le Brusc (between Marseille and Nice)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 166", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2234" + }, + { + "date": "8/11/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF VOSTOK III AND VOSTOK IV, 4730 KG EACH, FIRST FLIGHT GROUP OF TWO SPACECRAFT. RECOVERY ON AUGUST 15, 1962.", + "location": "USSR, Baikonour", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2235" + }, + { + "date": "8/20/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Shortly after dawn a poor diamond prospector, Rivolino Mafra de Silva, was mysteriously abducted or disintegrated by what seemed to be the action of a UFO. It was learned during the investigation that he had fallen a few days earlier on \"little men\" who seemed to be burying something. In the evening of August 19 two shining spheres the size of a football were observed by a neighbor, flying above the prospector's hut. During the night, strange non-human forms, about 40 cm high, entered the hut, contemplated the family then in bed and voices were heard outside, saying they were going to kill Rivalino. Shortly after dawn, his 12-year-old son opened the door and found two strange balls on the floor. One was black and the other black and white. Each had a tail and some kind of tip. The father went out to look at the balls which then joined, jumped on him, enveloping him in a cloud of yellow smoke, and he disappeared.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Duas Pontes-Diamantina", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu, 1974, p. 126", + "..", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2236" + }, + { + "date": "8/27/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. July 27, 1962) But the second (launch) of \"Mariner II\" on August 27 was a complete success. Mariner II was a small spacecraft of 202 kg (gold and silver plate, if you please!). Its apparatus were set to begin operating ten hours before passing near Venus. Shot by its carrier rocket, it was put into orbit too, and then took off towards the planet. In spite of mistakes (...) it followed obediently the assigned trajectory - 291 millions of kilometers! - and after 109 days of travel arrived, on December 14, at less than 35,000 km from the Venusian surface. It was then that the American technicians sent him by radio, at more than 57 millions of km of distance, the order to trigger his apparatus. Mariner II received the order, acknowledged receipt and for 45 minutes pointed all his electronic eyes at the Shepherd's Star. (\"Astronautics\", Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 59) LAUNCH BY A TWO-STAGE ROCKET \"ATLAS-AGENA\" (...) WITH ALL ITS EQUIPMENT IN WORKING POSITION, IT MEASURED 3.63M IN HEIGHT AND 5M IN SPAN.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 292", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2237" + }, + { + "date": "8/24/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Another disappearance without return: that of a farmer. A nine-year-old child was the only witness: his father claimed he had been taken away in front of his eyes in terrifying conditions: \"When leaving our house around seven o'clock in the morning,\" he told the police, \"I discovered two balls of about 40 cm in diameter, placed on the ground in front of the door. I called dad. He came out and approached the balls. At that moment a violent whirlwind of air was triggered which raised a cloud of dust. I no longer saw my father. The whirlwind rose, then calmed down. Dad had disappeared, I have not seen him again.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Duas Pontas (near Diamantina)", + "ref": [ + "Charles GARREAU: \"Alert in the sky: the file of abductions\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p.273", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2238" + }, + { + "date": "9/1/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A Mr. Leeming published in \"Menenco\", a small journal devoted to professional issues, published in April 1966 in Montreal, a story entitled \"Encounter with a UFO\" (note from vog: this story is very similar to another one that happened in the Scandinavian countries). Summary: during an excursion, the witness was advancing through the bushes when he found himself in a clearing where a UFO of 9 m in diameter, flattened like a top, with portholes, resting at 2m20 from the ground on a telescopic tripod, was stationed. He approached it and went around it and found an opening to enter, which he did. He finally met two extraterrestrials and had a technical conversation with one of them. (...) (1962, September 1 (presumed date))", + "location": "Canada, Kénagami", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, pp. 55-67", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2239" + }, + { + "date": "9/4/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: April 30, 62) Siragusa returns to Etna. In the street there are two beings, 2.15 meters tall, wearing helmets, they wear a luminous belt and in the sky there is a saucer 25 meters wide, at about thirty meters. A cylinder 3 meters high with a small door makes the connection between the saucer and the earth. The two extraterrestrials present themselves as Woodok and Lynk coming from the planet Metaria of Alpha Centauri. They come to give him a message from Asthar and Ithacar, he must send letters to stop nuclear testing.", + "location": "ITALY, Sicily (Catania)", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued April 64", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2240" + }, + { + "date": "10/28/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) E.D. Sylvester was driving on the road around 7:30 pm when she and her children saw an object cross the sky in front of them and land in a field next to the road. When they reached the incident, all four of them got out of the car to go see the thing: oval shaped like an egg, 4.50 m long and 1.50 to 2 m high. Near the thing was a small being that looked like a man and was wearing a shiny outfit like a scuba diver. He had a transparent helmet and tubes on his back that connected him to the craft. In his hands was a small box or container and he was taking samples from the ground around him. Mrs. Sylvester told authorities that she was able to observe this being for forty minutes until the small being re-entered his craft which silently took off again.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, between Salisbury and Elizabeth", + "ref": [ + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse\" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 163", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2241" + }, + { + "date": "10/29/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis, NORAD's radars detected a swarm of mysterious bodies rushing towards Earth, coming from Siberia. It was in fact the debris of a space probe sent to Mars by the Soviets, which had exploded before leaving its Earth orbit.", + "location": "USA, Greenland, Thule", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, pp. 121, 122", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2242" + }, + { + "date": "11/2/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) As they were driving around 21:30, two Navajo Indians, Willie Begay and Guy Tossie, were blinded by a powerful white light. Once recovered, they noticed a small UFO floating 2 m above the ground in front of them. The car began to slow down abnormally without Willie being able to do anything about it. The object had a diameter of 1.70m to 2.10m with a dome on top that was overturned as if it had hinges for opening. The two men noticed two small beings in the cockpit, whose appearance scared them. Immediately one of these beings flew away like a bird and descended to Willie's height. He was 1.10m tall, had a head 70 cm wide, coarse features as if he had undergone a rudimentary plastic surgery, huge ears, round eyes, no nose or lips. One of his hands had two fingers. The two creatures wore very tight-fitting suits to the shape of their body and a kind of empty backpack that extended above their head. (...) The little being jumped through the open window into the vehicle and grabbed the steering wheel with what served him as a hand. The car started moving again but the creature was too small to reach the accelerator: it became obvious that the car was being towed by the UFO. Finally the strange convoy stopped in a wheat field and Guy Tossie took the opportunity to make a run for it. The little being began to speak in a very high and shrill voice (...) in an unknown language. Then the being returned to the UFO which immediately took off with a rumble, emitting a yellow flame from the back.", + "location": "USA, near Ririe (Idaho)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids ...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.200, 201", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2243" + }, + { + "date": "11/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A garage owner was driving in the evening in a pouring rain when he suddenly saw a group of silhouettes 80 m away. He slowed down as they were leaving by jumps and he observed that they were strange and looked like birds. As they leapt towards the car, terrified, he drove through them and then he saw them return to a bright blue object hovering above a field. They entered it as if they had been sucked in, a dull sound was heard before the object flew away.", + "location": "FRANCE, in the Var", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 298", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2244" + }, + { + "date": "11/22/1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the end of the DISCOVERER program, the US Air Force had thus succeeded in twelve recoveries and the series ended with number 38. But, from November 22, 1962, three months before the end of the program, an unnamed satellite launched from the same base by the same rocket (Thor Agena) quietly gained a low altitude orbit around the Earth. A few hours later it released a small capsule, which an airplane recovered in flight over the Pacific. This first satellite was to be followed by many others of the same type. (...) The first generation consists of small satellites that remain welded to the last stage of their carrier rocket, the Agena. For its takeoff it is propelled, of course, by a first stage, which is none other than a Thor missile. About three days later, a small capsule, baptized \"E 6\", is ejected to be recovered in flight. The detachment from the orbit takes place over Alaska, the capsule ending its course off the Hawaiian Islands. There, a Hercules C-130 cargo plane is waiting and circling over the planned arrival point. Its role: to catch the container in flight, by the suspension of its parachute, using a curved cable. Originally this aerial fishing number only succeeded once in two. It continues, perfectly perfected, to this day", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, pp. 27-28", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2245" + }, + { + "date": "12/12/1962 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A police officer, Francesco Piania, saw in the city center two Martians. \"I was doing my inspection round when I heard a whistling behind me. At first I thought it was my ears (note from vog: !) but the noise became louder. As I was going towards the park I saw a silver-aluminum disk, shining in the moonlight, landing. When I turned around I was petrified and couldn't move. I saw a strange entity about 1.85 m tall coming out of the disk. Its space suit was silver and fluorescent emitting a bluish light. It wore a black helmet and made a gesture towards the rotating dome of the disk. Then another person appeared at the entrance. The first man made a sign for me to come closer to him, but at that moment the other entity called him and both of them boarded the disk which took off.\" [note from vog: these so-called extraterrestrials didn't have much special about them, did they, except that their craft might have been a small helicopter?] (1962, December 12 (December 18?))", + "location": "ITALY, Milan", + "ref": [ + "CISU, file 6205 - mentioning RR 3 but saying that only two journalists were aware of the uninvestigated case; sources: Corriere della Sera 19.12.62; Il Tempo 22.2.63; LUFORO Bulletin 3,6,5, Flying Saucers January 1966, 59 and others", + "APRG", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2246" + }, + { + "date": "1962", + "desc": "(Translated from French) This 65-year-old bar waitress had never seen anything like it in her life. On a hot night, a customer entered the bar wearing a raincoat and a scarf. He asked for rum and demanded to add Tia Maria to it. After drinking several of this concoction, he seemed completely drunk. One of the bar guards then approached him with the intention of gently putting him out. The visitor disappeared on the spot, his body and clothes vanished into nothingness before their eyes.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Brisbane", + "ref": [ + "UFORQLD UFORA91064 QA90026 - Keith Basterfield.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2247" + }, + { + "date": "1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Continued experiments nevertheless took place, particularly under the responsibility of the Lewis Center of NASA. Three types of \"hypersonic gliders\" were then built: the HL-10, the X-24 and the M2-F. All are ancestors of the Space Shuttle. The MF-F1 was the first to fly in 1963, the same year the X-20 project was abandoned. The X-24 pilot was to reach 1610 km/hour at 22,000 meters altitude in 1971 after being dropped from a B-52 bomber.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 161", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2248" + }, + { + "date": "Winter 1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) My father was returning from work in the mountains. We had started to have dinner at 8 o'clock in the evening. After dinner, my younger brother and I wanted to go and play with our neighbors. Having opened the door, we saw a strange object flying in our direction. It was an unusual and bright thing with a diameter of more than one meter. It was surrounded by an orange, non-luminous band. The thing, which was two stories high, flew without making any noise and had a particularly bright point. It was heading at a uniform speed towards the southeast. Having noticed this phenomenon, I screamed in terror and immediately called my parents who ran and looked with us. This huge, luminous thing disappeared behind the mountain. (1963, Winter)", + "location": "CHINA, Daxinganling (North)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\". Ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 92", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2249" + }, + { + "date": "4/18/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Paul Villa affair, hoaxer. This mechanic, then aged 49, claimed that the craft in this picture he took on April 18, 1963 contained three beings with whom he conversed. Two months later he photographed a different UFO which, he said, had nine entities from Coma Berenices on board, who visited him for an hour and a half.", + "location": "USA, Los Lunas (N.M.)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO Files\", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p. 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2250" + }, + { + "date": "4/21/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) We lived on the ground floor of an apartment in a dead-end street in Warsaw. I was about to go to bed, around 11 pm on April 21, 1963, and I was standing with my back to the window, whose curtains were closed. My wife was already asleep. Then I heard a woman's voice saying, \"Look! Look!\" in a pleasant but urgent tone. I immediately knew I had to look out the window into the street, where a gas bottle was hissing. Suddenly, the room was lit up by a light like that of a full moon, although the curtains were still closed. I rushed to the window and opened the curtains. I then saw a strange, frightening light. It was raining, but the raindrops seemed to be part of this pale, moon-like light. Then came a third, equally impressive vision: a hail of fire began to fall, with hailstones the size of hazelnuts that had nothing of the appearance of pieces of ice, but rather that of drops of steel running off during welding. These hailstones quickly covered the street and made a dull sound as they hit the shutters. I hoped to be able to pick up some of these hailstones as soon as they were cold. But as soon as they hit the ground they only kept their shape for a moment, immediately losing their steel-like color: they became gray and completely disappeared without leaving any trace. I woke up my wife. She was able to observe these strange things with me, which amazed us. As the rain crackled and the hailstones pounded against the shutters, we heard every ten seconds a curious explosion - a dry sound like that of a cork popping - which announced a renewed wave of rain and hail. At greater and more irregular intervals we also heard a kind of whistling and crackling similar to that of tram and trolleybus cables short-circuited by the pole when it has jumped. This lasted about an hour. In the morning we had confirmation from all our neighbors who had observed the phenomenon exactly as we had done ourselves. (Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\" - trad. Laffont 1976, p. 262-263) Metal balls the size of hazelnuts fell on Warsaw in the night of April 22 to 23. These balls shone with the red color of fire. They covered the streets and electric crackling was heard.", + "location": "POLAND, Warsaw", + "ref": [ + "Internet, http://www.wufoc.com, WUFOC site", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2251" + }, + { + "date": "5/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: October 1961) BUT THE US AIR FORCE TURNED A DEAF EAR. A SECOND ATTEMPT WAS MADE IN MAY 1963, WITH THIS TIME 475 MILLION SPARKS PLACED IN POLAR ORBIT AT 3700 KM ALTITUDE. THE OPENING OF THE CONTAINER WAS TELECOMMANDED ABOVE THE NORTH POLE, AT THE EIGHTH REVOLUTION. THE RADARS COUNTED A TOTAL OF 18 PACKAGES OF NEEDLES, WHICH, AGAIN, DID NOT REALLY SUCCEED IN DISPERSING. FIVE DAYS LATER, A RADIO WAVE REFLECTION EXPERIMENT WAS HOWEVER SUCCESSFUL BETWEEN THE WEST COAST AND THE EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES. AND FINALLY, PROGRESSIVELY, THE RING BEGAN ITS DISPERSION. A MONTH AND A HALF LATER IT WAS COMPLETE (...) BUT IN THE FALL THE YIELD DROPPED SHARPLY, BECAUSE THIS ARTIFICIAL MIRROR WAS DISPERSING TOO MUCH BY DEFORMING, A LARGE NUMBER OF NEEDLES UNDERGOING THE EFFECTS OF SOLAR RADIATION. (...) MANY NEEDLES WERE LED TO DIVE INTO THE ATMOSPHERE WHERE THEY BURNED. THUS, IN THE SPRING OF 1966, HALF OF THE NEEDLES HAD FALLEN, THE WESTFORD MIRROR, DISMANTLED AND USELESS FOR A LONG TIME. (May 1963)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 90, 91", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2252" + }, + { + "date": "5/16/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Gordon Cooper reported the presence of a greenish UFO with a red tail during his fifteenth orbit. He also reported other mysterious observations above South America and Australia. The object he saw above Perth, Australia was seen on the screens of ground tracking radar stations. (J. Allen HYNEK and Jacques VALLEE: \"At the Limits of Reality\" - ed. Albin Michel 1978, p. 84) (Philippe SCHNEYDER: \"UFO, First Balance\" ed. du Rocher 1983, p. 232) (Jacques POTTIER: \"Flying Saucers\" - DE VECCHI - 1974 - p. 42) (Pierre DELVAL: \"Contacts of the 4th Type\" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 214) (Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"The Enigma of the E.T.\" - ed. Guy TREDANIEL 1995, p. 34) Astronaut Cooper: Above Hawaii, he heard voices on a special frequency, speaking an unknown language, which, after examination of the tape, turns out to not correspond to any known terrestrial language. Flying over Perth, Australia, saw a large UFO, also observed by ground control station.", + "location": "USA- SPACE", + "ref": [ + "Charles BERLITZ and William L. MOORE: \"The Mystery of Rosswell, the Space Wrecked\" ed. Franc Empire 1981, p. 18", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2253" + }, + { + "date": "5/23/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A NIKE-ZEUS LAUNCHED FROM KWAJALEIN ATOLL IN THE PACIFIC SUCCESSFULLY INTERCEPTED AN AGENA D ROCKET STAGE IN ORBIT. EVEN MORE POWERFUL MISSILES THEN SUCCEEDED THE NIKE-ZEUS, THE \"SPRINT\" AND THE \"SPARTAN\", WHICH ITSELF BECAME NIKE-X.", + "location": "USA, Kwajalein Atoll", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 146", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2254" + }, + { + "date": "5/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At about 11pm I was outside in the street when a strong light made me turn around. (...) I then saw behind and above me a sphere at 500 or 600 m altitude which, in a few fractions of a second, was above my head, very low, like an airplane dropping medicine boxes in inaccessible areas for rescue. The thing had the apparent diameter of a handball and it emitted a very bright white light with orange spots. The street was illuminated as if it was day by this thing which came from the south and went at full speed (constant) towards the north. When it reached far away (...) it stopped. Its passage, even at the closest, was accompanied by no noise except for a slight whistle when the blinking red-white light became visible. A feeling of cold, I think caused by my fear, seized me at the moment of its passage above me and even afterwards, while the night temperature was very mild. (May, 1963)", + "location": "ROMANIA, Focsani", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\" - trad. Laffont 1976, p. 300", + "Stelian Vasilescu", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2255" + }, + { + "date": "6/16/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1953, New Mexico) Villa receives the impulse to take his camera and go to a certain place. There he sees a saucer 21 m in diameter. A door suddenly opens and he sees 4 men and 5 women, all between 2 m 10 and 2 m 70 in stature. These people greet Villa and tell him they come from Coma Berenice. They make themselves understood both by telepathy and in English and Spanish. Villa is allowed to take pictures and for him to have nice images, they even do a kind of flight tour. (following April 18, 65) (Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998) IN REALITY: Paul Villa fabricated two series of eight color photographs each of circular flying objects with very precise details: one series on June 16, 1963, another on April 18, 1964; he spoke of numerous conversations with the extraterrestrials and promised to soon deliver another series of images. These series appeared in the January 1964 and April 1965 issues of \"Ufo-International\" and later in the 93 and 113 issues of \"Ufo-Nachrichten\"", + "location": "USA, Albuquerque N.M.", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"The Secret Dossier of UFOs\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p. 270", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2256" + }, + { + "date": "6/28/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A metal sphere 41 cm in diameter, weighing 8.2kg is discovered. A few days later, in Muloona, another sphere is found, only 15 cm in diameter and with a small opening. (FIying Saucer ReviewZ 10(1):5 and 9t4):23 - Keith Basterfield). (1963, 28 June)", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, in New South Wales and Muloona", + "ref": [ + "Too bad the information stops there...", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2257" + }, + { + "date": "7/23/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 1:00am three people were driving when a 4m tall humanoid with grey hair crossed the road. A couple from Portland were fishing in the Lewis river and saw on the other side a 4m tall humanoid. He was wearing a Ku-Klux-Klan style hood or had an abundant head of hair.", + "location": "USA, between Setus Pass and Toppenish and Portland (Oregon)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques BERGIER: \"Les E.T. dans l'Histoire\" - J'AI LU - 1970 - p. 164", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2258" + }, + { + "date": "8/20/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"Luciano sent me information about a landing that took place on August 20, 1963, at 9:32 PM, which he investigated with a team from the secret service under the auspices of the Italian government. The witness was the president's trusted chauffeur, driving his official car. The site was the president's hunting reserve, not far from Rome. An object shaped like a disk, resembling an upside-down saucer with a turret on top, hovered at low altitude above the car\" (...) (August 20, 1963)", + "location": "ITALY, near Rome", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Forbidden Science - Journal 1957 - 1969\" - O.P. Editions 1997, p. 136", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2259" + }, + { + "date": "8/28/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three young boys in the garden around 7:50 pm, were drawing water from the well. Suddenly a sphere came hovering above the trees. They were even able to see 5 or 6 rows of people inside the sphere. An opening appeared in the bottom of the sphere and two beams of light were projected onto the ground, a thin being, 10 feet tall, descended sliding down the beams. Once on the ground he walked with a stiff back, bent legs and open arms, swaying from side to side. Then he sat on a rock. The giant wore a transparent helmet, he had an eye in the middle of his forehead, and he wore boots with triangular tips. His shining garment inflated as soon as he was on the ground, the trousers tightly fixed to the boots, on the chest a square packet that emitted light jets. Inside the sphere, still suspended, occupants were manipulating buttons and levers. When the giant made a gesture to grab one of the boys, one of the three picked up a stone, but was unable to throw it when the man looked at him. The giant stood up, but this time he walked with his arms tightly along his body and used the beams as an elevator and went back up into the craft.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Sagrada Familia", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 167, 168", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2260" + }, + { + "date": "10/3/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mercury VIII: Walter Schirra distinguished large luminous masses above the Indian Ocean during his flight. (Philippe SCHNEYDER: \"Ovni premier bilan\" - éd. du Rocher 1983, p. 233) and (J. Allen HYNEK and Jacques VALLEE: \"At the Limits of Reality\" - éd. Albin Michel 1978, p84) (Wally Schirra) Rumors say he saw a UFO and used the code word \"Santa Claus\" to designate it. IN REALITY he reported having observed clouds of nocturnal storms. It is easy to take things out of context to make them coincide with the UFO hypothesis at all costs.", + "location": "IN SPACE", + "ref": [ + "1989 - listing and research by Harvey S. Stewart", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2261" + }, + { + "date": "10/12/1963 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At dawn, in a driving rain, Eugenio Douglas was driving his coal truck. Suddenly he saw a bright point on the road, a single blinding light was approaching. He stopped and pulled off to the side. He got out of the truck: the light had disappeared. Through the rain he saw a round object about 35 feet high, an opening appeared and three men wearing what looked like antenna helmets appeared. They were at least 12 feet tall. Douglas was scared, and when the men saw him a red beam was pointed at him and burned him. Grabbing his revolver he shot at the entities and ran towards Monte Maize. The red light followed him to the village where it interfered with the street lighting, changing it to violet and green. He knocked on a door where a family gathered in a wake heard him: at that moment the candlelight turned violet then green and there was a strange smell. (Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - J'AI LU collection, p. 165, 166) On the night of October 17-18, Ernesto Douglas (note from vog: different date and first name, slightly different story too) was driving in a violent storm when he was suddenly blinded by a bright light that enveloped his truck from all sides and moved along the same route as him. He suddenly felt a burning sensation on his face. He braked, but his truck skidded and then left the road to get stuck on the side. At that moment he got out and found himself in the presence of three strange beings that seemed to be robots, near which was a vehicle of oval shape equipped with portholes and emitting a bright light. Panicked, Ernesto Douglas took his revolver and fired four bullets at the creatures. They took refuge in their spacecraft which started moving. Several times it flew over the driver and his truck and each time Douglas felt violent burns all over his body. Exhausted, his clothes in tatters, he presented himself at the police station in Monte Maize. (Guy TARADE: \"S.V. and civilizations from beyond space\" - J'AI LU 1969, p. 183, 184) • MONTE MAIZ (ARGENTINA) on 10/12/63 E. DOUGLAS and M. MANOCCHIO: eye burns for DOUGLAS: indescribable sensations and loss of memory for several hours for MANOCCHIO (1963, October 12 (19?))", + "location": "ARGENTINA, between Monte Maize and Isla Verde", + "ref": [ + "source: GEPA 2-6 and PS 6. page 50", + "??? ", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2262" + }, + { + "date": "10/16/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first photographic reconnaissance satellites of the \"Vela\" type were launched in pairs, placed in orbit so that each was on one side of the Earth at 180° apart. Six pairs of Vela were thus launched in 7 years, all placed at very high altitude between 98000 and 119000 km.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 77", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2263" + }, + { + "date": "10/21/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night of the 21st to the 22nd, several UFOs stopped near the railway of Trancas. From there they emitted non-dispersive red beams of light (like those produced by our current lasers) of very high intensity. The workers of an agricultural company who had gone out had to run and take refuge in their dwellings, pursued by these heat beams. Inside the houses the temperature began to rise. A witness, Kairus de Moreno, gave a coherent description of these beams to Captain of Frigate Omar R. Pagani of the Naval Information Service of the Argentine Military. Following his investigation, the latter declared that this light passed through the walls of the houses and entered the rooms without windows, illuminating them as if it were broad daylight. (1963, October 21-22)", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Trancas (Tucuman)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 131-132", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2264" + }, + { + "date": "10/25/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A military pilot flying between St. Louis and Mitchel Air Force Base witnessed a strange phenomenon. At 6:45 PM, he noticed \"an object with well-defined outlines accompanied by a smaller one\". Without hesitation, he headed towards the craft. At that moment \"the smaller one shrank, the bigger one shrank and both moved away\". The pilot resumed his route towards the Michell base when he noticed that the two objects had merged into a single, very \"compact\" mass. Finally, the witness reported, the large craft broke apart into about ten bright points that faded away on their own.", + "location": "USA, Mitchell", + "ref": [ + "Yves NAUD: \"Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire\". - Famot 1977, tome 4, p. 224", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2265" + }, + { + "date": "11/16/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Four young people were walking along Sandling Park in the evening. The light, yellow-orange, came out of the sky at an angle of 60°. As it approached the ground it seemed to hover more slowly. Suddenly a gold-colored light appeared in the nearby field after the first object had disappeared behind the trees, floating 100 yards away from them at 10 feet from the ground. It seemed to follow their movements and as if it was observing them. It was oval, 15 to 20 feet wide with a bright and hard center. It disappeared behind the trees and a few seconds later a dark silhouette descended heavily. It was all black, the size of a man, but without a head. It seemed to have wings on either side of the body, like a bat. The young people did not wait to find out the rest..", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Hythe (Kent)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU p. 121, 122", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2266" + }, + { + "date": "11/19/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Shortly after 8 o'clock in the morning, Mr. Kinoshita, director of the Fuji-Bank in Kashika, in a car with Mr. Saito, vice-director of the branch and a client, had just crossed a place called Kanamazhi and saw a car 150 m behind them, traveling in the same direction. It was a black car of a model known as Toyopet New Crown and it had a Tokyo license plate. On the back seat, on the left, an elderly man seemed to be reading the newspaper. Suddenly, a puff of something gaseous, like white smoke or steam, seemed to envelop this black car and when the cloud disappeared, a few seconds later, the vehicle had vanished. (November 19, 1963)", + "location": "JAPAN, Ryugozaki (Northeast of Tokyo)", + "ref": [ + "R. Jack Perrin: \"The Mystery of UFOs\" - J'ai Lu/Pygmalion 1976, p. 150, 151", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2267" + }, + { + "date": "11/19/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Four children saw an oval UFO flying which dropped something. They approached and saw an entity about 3 m tall, wearing a simian-like white suit. This creature made grunting noises and stretched out its arms. The children did not stick around.", + "location": "CANADA, Saskatoon (Saskatchewan)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 320", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2268" + }, + { + "date": "11/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The manager of the Mirador Hotel, Mr. Sesplugues, accompanied by his wife, was driving on the road from Camarruga to Torredembarra when suddenly, they saw a dark figure crossing the road 150 m in front of them. The being in question had the size of a man, but it did not seem to have a head.", + "location": "ANDORRA, Terragone", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"All about Flying Saucers\", ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p. 214", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2269" + }, + { + "date": "12/10/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11:30 PM, a UFO topped with a dome landed on the base, illuminating the entire area with a green light. It was at least seen by two student pilots (Note from vog: on this entire base, there are only two student pilots to see it? Ah!) (...)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Cosford", + "ref": [ + "Jenny Randle, on the Internet in May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2270" + }, + { + "date": "12/16/1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Railway worker Cesar Tullio Gallardo, in a sleeping car, noticed his radio had stopped working and his carbide lamp went out. In the darkness he saw strange lights outside the car. A man, dressed up to his waist in a sparkling suit, entered the compartment, tore the part of the newspaper the railway worker was reading and took it, and poured the oil from a can into a bottle, which he took away. Two other witnesses saw \"a luminous man\" walking on the track.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Sauce Viejo", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 102", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2271" + }, + { + "date": "1963", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Four boys, aged 5 to 12, were watching a disc-shaped object land behind a small wood near where they were playing. A humanoid, dressed in a space suit, small, about 1.2 m tall, came out of the wood. The boys threw stones and clods of earth at him to provoke some reaction. The entity then shot at them with a small black rod which caused a slightly painful tingling sensation throughout their bodies. When the boys were questioned separately according to the information in the NICAP files, their description of the entity was identical and also corresponded to that of 200 other witnesses in the Ohio River Valley. The boys' mother noticed she had received a telepathic message in her head and felt compelled to call the University of Louisville immediately after she had phoned the National Guard to report the children's encounter. Small footprints and clear signs of the landing were found. The next day, two unidentified people visited the site and erased the footprints. They claimed to have been sent by the University of Louisville, but when enquiries were made there, this seemed not to be true.", + "location": "USA, Fern Kreek, Kentucky", + "ref": [ + "By DON ELKINS with CARLA RUECKERT , CASE NUMBER 1, Investigators: Col. Verne Yahne, Ky. Air National Guard; D.T. Elkins, Independent Investigator", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2272" + }, + { + "date": "2/3/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 2 o'clock in the morning, Mrs. Player woke up in her bed, sat up and saw the whole room illuminated. Suddenly, an entity of about 160 cm appeared, wearing a blue-green overall, a brown balaclava on his head, and an open brown jacket. His black gloves reached up to his elbows and were held in place by a cord going from the balaclava over his left shoulder. He had a red face and a big nose. He was holding a black box which made a clicking sound when he pointed it at her. She fell back into a lying position and fell asleep. (February 3, 1964)", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Gum Creek, South Australia", + "ref": [ + "Keith Basterfield, John Burford, Peter Horne, Garry Little, Paul Johnson and Tony Rundle", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2273" + }, + { + "date": "4/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 4 Sept. 62) Siragusa is able to take a ride in a saucer for the first time. He meets other humans, including the Italian mechanic Luciano Galli from Bologna, who had been contacted by Venusians since 1957. Siragusa had at least 19 close encounters with extraterrestrials between 1962 and 1978, and almost every time he was forced to write messages to heads of state. (April 1964)", + "location": "ITALY, Catania (Sicily)", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2274" + }, + { + "date": "4/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first case dates back to April 1964, when the satellite \"TRANSIT 5\" fell back into the Indian Ocean, very close to Madagascar; it simply could not be placed in orbit, its carrier rocket having communicated an insufficient speed to it. The radioactive fuel which was on board to power a radio-isotopic generator, burned in the atmosphere. It was plutonium 238. (\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 116) This military navigation satellite was loaded with one kilo of plutonium. The radio-isotopic thermo-electric generator (RTG) burned in the atmosphere, according to what is said, releasing its radioactive material. (April 1964)", + "location": "USA - MADAGASCAR", + "ref": [ + "The Associated Press", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2275" + }, + { + "date": "4/8/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The GEMINI capsule (unmanned) was joined by four UFOs which deployed in formation around it (2 above, 1 beside, 1 below) and did not leave it during the entire orbit. (Jacques POTTIER: \"Les Soucoupes volantes\" - DE VECCHI - 1974 - p. 42 (Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"L'énigme des E.T.\" - éd. Guy TREDANIEL 1995, p. 34, 35). This position was maintained during the entire orbit, after which the objects moved away and disappeared into space at great speed. (April 8, 1964)", + "location": "IN SPACE", + "ref": [ + "1989 - listing and research by Harvey S. Stewart", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2276" + }, + { + "date": "4/24/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Gary Thelbert Wilcox was farming with his wife. At 10 o'clock this Friday he was spreading manure with his spreader on the fields to the east of the farm. The weather was clear with sunshine. While he was working he looked up to the top of the hill and noticed a shiny object up there: at first glance he thought it was a refrigerator. He realized it was not one. He directed the tractor with the spreader up the hill, and at 100 m from the object he thought it might be a tank that had fallen from an airplane. He stopped and walked the remaining 100 m. This thing was above the ground, the size of a bit more than a large car, of an oblong shape somewhat like an egg. It was absolutely smooth and aluminum-colored. He touched it: the metal seemed harder to him than aluminum. He does not know if the craft was hovering or resting on feet. It measured about 6 m long by 1.20 m high, and from 4.50 m to 5 m wide. Two small men came out from under this object - tank. He does not know where they came from. Each of them was carrying a tray made of the same material as the craft. There were tufts of grass on the trays. The small men stopped less than a meter from the witness. Then it seemed to him - because their voices did not sound like those of human beings - that one of them said to him: \"Do not be afraid, we have already spoken to people\". The witness understood perfectly but does not know if they were speaking in English. They were quite wide for such small people. They had arms and legs but the witness does not know anything about their hands or feet. They seemed to have some kind of clothing that covered the place where normally there should have been a head. When they raised their arms he saw a bulge where we have an elbow. The color of the complete and totally flexible suit was aluminum white, without seams or pockets. They said: \"We come from what you call the planet Mars\". They then asked him what he was doing. He explained that he was spreading manure and he had to explain it in more detail. The beings asked if they could have fertilizer. They also said that they could only come to Earth every two years. The conversation quickly moved from one subject to another. They added that they were monitoring people on Earth. (...) They went back under the ship, bent down a bit. Then there was a sound like the slowing down of a car and the object took off slowly and disappeared after traveling about 45 meters. (...) Around 4:30 pm he returned to the hill with a load of manure and he left a bag of fertilizer where he had seen them. The next morning the bag was gone.", + "location": "USA, Newark Valley (New York)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - pp. 93 to 98", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2277" + }, + { + "date": "4/24/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) RR3. In the afternoon of this day Lonnie Zamora, a former police sergeant already in the service, was patrolling the streets of Socorro in a car as part of a routine operation. Suddenly he saw a shining object descending towards the lower part of the city, a little outside. He later added that he then heard an enormous rumble. When he approached the edge of the ravine, he saw a strange egg-shaped object, 3 to 5 m long, resting on short metal feet. Apparently ignoring the witness's presence, two small human-looking creatures wearing what seemed to be white or silver overalls were apparently examining or repairing a piece under the craft. As Zamora returned to his car, he looked back... At that precise moment the object projected a dazzling blue flame onto the sand where it was resting, then it rose with a deafening noise. Four deep imprints were found in the ravine where the object had landed, which Zamora identified as those of the craft's feet. The surrounding bushes were charred and still smoking where the flames projected from the base of the object had reached them. (Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - pp. 29-30) (Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, pp. 60 to 63) In April 1964, the same day Hynek was at Wright Field, Lonnie Zamora saw an egg-shaped object, now famous, which landed on four feet in the desert of New Mexico. It bore an insignia that strangely resembled the logo of Astropower, a Douglas subsidiary, founded in 1960, under the presidency of propulsion expert Y.C. Lee. I found a full page of four-color advertising for Astropower in the \"Proceedings of the Radio Engineers\", special issue on computers, dated January 1961. In this advertisement Astropower \"offers its services for the research and development of advanced space propulsion systems to subcontractors and government agencies\". ITS PROGRAM INCLUDES HIGH-ENERGY PROPULSION SYSTEMS OF NUCLEAR, CHEMICAL AND ELECTRIC TYPE; SOLID STATE ELEMENTS AND ENERGY CONVERSION EQUIPMENT. Mr. Lee would be happy to receive requests from \"scientists with advanced degrees in plasma physics, nuclear physics and thermodynamics\".", + "location": "USA, Socorro (New Mexico)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Forbidden Science - Journal 1957 - 1969\" O.P. Editions 1997, p. 276", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2278" + }, + { + "date": "4/26/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three occupants of small size but of almost human appearance, were reportedly taken inside the base and received in a specially arranged hangar, building 930. In 1973, Robert Emmeneger and Allan Sandler were said to have received an invitation from the director of the AF OSI (Air Force Office of Special Investigations) to study the possibility of making a documentary about this first contact. It seems that at that time President Nixon, or at least his administration, had seriously considered revealing part of the truth to the public. (April 26, 1964)", + "location": "USA, Holloman (N.M.)", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Gabriel GRESLE: OVNI, a pilot speaks, ed. Guy Trédaniel, 1993, p 135, 136", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2279" + }, + { + "date": "5/14/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. and Mrs. Ahmed Bey were driving along a secluded stretch of road. Suddenly Mrs. Bey pointed out to her husband through the windshield, a disk that had just appeared in the sky, spinning. The two spouses were surprised by the size of the object (...) as big as a house. (...) It hovered over the road in front of the car, hesitating and jerking. They suddenly saw it descend and it hit the ground in a burst of flames. At the moment the object fell, a huge hairy creature emerged from it and bounced on the ground a little further away. It got up staggering and leapt onto the road. Then, with fantastic strides, it headed towards the Bey's car, who, horrified, desperately tried to hide under the dashboard. Mr. Bey stopped his vehicle. Taking a knife out of his pocket, he opened the door and stood in front of the monstrous saucer. The giant was soon upon him. Mr. Bey struck him, but it had no effect. Then the creature grabbed the man, clawed him, lifted him off the ground and let him fall, and finally trampled him. Mrs. Bey, in the utmost horror, managed to escape and ran like a madwoman. For some unknown reason, the being did not follow her. Exhausted, she reached the police. (...) They found the battered body of Mr. Ahmed Bey lying across the railway track. He had been beaten to death (...)", + "location": "TURKEY, near Koyulhisar", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa 1977, p.171, 172", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2280" + }, + { + "date": "5/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the launch of a rocket, the countdown was stopped, as two \"spacemen\" appeared on the video surveillance monitors at one point of the rocket's trajectory. (1964, May (a Sunday))", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Woomera", + "ref": [ + "BBC 2 broadcast of 11.4.1996, Jenny Randles.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2281" + }, + { + "date": "5/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jim Templeton took a photograph of his daughter who had just put on a new dress. Strangely, he noticed that no birds were flying in the sky on this beautiful day and it was strangely quiet. When the photo of the child was developed, a \"spaceman\" appeared on the picture. Nobody had observed it visually. The air force asked for the negatives, because this \"spaceman\" was exactly the same as the two seen on the Woomera video cameras on the same day. (BBC 2 broadcast on 11.4.1995 hosted by Jenny Randles, FSR) IN REALITY: Photo published on 12 June in the \"Cumberland News\" and on 13 June 1964 by the \"Daily Mirror\" and the \"Daily Express\". The enlargement which covers the entire page 23 of the magazine \"NOUS\" clearly shows the separation lines of the collage at the horizon to the right of the child's head, as well as above the lock of hair. (1964, May (a Sunday))", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Carlisle, Cumberland", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"The Secret File of UFOs\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, pp. 271 to 273", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2282" + }, + { + "date": "5/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Alberto Kalbermatter was driving home with a truckload of tree trunks, through a forested area, when the road was suddenly blocked by a huge human-like figure about 3 meters tall with abundant black hair. He almost ran over the creature which emitted a very powerful guttural cry. Terrified, Kalbermatter pressed the accelerator and fled. (...) A few nights before he had seen a large luminous object that seemed to be stuck in the branches of the trees. (May 1964)", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Colonie Castelli (El Chaco)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 131", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2283" + }, + { + "date": "6/5/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4 in the morning, a doctor from Buenos Aires and his wife were driving about 30 km from the international airport when the engine stalled. They were confronted with a huge and extraordinary machine blocking the road. Its very powerful lights went out, leaving only a violet light coming from the object, and they stayed there, sitting, perplexed, for about 20 minutes. Suddenly a figure approached their car and asked in Spanish: \"What's going on, my friend?\" The doctor replied that the engine had stalled. The man suggested trying to start it again. He did, and the engine started, as did the headlights, so that they could now see the machine in front of them. The stranger then said: \"Don't be afraid. I am a terrestrial (!). I have a mission to accomplish on Earth. My name is R... D... Warn humanity, in your own way!\". He moved away to join two beings dressed in gray who had just appeared. All three entered the machine, which rose quickly and disappeared, leaving a violet trail behind it. (June 5, 1964)", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Pajas Blanca (Cordoba)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, pp. 131, 132", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2284" + }, + { + "date": "6/15/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A miner, Rafael Aguirre Donoso, observed the landing of a strange craft from which two men with fair skin emerged, speaking a language that seemed to be a mix of English and Spanish. Donoso gave them some water from the radiator of his car and they left.", + "location": "CHILE, Arica", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 101", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2285" + }, + { + "date": "6/25/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) George W. Rogers of Spring Valley was driving with his brother Bert towards Ely when they saw a strange craft in front of them on the road. At first it was on the side at 1.20 m from the ground. They had only seen the top and their first thought was that it was a jeep that had swerved. Then it had risen and come above the road where it had landed for a short moment on a kind of 60 cm pedestal. The two men were then a few meters away from the object. It looked like a pyramid roof, but the tip was on the side of the thin pedestal. It was slightly curved and was spinning quickly. George Rogers had jumped out of the car and run to touch the object. At the moment he had approached, the thing had emitted a loud rumble and had jumped about 3 m high to come back down on the road 15 m further. George had approached 3 or 4 times, it had been the same thing. \"It suddenly came to me that I was stirring around something I knew nothing about. Bert was shouting at me to stay away from this object. I eventually thought he was right and I went back to the driver's seat.\" A moment later the object had risen slowly and had flown away at full speed towards the east. The two men said that the thing looked like an upside-down roof, the sides were shiny as if they had been made of plastic and had a red mark or emblem that he had not seen well because the craft kept spinning.", + "location": "USA, Ely (Nevada)", + "ref": [ + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse\". - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 111-112", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2286" + }, + { + "date": "7/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two prototypes of such an ionic engine were tested in July 1964, in the United States. The characteristic of these devices is to provide only an extremely weak thrust, of the order of half a gram, but to be able to sustain it, without refueling, for years. Since the acceleration is constant, the speed could reach 200,000, 300,000 km/h... which does not exclude the invention of propulsion based on phenomena still under study in laboratories. (July 1964)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 61", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2287" + }, + { + "date": "7/16/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Edmund Travis, 9 years old, his 7 year old brother Randy, Floyd Moore, 10 years old, and two other boys saw a dwarf, dressed in black and wearing a helmet with a glass part in front of his face. He asked for some water in a strange voice that seemed to come from a pipe. Then he walked towards a shiny craft while the children ran back home. (July 16, 1964)", + "location": "USA, Conklin (New York)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 101", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2288" + }, + { + "date": "7/31/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) But the most beautiful achievement of the kind was that which the Americans accomplished on July 31, 1964. Their \"Ranger VII\" (note from vog (so there were Ranger I to VI tried before him, isn't it?) fell on the Moon at the planned location and, before crashing, took and transmitted by television more than 4000 photographs, showing the lunar surface at altitudes down to 400 meters.", + "location": "USA, Cape Kennedy", + "ref": [ + "\"Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 54", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2289" + }, + { + "date": "8/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) From the beginning, the USSR opted for the multiple launch formula, each rocket placing a cluster of (tactical) satellites in orbit around the Earth. There were initially three (with Cosmos 38 to 40) in August 1964 and twice afterwards", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 93", + "see July 1965", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2290" + }, + { + "date": "8/11/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Reports of a hairy creature in the Girds area were reported. This was after the wave of mysterious object sightings during the previous three weeks in Bitter Roots. The description of the UFO was made by the couple Ron Ballew and Helen Ballew of Darby, matching the previous descriptions of an object emitting intense light. It was from lumberjack Lou Smalley that we have the report of his encounter with the hairy creature. Smalley was in a truck, on his way to load logs. When he came out of a hollow on the road, he saw the creature on a rock above the path. \"I saw it clearly for several seconds,\" he comments, \"it was not human.\" The creature was about 1.5 meters tall, had a hairy or furry appearance, and was not wearing any clothes. It was standing like a man, but it was not human. Smalley has often hunted bears or cougars, and claims that the creature does not look like anything normal.", + "location": "USA, Hamilton (Montana)", + "ref": [ + "APRG on the Internet in May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2291" + }, + { + "date": "Mid 8/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One night a bright fireball of red-orange color was observed, shaped like a circular saw. It flew slowly in the low sky and finally landed on a wooded hill. Militiamen immediately rushed into the forest to see what it was. They stealthily approached, the circular saw-shaped ball was sparkling, resting on the ground of a clearing. As its luminosity was very intense, the witnesses did not dare to look at it directly. In the center of the bright ball, there seemed to be a dark area, less bright. When the militiamen arrived close to the clearing, the object suddenly flew vertically and disappeared in a blink of an eye. (1964, mid-August)", + "location": "CHINA, Menjing (Miquanxing)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\". ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.97", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2292" + }, + { + "date": "9/4/1964 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness was hunting when he became separated from his companions and lost his way. Night was falling; he lit some fires to attract attention to the place where he was. He saw a light in the sky and thought it was a helicopter sent to look for him. But the thing stopped and began to hover silently around. The witness climbed a tree to get a better view. The light circled the tree and he saw a flash and a dark thing fall to the ground. Then he saw a silhouette walking heavily in the woods below him, and another coming from a different direction. The two silhouettes approached the tree. They were a little over 5 feet tall, wearing a silver outfit that covered their heads. A third creature appeared, which acted more like a machine than a man or an animal. It was darker than the others and its eyes were red-orange. It had no mouth but a kind of slit that opened like the door of an oven. These entities seemed to be looking for all kinds of ways to make the witness fall from the tree, who in turn threw pieces of paper and clothes at them, to which they reacted with fear. The robotic entity dropped its lower jaw, and from the rectangular cavity where it put its hand, it emitted a puff of smoke towards the witness! This smoke spread like fog and would have made the witness unconscious for some time. (September 4 (or 5?) 1964)", + "location": "USA, near Cisco Grave (Northern California)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 124, 125", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2293" + }, + { + "date": "9/5/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Chafredo Dagota saw a flying saucer land at 9pm. It seemed to be held up by some kind of pillar and emitted a blinding light. Near it he saw the vague silhouettes of two beings.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Cofico (Salta)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 132", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2294" + }, + { + "date": "9/6/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A miner worker saw a UFO land. Two entities emerged from it. They asked him for water in a language mixed with Spanish and English. The witness gave it to them and they left immediately.", + "location": "CHILE, near Arica", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 321", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2295" + }, + { + "date": "9/21/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The North American XB-70A Valkyrie, with 6 engines, was an experimental bomber designed for speeds of Mach 3 and higher. It was the largest of the experimental aircraft, with a length of 58 meters, a wingspan of 32 meters, and a height of 10 meters. It had two large vertical tail fins and a horizontal canard mounted on the fuselage, triangular wings whose tips could be lowered to increase lateral stability at supersonic speeds. It was constructed of titanium and stainless steel honeycomb and could withstand temperatures of 332°C for its Mach 3 high altitude flights. There were only two prototypes which the Department of Defense used for its Mach 3 research programs as part of the SST program. They were packed with measuring instruments that could measure 36 different data points transmitted directly to the ground. 900 other types of measurements were recorded in digital pulse code modulation at a rate of 20,000 data points per second. (September 21, 1964)", + "location": "USA,", + "ref": [ + "continued: 8.6.66", + "NASA website 1997 \"On the Frontier\"", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2296" + }, + { + "date": "10/12/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF VOSKHOD, recovered the next day October 13, WEIGHT 8000 KG, FIRST SPACECRAFT WITH 3 PASSENGERS. (\"Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63) THREE RUSSIANS ARE SATELLITES, INCLUDING, remarkably, TWO ARE \"CRAWLING\" SCIENTISTS BRIEFLY TRAINED FOR THIS FLIGHT AND WHO DID NOT EVEN WEAR SPACE SUIT. (\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Pocket, 1967, p. 9) The cosmonauts of Voskhod 1 said they saw an unidentified cylindrical object, like the one seen by the American astronaut McDivitt. (Ion HOBANA / Julien WEVERBERGH: \"UFOs in the USSR and Eastern Bloc Countries\" - trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 280) A formation of disk-shaped objects is observed. (Philippe SCHNEYDER: \"UFO, first balance\" - ed. du Rocher 1983, p. 233) Voshkod 1: three Russian cosmonauts report that they were surrounded by a formation of disk-shaped objects moving at high speed.", + "location": "USSR, Baikonour", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK and Jacques VALLEE: \"At the Limits of Reality\" - ed. Albin Michel 1978, p 84", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2297" + }, + { + "date": "10/16/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) American photographic reconnaissance satellites of the VELA type detect the explosion of the first Chinese bomb.", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 77", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2298" + }, + { + "date": "12/10/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 2 in the morning, a flying saucer landed on the military base of Fort Riley, likely due to a motor failure. It was metallic grey, perfectly circular, with a diameter of around 20 meters and a height of 4 meters. It was surrounded at mid-height by a black band from which square nozzles protruded about 30 centimeters and were likely part of its propulsion system. It was not lit and did not emit any smell. As one of the witnesses would later say, it seemed absolutely dead, and nobody knew if there was a crew inside. After a few hours, specialized teams from the Air Force arrived at the scene with large tractors pulling a huge platform on which they loaded the saucer. They immediately took it away, without even trying to find out what was inside, and nobody ever saw it again. (December 10, 1964)", + "location": "USA, Fort Riley Air Force Base (Kansas)", + "ref": [ + "Maurice CHATELAIN: \"Les messagers du Cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, p. 27, 28", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2299" + }, + { + "date": "12/21/1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Horace Burns, an armorer from Grottoes (Virginia) on Highway 250, jumped when he saw a huge cone-shaped object fly past his eyes and descend on the other side of the road in front of him. At one point, the object filled more than his windshield. Without engine failure or anything else, Burns felt forced to stop. The craft landed calmly in a meadow 100 m from the road. Burns counted six concentric circles that decreased in diameter as they approached the top, crowned with a dome. The whole thing emitted a bluish glow. He estimated the width to be 40 m and the height to be 25 m. There were no openings or connections visible during the minute and a half that the craft stayed on the ground. It took off at a right angle, immediately gaining great speed. Professor Ernest Gehman of Eastern Memmonite College was curious enough to examine the landing site: he discovered a concentration of radiation of 60,000 radiations per minute. (December 21, 1964)", + "location": "USA, between Staunton and Waynesboro.", + "ref": [ + "Brad STEIGER: \"UFO, the Blue Book Project\" - trad. Belfond 1979, p. 103, 104", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2300" + }, + { + "date": "1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Frank S. Kinley, a former USAF pilot, was with his brother-in-law visiting the new Casitas Reservoir lake one beautiful morning. They were on the shore of the lake and.. \"I heard a loud splashing sound and saw this object come out of the lake. I couldn't believe my eyes. I had an infrared-sensitive camera around my neck, but I completely forgot to use it. The object came out of the water and stayed hovering at an altitude of 17 to 20 meters\" The witness took out the binoculars to get a better look at the object and saw inside, like an entity looking at him fixedly... \"so I remembered my camera... When I held it up to my eyes the object started to move, and I just managed to capture it in the corner of the frame. In a few seconds the craft was far away, beyond the mountains. It rose up, changing color: black when it came out of the water it became a bright yellow-orange. That's all I could see.", + "location": "USA, Casitas Reservoir-Ventura (California)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 176, 177 with photo", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2301" + }, + { + "date": "1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Suddenly, in the classroom, a 6 year old schoolboy saw an egg-shaped object descend and land. The object stayed on the ground for two hours, teachers and students saw it, but no one dared to go out.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Tea Tree Gully", + "ref": [ + "UFORA92071 - Brian Richards/UFORUM - Keith Basterfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2302" + }, + { + "date": "1964", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ludwig Pallmann, of German birth but naturalized British, was travelling around the world to find new customers and suppliers for his firm. On the train, between Bombay and Madras, a man with a lot of charisma, and whose last phalanges of the fingers were protected by capsules (sensitive finger tips, like those of the Ummites?) came to keep him company and talk. This is how Pallmann learned that the stranger came from the city of Cotosi on the Planet Itibi Ra and that his name was Satu Ra. Upon arriving in Benares, Satu Ra introduced his sister Xiti to Pallmann. She was a slender, truly beautiful woman with extraordinary eyes.", + "location": "INDIA, between Bombay and Madras", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued in January 67", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2303" + }, + { + "date": "1964 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The incident had taken place on a road, about a mile and a half from a farm belonging to her mother. She had an appointment with Lew Lister. They were sitting in the car and talking, all lights off; it was about 11 pm. Suddenly they saw a silhouette crossing the field. \"It didn't seem to see us until we turned on the headlights. Then it headed towards us. It wasn't walking, it seemed to be advancing in big leaps towards our car. (..) the thing passes through three rows of barbed wire. As it approached, I started to scream. Then it backed up and dove forward as if it was going to go through our windshield. It tried to grab Lew, I'm not sure if it touched him or not. (...) she and Lew desperately tried to raise the windows. (...) I remember that feeling of being hypnotized by the bright eyes of the \"thing\". (...) The \"thing\" crouched down, its hands became paws, and it started to walk on all fours. Everything happened in slow motion. Then it disappeared, it evaporated. \" It was about two meters tall, with wide shoulders, a rather slim waist. Standing, its body appeared in the light of the headlights, covered with a kind of yellowish down. The head was horrible, pointed at the top, narrow at the chin, wrinkled forehead, large pig ears and a kind of groin. Its eyes shone orange and its teeth were like fangs. (1964, unspecified date)", + "location": "USA, Point Isabel (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "Leonard STRINGFIELD: \"General UFO Alert\", ed. France - Empire, 1978, pp. 95 to 97", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2304" + }, + { + "date": "Early 1/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A witness reported having seen the landing of two silent and unlit UFOs, descending into a wooded area near Lynchburg. One had a diameter of 24 m, the other 6 m. Three creatures of 75 cm in height disembarked, approaching up to 10 m from the petrified witness. They were of humanoid type and had strange eyes, \"which looked straight through me\" said the witness. They emitted unintelligible sounds then pivoted and returned to the object from which they had come out. A door opened, they entered and the opening seemed to seal itself in such a way that there was no trace left. The encounter is presumed to have lasted about 30 minutes and to have started at 5:40 pm. (1965, beginning of January)", + "location": "USA, Lynchburg (Virginia)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 200, 201", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2305" + }, + { + "date": "1/28/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A young man went to the police to say that he and his friends had encountered three little space men and that one of his friends had taken a photo to prove it. The boy, Steven, said that they were seven in a car driving to Brand Flats when they saw someone coming out of a field towards the road, seeming to examine the cars that passed by. Remembering stories of flying saucers in the area, he stopped the car. They got out and tried to catch the entity that ran away up the hill. It was on the hill that two other entities appeared. They ran much faster than the boys. They were about 1.2 meters tall and were covered in a one-piece silver-colored tight suit. In the field there were no footprints of the strangers. The police sent 10 men, including a photographer, to investigate. After an hour, having found no evidence, the police left, but the young man stayed on the spot with the photographer. That's how they found a small shiny aluminum shed where they entered. At that moment they had the impression that the shed was lifted and they quickly left, but Wilson managed to photograph it as it rose. In the light of the flash, Wilson saw one of the little men standing next to the shed. [Note from Vog: All these stories from the cited source seem abracadabrant to me... because here, the young man initially claims that one of his friends has already taken a photo, while in the story, it is the photographer sent by the police who takes one...]", + "location": "USA, Staunton, Virginia", + "ref": [ + "APRG, on the Internet in May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2306" + }, + { + "date": "1/30/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Sid Roderick, 45, had an encounter with a nine-person space crew and took a ride in a flying saucer. It was perched on the side of the hill less than 10 minutes from Roderick's home. It was about 2 o'clock in the morning when the event occurred, during one of his usual night walks. He heard a faint buzzing and saw the ship. After landing, a voice coming from the object assured Roderick of the friendly intentions of the visitors. Then, a character called Ziena emerged through a door at ground level. Roderick was invited inside, which was at least two stories high. There were 14 rooms, and the crew, of perfectly human appearance, wore an elegant blue-white outfit. Inside the ship the light was also bluish-white. The character Ziena spoke English. Among themselves, the other members communicated through facial expressions and gestures. Roderick received a message of peace with a religious aspect...", + "location": "USA, Watsonville, California", + "ref": [ + "APRG, on the Internet in May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2307" + }, + { + "date": "1/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening, passersby suddenly found themselves in the presence of small beings and were filled with fear. They ran towards their homes and locked themselves in. But then, according to what the witnesses said, a light entered through the wooden walls, illuminating the entire interior. Carlos Souriou, who had barricaded himself with several people including his younger brother, said that the latter had almost gone mad with fear, had nervous breakdowns and that the other witnesses surrounded him with boxes and whatever they could find to prevent him from seeing the light.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Torrent (Corrientes)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 132", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2308" + }, + { + "date": "2/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The americans launched a large quantity of small devices, the \"LES 1\" of February 1965 (to test the vulnerability of satellites to space aggression).", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 93", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2309" + }, + { + "date": "Early 2/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First week. One night a resident asked his neighbors to come out and observe five luminous objects flying over the area. Then, a transparent craft landed and from it emerged five \"Martians\" about 2 meters tall, each with a single eye in the center of their forehead. On their heads were instruments emitting flashes of different colors. They entered a farm and tried to seize a man, but retreated in the face of the determined attitude of the villagers and fled. On February 6th they returned and were seen by many people. Once again they tried to seize a man and failed. He escaped and raised the alarm. The villagers came out in force and fired shots at the \"Martians\" but apparently to no effect. (1965, Early February)", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Torrent (Corrientes)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 974, p. 133", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2310" + }, + { + "date": "2/21/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The place is located near the Argentinian-Paraguayan border. Several saucers were seen in flight and one of them landed. About 50 Indians from the Toba tribe remained astonished while three tall beings, enveloped in luminous halos, descended from the craft and approached slowly. The Indians knelt and paid homage to them, raising their arms according to the tradition of the Sun worship ceremony of their ancestors. They then heard a voice coming from the creatures of the craft saying that they should not be afraid, for the People of Space would soon return to convince the Earthlings of their existence and to bring peace to the world. An Indian who tried to approach the machine was dissuaded by gestures. The visitors then returned slowly to the craft, bathed during this time in the luminous rays coming from the small wings of the craft. The craft flew away, its luminosity becoming blinding. Argentine police officers were present and took a number of photographs of the craft.", + "location": "ARGENTINA Chalac", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 134", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2311" + }, + { + "date": "3/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the afternoon, around 2 pm, 60-year-old John R. Reeves was walking when suddenly 400m in front of him he saw a flying saucer 10m in diameter and about 2m high. It was resting on the ground, supported by a landing gear of 4 feet. The craft, blue-green tending to red, had two portholes in its upper part. As Reeves was 30m away from the craft, a creature came out and walked towards him. It stopped at 5m. This entity was 1.5m tall, stocky, wearing a green garment and a green helmet made of \"glass\". Its skin was dark. All parts of the body were covered, except the face. Its eyes were wider than humans, and the chin more pointed. The unusual visitor gave Reeves some sheets of paper covered with strange writing. These sheets were given to an investigation commission of the Mac Dill base. (Guy TARADE: \"S.V. and extraterrestrial civilizations\" - J'AI LU, p. 184, 185 - dated March 1) Reeves noticed the object at some distance from him and approached it by a detour, then saw the space man. Around the object was an arrangement of pallets that looked like a Venetian blind and which opened and closed just before the object took off. The device rested on 4 feet and a cylindrical element with disc-shaped steps allowed to enter the device from below. The creature was wearing a tight, gray-silver suit, which seemed stiff. He wore a helmet very similar to an overturned glass cup resting on the shoulders. The head inside was covered with a dark material that hid the hair region. The ears, mouth and nose appeared normal, but the eyes were large and widely separated, with \"a flat area\" between them. The hands were covered with mittens that seemed very flexible and of the same color as the suit. Reeves did not notice any shoes. Reeves said that the creature coming out of the bushes and approaching the craft noticed him and came towards him. At first it just looked at him. Then he pulled out a small black box from his left side which emitted a flash, after which Reeves turned around. He lost his hat, bent down to pick it up, pivoted and the box emitted another flash. He did not see any flash. Reeves would have found two pieces of very thin paper bearing marks. (1965, 3 (or 4) March)", + "location": "USA, Brooksville (California)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In search of humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 201 to 203", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2312" + }, + { + "date": "3/18/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Finally, on March 18, 1965, for the first time, a man, Alexis Leonov, left his \"Voskhod II\" craft and gravitated into space where he performed some slow-motion acrobatics.", + "location": "USSR, BAIKONOUR", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 9", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2313" + }, + { + "date": "4/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first satellite \"Molnya I\" (it weighs about one ton) was launched in April 1965 (followed by November 1971).", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 96", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2314" + }, + { + "date": "4/18/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: June 16, 1963) Villa is able to take a second series of pictures and is taken to Bernalillo. A saucer performs an aerial demonstration and with a blue beam it sets fire to a tree. It is accompanied by three round projectiles that act as telemeters. Villa takes pictures, has a brief conversation in Spanish with the crew (April 18, 1965)", + "location": "USA, Bernalillo N.M.", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "following June 19, 1966", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2315" + }, + { + "date": "4/24/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 5:30 PM E.A. Bryant was out for a walk when he suddenly found himself face to face with an aerial object that was moving in a pendulum motion before stopping and hovering about a meter off the ground, a few meters in front of him. The object had literally come out of nowhere. (...) While he was looking, an opening appeared in the side of the saucer and three shapes emerged. They were dressed in \"diving gear\". One of the shapes - they had the appearance of a human - gestured to the witness, who approached. The beings removed their helmets and he saw that two had very high foreheads, blue eyes and blonde hair. The third, smaller one looked to be about 15 years old, had normal features, dark hair and brown eyes. A conversation took place in acceptable English. The dark-haired man said his name was \"Yamski\" and added that it was a shame that \"Des\" or \"Les\" wasn't there to see the visitors, as he would have understood! They also said they were from Venus and that they would return in a month bringing with them \"proof of Mantell\" or something like that.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Dartmoor - Scoriton (South Devon)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of the Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, pp. 23, 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2316" + }, + { + "date": "4/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A humanoid of a little more than one meter was understood with difficulty by Felipe Martinez. The word \"sil\" seemed to designate his UFO (Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 187) In April 1965, while hunting, he saw at a distance of 300 m a large egg-shaped craft hovering a few meters from the ground. The UFO was surrounded by something like a \"ring spinning quickly\" and seemed completely silent. He had rushed enthusiastically shouting \"Amigo!\" and had been suddenly struck by paralysis. A door of the craft opened and a small man descended a ladder about 30 cm wide. The little man was about one meter tall, wore a helmet and two cables connected the helmet to the saucer. The rest of his costume resembled a diving suit. They conversed, the small entity speaking slowly and with difficulty. He promised to return on May 3. [followed up on July 21, 1965] (April 1965)", + "location": "ARGENTINE, Monte Grande", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 135, 136", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2317" + }, + { + "date": "5/24/1965 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three customers of the Retreat Hotel saw a strange, brightly lit machine approach the hotel. These customers were J.W. Tilse, an old pilot, John Burgess, an Australian veteran of World War II, and Eric Jurdin, an engineer. Tilse recounts: This craft was about 300 m from the hotel veranda and was moving just above the trees. Under a circular platform there was a row of lights, about twenty or thirty. It was solid, seemed to be made of metal, and must have been 9 to 10 m in diameter. (...) For about thirty minutes it remained motionless. Then it began to rise and in the light of the lamps we could see that it had three legs at its base. Each one had a lamp. (Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse\" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 88, 89) Three men saw a circular UFO about 10 m in diameter, which emitted a buzzing sound. This UFO was carrying another round disc. The main object had a tripod landing gear and lights. The police found landing traces and damaged trees. It was May 23, 1965. (1965, May 24 (23?))", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Eton Range (70 km from Mackay)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 309", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2318" + }, + { + "date": "6/4/1965 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) James Mc Divitt and Edward White were in orbit east of Hawaii. White was sleeping and Mc Divitt saw a bright, oval-shaped object, followed by a luminous trail, approaching GEMINI IV. He had time to take a photograph of the phenomenon. A few minutes later, as they flew over the Caribbean, the two men saw two similar objects. (Jacques POTTIER: \"Les Soucoupes Volantes\" - DE VECCHI - 1974 - p. 42, 43) (Filers Files # 15 of 19.4.1999, Georges Filer of MUFON). (Charles GARREAU: \"Les pilotes témoignent: Les OVNI sont parmi nous\" Historia n°421 Dec. 81) (S.DELLO STROLOGO: \"Ce que les Gouvernements vous cachent sur les S.V.\" - De Vecchi 1975- p. 185) (Jean PRACHAN: \"Le triangle des Bermudes base secrète des OVNI\" - Belfond 1978 - p. 112). (Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"L'énigme des E.T.\" - éd. Guy TREDANIEL 1995, p. 35) GEMINI IV June 4, 1965 (James A. McDivitt, Edward White). The camera was loaded with an Eastman color l6mm film, 6 images per second. McDivitt has publicly denied seeing a UFO and said that the published photo does not show the object he saw. This photo only shows the reflection on the copilot's window. McDivitt is sure he saw a satellite launched from the earth, but the public must ignore it for security reasons. McDivitt, unlike other astronauts, has always willingly answered journalists' questions about this incident. (June 4, 1965 (July?))", + "location": "IN SPACE", + "ref": [ + "1989 - listing and research by Harvey S. Stewart", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2319" + }, + { + "date": "7/1/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Maurice Masse was smoking a cigarette early in the morning before going to work in his fields when he heard a whistling. He then saw an egg-shaped craft in his lavender field and approached it to within 6 m. In front of the craft, two figures seemed to be examining the lavender. They measured about 1.20 m and were dressed in a one-piece gray-green suit. Their head was three times bigger than a human head, had normal eyes, but only an opening where the mouth should be. They were not wearing helmets. Their hands were small and well proportioned. One of them took out a tube from a sheath on his belt and pointed it at Masse. He was thus completely immobilized. For 60 seconds the creatures circled around him and a kind of gurgling came from their throat, although their mouth did not move. Then the beings returned to the craft, the door slid shut, and Masse saw them in the dome. The craft lifted off the ground from its central pivot, rose slowly, its six thin legs began to spin faster and faster, and it flew off obliquely. After 50 m it suddenly disappeared in one go. After 20 minutes Masse gradually regained his mobility to return home.", + "location": "FRANCE, Valensole (Basses-Alpes)", + "ref": [ + "This case was widely commented on by all authors, as there were traces on the ground etc. - this excerpt is taken from: Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - pp. 38 to 41", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2320" + }, + { + "date": "7/3/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Technicians from several bases observed a huge disk flying over the island at high altitude with very variable speeds. Photographed, the object disturbed measuring devices of the Earth's magnetic field.", + "location": "ANTARCTICA, Deception Island", + "ref": [ + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse - trad. Laffont 1967, pp. 245-246", + "Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unexplained Cases, pp. 60-63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2321" + }, + { + "date": "7/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: August 1964) Then there were five (with Cosmos 71 to 75) in July 1965, experience also repeated twice. [followed by April 1970]", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 94", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2322" + }, + { + "date": "7/20/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8 o'clock in the morning Ramon Eduardo Pereyra was driving his truck beyond Monte de los Curas when he saw an object like a parachute falling silently into the trees on a hill. He went to see what it was and he found, in a clearing, a chrome-colored egg-shaped device supported by metal feet. Its upper part was transparent and its lower part extremely smooth, without joints or connections. Near the machine stood a young blond man who seemed to be studying a piece of paper. He was wearing \"a plastic diving suit\" and small boots and had a kind of towel attached to his right leg. The witness managed to get to the device without being observed and took a look through a panel. Inside he saw a second man sitting at a control panel. It was then that the man from outside noticed him and headed towards him with an expression of anger. \"What's going on?\" asked Pereyra, but without answering the other one climbed straight into the device which immediately rose to a height of about 30 meters, then moved away at a regular speed.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Quilmes (prov. of Buenos Aires)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of the Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 135", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2323" + }, + { + "date": "7/21/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. April 1965, Monte Grande) No details seem to have been published about the encounter that allegedly took place on May 3. At 11 pm on July 21, Martinez met the same little man again and explained to him the great difficulty he had had in finding someone who believed his story. The latter replied that they would soon show themselves all over the Earth. He added that Martinez should accept a new appointment with them, exactly on December 3, 1965. When they returned they would take Martinez and his family away and then burn the whole Earth as punishment for his refusal to admit their existence. (...)", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Macias (Entre Rios)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 136, 137", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2324" + }, + { + "date": "7/26/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) ... there were five dwarves, dressed in black uniforms and small boots, who appeared. We were told that two of them had in their hands an amazingly bright object, like a fairy wand. (Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU - p. 105) In the evening Adilon Batista Azevedo, 15 years old, was strolling behind a group of young people going to the cinema. As he crossed an open field on the outskirts of the city, he heard a strange buzzing and saw two cones of white light in the sky, then two almost round devices, one larger than the other, land not far from him. He hid behind the wall of a well and saw three entities emerge from one machine and two from the other. The two teams joined and he could hear their words that did not resemble anything he had ever heard. The beings measured 1 m 50, wore helmets and one-piece scuba suits, dark in color and small boots. One of them carried in his right hand a very bright object resembling a wand. They conversed in their whistling language for about five minutes, then each team circled its machine three times, leaning down to examine the hull. The inspection finished, they got back into their machines which flew away at such a fantastic speed that in one or two seconds they were only a tiny point among the stars. Adilon ran to join his friends at the cinema but soon felt such a violent headache that he had to go to a pharmacist to buy tablets. Without any result, his headache lasted for five days. (...)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Carazinho", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'AI LU 1974, p. 137, 138", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2325" + }, + { + "date": "7/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) H.M. Hembling, a geologist, and his colleague saw that morning an object in the shape of a mushroom performing a descent to stop less than 15 m from the surface of a small lake. From the lower part of the object a kind of tube plunged into the water where it remained for 8 minutes before coming out again. The object immediately resumed its flight afterwards.", + "location": "CANADA, British Columbia", + "ref": [ + "Canadian Ufo Report vol. 3 n° 6 - 1975", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2326" + }, + { + "date": "7/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 2:30 pm a woman, sitting by the window reading, suddenly saw a yellow-ochre light 30 m away from her and 15 m above the hill (note from vog: .. how close that hill was...) She saw an object approaching that looked like a small plane without a rudder, with a small boy with a big head as the pilot, and extraordinary large dark eyes. He was sitting under a dome and wearing a helmet. He stopped 3 m away from the window, staying there for only 3 seconds: he was intensely observing her. During this short time the witness felt paralyzed, but as soon as the object left the feeling went away. She estimated the length of the object to be maximum 4 m, and heard a kind of whistling the whole time. After this observation she felt numb and everything sparkled in front of her eyes.", + "location": "NORWAY, Hoysundet", + "ref": [ + "Skandinavisk Ufo Information", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2327" + }, + { + "date": "8/1/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7pm, as it was beginning to get dark, a boy saw a UFO land on the roof of a building and saw a creature come out of it. He described the entity as \"greenish, with hair covered in green lights and looking like a frog\". Two days later a newspaper published that the boy had admitted to reading too much science fiction..(following August 7, 1965).", + "location": "PERU, Lima", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 139", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2328" + }, + { + "date": "8/2/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Tens of thousands of Americans, from South Dakota to the Mexican border and beyond, saw bright colored lights moving in formations in the sky. Some formations were diamond-shaped and turned at right angles. Others were isolated and hovered from time to time. Some very high in the sky would dive down to a lower altitude. Others were low and would climb up in a spiral. From time to time one of these objects would stop. It was thus that around 1:30 am Alan Smith, 14 years old, from Tulsa, was able to take a remarkable color photograph of a stationary UFO in the sky, with an ordinary camera and a commercial color film. On the enlargements obtained, it was clearly visible that the UFO had the shape of a flattened disc at the back and was divided into three parts by two opaque bands. These three sections were, from left to right, with respect to the photographer, bluish green, yellow orange, white cream. (Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse\" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 250, 251). IN REALITY: when the image is turned over, a wide-brimmed hat with a red fruit placed on it is discovered. The story is probably authentic, but the photo was tampered with by Alan Smith. (August 2, 1965)", + "location": "USA, Tulsa (Oklahoma)", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"Le dossier secret des OVNI\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p.271", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2329" + }, + { + "date": "8/7/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. August 1 in Lima) Reuters Agency reported that authorities arrested a gang of dangerous burglars, led by an individual nicknamed \"The Pygmy\". They had disguised themselves as \"Martians\" and taking advantage of the fantastic contemporary wave of reports concerning flying saucers in Lima, they had dressed in space suits and perpetrated a series of daring armed robberies and thefts in apartments.", + "location": "PERU, Lima", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of the Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 139", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2330" + }, + { + "date": "8/7/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A 60-year-old man, Mr. P.S., experienced a curious event on August 7, 1965: \"I thought it was a piglet falling from the sky... In any case, the thing that had just landed twenty meters in front of me, right in the middle of the path, had, in appearance at least, the shape and proportions of one: about 60 centimeters long and about 25 centimeters high at its highest point. I ran towards the strange thing, but it deflated like a balloon. More precisely, the thing seemed to disappear into the ground. Moreover, that is probably what happened. I struck a match. I was certainly not dreaming. But I didn't find the slightest trace of my piglet...\"", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Hartlisberg near Thoune (canton of Berne)", + "ref": [ + "Les Soucoupes chez Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2331" + }, + { + "date": "8/9/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A truck driver from Lakeview saw, on the side of a remote road, a giant about 2 meters tall. It was covered in fur and had powerful shoulders. Its head seemed too small for its body with disproportionately long arms.", + "location": "Canada, Smithville (Ontario)", + "ref": [ + "Jean ERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes...\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p. 123", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2332" + }, + { + "date": "8/12/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Joao Do Rio was peacefully fishing on the banks of the Paraiba, when a space visitor, about 70 cm tall and with strangely bright eyes, addressed him in Portuguese. Before getting back into his spacecraft, the extraterrestrial gave his interlocutor a piece of unknown metal \"to convince the skeptics\". (1965, before August 12)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Sao Paulo", + "ref": [ + "Guy TARADE: \"S.V. AND CIVILIZATIONS FROM BEYOND SPACE\" - J'ai Lu 1969, p. 187", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2333" + }, + { + "date": "8/13/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7:30 in the morning, two young girls (Ellen Ryan, 16 and Laura Ryan, 13 years old) got out of their car (note of vog??? - the American text also says it...) on a road and three men (1.85m and 1.90m tall) who were in a bean field (of Yas Narita) approached them. These beings had dome-shaped heads (with white dots where there are usually hair) and protruding eyes. The faces had no expression, the eyes were gray like stone and the lower part of the face seemed heavily tanned. They wore V-neck sleeveless jerseys of purple color, with white shirts underneath. The frightened young girls ran away for 15 meters and when they looked back, they had disappeared.", + "location": "USA, near Kent, Washington", + "ref": [ + "for the information in parentheses: APRG", + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 204, he calls the place \"Renton\" instead of \"Kent\".", + "They went to the police", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2334" + }, + { + "date": "8/13/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Christine Van Acker had the surprise of her life. A being more than 2 meters tall with hair \"like spikes\" approached her car with the window rolled down. The creature put its hand through the window and poked Christine Van Acker's left eye!...", + "location": "Canada, Monroe (Ontario)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids...\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p. 123, 124", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2335" + }, + { + "date": "8/31/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two people were driving on the Pan-American Highway when 20 km from Arequipa they saw \"a strange being, a Martian\" that \"looked like a bush, was only 80 cm tall and had only one eye.\" The creature was blackish in color. In addition to the single golden eye on its head, it also had \"other smaller eyes along its body\". A few seconds later the witnesses saw a flying saucer pass over them.", + "location": "PERU, near Arequipa", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 146", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2336" + }, + { + "date": "9/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A group of hunters who were travelling through the valley suddenly found themselves in front of a real fleet of twelve flying saucers. At midnight four hunters saw above them a large luminous saucer. They shone the headlights of their cars on the object (note from vog: how did they do this?). Soon eleven new arrivals had joined the first saucer and formed a circle above the hunters. One of the latter, having had the idea to turn on and off his headlights alternately, the saucers did the same. (1965, before September)", + "location": "CHILE, San Kintin Valley", + "ref": [ + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Les S.V. affaire sérieuse\" - trad. Laffont 1976, p. 236", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2337" + }, + { + "date": "9/3/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 2 a.m. Witnesses: Exeter police officers Eugene Bertrand, Jr. and David Hunt, and civilian Norman Muscarello. A dark, elliptical object, surrounded by a series of red lights, maneuvered silently and erratically around houses and trees, while the lights blinked in sequence. Farm animals were screaming. Observation lasted about an hour. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). 1:45 p.m. (note de vog: ???) a young man, Norman Muscarello, 18 years old, stumbled into the Exeter police station. He was out of breath from his run, green with fear and trembling so much that he couldn't speak. When he calmed down he was able to tell Officer Tolan and Agent Bertrand that as he was returning home on Route 150, the area in front of him was suddenly illuminated by a blinding red light, then a strange aerial vessel rose above a clump of trees. As the craft approached Muscarello saw 4 or 5 bright red beams, coming out alternately from its base, in a continuous line back and forth. The lights blinked in an increasing and decreasing sequence: 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1. Panicked, Muscarello rushed behind a stone wall, which the craft slowly and silently flew over at less than 30 meters high, before hovering just above the house of a neighbor, Clyde Russel. This allowed the witness to observe that the craft was longer than the house and must have measured about thirty meters. Agents Bertrand and David Hunt also saw the craft.", + "location": "USA, Exeter (New Hampshire)", + "ref": [ + "Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, p. 60 to 63", + "Henry DURRANT: \"Le dossier des OVNI\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 62-63 ", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2338" + }, + { + "date": "9/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Four independent witnesses saw a strange silhouette, dressed in black, on Campillo Avenue. The being had luminous hands, cat eyes and carried a wheel of metal or crystal, which it manipulated to produce a beam of light. (Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 343) In Jalapa, an object was seen hovering whose circumference was pierced with luminous slots and in which an entity dressed in black, with eyes shining like those of a cat, was seen holding a kind of metal bar that shone. The entity suddenly disappeared while a journalist from the place, two taxi drivers and a bullfighter observed it in the street.", + "location": "MEXICO, Coatepec", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 104, 105", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2339" + }, + { + "date": "9/8/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Late at night, in the patio of a house on Calle Acora, a 7-year-old boy saw beings 80 cm tall with only one eye. He ran to get help and when the family arrived, all they saw was an intensely bright light rising quickly into the sky. Around the same time, athlete Jorge Chaves was driving with his family in the outskirts of Juli and Pomata when they saw a strange object softly land on the road in front of them. Jorge Chaves tried to approach it but it rose and disappeared at great speed. (...)", + "location": "PERU, Puno", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 147", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2340" + }, + { + "date": "9/10/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:30 in the morning, Antonio Pau Ferro, a black farmer, was working in his cornfield when he heard \"a loud whistling noise\" and, turning, he saw two bright discs about 1.5 meters wide and 60 cm thick slowly land a little below him, on the side of the hill. They stopped and then rose to about 5 meters, leaving behind two small beings about 70 to 80 cm tall, who apparently had come out of the discs. The small creatures looked like men, were well proportioned, with smooth, reddish-brown faces \"exactly like wax\" and normal eyes. They wore one-piece clothing that fit very tightly. Terrified, the farmer leaned against a tree, holding a pickaxe in one hand, and the creatures that had approached returned, speaking an unintelligible language. When the farmer thought \"Could these be the people from the flying saucers they talk about?\" they turned, smiled, approached him, examining a tomato plant and plucking a fruit as they passed. Then they moved away again, the discs hovering descended, and apparently the little people got on board because when the discs shot up vertically with a sharp whistle, the little men had disappeared. (...)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Sao Joao (Pernambouc)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 148, 149", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2341" + }, + { + "date": "9/12/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two small \"Martians\" had been seen and shortly after a squadron composed of one large disc and four smaller discs flew over the district for 3 or 4 minutes and was seen by hundreds of witnesses. Lieutenant Sebastian Mancha had observed for two minutes two \"Martians\" of 80 cm walking in the snow near Lake Ceulacocha. When they returned to their saucer and flew away, there was a sound like thunder. The machine had left tracks in the snow.", + "location": "PERU, Huancavelica (Andes)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 149", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2342" + }, + { + "date": "9/14/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 01:00, starry sky, Paul Green, engineer, driving on the highway. A strange sound reaches him, while to the east he sees a blue glow. After some stalling the engine stops, the headlights go out. The same happens to a scooter following the same road. Getting out of the car Paul Green sees an object as high as a gasometer approaching, topped with a dome lit from the inside, while the buzzing increases. Then, unable to move, the witness feels paralysis taking over. The dark base of the craft stops a few decimeters from his head. He feels cardiac and cervical fluctuations, dizziness and receives an electric shock leaving him unconscious but standing. A little further the scooterist is also petrified. Later Paul Green notices his clothes cracking, his hair wrinkling and breaking. A dog from the nearby village has its fur affected in the same way, after the passage of a bluish phenomenon in the sky.", + "location": "FINLAND, Langenhoe", + "ref": [ + "J.G. DOHMEN: \"To Identify and the Adamski Case\" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 127", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2343" + }, + { + "date": "9/20/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4:30 pm a shepherdess saw six entities from 80 to 90 cm tall emerge from a UFO on the ground. They spoke an incomprehensible language that resembled \"the cackling of geese\". The shepherdess fled and hid. The creatures left some traces on the ground - those of a liquid resembling oil. The clothing of the entities was white and emitted intermittent flashes of light.", + "location": "PERU, Pichaca (Puno)", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 150", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2344" + }, + { + "date": "9/29/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Julio Lopez de Ramana and Antonio Chaves Bedoya in a car almost ran over a strange being that was on the road. It was about 80 cm tall and had only one eye. Its body was surrounded by gold and silver bands. Shortly after, a UFO appeared and flew over the car for some time. Then, 20 km away, a similar UFO flying very low was seen by various people.", + "location": "PERU, Arequipa", + "ref": [ + "Charles BOWEN: \"In Search of Humanoids\" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 150", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2345" + }, + { + "date": "9/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 7:30 and 8:00 PM, Mrs. A.V. was driving at 90 km/h. Her husband was following in another car at a maximum of 500 m. When she arrived at the sharp turn, she felt that the direction of the car was no longer responding, the steering wheel was going left and right without any apparent reason. She felt strangely lifted with the car a few centimeters above the ground. At the same time, \"a small neon\" appeared a few centimeters from the windshield, opaque, light yellow in color, and it stayed there for a few seconds. It was like a tube 70 cm long and 4 cm thick, slightly curved upwards, with sharp and well-defined contours. Then, it suddenly disappeared. The car regained contact with the ground and the witness had passed the turn by a good 50 m. During the \"transportation\", she had seen the dust from the road flying at a height of about one meter..", + "location": "BELGIUM, Rosières (Brabant)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 35 - p. 4 to 8", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2346" + }, + { + "date": "Late Autumn 1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) UFO sightings, and all sorts of other phenomena had become by the year 1965 so commonplace in Warminster, that no one was surprised by anything anymore. A flock of dead pigeons fell in the locality and the naturalist David Holton, after examining the dead birds, concluded that they had succumbed to unknown sonic vibrations on Earth [note from vog: how could he conclude such a nonsense?] (1965, Late Autumn)", + "location": "ENGLAND, Warminster", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 128", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2347" + }, + { + "date": "10/7/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The audio documentation of Sam Sherman, \"The Edwards Air Force Base Encounter\" from the night of October 7, 1965, contains copies of the current voice recordings made available by the Air Force. During this night of October 7, 1965, twelve extremely bright UFOs invaded the airspace and descended to low altitude above the runways of Edwards Base, where operator Chuck Sorrels, in the control tower, saw them and reported the event to his superiors. I met Sorrels who can be heard on the tape and he confirms that this is indeed what he said. The UFOs are described and an interception decision is taken involving F-106s. This is without a doubt the best audio tape ever heard about UFOs and the recording itself is an unparalleled event. A copy can be obtained for (May 1999) $14.95 each, plus shipping $2.00, for a total of $16.95 -- The buyer can also send a check to Independent International, Box 565, Dept. GF, Old Bridge, New Jersey 08857. [note from vog: I'm not advertising the cassette, I'm just translating the accounts of the \"events\". Here it is obviously ufobusiness…]", + "location": "USA, Edward's Air Force Base", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2348" + }, + { + "date": "11/5/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A shepherd, José Luis Fernandez and his 15-year-old son Ignacio, were on a high plateau and saw a disk that stopped in the sky. After a minute of waiting, a round hole opened in the base of the spacecraft, from which reddish vapors emerged. Then a Martian appeared, which the two witnesses agreed to describe in the same way: \"It looked like a big lizard, 80 cm long; it had mouse ears, six tubular arms and a long tail ending in an olive leaf. He held an object, a kind of metal umbrella, with three very thin supports that he waved as if he were making signals. After observing everything carefully, he jumped to the ground and, of course, José and Ignacio ran away.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Duringo", + "ref": [ + "Peter KOLOSIMO: \"Shadows on the Stars\" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 353", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2349" + }, + { + "date": "11/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Not far from Khartoum and the Blue Nile, a celestial phenomenon, a rain of fire, has been burning daily for eleven days, from five to six peasant houses. The authorities are unable to justify this phenomenon responsible for 70 fires.", + "location": "SOUDAN, Dibaid (near Khartoum)", + "ref": [ + "J.G. DOHMEN: \"To Identify and the Adamski Case\" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 61", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2350" + }, + { + "date": "12/15/1965", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was up to the Americans to masterfully succeed in the first \"rendezvous\" in space, first in December 1965 with the two inhabited spacecrafts \"Gemini VI\" and \"Gemini VII\".", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 257", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2351" + }, + { + "date": "1/7/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An 18-year-old student reported seeing a round object, approximately 3 to 3.5 meters in diameter, silver in color, with a protruding ring or circle 20 to 25 cm at its equator. It had a hatch of 1.5 meters at its lower part. The witness's watch stopped at the moment of observation. The object remained stationary at 1.5 meters from the ground and 6 meters from the witness. After 1 to 2 minutes the object disappeared in a gradual ascent towards the northeast while the engine noise increased, then, with a very rapid acceleration, it left in a few seconds. (January 7, 1966)", + "location": "USA, Georgetown (Alabama)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979, p. 42, 43", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2352" + }, + { + "date": "1/11/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) RR1 7:40 PM - 4 witnesses - duration: 10 minutes. \"It was just as if I had seen an airplane right above me from below. Perfectly still and absolutely silent. We watched it for maybe five minutes - and then the thing took off at a prodigious speed and disappeared in a flash. And still without a sound.\"", + "location": "USA, Meyerstown (Pennsylvania)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"UFOs, Myth or Reality?\" - trans. Belfond 1974 - p.114, 276", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2353" + }, + { + "date": "1/16/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 04:00, Eugène Coquil was in his car when he saw a light like a headlight in a field. He then saw an object pass over his car and land on the other side of the road. It was square (note from vog: drawing of the witness: cubic object, the size of at least two cars), with 4 vertical lights, resembling lamps (note from vog: with a light around the perimeter on all sides like a neon light and in the middle of each visible side a row of three huge oval horizontal lights). The witness left and did not see the object leave.", + "location": "FRANCE, Bolazec", + "ref": [ + "also see in extenso the article from the daily newspaper \"Le Télégramme de Brest\" of January 18, 1966 in: \"Jean François BOEDEC: \"Les OVNI en BRETAGNE, Anatomie d'un Phénomène, ed. Fernand Lanore p. 70 to 73", + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 300", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2354" + }, + { + "date": "1/19/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9 o'clock in the morning, farmer George Pedley was returning to his farm driving his tractor. Suddenly he heard a loud whistling that overpowered the noise of the engine, like the sound of air escaping from a punctured tire. While still driving he checked his tires: they were intact. He continued on his way without paying further attention to the noise. \"Suddenly I saw a large machine, of metallic appearance, rise from the marshland, at great speed, about 25 m from me. It was a bluish-gray color, 8 to 10 m wide and almost 3 m high. It seemed to me that it was spinning on its axis at an extremely high speed. It rose from the ground to about twenty meters, then it made a slight downward movement before quickly rising to the sky, where it disappeared in a few seconds at a fantastic speed. I saw no windows or antennas. Neither in the machine nor outside, I noticed any sign of life. (...) \"", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Tully (Queensland)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 158", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2355" + }, + { + "date": "2/3/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Soviet craft \"Luna IX\" made a soft landing on the Moon. Two months later, in April, \"Luna X\" was put into an orbit around the Moon. (February 3, 1966)", + "location": "USSR, Baikonour", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 10", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2356" + }, + { + "date": "2/6/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 5:45 a.m. Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. K.R. Gulley (two witnesses). A yellow luminous object at 500 meters altitude turning red when descending. Interference with the lights in the house and a high frequency noise that hurt the witnesses' ears. Duration: 5-10 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). RR1. 06 h 05 - 3 witnesses - duration: 5 minutes. \"Looking out the window I realized that a red glow was illuminating the whole neighborhood. (...) I called my wife telling her to come and see, that something must have happened nearby. And then suddenly I realized that the light was coming from above. Looking up I could make out the outline of an object passing over my roof, at an altitude between 75 and 150 meters. The red glow was coming from underneath the object, towards the center. It looked like a stream of light coming out of an opening. My neighbor's green truck looked brown. An airplane took off from the aerodrome and passed over the object. All the lights went out until the plane had passed. Then after blinking rapidly three or four times, it changed its westward course for a south-west route and entered the clouds.\" (February 6, 1966)", + "location": "USA, Nederland (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"UFOs, Myth or Reality?\" - Belfond 1974 - p. 110, 115, 276", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2357" + }, + { + "date": "2/6/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) UMMO Affair. Around 8 pm on February 7 (note from vog: February 7?? deliberate mistake?) a UFO was seen near the Casa de Campo. According to witnesses, the object landed for a few moments in the El Relajal domain, then took off and disappeared immediately. On the ground, the area was burned for several square meters. One of the witnesses, Vicente Ortuno (vog: = aùi de J.L. Pena and according to some, accomplice for the photographs taken) who was at his window saw the landing and takeoff of the orange-colored disc. (February 6, 1966)", + "location": "SPAIN, Madrid-Aluche", + "ref": [ + "A. RIBERA: \"These Mysterious UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1976, pp. 535-545 and A. RIBERA/R. FARRIOLS: \"Proof of the Existence of UFOs\" De Vecchi 1975, pp. 50-96", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2358" + }, + { + "date": "2/6/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 7 pm (note from vog: one day and one hour earlier?) in Aluche, several military personnel were on guard duty at an ammunition depot. Suddenly, they saw in the sky a flying saucer about 10 meters in diameter, which landed in front of them and almost immediately took off, leaving three rectangular imprints in the ground forming an equilateral triangle about 1.50m on each side and 1.30m in height. (...) José Jordan (note from vog = Pena) clearly saw the underside of the craft where he could see the famous Ummo symbol (...) [followed by June 1, 1967 in San Jose de Valderas]", + "location": "Aluche", + "ref": [ + "Maurice CHATELAIN: \"The Messengers of the Cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, pp. 102-103", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2359" + }, + { + "date": "2/22/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the meantime, on February 22, two dogs were satellized on a craft \"Cosmos 110\" and, for no less than 22 days, they penetrated each revolution of the satellite, into the first of the two radioactive zones that encircle our planet [note from vog: Van Allen belt] (February 22, 1966)", + "location": "USSR, Baikonour", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Pocket, 1967, p. 10", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2360" + }, + { + "date": "3/16/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) FINALLY, THE COUPLING IN SPACE OF TWO SATELLITES IS A FACT SINCE THE \"GEMINI\" EXPERIENCE OF MARCH 16, 1966. (...) SPACE RENDEZVOUS WITH \"GEMINI VIII\" AND A PREVIOUSLY SATELLITED \"AGENA\" ROCKET.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"Conquest of Space\" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 10 and 257", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2361" + }, + { + "date": "3/18/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4:00 PM, on a deserted beach about fifteen kilometers north of Deseade (south of the San Jorge Gulf), Carlos Corosan, a thirty-five year old farmer, saw a large wingless cigar-shaped craft. He said it was less than thirty-five meters away and estimated its length to be about twenty meters; it had a metallic look and reflected the rays of the setting sun. Its color was gray-black and its surface, apparently smooth, without visible markings or windows or any kind of external organs. However, gray smoke was coming out of the tail.

Corosan said that \"it was rocking quietly\" with a sound like an automobile having engine trouble. And then \"the mysterious craft stopped and emitted a brief, muffled jet of smoke (sic), after which the smoke became \"very dark black\". Corosan, having judged that it was not a normal craft, ran to take cover. At that moment, the object was hovering about a dozen meters above the water; it kept this position for a few minutes. Then it began to buzz and \"vibrate all over as if it was going to explode\". The buzzing was followed by another brief explosion, and the craft began to rise slowly, heading northeast, with the same rocking movements. Corosan was about to leave his shelter, intending to report the thing to the authorities, but he heard a much louder explosion, followed by a decrease in the buzzing. He turned around and just had time to see the object \"crash\" into the sea. \"It didn't float at all. It just hit the water with a huge splash and went down very quickly.\"", + "location": "ARGENTINA, near Deseade, south of the San Jorge Gulf", + "ref": [ + "Yvan T. SANDERSON: \"The Invisibles Under the Seas\" Albin Michel 1979 p. 75-76", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2362" + }, + { + "date": "3/21/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Several professors and at least 80 students from the college observed at 02:00 an exciting light show in a marsh a short distance from their college. William Van Horn, director of the Civil Defense Committee of the county, was among the witnesses. The objects had the shape of a rugby ball, had bright red and blue-green lights at the front and back, and they traveled in formation, varying from time to time. (Frank EDWARDS: \"Du nouveau sur les S.V.\" - Laffont 1968 - p. 25) Ann Harbor. United Press International report of 21.4.1966: At least forty people, including twelve policemen, said they saw an strange object today, guarded by 4 accompanying vessels, land in a marsh near here in the night of Sunday.", + "location": "USA, Hillsdale (Michigan)", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Gabriel GRESLE: OVNI, un pilote de ligne parle», éd. Guy Trédaniel, 1993, p 65", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2363" + }, + { + "date": "3/23/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 5:05 a.m. Witness: W.E. Laxson. One large object, like a wingless C-124 transport plane; 75' long, 8' high and 12' wide; with a bubble canopy on top. Sat on highway, a man dressed in military work clothes entered, and it rose after about 40 seconds. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). Laxson, an instructor at the US Air Force, was driving towards Sheppard at 5 o'clock in the morning. He found the road blocked by a large object the size of a Douglas C. 124 Globemaster, without wings or engines, which was resting on cushions. A man in a jumpsuit and wearing a baseball cap was examining something under the sides of the aircraft. Laxson is convinced he met an old army mechanic.", + "location": "USA, Temple (Oklahoma)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 216, 217", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2364" + }, + { + "date": "4/2/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 2:20 PM the witness was occupied in the garden when he suddenly perceived a strong illumination that made him look up to the sky. \"It was as if a gigantic mirror was in my garden and was reflecting a blinding light: a shining object came towards me gliding. It must have had a diameter of 20 to 25 feet, and its altitude was probably around 120 feet. It looked like a big mushroom with its tail pointing towards the ground. It rotated around its vertical axis and thus took the position in which I photographed it. Again it started to rotate slowly but on its horizontal axis and its tail faced me. Suddenly, while it was almost stationary, it accelerated so strongly that it disappeared in a few seconds. Several seconds after it had disappeared a \"bang\" similar to that of an airplane passing the sound barrier was heard.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Balwyn (Victoria)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 11 - p.24, 25 - 1973 - SOBEPS", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2365" + }, + { + "date": "4/17/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) RR1 - 05:05 - 4 witnesses - duration: 1 hour 35 Deputy Sheriff Dale F. Spaur, (...) they are informed by radio that a resident of Summit County reports an object brightly lit as big as a house, flying over the neighborhood at too low an altitude. Jokes fly. (...) Spaur tells: \"Neff gets out on the right side and I get out on the left side. (...) When my eyes fell on the wooded area behind us, I saw this thing. At that moment it was rising. It climbed up to the top of the trees, about thirty meters. It passed over the trees and I didn't take my eyes off it. It was so low that you could only see it if it came to us. I looked at Neff, he was watching the car in front of ours. The whole corner was beginning to light up and I told him to look over his shoulder. That's what he did. He didn't say anything, he just stayed for a minute with his mouth open and he must have lowered his eyes because the brightness was too strong. (...) The only thing, the only sound we heard was a rumble, neither loud nor piercing, resembling the sound of a transformer in charge. For two minutes I was scared and I stayed petrified and then I moved my right foot and everything seemed in order. We rushed together to the car, got in and didn't move anymore. (...) I took the microphone and I just said to Bob who was on the line: \"This bright object, the one everyone says is circulating around here, well, it's there\". And he answered me \"Bring it down\". It must be said that this thing was not a toy; Good Lord, it was as big as a house and so bright that it made your eyes water. They were asked to take the sighting in pursuit: what they did over 110 km, sometimes exceeding 170 km/h. (...) and that's how there were 2 other witnesses, including Frank Panzanella of the Conway police. (...) (J. Allen HYNEK: \"UFOs, Myth or Reality?\" - Belfond 1974 - pp. 125-133, 276) The Associated Press agency reported that pilots from the Air Force stationed in Youngstown (Ohio) tried to give chase to the object, but could not do so because the speed of the UFO was much too slow compared to that of their jets. Some police officers reportedly heard these pilots talking to each other on the radio during the pursuit. Gerald Buchert, chief of the police of Mantua (Ohio) learning that the object was approaching, went out with his camera. He saw it (or a similar one) and took a snapshot.", + "location": "USA, Portage County (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Something New About UFOs\" - Laffont 1968 - pp. 50-52", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2366" + }, + { + "date": "4/22/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) RR1 - 21 hours - 10 witnesses - duration: 45 minutes. \"As the object approached it seemed to be getting bigger and bigger. Above my head I could see nothing else, in the blur of the atmosphere, than lights emitting very bright signals at intervals. (...) If the object had not come closer I would not have run away, but I thought it was going to crash on me.\" Another witness said: \"I started to run. (...) I looked up and I was frozen in place. I saw a large round object just at the level of the rooftops. It was solid. I didn't hear any noise but I thought this thing was going to fall on me. It was like a giant mushroom. I was fascinated, stunned, unable to think and I found myself running to escape it.\" One of the police officers dispatched to the scene was to add: \"There were three lights: red, green and white. This object hovered above the school and seemed to almost stop. The lights shone in flashes. The object flew over the school twice, then moved away.\" (J. Allen HYNEK: \"UFOs, Myth or Reality?\" - Belfond 1974 - p. 118, 119, 276) Several people observe around 21 hours three luminous objects circling in the sky. A woman having made hand signals, one of the UFOs approaches at short distance. The witnesses then call the police and two officers take advantage of the show. The television was scrambled during the observation.", + "location": "USA, Beverly (Massachusetts)", + "ref": [ + "Science and Vie, Special Edition 1997: 50 Years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, p. 60 to 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2367" + }, + { + "date": "4/23/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening, the Kalnicki family had observed a UFO moving along Dorchester Avenue near their 3rd floor apartment. At 5am on the 24th, their daughter Judy, 11 years old, noticed that the object was very close to the window, so close that she could have touched it if the window had been open. She screamed in fear. There was then a loud, deep sound, as if someone had struck the house with a giant blacksmith's hammer. The windows vibrated and the girl's bed was shaken. (1966, April 23rd and 24th)", + "location": "USA, near Boston", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 211", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2368" + }, + { + "date": "4/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. Summer 1874) In 1966 there were no living witnesses of Muriel Trevenard's disappearance left. The almost forgotten affair had already become part of folklore. But in April 1966 strange phenomena occurred again in Newport. (...) That evening, in Newport, 16-year-old teenager Kathy Reeves and a friend were walking back to Kathy's home at Pioneer Mountain when they had the strange feeling of being followed. At one point they turned around and saw \"like a flashlight covered with a cloth\". \"I thought someone was playing a joke on us. So I picked up a stone and threw it at the light. At that moment a lot of big lights lit up everywhere and with fear in our hearts we ran towards the house.\" What they saw next made them petrify in place. Three bizarre shapes were moving in the meadow, heading towards the multicolored lights below. Aliens? Kathy described them as \"three little bits crossing the meadow. They had no head or arms, and their legs looked like tree roots.\" The trio seemed to be wearing multicolored clothes in \"orange, blue, white, yellow and \". Screaming, the young girls ran towards the house at \"v prime\" speed. In the following days there were several \"poltergeist\" manifestations in the Reeves' house, and the harassed family finally left the house where there was no longer any way to live in peace. (April 1966)", + "location": "USA, Newport (Oregon)", + "ref": [ + "Weird America by Jim Brandon, E.P. Dutton, New York, N.Y., 1978, pages 189 and 190; Also Project Blue Book, edited by Brad Steiger, Ballantine Books, New York, N.Y., 1976, page 369; Spokane, Wash. Spokesman-Review for October 18, 1966, page 1.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2369" + }, + { + "date": "5/8/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) James Pfeiffer had 50 combat air missions during World War II. He received 5 Air Medals and 12 citations for bravery, so it can be inferred that he was not easily frightened: \"There was no sound at all and it was as big as an airliner, but without any indication of a company... My body reacted as if I had brushed against danger. I was shaken all day. Photo taken with an Instamatic camera. (J. Allen HYNEK: \"UFOs, Myth or Reality?\" - Belfond 1974 - p. 30) During a stop at a small restaurant by the river, a strange object suddenly appeared in the sky. In the shape of a sphere, moving 500 m above the front of the house, its diameter was about 20 m before it moved away at a speed of 200 mph. It first emitted a shrill scream, becoming deeper and so powerful that all the restaurant staff rushed outside. Mr. Pfeiffer managed to take two shots.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Ipameri", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"The Secret File of UFOs\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p. 144, 145", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2370" + }, + { + "date": "5/16/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Manuel Hernandez, returning from the fields near the town, saw an object in the shape of a disk land a hundred meters from him and small beings that looked like green birds quickly emerged, then they departed. (Jean FERGUSON: \"Everything about Flying Saucers\", ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p. 214) Passengers descend from an object on the ground but when they realize they are being observed, they go back inside and the object takes off.", + "location": "SPAIN, Cordoba", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 175 and 179", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2371" + }, + { + "date": "6/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In June 1966, very sophisticated military telecommunications satellites were put into service in the \"IDSCP\" (Initial Defense Satellite Communication Program) series. Launched in groups of 3 to 8 units, four times, these satellites were placed in a geostationary orbit, i.e. above the equator at 36,000 km altitude. (...) This network was complete, with 26 satellites, two years later. (June 1966)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 91", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2372" + }, + { + "date": "6/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) There is also the \"Pageos\" case in orbit since June 1966, this satellite was well known to sky watchers, as it was easily visible to the naked eye. It was a 30 meter diameter \"Mylar\" balloon orbiting at 4300 km altitude. Despite this great distance, it shone on the night sky, illuminated by the sun, with the brightness of the North Star. Its coating reflected 98% of the light received. At this altitude it took three hours to complete a lap around the Earth and it happened that one could follow it with the naked eye for more than half an hour, from one horizon to the other. (June 1966)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 147", + "continued on July 12, 1975", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2373" + }, + { + "date": "6/8/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 21.9.64) On June 8, 1966, the second (prototype) XB-70A took off. On board were North American test pilot Al White and Major Carl Cross as co-pilot, for its first flight of this type of aircraft. The aircraft was to be tested at varying altitudes and speeds, and it was to make a passage at Mach 1.4 at 9450 meters altitude above the base to collect information on the supersonic bang. There was another point to check, the Air Force at the request of General Electric was testing the engines of this company. These were GE J93. The tests were to be done with the participation of a Navy F-4B Phantom, a T-38A Talon and an Air Force YF-5A and a NASA F-104N Starfighter piloted by Joe Walker. A Lear Jet also participated for the photos (for publicity). The day before, John Fritz, test pilot of General Electric who would be on board the YF-5A, had asked to fly in free formation with an approximate wingspan between each aircraft. [Ref 9-7] The XB-70A took off from Edwards at 7:15, followed by the T-38A piloted by Pete Hoag and Joe Cotton. (...) At 7:59 White and Cross climbed in altitude, while Hoag and Cotton landed to refuel the T-38. White and Cross made their supersonic passage at 8:30 and were then heading for the rendezvous point, Lake Isabella. At 8:43 all the others had thus joined the large white triangular aircraft (XB 70 A) which was to fly in the lead. (...) The weather was cloudy and in flight the formation plans were changed (for the needs of the photos) and that was the accident: the F 104 N of Joe Walker was too close to the XB 70 A and its stabilizer touched the tip of the front wing before hitting it and getting its wing in that of the other aircraft. It was the crash of the F-104N and the XB-70A. (NASA website 1997 \"on The Frontier\") It was the jamming of the on-board instruments that cost the lives of two of the best American test pilots: Joe Walker and Carl Cross. The F 104 piloted by Walker came crashing against the giant delta-winged XB 70 bomber, powered by six engines, tearing off part of the rear ailerons. The two planes nosedived and crashed on the Edward base. Al White managed to get out of the burning debris and was taken to hospital in a serious condition. The collision took place when the F 104 was flying at 3000 km/h. [vog: so this incident has absolutely nothing to do with UFOs; there was no jamming, there was certainly human error.]", + "location": "USA, BAF Edwards", + "ref": [ + "Guy TARADE: \"S.V. and extraterrestrial civilizations\" - J'AI LU 1969, p. 239", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2374" + }, + { + "date": "6/15/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 9:30 PM the 76-year-old grandmother saw through the window three white lights the size of a human head. They were far away and getting closer. The son-in-law was called: after a few minutes he saw one at 15 m from the house. It went out, then others appeared in the distance, every 2 or 3 seconds one of these lights lit up somewhere, then went out. So he went out. At that moment there were 6 balls spinning on a field, 50 m apart from each other. They lined up and moved slowly. There was no noise. Then they approached a huge white \"shell\". The witness's son also saw it. This whole scene lasted a very long time. The shell had three branches on each side and at one point each branch had a ball. (see January 6, 1967: continuation).", + "location": "FRANCE, somewhere in Aveyron", + "ref": [ + "L.D.L.N. \"Mysterious Flying Saucers\" - ALBATROS-ETAPES 1973 - pp. 147-159", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2375" + }, + { + "date": "6/19/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. beginning of the Villa affair 1963; then 1965, April 18) Villa is able to take pictures of a smaller saucer that lands. This saucer is again surrounded by round projectiles.", + "location": "USA, near Albuquerque N.M.", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2376" + }, + { + "date": "6/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An object in the shape of a saucer landed between 4:30 and 5:00, as the Sun was rising, near a dried-up well halfway between Arpasul de Jos and Cirtisoara. A night watchman who was about a hundred meters away rushed over but was struck by a beam that \"surrounded him with flames\" and produced a \"singing sound\". When the reporter of the facts arrived at the scene later, with several official investigators, they examined an oval burn mark left on the ground. (...)", + "location": "ROMANIA, between Arpasul de Jos and Cirtisoara", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les Pays de l'Est\" - translation Laffont 1976, p. 302-303", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2377" + }, + { + "date": "7/15/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A farmer in his fields heard an explosion sound. Immediately a kind of suffocating and burning fog fell upon him, causing burns to his legs, arms and face. He suffered lasting effects: vision problems and anemia.", + "location": "FRANCE, Lachaud (Corrèze)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 331", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2378" + }, + { + "date": "7/31/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 7:25 p.m. Witnesses: Douglas Tibbetts, 16; Betty Klem, 16; Anita Haifley, 22; and Gerald Labelle, 29. An object square or hexagonal with luminous or reflective outlines, fell from the sky to the right, spinning to the left. It stopped above the beach at 2 to 3 m altitude and a circle of spots on the upper part was visible when it descended even lower. Observation of 5 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Presque Isle State Park, Pennsylvania.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2379" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cfr 1950, Summer, Canada, Manitoba) While travelling with her parents, the young woman entered a forest in Alsace, in a game-rich area, hoping to spot a deer. It seemed to her that she had only been there a few minutes, but her parents had been looking for her for 3/4 of an hour. Her apron was stained with blood, yet she had no wounds or even scratches. (In 1980, under hypnosis, she revealed that she had been taken in a UFO, where flesh was removed from her calf and something was implanted in her nose - in Alsace this implant was later removed from her). (1966, Summer)", + "location": "FRANCE, Alsace", + "ref": [ + "Bertrand MEHEUST: \"En soucoupes volantes\" - Imago 1992 - p. 43, 44", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2380" + }, + { + "date": "8/11/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Miss Marlene Travers, of Melbourne, reported having observed a large silver disc that landed near her. It is said that she was abducted and raped by an extraterrestrial wearing a metallic green tunic. Investigations revealed that this case was a journalistic hoax. (Keith Baskerfield - Australian Abductees, 1989) (note from vog: this Mrs. Marlene Travers passed away in 1996...) In her childhood Marlene Travers had already observed UFOs. In 1966 she was at a friend's house in the countryside. In the evening, out of cigarettes, she went out alone to get more from a store 600 m away. Her attention was drawn to a star in the sky that grew disproportionately. Soon she saw a 15m diameter and 3m thick disc land in a field not far from her. A door opened and a tall and beautiful being, in a metallic green tunic, came out of the craft. He looked at her and telepathically announced that she would have the honor of being the first Earth woman to have a child from an inhabitant of another planet. Frozen with fear, Marlene Travers felt compelled by an irresistible force to follow the creature inside the saucer where he raped her. Just before leaving the spaceship, the young woman stumbled upon a kind of electric button: a flash burn crossed her ankle and she fainted. When she came to, she was lying in the field. No more saucer. Limping, she returned to her friends' house and learned that she had been absent for seven hours. A doctor was called to treat the burn she did not have when she left the house. It would seem that she was indeed pregnant but this state was never followed by a birth.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Melbourne", + "ref": [ + "Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: \"Enquête sur les enlèvements E.T.\" - Plon 1995, p. 48, 49", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2381" + }, + { + "date": "8/13/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the night, the radars of two different bases detected a mysterious object above Lakenheath. At the same time, several observers noticed the presence in the sky of several round, luminous, and very fast objects. RAF fighters took off to attempt interception. The on-board radars also recorded the presence of objects. Suddenly, one of them rushed towards one of the fighters and began to circle around it. Terrified, the pilot attempted to escape several times with extremely violent maneuvers. The object followed him as if playing. This game of cat and mouse lasted 10 minutes. And the craft moved away... Case studied by the Condon Commission. Pages 248 to 256 of the \"report\". Conclusion of the investigators on this observation: The participation of at least one authentic (sic!) UFO is extremely probable. (1966, night of August 13th to 14th)", + "location": "ENGLAND Lakenheath", + "ref": [ + "Charles GARREAU: \"Flying Saucers: 20 Years of Investigations\" - Mame 1971 - p. 57", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2382" + }, + { + "date": "8/22/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) After a number of UFOs were observed, reliable people reported seeing a monster 2 to 3 meters tall whose color changed from red to orange and yellow (sic!) (Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa 1977, p. 168) Faber Niles, a merchant, and four other people saw the creature, some at less than ten meters, the others at 180 meters. The thing was at least 2.4 meters tall and its color changed from red to orange and then yellow. Niles took a photo of it from the window of his house. The photo is said to be in the hands of the authorities, who of course have never released the picture.", + "location": "USA, Malvern, Arkansas", + "ref": [ + "APRG, on the Internet in May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2383" + }, + { + "date": "8/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A \"giant\" is seen by various people. It leaves footprints 45 cm long. A guard on duty at night says it is more than 3.5 m tall.", + "location": "MALAYSIA, Segamat", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 342", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2384" + }, + { + "date": "9/5/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, the father of the family sitting on his bed, had his eyes on the entrance that led to the sons' bedroom. In the darkness he suddenly saw a small person of 3 or 4 feet tall, dressed in clothes that stuck to his body, enter the dark room. He thought it was his daughter going into the next room to talk to the mother who was there with the boys. Ten minutes later he saw something like a luminous bar that seemed to crumble. He got up, went into the boys' room where they all had seen the bar. He had not seen the little person leave and his wife said that their little daughter had not set foot in the room. No evidence was found to confirm the presence in the house of this small person.", + "location": "USA, a small town in Texas", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU - p. 81", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2385" + }, + { + "date": "9/12/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) R. Gordon and Peter Conrad, Gemini XI: at the 18th orbit, above Madagascar, they spot a huge object which they photograph. (Philippe SCHNEYDER: \"Ovni, premier bilan\" - ed. du Rocher 1983, p. 232) GEMINI XI, September 12, 1966 (Richard Gordon, Charles Conrad) An elongated object is observed above Madagascar. NORAD says it is the Soviet PROTON 3. But the PROTON 3 was traveling more than 350 miles beyond at the time of the observation. (Bruce Maccabee) Three photos are taken, enlarged and widely published. These photos are \"hazy\" and do not show at all what the astronauts said they saw with their own eyes. (1989 - listing and research by Harvey S. Stewart) Richard Gordon and Charles Conrad report the presence of an orange-yellow UFO about ten kilometers away from them. (note by vog: what precision! for astronauts in space without any reference point...) It dives in front of them and disappears when they try to photograph it.", + "location": "IN SPACE", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK and Jacques VALLEE: \"Aux limites de la réalité\" - ed. Albin Michel 1978, p 84", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2386" + }, + { + "date": "9/17/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) NORAD COMPUTERS DISPLAYED THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A NEW SOVIET SATELLITE LAUNCHED FROM THE TYURATAM BASE. 137 KM PERIGEE, 821 KM APOGEE, 49.6°. BUT WHILE THE USSR ALWAYS ANNOUNCED THE LAUNCH OF ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES AT THE LATEST WITHIN THE FOLLOWING HOURS, THIS TIME IT WAS SILENCE. THE US DETECTION NETWORK IS FORMAL: IT IS INDEED A SOVIET SATELLITE. OFFICIALLY, SOVIET RESPONSIBLES WILL EVEN GO AS FAR AS TO DENY THIS ORBITAL LAUNCH.", + "location": "USSR, Tyuratam", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 126, 127", + "continued November 2, 1966", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2387" + }, + { + "date": "9/30/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Curtis Eckanbrack, 15 years old, accompanied by his two twin brothers Kevin and Bevin (10 years old) was driving a tractor through the fields near the Roosevelt airfield. Around 4:30 pm all three of them saw, at 70 meters distance, a strange device, animated by slight oscillations and flying above the treetops. Immediately they jumped off the tractor and ran 20 meters in the direction of the metallic and shining object that was silently moving at 17 meters altitude. The UFO covered another thirty meters at a speed of 50 km/h then, suddenly, like a rocket, it rose straight up and disappeared into the clouds.", + "location": "USA, Near Roosevelt (Utah)", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"Le dossier secret des OVNI\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p. 83,84", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2388" + }, + { + "date": "10/8/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Thomas Ury was returning home in the evening, after visiting friends. \"The creature arrived in the manner of a helicopter and immediately circled above my car. It then made large circles, two or three times, rising higher than the telephone pole along the road. I pressed the accelerator and the speedometer read 70 mph, but the 'thing' followed me easily. (...) It was a creature of a grayish brown with a small beak. The body of this flying being had a human aspect and the wingspan of its wings could have been ten feet\".", + "location": "USA, somewhere in Virginia", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes ...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p. 199, 200", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2389" + }, + { + "date": "10/10/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. A. was around 5:20 PM, busy in the kitchen, five of her children were playing outside. The children called their mother to come and see the silent plane. When she went out, the object was arriving just south of the grain silo (72 feet high) going from east to west, slowly. The object was about 35 feet in altitude and the witness thought it was an airplane trying to make an emergency landing, but then she saw it in its entirety. This oval machine measured 50 feet by 100 feet, around the ends there was a bluish glow as well as around the bottom. This glow looked more like a kind of opaque mist. The craft itself was blue and seemed to be metallic and on the sides there were ribs. The object was not luminous. There was only one black window at the front. At the rear end, a part like a spur protruded. The object disappeared by raising its nose and leaving like an arrow.", + "location": "USA, Newton, Illinois", + "ref": [ + "Blue Book #1199, NICAP", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2390" + }, + { + "date": "10/14/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was a terrible stormy evening when patrolman James Chelsea saw an airplane dragging a massive cloud of black smoke. The plane disappeared into the cloud and then two black objects emerged and flew away. It was around 7:45 PM. Meanwhile, C.D. McClure, 19 years old, in a car, saw the monster, of the appearance of a man, but crying like a baby to be pitied. It was black in body with a white face without details, standing on two legs, one meter fifty tall. McClure said he met it often, and that each time the creature appeared, the car radio stopped.", + "location": "USA, Albuquerque (New Mexico)", + "ref": [ + "APRG, Internet May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2391" + }, + { + "date": "Mid 10/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Priestly was driving his car following a group of friends in a bus. Suddenly his engine had misfires and stopped. He then saw a being more than 2 m tall with a monkey-like look, all hairy. (..) the witness stayed in his car until the bus driver, worried to see that he was not following them anymore, came back on his route. (…) the bus had scared the monster who dropped his long hair over his eyes. As soon as he did this, to the great surprise of the motorist, his engine started again. He did not tell anything to his friends for fear of being considered crazy. … a few meters from the first incident, his engine had misfires again. Priestly then saw sparks coming out from under the hood as if there was a short circuit. He looked at the side of the road and frozen with fear he saw again the giant looking at him. The bus came back again and this time the creature fled into the forest. (1966, mid-October)", + "location": "USA, Monongabela Forest (Virginia)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa 1977, p. 165", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2392" + }, + { + "date": "10/27/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A MISSILE WAS SENT 650 KM AWAY THE FOURTH CHINESE ATOMIC BOMB NEAR LOP NOR, THIS COUNTRY IS VIRTUALLY CAPABLE OF STARTING A SPACE PROGRAM.", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2393" + }, + { + "date": "11/2/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: September 17, 1966) A SECOND CRAFT, APPARENTLY IDENTICAL IN ALL RESPECTS TO THE FIRST, TOOK OFF FROM THE LARGE BASE IN KAZAKHSTAN TO PLACE ITSELF IN AN ORBIT OF THE SAME INCLINATION WITH AN INITIAL ALTITUDE OF EXTREME 140 AND 756 KM. THE AMERICANS HAVE NAMED THESE TWO SATELLITES COSMOS U (UNKNOWN) 1 AND 2. (November 2, 1966)", + "location": "USSR, Tyuratam", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 127", + "following November 11, 1966", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2394" + }, + { + "date": "11/2/1966 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Darenberger saw on the road a dark object flattened at the base and rounded at the top. As the witness stopped, the object came within 20 cm of the road surface. A man with a dark complexion wearing an ordinary shiny blue shirt and trousers emerged and smiled at him. The witness then felt as if he was receiving a message without any words being spoken. This message described another world called Lanulos and suggested that the sighting be reported to the authorities. The man from the saucer promised to return. Several people who were passing at that moment on the road reported having seen the man talking to the witness and that they saw a strange vehicle in the clouds. (November 2 (3?), 1966)", + "location": "USA, Parkersburg (West Virginia)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace No. 19 - February 1975 - p. 9", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2395" + }, + { + "date": "11/11/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. November 2, 1966) NEW ELEMENT TO BE ADDED TO THE SATELLITE FILE. COSMOS U 1 EXPLODES IN SPACE. (continued: November 29, 1966) (\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 128) USA, SPACE: Jim Lovell and Edwin Aldrin see four winged UFOs. The two astronauts affirm that the objects are not stars. (J. Allen HYNEK and Jacques VALLEE: \"At the Limits of Reality\" - ed. Albin Michel 1978, p 84) and (NUFORC, Looking back, by Bob Gribble) (note from vog: and they didn't see Cosmos U 1 explode?) Jacques Lowell and Edward Aldrin with Gemini XII: perceive two UFOs at about a kilometer distance. (Philippe SCHNEYDER: \"UFO, First Balance\" - ed. du Rocher 1983, p. 233) GEMINI XII, 12 November 1966 (James Lovell, Edwin Aldrin) The two astronauts report having observed two UFOs, at a distance of about 1/2 mile from the capsule. They were present for some time and photos were taken.", + "location": "USSR, SPACE", + "ref": [ + "1989 - listing and research by Harvey S. Stewart", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2396" + }, + { + "date": "11/12/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Near Clendenin, five men were busy digging a grave in a cemetery when something that looked like \"a brown human being\" flew over their heads from a clump of trees. The five men were astonished: the \"thing\" had no bird-like appearance but seemed to be \"a man with wings\".", + "location": "USA, Clendenin (West Virginia)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques BERGIER/Georges GALLET: \"Le Livre du Mystère\" - Albin Michel 1975- p. 162", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2397" + }, + { + "date": "11/14/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around midnight, two young couples, the Scarberrys and Mallette, were driving in a car, seven miles north of Point Pleasant. (...) They were passing by one of the two abandoned electric stations, when they saw on the side of the road, a strange vertical creature observing them. The being \"was of human appearance, but tall, between 6 and 7 feet tall [about 2 meters], and it had two large wings folded on its back,\" declared Roger Scarberry. And his wife Linda added: \"But what struck the most was its eyes. They were huge, red, like car headlights.\" The car slowed down. For about a minute, the mysterious creature and the four passengers stared at each other in silence. Then the being turned around and entered the electric cabin, whose door was open.. (1966, night of November 14th to 15th)", + "location": "USA, Point Pleasant (West Virginia)", + "ref": [ + "continued: see December 15th, 1966", + "Jacques BERGIER/George GALLET: \"Le Livre du Mystère\" - Albin Michel 1975- p. 162-163", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2398" + }, + { + "date": "11/16/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 9 pm, the Wamsleys and Mrs Marcella Bennett, accompanied by her two-year-old daughter, were driving through the T.N.T. Area on their way to visit some mutual friends, the Thomases. Suddenly, a strange and large red light appeared in the sky, moving above the T.N.T. Area. It was certainly not an airplane. When they arrived at their destination, the Wamsleys and Mrs Bennett were getting out of the car when an enormous gray figure suddenly appeared behind the car and rose slowly. It was bigger than a man, with two terrifyingly bright eyes. Panic seized the small group: the Wamsleys ran towards the house, followed by Mrs Bennett carrying her crying daughter. (November 16, 1966)", + "location": "USA, Point Pleasant (West Virginia)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques BERGIER/Georges GALLET: \"Le Livre du Mystère\" - Albin Michel 1975- p. 163-164", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2399" + }, + { + "date": "11/18/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Sandhill Cranes are large, grey, aggressive birds with big red eyes. The TNT area is right next to the McClintic Wildlife Station, a sanctuary for birds and other wild animals. On November 18, the volunteer fire brigade of Point Pleasant, Captain Paul Yoder accompanied by Benjamin Enochs, were driving through the TNT area when they saw a large creature with huge red eyes. They had never seen anything like it before. But what they could certainly affirm was that the big beast was some kind of bird. (November 18, 1966)", + "location": "USA, Point Pleasant", + "ref": [ + "\"The Idiot Boy\" - article by William Wordsworth, Internet 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2400" + }, + { + "date": "11/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Coming from Ghent and driving towards Alost, a motorist suddenly heard a brief detonation behind him. Through the rearview mirror he saw at human height, above the road, a blue fireball, as if an object had just exploded at that spot.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Vlierzele (Flanders)", + "ref": [ + "Gesag n°15, p.4, \"Het Volk\" of 19.11.66", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2401" + }, + { + "date": "11/22/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 5:30 PM Gunther Wildermann photographed a flying saucer, which remained motionless for about fifteen minutes (S. DELLO STROLOGO: \"What Governments Hide About UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1975, photographic insert between pages 96 and 97) IN REALITY: Gunther Fensky brought back from the Costa Brava the color photo of a UFO which had remained motionless for 15 minutes. After the photo was taken, the UFO allegedly headed at high speed towards the sun. This is pure fantasy, it was an authentic cloud caused by the Foehn.", + "location": "Spain, Costa Brava", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"The Secret File of UFOs\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p. 264", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2402" + }, + { + "date": "11/25/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7:15 in the morning Thomas Ury saw a large, gray flying object that took off from a nearby field. It rose like a helicopter and flew over his car. It accelerated up to 75 miles per hour but the \"bird\" was still there, circling from time to time. It seemed to be 6 feet long with a wingspan of 8 to 10 feet. (Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - J'AI LU collection, p. 118) also in (November 25, 1966)", + "location": "USA, Point Pleasant (Virginia)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques BERGIER/George GALLET: \"The Book of Mystery\" -Albin Michel 1975- p. 164", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2403" + }, + { + "date": "11/27/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On November 27, an 18-year-old girl (a tutor), Connie Carpenter, was driving home from church around 10:30 in the morning. She had just left New Haven when she saw a tall gray figure standing at the side of the road. The being opened two large wings about 10 feet wide, rose vertically and headed towards the car. It was coming face-on and the young girl was able to observe its face for a moment: something horrible, with two huge red incandescent eyes, with a hypnotic power.", + "location": "USA Point Pleasant (West Virginia)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques BERGIER/Georges GALLET: \"Le Livre du Mystère\" - Albin Michel 1975- pp. 164-165", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2404" + }, + { + "date": "11/27/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Lovell is 70 miles away from Point Pleasant. A group of several people observed for two hours a flock of birds in flight, each the size of a man, with a gray breast, and a wingspan of at least 3 meters.", + "location": "USA, Lovell (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "\"The Idiot Boy\" - article by William Wordsworth, Internet 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2405" + }, + { + "date": "11/29/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) IN TURN, COSMOS U2 EXPLODES. EXPERTS ARE STILL NOT FIXED ON THE ROLE OF THESE TWO UNKNOWNS, BUT ARE ALMOST CERTAIN THAT IT IS A NEW TYPE OF SPACE WEAPON.", + "location": "USSR - SPACE", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 128", + "continued October 1967", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2406" + }, + { + "date": "11/1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) G.P., 19 years old, on a Flandria 49cc moped, was returning home at night, around 11 pm. As he approached a small hill in S, he noticed that in front of him the sky was blazing red and at the same time the moped's engine weakened and the headlight dimmed greatly. He was unable to restart the engine. \"I saw on my left an circular object from which the light was coming. From 3 to 4 m high for 4 to 5 m base: a flat disc topped with an elongated dome that looked like a beehive. The dome was dark, the base of the craft illuminated with a mixture of red, yellow and white, forming a reddish halo in which the shape was outlined, it was coming towards me emitting a dull noise.\" The object flew so low that G.P. thought it was going to collide with him, but it certainly passed 10 or 15 m from the ground and continued on its trajectory towards the fields that it illuminated. When G.P. saw this thing up close he noticed a flat dark background circled with reddish-yellow lights, like portholes. When the UFO had moved away 50 m, the moped started again all at once, the machine jumped and G.P. had difficulty controlling it.\" Total duration of the observation: 15 seconds. (1966, November, one weekend)", + "location": "BELGIUM, Aische en Refail", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 33 - 1977, p. 5 to 7", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2407" + }, + { + "date": "12/29/1966 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night of December 29, 1966, the Canadian Pacific DC 8, flight 421, was en route from Lima to Mexico, altitude: 12,000 meters. South of the equator, an object with two white lights descended towards it. \"There must have been a solid cockpit between the two lights,\" said Captain Robert Millbank with all the authority of his twenty-six years of practice, there was also a belt of lights, very similar to a row of lit windows on a passenger plane. For two minutes, the UFO had maintained its position slightly behind the left wing of the DC 8. The entire crew had been able to observe it. Then it had glided back and had soon disappeared. (Donald KEYHOE: \"The Strangers from Space\" - Pocket Press 1975 - p. 265-266) Robert Milbank, captain of the Canadian Pacific DC 8, submitted a report after landing in Mexico: It was 02:00, the passengers were sleeping. We were flying at 11,000 m, off the Peruvian coast, just below the equator. Two white lights appeared. They were observed by the co-pilot John Dale, the navigator Mike Mole, the trainee pilot Wolfgang Poepperi and the flight attendant Joseph Lugs (in addition to the captain). (...) It stopped at the height of our left wing and in the moonlight we distinguished between the two extreme light points a structure that seemed higher in the middle. The thing flew at our height for a minute or two, then disappeared behind our aircraft. (1966, December 29 (30?))", + "location": "In flight, between Lima and Mexico", + "ref": [ + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Something New about UFOs\" - Laffont 1968, p. 196, 197, which dates this to December 30", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2408" + }, + { + "date": "1966", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening, at 9:30 PM, Mr. Bishenden and a friend were in a car. At a certain point they saw in the meadows a circular object on the ground. Through the rectangular windows a red light pulsed. A luminous entity of 240 cm was seen very close. It had a conical head, and its right hand was placed on its hip. This entity seemed to want to approach the stopped car of the witnesses, who put the gas on without asking for their rest. (1966,)", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Forster, New South Wales", + "ref": [ + "PUFORG Newsletter. Dec 1982 - Keith Baskerfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2409" + }, + { + "date": "1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) From January 1967, American NORAD operators noticed from time to time the satellization of Cosmos, which barely completed one orbit around the Earth before falling back, to the point that optical and radar installations could locate them precisely. The first of its kind was Cosmos 139, which was followed by several other identical satellites, launched at a variable rate. There were 9 of them in 1967 and on November 3, 1967, US Defense Minister Mac Namara could announce that the US Air Force had identified the nature of this Soviet space program, to which the acronym \"FOBS\" (Fractional Orbital Bombardment System) was attributed.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"La Guerre des Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 130", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2410" + }, + { + "date": "1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was with \"The 5\" placed in geostationary orbit in 1967 that the technique of tactical communications was tested for the first time.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 93", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2411" + }, + { + "date": "1/6/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: see June 15, 1966) In the evening, the farmer had gone out to take care of the animals when he suddenly saw a sphere 50 m away from him. He decided to go around it to see what it was, but when he passed the door, the sphere was there waiting for him. Just a moment before it had been in the courtyard. The man then decided to take a small path through the fields to go around the object, but the sphere followed him for 60 m before blocking the entrance of the path! The farmer called his son and they saw 6 spheres that scared them so much that they immediately went back into the house. The large object in the shape of a shell was also there and it was emitting a beam similar to that of a lighthouse.", + "location": "FRANCE, somewhere in Aveyron", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Autres dimensions\" - trad. Robert Laffont 1989, p. 206, 207", + "Continued on January 11, 1967", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2412" + }, + { + "date": "1/11/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: January 6, 1967) The son, in a car, saw the shell descend near the house. He approached it in the car and noticed it was really very big. Two small spheres entered it, then it became very bright. The witness heard a whistling. The shell inclined at 45° and left at a vertiginous speed. Another object arrived which had the shape of a disk with two transparent domes at the top, and lit up inside with a green light with fog inside or outside, and he thought he saw two people inside. With green aviator suits with white stripes. The witness was in the car stopped and at the departure of the shell he had lowered the windows. He then felt a wave of heat and he felt almost... he couldn't move his hands or feet as long as it lasted.", + "location": "FRANCE, somewhere in Aveyron", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Autres dimensions\" - trad. Robert Laffont 1989 - p. 207, 208", + "continued on September 1, 1972", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2413" + }, + { + "date": "1/13/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) R0 - 22 hours - 3 witnesses - duration 25 minutes. A conversation had started between the Albuquerque control tower and the pilot of a jet Lear, located near Winslow. He had indicated that he saw a red light, first at his 10 o'clock position, which lit up and went out, then turned into four lights arranged vertically. Albuquerque radar, when the light lit up \"painted\" an object and remained silent when it went out. The light repeatedly generated four other lights, seeming to re-ingest the lights below it. Then, as the tower warned the plane that the object was approaching it, the latter seemed to play cat and mouse with it, notably through very rapid accelerations. After about 25 minutes and with a prodigious acceleration according to the plane's pilot, the object rose at an angle of 30° and disappeared in less than 10 seconds. Albuquerque radar \"painted\" the object until its final acceleration.", + "location": "USA, near Winslow (Arizona)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"UFOs, Myth or Reality?\" - Belfond translation 1974 p. 94, 95, 275", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2414" + }, + { + "date": "1/22/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the evening, the Houston police were to receive eight reports concerning a UFO moving quickly. Among the witnesses was Dr. Albert Kuntz who, along with a neighbor, observed the antics of a UFO resembling a boomerang and carrying one or more red lights for 30 minutes. It zigzagged through the sky, stopped, and then repeated the same course in reverse. The movements seemed disordered. The appearance ceased when the sky clouded over around 8:30 PM. (January 22, 1967)", + "location": "USA, Houston (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Du nouveau sur les S.V.\" - Laffont 1968, p. 217", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2415" + }, + { + "date": "1/25/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 1:45 pm there was a sudden flash. It was raining, the atmosphere was heavy. Seven young boys were on their way to school, walking along the Dell, a low valley, ideal for hide and seek. Alex Butler, 10 years old, suddenly saw to the south, a small man in blue with a beard in a clearing above the Dell. He called his friends and they ran towards the silhouette. They were 20 yards away when it disappeared like a puff of smoke. As the silhouette had not scared them, they kept looking for it. They saw it again on the opposite side and it disappeared again, this time to the bottom of the Dell. They then heard \"voices\" in the bushes and started to be afraid. They saw the man a fourth time before the whistle forced them to go back to school.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Studham Common", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 105, 106", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2416" + }, + { + "date": "1/25/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Betty Andreasson Case (memories only under hypnosis in 1977)In the evening of January 25, Betty Andreasson was at home with her seven children and her parents, who had come to help her while her husband was recovering from a car accident in the hospital. Around 7 pm the lights in the house dimmed, Betty saw a pink light shining through the kitchen window. Her father saw small creatures, just like Halloween monsters, in the yard. One of them looked at him and he felt strange. Then the lights came back on. Everyone was petrified in a kind of catatonic trance, but Betty saw four 1.20 m tall beings enter the house passing through the closed door. These beings were typical \"grays\" wearing tight-fitting blue uniforms. Bette remembered nothing else before undergoing hypnosis regression in 1977 (etc.. etc..) (\"UFO Files\", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p. 29) At 6:35 pm the lighting flickers and goes out and an orange pulsating light appears in the garden. Becky (11 years old) and her grandfather rush to the window and see small, big-headed figures hopping closer to the house. Then no one remembers anything else. There were Betty Andreasson, 37 years old, her 7 children, and her parents. Under hypnosis the scene was reconstructed 10 years later (in 1977): the entities float through the walls into the house, the mother also floats into the UFO with the inevitable medical examination etc..", + "location": "USA, South Ashburnham (Massachusetts)", + "ref": [ + "Bertrand MEHEUST: \"In Flying Saucers\" - Imago 1992, p. 37, 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2417" + }, + { + "date": "1/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: India, between Bombay and Madras, 1964) Pallmann was on a business trip to Peru when he had to be hospitalized at the \"Maison Française\" clinic with a kidney inflammation. Around 3 o'clock in the morning, suffering a thousand pains, he was about to call the night nurse, when suddenly Xiti, the beautiful extraterrestrial, was near him. She touched him with her finger, transmitted energy to him, gave him a pill and little by little the pain went away. Xiti assured him that in 6 months he would be completely healed. Two days later he was so well recovered that he could leave the hospital. He spent the day with Xiti, who gave him gold ingots. (vog: isn't she generous, and we would like that too...) He negotiated them and they went shopping with the money", + "location": "PERU, Lima", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued February 17, 67", + "books and records...", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2418" + }, + { + "date": "Late 1/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Five people surprised a small bearded being in an empty room of a farm under repair. A chase ensued through the room to catch the strange apparition. In vain, as something like invisible forces made it slip through their hands and finally, after escaping through the window, it disappeared during the ultimate pursuit in the countryside. (1967, late January)", + "location": "FRANCE, Plateau de Valensole", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 267", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2419" + }, + { + "date": "Late 1/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man crossing the forest saw a beam of light and a UFO, and was immediately paralyzed. A humanoid entity of 1m30 to 1m50 appeared, as if made of air, almost transparent in a translucent matte suit. (1967, late January)", + "location": "CHILE, near Osorno", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 321", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2420" + }, + { + "date": "2/2/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The plane had taken off from Piura to Lima. It was 6 pm when the 52 passengers and the seven crew members saw an object in the shape of a cone near the aircraft. For 60 minutes it performed a series of acrobatic maneuvers. It constantly changed color: red, orange, blue, white. A second UFO came to join it and both of them moved away at the speed of light. During their passage, radio signals were interrupted and the light in the cabin weakened.", + "location": "PERU, between Piura and Lima, in flight", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 20 - April 1975 - p. 2 and 3", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2421" + }, + { + "date": "2/5/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 9:45 PM, Mr. Monin was closing the gate to his property as he did every night. When he turned around, he saw a light without a visible source in front of him. The light was sweeping the horizon above the cemetery (60 meters away from him) and it was yellow. The light was coming in a straight line from the cemetery and was increasing in intensity: it was dazzling like a neon bar. The cemetery was lit up as if it were daytime. The witness then called his wife and 17-year-old granddaughter. They were all three on the porch looking. His wife was scared and almost immediately went back inside. As it approached, the object took shape: it was a cigar-shaped object, and no sound was heard. It stopped 35 meters away from the witnesses, directly above the garden. It began to swing in a pendulum motion, and the light was now reddish. No structure was visible. After swinging, the craft descended quickly in a vertical motion. As soon as it touched down, it emitted flames at each end. The right one was yellow and the left one was red. The right one gave off a blowtorch effect. The center of the object was red. On the right side, it sounded like burning brush, with crackling. The light was still blinding, and the object was about 20 meters long and 6-7 meters high. \"Then, almost at the same time that we saw the flames appear, we noticed a being, a dwarf, no taller than 1 meter 10 or 1 meter 20. My granddaughter immediately went back inside and I followed her. I asked my wife to come out and see what was happening, but when I went back out I only saw a big red ball taking off. I only saw the little man for 2 or 3 seconds: he was quite big, as if he was wearing a suit. I can't say if he had arms and legs, because in that short time he didn't move.\" (L.D.L.N. \"Mystérieuses Soucoupes Volantes\" - ALBATROS-ETAPES 1973 - p. 54 to 57) Mr. and Mrs. Monin and their granddaughter experienced a fairly typical third kind encounter. An object shaped like a cigar lit up the environment, silently approached 25 meters away from the witnesses, oscillated and touched the ground. A dwarf in a suit came out. Then, back in their house, they saw a red ball form, take off, and move away in the sky. No trace was left.", + "location": "FRANCE, Sauvigny-les-Blois (Sauvigny le Bois?) (Yonne)", + "ref": [ + "Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, p. 60 to 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2422" + }, + { + "date": "2/17/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: January 67, Lima, Peru) Pallmann and Xiti filled the trunk of the car with what they had bought and left Lima for Huancayo. There, Satura Ra was waiting for them with another car. They went into the mountains, and in a completely isolated place, a saucer came to pick them up. On Itibi Ra, they had moved their Moon (Caxa Xixan) and the people were very philosophical, devoted to Cosmophilosophy, called Amat Mayna. They lived very close to nature, nature identified with God. Pallmann visited the colony and the Dschungel plantations. After two days Pallmann was brought back to Earth, to a train station in Peru, and returned to Lima [note from vog: what does he do with his car that is in Huancayo????] (February 17, 1967)", + "location": "PERU, Huancayo", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2423" + }, + { + "date": "2/19/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Among the dozens of witnesses: K.R. Miller and his wife, and Frank Jones, editor of the \"Journal\". Miller saw, from his car, a red light that was quickly approaching and losing altitude: he pulled his car to the side of the road. \"The thing descended quickly, at the height of the telephone poles. It crossed the road in front of my car, 20 m away from us, just high enough to avoid the trees. It was an enormous circular craft that must have been 15 to 20 m in diameter. My wife and I had been able to see a row of lights of red, amber, blue and green colors, encircling the lower part of the craft. It had the shape of a bell, or a cup topped with a dome, we couldn't tell exactly because of the dazzling light emitted by some kind of white beacon at its upper part. I then saw two similar lights in the distance and drove towards Lane City and called Frank Jones. Miller, who had served for 4 years in the Air Force, added: \"These things didn't look like anything I had seen. The one that passed over the road made no sound, no air turbulence, although its speed seemed to be around 120 km/h. I was able to see a large opening lit up at its upper part, above the craft's rotating beacons\". (February 19, 1967)", + "location": "USA, Wharton", + "ref": [ + "Frank EDWARDS: \"Du nouveau sur les S.V.\" - Laffont 1968, p. 218, 219", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2424" + }, + { + "date": "2/19/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A large creature, over 2 m tall, with long pointed ears, completely covered in fur was seen in the area between 51st Street and Santa Ana Avenue. The police were alerted by a frightened man who entered the police station at 11:45 PM. Other witnesses came forward, one of them saying that the creature (hanging onto the car?) was looking out the side window while he was driving. It looked like a monkey and was moving its arms. (February 19, 1967)", + "location": "USA, Costa Mesa (California)", + "ref": [ + "APRG, Internet, May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2425" + }, + { + "date": "2/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two girls heard in the evening, coming from the barn, a noise resembling that of a lawnmower engine. They then saw three humanoid creatures approaching the house. A car that was passing by seemed to frighten the creatures, and a few minutes later the girls and their neighbor saw a UFO take off from a nearby hill. (February or March 1967)", + "location": "USA, Winsted (Connecticut)", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELL: \"The World's greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 136", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2426" + }, + { + "date": "3/5/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the beginning of March 1965, likely the 5th, a Red Cross car was driving through towns to collect blood from volunteer donors, on Highway 2 near the Ohio River. Suddenly, a large, shining object descended above the vehicle and lowered two long tentacles, like arms, on either side of the car. The driver, 21-year-old Beau Shertzer, was extremely frightened and accelerated. But the object followed, and the arms seemed to want to grab the entire car. Fortunately, a number of vehicles came in the opposite direction. When they appeared, the craft retracted its tentacles and fled. An nurse was in the Shertzer car and she was extremely excited when they arrived in Huntington. (March 5, 1967)", + "location": "USA, Huntington (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "Charles GARREAU: \"Flying Saucers: 20 Years of Investigation\" - Mame 1971 - p. 108", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2427" + }, + { + "date": "3/8/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) RR2, around 01:05 - 2 witnesses, husband and wife, painter and hairdresser (William Wallace and his wife). As they drove along the cemetery which seemed to be covered in a blanket of fog, although the night was particularly clear. They suddenly noticed a light. Thinking that a fire was burning in the cemetery and that the fog was the smoke coming from it, they turned around and came back. Having done so, he lowered his windows and leaving the road, he drove along the cemetery towards the light which was just above. He got out of the car, closed the door (the window remained lowered, and raised his arm to point to the object. Several events happened simultaneously then: all the car lights, the radio and the engine stopped working, he felt an electric shock, felt numb and unable to move. The arm he had raised was suddenly thrown back against the roof of the car with such force that it was imprinted in the glass that covered it. Mr. W. could no longer move a muscle, yet he heard perfectly and his brain seemed to function normally. Then the radio and the car lights came back on while the object, which had not stopped swaying, suddenly climbed emitting a kind of buzzing and was lost above the blanket of fog.", + "location": "USA, Leominster (Massachusetts)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"Les Ovni, mythe ou réalité?\" trad. Belfond 1974 p. 140, 148, 149, 277", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2428" + }, + { + "date": "3/9/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 7:10 p.m. Witnesses: two housewives. A saucer with a dome pulsating with red and white lights around the edge. It approaches the witnesses and then seems to explode in an immense white light that lasts 10 seconds and blinds the women. Then it accelerates and disappears in a northerly direction.", + "location": "USA, Galesburg, Illinois.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2429" + }, + { + "date": "3/21/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 02:00 in the night, Mrs. L.B. was awoken by the excessive heat in the room. She got up and saw a large light in a nearby field. She woke up her 25 year old daughter and together they observed the object through binoculars: it was a bright orange dome, on the ground, with a diameter of about 18 m and 300 m away from them. After 10 or 15 minutes, Mrs. L.B. opened the window to get a better view and to listen: at that moment, the object slowly rose and moved away without making any noise. (Traces).", + "location": "USA, New Baden (Illinois)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 58 of 1981, p. 41, 42", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2430" + }, + { + "date": "3/27/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 21:12 an emerald-colored object emitting a flame like that of gas lighting quickly flew off to the northeast and disappeared over the horizon towards the interior.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Middelkerke", + "ref": [ + "J.G. DOHMEN: \"To Identify and the Adamski Case\" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 68", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2431" + }, + { + "date": "3/27/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A student from Gy in the canton of Geneva observed on March 29, 1967 between 19:30 and 20:00 an elliptical object of dark yellow color \"like a storm-cloud\" which moved more slowly than an airplane above the Jura, at an estimated altitude of 2300 to 3000 meters, and whose apparent diameter was that of a fist. The sky was starry, and the wind was nil. \"I was coming out of my house. I saw this craft moving towards the northwest. Once it arrived above the Jura, it stopped for 3 or 4 seconds, then it went towards Geneva for 15 seconds; it went in reverse, it stopped in the same place as the first time; it continued its route in the opposite direction to Geneva, then it returned to its stopping point. Then it returned towards the southeast for 15 seconds, then it went towards the Jura behind which it disappeared. The object seemed to turn on itself. It had a small notch on each side (above and below).\"", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Gy (Geneva)", + "ref": [ + "Les Soucoupes chez Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2432" + }, + { + "date": "3/28/1967 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) David Moran (Morris?), in a car, was returning home from work when he saw a glow from the other side of the hill. He arrived at the crest around 2:20am and saw the outline of an object shaped like a cone at 25 or 30 yards, to the left in a field. It appeared as a triangle 7 to 8 meters high and 3 to 4 meters wide. At the top there was a ball. His curiosity turned to horror when he saw five creatures running quickly towards him on the road. He put his foot down and in the beams of his headlights he saw that the creatures were luminous, red-orange, like the object in the field. He couldn't stop in time, heard a thud, and hit one of the creatures. He didn't dare stop, but looking in the rearview mirror, he saw nothing on the road (nothing lying down) behind him, except the whole group, running in a disordered way. (APRG, on the Internet in May 1997) It could be 13 meters high and its base must be 7 meters. It is cone-shaped and glowing red. (1967, March 28 (or 30?))", + "location": "USA, Munroe Falls (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids...\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p. 31", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2433" + }, + { + "date": "3/31/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Carroll Volts, a farmer, was returning home when he saw a light where an abandoned house had been for a long time. So he veered to go and see. He then saw, at less than 10 meters away, an object thirty meters long and three meters high. He stopped and walked around it. He found a door and knocked. A mechanical voice began to speak to him, asking if he wanted to submit to a complete physical examination and if satisfactory, he could then accompany the crew in flight. The voice added that only adult male humans were selected.", + "location": "USA, near Wellington (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "APRG, on the Internet in May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2434" + }, + { + "date": "4/5/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7:45 PM, Justice of the Peace John H. Demler was driving north on Route 72 when the engine of his vehicle stalled and his headlights went out. He then saw an object 10 m in diameter hovering low above his car. The object made a sound like an electric motor and produced sparks. It gave off a smell of sulfur and camphor oil and the car was shaken as it flew away. Twelve hours later the witness experienced physiological effects: sweating and desquamation. (April 5, 1967)", + "location": "USA, Jonestown (Pennsylvania)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 73", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2435" + }, + { + "date": "4/6/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Hundreds of schoolchildren, teachers, and residents saw a group of UFOs, topped with domes, near the elementary school of Crestview, north of Miami. Most of these observations took place in good weather, in broad daylight, at distances ranging from 200 to 3200 m. The schoolchildren screamed and shouted as they ran through the school buildings. Many were visibly upset and some had hysterical fits. Some adults observed the UFOs through binoculars and reported hearing strange sounds. The school was closed for the rest of the day. (1967, April 6-8)", + "location": "USA, Crestview (Florida)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 110-111", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2436" + }, + { + "date": "4/7/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A triangular object remained suspended for forty-five minutes above the city. Researchers from the M. Belinski Observatory determined its trajectory, shape, and light intensity.", + "location": "BULGARIA, Stara Zagora", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\" - trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 240", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2437" + }, + { + "date": "4/9/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An unidentified conical-shaped object slowly flew over the capital. It was photographed by journalists and various witnesses. These photos were shown a few days later on television.", + "location": "BULGARIA, Sofia", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\" - trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 240", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2438" + }, + { + "date": "4/17/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) RR1 9:00 PM - 4 witnesses: duration 10 to 15 minutes. \"I was on my way home from a Parent-Teacher Association meeting; it was night and I was driving through the countryside on a small road, thinking about the blackboard the association had promised to provide for the school. Suddenly I noticed a light above the hill and I thought, there's one of those old planes that has gone off course and is going to land in that cornfield. (...) And then this incredible object - which had a bit of the shape of a World War I helmet - passed over the hill. So I slowed down. I couldn't understand how an airplane could follow a gliding trajectory - when this huge object, which I estimate was over 90 meters long, detached itself from the hill and stayed above me for a fraction of a second, like an aircraft changing direction. Then it headed for the airfield. It was a terribly bright light. The roof of the car didn't even seem to be a screen anymore. When I looked at my friends, it was like an X-ray photo. \"So I went to the airfield. Oh, I didn't have to say anything to the people on the ground. They had seen it. Two lawyers from Kansas City were still standing there, their mouths wide open in amazement. It had practically flown over the airfield. The unglazed control tower had not yet been warned. They were busy with the arrival of an Ozark. The Ozark pilot said when announcing his landing: \"I see it, it's below me, it's huge\". (April 17, 1967)", + "location": "USA, Jefferson City (Missouri)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"UFOs, Myth or Reality?\" - trans. Belfond 1974 - pp. 121, 122, 276", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2439" + }, + { + "date": "4/21/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) RR2. Night around 01:00 - 4 witnesses, two businessmen and their wives; On a clear country road; duration 5 minutes. According to the driver, the accelerator no longer responded when the object approached, the engine slowed down and began to cough as if there was no more juice. At the moment when the distance between them and the object seemed the shortest, the latter no longer shone but appeared clearly and distinctly defined, lenticular in shape and of a muted amber color, like the yellow of flashing lights but more attenuated. (...) Object: ovoid, with objects embedded on the entire surface like car headlights, each sending a beam of white light, so that the device seemed bristling with rays of light diffusing in all directions. Then it had the appearance of an ovoid object of amber color. (April 21, 1967)", + "location": "USA, Ephrata (Washington)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"UFOs, Myth or Reality?\" - trans. Belfond 1974 - p. 140, 148, 277", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2440" + }, + { + "date": "4/21/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On April 21, Mr. Crowder had left the store of his company around 9 pm. When he reached a turn in the paved road, he discovered an obstacle that looked like an orange metal tank, at least 4 m in diameter, resting on legs about one meter high and without any openings or particular features. It was just an object resembling a tank that blocked the way. When he got to about 60 m from the thing, Crowder flashed his headlights. At that moment, in a brilliant blaze emitted from its base, the object rose quickly into the air. It had gone off like lightning, but Crowder had seen it in his headlights. It was 5 to 6 m high. The blazing breath from its base had set the asphalt on fire. When the police arrived at the scene with Crowder, they found a 90 x 75 cm plate still hot from the fire. The next morning, four holes about 18 mm deep and 12 mm wide were found in the asphalt, forming a rectangle about 5 m long.", + "location": "USA, South Hill (Virginia)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 157-158", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2441" + }, + { + "date": "4/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Elis Grahn was walking in the forest at night and glanced up at the clear, beautifully starry sky. Motionless and silent, a few hundred meters above the treetops, there was a luminous disc about three times the size of a full moon, deep green and red inside. Boys from the village arrived and were also witnesses. Soon the thing began to rotate on its axis, becoming uniformly greenish-white. Grahn ran to get binoculars and returned with his wife. The disc had moved a bit and was still shining, although its outlines were less clear. Then he soon noticed that near the edges he could see the stars through the object, while the center remained opaque. The strange disc then began to slowly disappear, maintaining the same position. It lost its consistency after a few minutes, and everything had disappeared. Independently, a couple of motorists had seen the disc vanish with the same vaporous aspect. (April 1967)", + "location": "FINLAND, Bottom Bay", + "ref": [ + "Pierre VIEROUDY: \"These UFOs that Announce the Superman\" - Laffont 1979, p. 82", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2442" + }, + { + "date": "5/1/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening, a luminous lozenge split into two parts which then reunited before finally separating, one heading north, the other east.", + "location": "ITALY, Brindisi", + "ref": [ + "J.G. DOHMEN: \"To Identify and the Adamski Case\" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, pp. 62-64", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2443" + }, + { + "date": "5/6/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. and Mrs. Schirrmann, their son Jean-Luc (10 years old), and his friend Philippe Wassmer (11 years old) came to spend the weekend in the chalet at Champ du Feu. It was 7 pm, the occupants had finished dinner and were going out to the terrace to admire the sunset. The sky was very clear, without any clouds. Suddenly, a row of 7 or 8 well-aligned and equidistant objects appeared in the west-northwest, at a distance of about 2 km. Each object consisted of a dark part surrounded by a halo like a smoke ring. The objects seemed to be a few tens of meters above the woods and, since the terrain sloped in the direction of observation, their altitude was roughly the same as that of the witnesses (1000 m). In the minutes that followed their appearance, the objects slowly glided south towards the hamlet of Bellefosse. Suddenly they disappeared in place, then reappeared a little further south, dispersed and simultaneously ceased to be visible. To the west, where the objects had disappeared, the forest was all red as if on fire, although the sun had already set. Dozens of red spots were gently oscillating above the forest. Observed through binoculars, the trembling spots had shapes that evoked tomatoes or boxing gloves. It was past 8 pm, night was falling. The red spots also disappeared. Shortly after 9 pm, the four witnesses saw an enormous black object - or appearing black - in the shape of a lens with a diameter of 15 to 20 m, coming from the south, about a hundred meters from the chalet. In total silence, the saucer slowly approached the chalet. It was horizontal and a little higher than the witnesses, who could barely distinguish the underside. The saucer was now only 20 or 30 m from the chalet. Suddenly, a white-yellowish luminous ribbon appeared under the object. It seemed to end with a bulge and was animated by a movement that evoked a snake for Mr. Schirrmann and an octopus tentacle for Jean-Luc. After about ten seconds, the snake disappeared or went out. Mrs. Schirrmann left the terrace to go to the south-west facing kitchen, turned on the light and opened the window with the intention of closing the shutters, perhaps pushed by an instinctive desire to put something between the object and the witnesses. Yet, neither she nor her husband or the children were seized by panic. Suddenly, a luminous rod shot out from under the saucer, Mrs. Schirrmann screamed and called her husband, who joined her at the kitchen window, followed by the children. The saucer was there, motionless, a few meters from the chalet and at the height of the roof. A shiver ran through the Strasbourgers when a click or a slight sound was heard. Two luminous rods had joined the first. They were parallel to it, but while the first was whitish blue, the other two were greenish purple. Their sections were also different: the first rod was as thick as the thumb, the other two were finer like the little finger. These rods ended about 1 m from the ground. All three seemed to be in a non-vertical plane and were a few tens of centimeters apart. According to Mr. Schirrmann, the ends of the rods were cut off neatly like a sausage. Another curious luminous phenomenon is to be noted: on the ground, a white luminous band follows the shape of three sides of a trapezoid. This band is as wide as the hand. The three luminous rods point towards the inside of the trapezoid, whose two non-parallel sides end at the foot of the wall of the chalet. Perhaps the luminous band extended on the wall, perhaps it closed on itself? The witnesses did not lean out to observe the wall. The observation of these luminous phenomena lasted only about ten or fifteen seconds and everything disappeared or went out suddenly, with a sharp click. Mr. Schirrmann said: \"I don't like this, let's go in!\" and closed the window, then, driven by curiosity, returned to the terrace. The object slowly glided north, away from the house. The witnesses could then distinguish on its upper face, a greenish luminous cone. Suddenly, the object disappeared in place, still without any sound, while it was about a hundred meters from the chalet. It was a little after 10 pm, the witnesses went to bed.", + "location": "FRANCE, Champ du Feu (Schirmeck-Strassbourg)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"Le dossier des OVNI\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 133 to 136", + "..", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2444" + }, + { + "date": "5/10/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 8:30 PM, Armand Chauvot was in the train coming from Paris. Through the left window he was looking at the scenery, to the right the sun was setting. At km 28, 150 m from the tracks, an object in the shape of a pyramid seemed to be resting on the path: the witness thought of jumping off the train to go and take a look, but he decided against it. The object was 1.5 m tall, the face turned towards the train was glowing red like resistors and crossed two thirds of the way up by a horizontal white line, glowing like a fluorescent tube. The posterior faces of the object were glowing with a pink luminescence, like opalescence.", + "location": "FRANCE, between Combs la Ville and Lieusaint", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 274", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2445" + }, + { + "date": "5/11/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Michael Campeadore, a 25-year-old hospital employee, was driving towards Salt Lake City when he heard a noise like that of a truck, but he saw nothing. Then a yellow light became visible to his left and, thinking it was an airplane about to crash, he got out of his car. He saw the light stop 30 m away from him and 30 m in altitude. It had the shape of an upturned bowl with a dome on top and seemed metallic. The witness was scared and emptied his 25 caliber Beretta towards the craft. He heard the bullets hit the metal, and the object took off at full speed. When he told his story at a nearby gas station, the attendant told him that around twenty testimonies had been recently recorded.", + "location": "USA, Saint George (Utah)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 31", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2446" + }, + { + "date": "5/13/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Panic on the landing field of Colorado Springs. A UFO flew over the airfield at less than 60 meters altitude. Radars recorded its passage. Case studied by the Condon Commission (pages 310 to 316 of the \"report\"). Conclusions of the Condon investigators: This case certainly constitutes one of the most singular radar detections ever recorded, and no conclusion is possible. (Charles GARREAU: \"Flying Saucers: 20 Years of Investigations\" - Mame 1971 - p. 58) (...) nothing appeared to the direct view, while the screens denounced the rapid movement of a voluminous object. The operators were too trained to confuse an echo with a real object. The flight characteristics could be those of an F 100 or an F 104. From the airport tower, the flight controllers were still trying to see the mysterious object when a Braniff airline plane landed. Almost instantly, the mysterious object still invisible to the naked eye came to the right. Now, according to the radar, it was flying over the field at less than seventy meters. This is a normal procedure for an approach without an actual landing. The craft passed about 2500 meters from the tower, still invisible, even with binoculars.", + "location": "USA, Colorado Springs (Colorado)", + "ref": [ + "Donald KEYHOE: \"Strangers from Space\" - Pocket Press 1975 - p. 268-269", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2447" + }, + { + "date": "5/17/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10pm, Major Y.B. Popov from Novosibirsk and Junior Lieutenant A.S. Nikitenko as well as several local inhabitants saw a cascade of lights crossing the sky from the northeast in parallel rows. These lights were on the surface of a cigar-shaped object the size of an ocean liner, flying at only 1000 meters, in absolute silence. (1967, 17 May)", + "location": "USSR, Kamyshin", + "ref": [ + "Felix Zigel and FSR", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2448" + }, + { + "date": "5/20/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 12:15, Steve Michalak (deceased at the end of 2000), of Polish origin, aged 52, a mechanic and prospector, saw two glowing objects flying at high speed. One of them blew away the vegetation when it landed, surrounded by incandescence. Steve observed it for 30 minutes before a door opened, revealing a violet inner light. He also noted a shrill sound and a smell like that of an overloaded electrical circuit. Approaching, the witness heard voices. When he touched the craft his rubber glove burned. He was blown away by the hot air when the object began to spin. The witness felt dizzy, suffered minor burns on his face, second and third degree burns on his chest, had frequent vomiting for four days and lost more than 10 kg. Diameter of the craft: 11 m, height 3 m, with a superstructure of 1 m. (Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - pp. 73-74) Stephen Michalak approaches a 10 m diameter disc that has just landed nearby while a second UFO disappears into the sky. The craft buzzes, emits a bright light and seems to cool down. Michalak takes a look inside and touches the wall of the object, but his glove is burned. A hot breath ignites his clothes and makes him spin, then the craft takes off and disappears in a few moments. The victim will be hospitalized for his burns and various ailments, perhaps due to radiation. (Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, pp. 60 to 63) A young man suffers first degree burns after encountering a UFO landed on the ground. (1967, May 20 or 21)", + "location": "CANADA, Falcon Lake", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Gabriel GRESLE: UFO, a pilot speaks, ed. Guy Trédaniel, 1993, pp. 66,67", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2449" + }, + { + "date": "6/1/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) UMMO Affair. On May 20, 1967, the newspaper \"Informaciones\" of Alicante reported that between May 30 and June 2, a cosmic vessel would land in the vicinity of Madrid. The information came from a certain F. Sesma who claimed to have obtained it from an extraterrestrial friend. (A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"The Secret File of UFOs\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, pp. 173-182) At 8:20 pm, about a hundred people (vog: really a hundred? I could only count about a dozen, at most...) saw an enormous, lenticular, disc-shaped object with a luminous dome on its upper part, near the top of the Estramadure road. The observation lasted 12 minutes, the object remained motionless, oscillating slightly. On its underside it bore the symbol \"UMMO\" - photographed. In Santa Monica it is said to have landed and left \"tubes\" inside which a \"plastic\" material was found. (June 1, 1967)", + "location": "SPAIN, San José de Valderas and Santa Monica", + "ref": [ + "A. RIBERA/ R. FARRIOLS: \"Proofs of the Existence of UFOs\" - De Vecchi 1975 - pp. 97-260", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2450" + }, + { + "date": "6/13/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was 2:30 a.m. when Carmen Cuneo, a miner, stepped out of one of the Domtar Quarrys barracks for some fresh air. Caledonia is located between Lakes Ontario and Erie. As he stepped out, he was surprised by what he saw: an object shaped like a cigar, about twelve meters long, close to the ground, and a circular object about 5 m in diameter hovering above him. Not sure of what he was seeing, he noticed four windows along the side of the cigar. He was even more amazed when he saw three small figures wearing bubble-shaped helmets with an amber light on top, picking up things from the ground. Not believing his eyes, Cuneo stayed there looking for about ten minutes before entering the barracks and waking up other workers. They came out just in time to see the two objects rise from the ground. However, they were still surprised as the objects hovered above the square between the barracks for another 20 minutes before heading southwest, flashing lights of all colors but without making a sound. At the landing site, a kind of oily substance was mixed with the soil. Samples were analyzed and the result was that the oil was a common lubricating oil...", + "location": "CANADA, Caledonia (Ontario)", + "ref": [ + "Source: \"Gateway to Oblivion\" by Hugh Cochrane, on the Internet in June 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2451" + }, + { + "date": "6/20/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 12 o'clock, farmer Arvi Juntunen heard a buzzing and saw at a distance of 6 m a shiny, gray circular object, 50 cm from the ground. It had a dome-shaped top with a fin, and measured 75 cm in diameter. The farmer was about to grab the object. It rose with an explosion, made a circle and flew away.", + "location": "FINLAND, Suomussalmi", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 47", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2452" + }, + { + "date": "6/24/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 3:12 a.m. Witness: Ray Stanford. A solid, elliptical, pale blue object flew from NW to NE and stopped for one and a half minutes in response to a beacon call. Then the object continued on its original trajectory and disappeared into the clouds after 9 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Austin, Texas.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2453" + }, + { + "date": "6/27/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 10pm, the witness was travelling on the N 106. Just at the entrance of a small road leading to Champvert, their attention was drawn to a very strong light coming from a wood. Upon arriving at the path, they discovered an enormous craft of at least 100m in length less than 50m from the road. What struck them the most was the extraordinary luminosity of the \"spine\" of the craft, whose edges were blurry and misty.", + "location": "FRANCE, Saint Geneys near St Paulien", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 278", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2454" + }, + { + "date": "6/29/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 1:30 a.m. Witness: truck driver Damon Brown. An object, like an oyster, 200 feet wide and 25 to 30 feet thick, with a huge red light on each side of the base and a row of blue lights crossing the base. Circled around at the speed of an airplane, then moved quickly and followed the truck at about 500 feet altitude, turned south and left at high speed after 8-10 minutes.", + "location": "USA, Scotch Plains, New Jersey.", + "ref": [ + "Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2455" + }, + { + "date": "7/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3 o'clock in the morning, Miss de Ribas was suddenly awakened by an intense light coming from the patio. She distinguished at the window two small silhouettes that seemed to be talking to each other. They had a big head and huge eyes. In a state of extreme agitation, the young girl tried to turn on the light, but nothing happened, as if the electricity had been cut off. She changed rooms to get a coat, as she intended to flee, but when she returned, she saw nothing. She went out and noticed that there were two footprints of small feet in front of the window. (July, 1967)", + "location": "Spain, Balearic Islands, Palma", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Everything about Flying Saucers\", ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p. 200", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2456" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Geraldo Baqueiro, 45 years old, a driver, aboard his car climbing painfully at 40 km/h to the top of the Serra de Mantiqueira, saw at 01:30 a blinking red light coming towards him. As it approached, the vehicle advanced less and less and the engine responded in intensity to the pulsations of the light. There were some misfires and then everything stopped: engine, headlights, radio. The thing stayed at 10 or 15 m high and at about thirty meters it became increasingly red and finally a disc-shaped object emerged and the light became neon white. In the lower part a square dome, and a kind of windshield 2 m long on this disc making about 5 m in diameter and 3 m high. It remained suspended silently and the white light emitted came from inside the object. At the height of the windshield an humanoid appeared, followed by 4 others: he only saw their faces: like cats! They made no sign, only looked at the car for a short time. With a violent gust of wind and a deafening whistle the UFO left from where it came. As soon as it was away, everything worked again in the car. Total duration of the observation: 5 minutes", + "location": "BRAZIL, Serra de Mantiqueira", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 39, p. 34, 35", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2457" + }, + { + "date": "7/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Industrialist Stefan Danaerde is at anchor on the Oosterschelde with his sailboat. His son tells him that the radar is defective. As the evening promises to be calm, Danaerde is not really worried. In the evening he starts the engine and sets sail for the Burgsluis lock. Then a kind of blue sun appears in the sky emitting a shrill noise. On the water floats like a dead man and Danaerde jumps into the sea to bring back the dead. That's when the \"sun\" presents itself as a fairly flat metal saucer and a staircase descends to the water, while a dark silhouette is outlined. Danaerde is sucked towards the saucer and panics. He finds himself in the presence of beings 1.40 m tall, dressed in astronaut costumes with multiple ornaments. They have a very high forehead, pointed ears and speak with a mechanical voice in English. \"Can understand you us?\" - \"Yes, I do.\" They thank Danaerde for having come to the aid of one of their own who had fallen into the sea and say they are from another planet but have been on Earth for a long time. Danaerde then receives, as a sign of recognition, a metal piece. Through the computer and television (note from vog: in 67? On board a sailboat?) he is taught all kinds of things about the planet Jarga, which would be 10 light years from Earth. People there live in cylinders, as the planet is overpopulated. They practice a kind of absolute communism and private property does not exist there. There is no money either. Their only goal is \"omni spiritual creativity\".", + "location": "NETHERLANDS, Oosterschelde (arm of the sea)", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "etc...", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2458" + }, + { + "date": "7/11/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On this evening two motorists saw near Mar del Plata, a flying cigar resting on the ground. The device, which was about 400 m from the road, resembled a passenger train car. After taking off it quickly gained altitude and disappeared. The two witnesses stated that a bright light passed through its rectangular portholes.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Santa Clara del Mar", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 36", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2459" + }, + { + "date": "7/17/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A group of young children had gone for a walk in the pastures at the foot of the woods, when the youngest girl of 6 years old exclaimed \"I saw three black Chinese people\". The small group saw nothing but ran towards the village. The little girl said that they were small and that they spoke to each other in a kind of music: ra, ra, lé, tré, la. It was then 3 o'clock in the afternoon. A 15 year old girl then went to the site, but saw nothing. She returned around 4 o'clock accompanied by several other young people. Sitting on a rock about ten meters from a dirt road that serves the pasture: the terrain is rugged. Suddenly they saw a small black being running on the flat part: it was about 1.10m tall and completely black. It had a head that was roughly normal for its size, but it shone: was it covered with something? Except for the belly, which was big, the rest seemed proportionate. It passed 25m from the witnesses at 4pm in the middle of summer, so they saw it well. It ran like a man and disappeared into the hedge. It was wearing some kind of black tights. They rushed after it, but in vain. The next day people found a circle of 4m where the grass was burned: a particular smell emanated from it, not comparable to the smell of burned grass. The circle was more burned in the center than on the edges. In the northeast were traces of small feet. (July 17, 1967)", + "location": "FRANCE, Arc-sous-Cicon (Doubs)", + "ref": [ + "L.D.L.N. \"Mysterious Flying Saucers\" - ALBATROS-ETAPES 1973 - pp. 122 to 127", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2460" + }, + { + "date": "7/18/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Reverend Anthony Polo was awoken by a noise similar to that of a science-fiction television background music. He had the impression that he was being told to come down. Which he did. Outside he saw a figure in bright clothing. He went out. The noise started again and he received the message that he had nothing to fear, that no harm would be done to him and he would do none. He approached and another message came to him: \"Danger. I must go.\" He saw a kind of light in the sky and when he looked down again the entity had disappeared. (vog: Was the Reverend really awoken or was he dreaming?", + "location": "USA, Boardman (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 216", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2461" + }, + { + "date": "7/25/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 11:30 a.m. an object was located about 5° above the roof of the school. It remained motionless and the object, similar to aluminum in the shape of a cigar, with pointed ends and without wings. When it suddenly started moving again, a faint light lit up at the back and in twenty seconds the object was hidden by the houses.", + "location": "ROMANIA, Oradea", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\" - trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 304", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2462" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A family was travelling in a caravan towards California. At a petrol station they saw a round flying object, it looked like a child's bonnet and the thing was surrounded by a bright ring with multicolored lights. Underneath was a kind of searchlight that swept the ground. The beam stopped on the caravan and the object quickly flew over it. Then it disappeared as it had come. The next day, after having driven a long way, the family was surprised to find the same flying device which this time came as close as 25 meters to the caravan. Taken by fear, the mother of the family fainted. When the craft finally moved away, the witnesses had another big surprise. Inside the caravan, a carrot placed on the table had grown roots so quickly that they almost touched the ground... (1967, Summer)", + "location": "USA, between Colorado and California", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Marie DOUCHET - Nostra - 10.7.1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2463" + }, + { + "date": "7/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7 pm the farmer saw an object flying in the sky at very high speed and projecting beams of yellow, red and green light. Meanwhile, his two daughters, who were keeping the flock, saw with understandable fear two humanoids standing on a wall 30 meters away from them. They had big heads. Their arms and legs reflected the light of the sun. They were small, less than one meter tall. They jumped off the wall (50 cm high) with both feet and disappeared. When the girls told their father about this adventure, they went to the wall to look for traces, but there was nothing.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Monte (Oleiros, Ponte da Barca) - Viana do Castelo", + "ref": [ + "Collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenço; CEAFI", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2464" + }, + { + "date": "8/3/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jonil Feydt Vieira, lawyer, and the driver of the jeep Amauri Barboso were inconvenienced by a dazzling UFO standing in front of them on the road they were following, then were pursued by this thing. They had the opportunity to see that there was a large dome, with a blue light at one end and a yellow light at the other. The object made no noise. The dome was rotating. The pursuit lasted from 8 pm to 8:40 pm. The driver experienced a great pain in his forehead between the two eyes, which lasted for 16 days after the observation and the lawyer had a yellow complexion and had a feeling of lightness. It seemed to the two witnesses that they had received some kind of mental message about the possible life on other planets.", + "location": "BRAZIL, in the vicinity of Rio", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 47 of 1979, pp. 15-17", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2465" + }, + { + "date": "8/13/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ignaço da Souza, an agricultural worker, fired at the normal-sized humanoids with his Winchester 44. He was instantly paralyzed by a green beam coming from the UFO that had landed nearby, fell to the ground, became ill and died some time later from leukemia. (Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 66,67) Returning home around 4:00 PM, Ignaço and Maria da Souza noticed a strange object shaped like a bowl with its opening facing downwards, on the landing strip of the property. This device had a diameter of 35 m. Between it and the house were three unknowns, of human appearance, except that they were bald. They were playing and frolicking like children, but in silence. When they saw Ignaço they pointed at him and started running towards him. He made his wife go back into the house, and she ran there. As he had his rifle with him, he shot at the closest one, at which point a green light came out of the device and hit him in the chest and he fell to the ground. His wife ran up, but by then the men had already gone back into their craft which rose vertically at great speed, making a sound like that of bees. (...) Ignaço da Souza fell ill, his condition only worsened, his whole body was covered in yellow-white spots, he suffered horrible pains, and died on October 11, 1967.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Santa Maria", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO Files\", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p. 32, which places all this exactly one year later", + "Inforespace n° 12, p. 38 to 40", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2466" + }, + { + "date": "8/29/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) François Delpeuch, 13 years old, and his sister Anne-Marie, 9 years old, on school holidays, went with their dog Médor to drive about ten cows into the pasture of the place called \"les Tuiles\". At one point, the cows wanted to cross a wall separating a neighboring pasture where there were about thirty cows. François got up to call the dog to divert the animals from their purpose. He then saw, on the other side of the D. 57, about sixty meters away, what he took to be four children he did not recognize. He called his sister and, already happy for a possible diversion, she called out: \"Are you coming to play with us?\" The strangers did not answer. Behind them, half hidden by the fence, François and Anne-Marie saw a shining object, 2 to 2.50 m in diameter, painful to look at because of the bright light. They did not see any openings in it. Two of the strangers were standing to the left of the object and looking at each other, the third had his back to them, it seemed he was kneeling and scratching the ground. The fourth was standing and looking in the direction of the children. He was holding a rectangular object \"a mirror\" 20 x 30 cm with two faces. Its brilliance blinded the children. The children quickly realized they were dealing with what they called \"little black men\". They were long and thin in proportion, with an elongated head, arms proportionally longer than a man's, thin and short legs. A bulge near their ears gave them a kind of fluffy beard. Black hair and a beard covered their neck and chin. They were dressed in a tight, shiny black suit \"like a mechanic\" François said. They were all the same size, those on the left a bit smaller (1 m) than those on the right. The hands were not described. François climbed onto a small wall to get a better view. Seeming to have become aware of this presence, the beings returned to the object. First the two on the left, then the one who was kneeling, and finally the one with the mirror. They propelled themselves upwards, arms glued to their bodies, and entered through the top, head first, plunging into the upper part of the sphere. The fourth seemed to have forgotten something on the ground, he went back and then went up to catch up with the sphere which, having taken off in a spiral, was already higher than the trees. During this ascent, other details were noticed. The feet were of a special shape \"webbed feet like ducks\". Anne-Marie mentioned the pointed nose. After the latecomer's return, the object described a few more spirals, then a soft whistle was heard, the sound of the breath was perceived, the object became dazzling, blinding: \"my eyes hurt, I was crying ..\" and the sphere disappeared straight into the sky, towards the northwest. The dog was barking, the cows were mooing, those from the neighbor had left their pasture and had joined François's herd, mooing, there was a smell of sulfur in the air. François took care of the cows and they returned home crying, bringing the herd back. (1967, 22 or 29 August)", + "location": "FRANCE, Cussac (Cantal)", + "ref": [ + "L.D.L.N. \"Mysterious Flying Saucers\" - ALBATROS-ETAPES 1973 - pp. 127 to 132", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2467" + }, + { + "date": "8/1967 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 5pm Ruben Norato saw three large discs emerge from the sea, after he had observed a sudden movement of the water. (Henry DURRANT: \"Le dossier des OVNI\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 53) The witness saw three grey discs emerge from the sea on the 27th of August. They flew away. (1967, 25 (27?) August)", + "location": "VENEZUELA, Catia la Mar", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 172", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2468" + }, + { + "date": "Early 9/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three anonymous fishermen witness the explosion of a flying disc. Some debris is recovered and analyzed. It was claimed that it was made of magnesium with an unknown density and purity on Earth. The hypothesis of a Brazilian rocket, carrying an illuminating or incendiary charge, explains the facts well. (1967, early September)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Ubatuba", + "ref": [ + "Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unexplained Cases, pp. 60-63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2469" + }, + { + "date": "9/9/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Appaloosa mare \"Lady\" was found dead and mutilated. One cheek, the tongue, and all internal organs were removed. This \"surgery\" seemed to have been done with laser instruments.", + "location": "USA, San Luis Valley (Colorado)", + "ref": [ + "Animal Mutilations, Internet November 1996, with photo", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2470" + }, + { + "date": "9/13/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Lewis Berle's and her brother Harry King's horse, Snippy, had disappeared from the King ranch. It was found on the 15th, its head and neck stripped of flesh, the skin pulled back to bare the skull, and its vital organs removed. Near the carcass was a flattened chico bush, and there were 6 identical holes, 2 inches wide and 4 inches deep, in the ground. A quarter of a mile from where the corpse was found, an elderly woman had seen a large object pass almost at rooftop level on the day of the disappearance.", + "location": "USA, Great Sand Dunes (Colorado)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of the E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 72", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2471" + }, + { + "date": "9/15/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Strange creatures are observed in the glow of an elliptical shaped light. They are observed near a barn, and howl, like the wind, when they are caught in the beams of headlights. The silhouettes, run on human legs, towards the object which fades away. Around 9pm, two young girls at the window of the upper floor, see a large light come above a large tree, at some distance. The light appeared as big as a Volkswagen. At a few hundred meters distance, it was white and became red, dancing up and down. Alone at home, the young girls were scared. Then they heard noises in the barn a few meters from the house. It was like a coffee grinder that someone was trying to start. Looking in that direction, they saw three dark creatures, about one and a half meters tall, at some distance, standing near the mailbox. On the hill the glowing ball still shone. It was at this moment that a car arrived. The creatures started to run towards the bushes and the light on the hill went out.\"", + "location": "USA, Winstead (Connecticut)", + "ref": [ + "APRG, on the Internet in May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2472" + }, + { + "date": "9/18/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) I was on the ferry-boat Tulcea - Sfintul-Gheorghe, on the starboard bridge, it was 8:30 pm. A light rain was falling from the uniformly cloudy sky and it was very dark. At 8:45 pm the clouds changed color, very high above me and became luminous with a red fringe all around. Suddenly, without any noise, a luminous object appeared, shaped like a frying pan with its tail. It was going west. It stopped abruptly at 500 or 600 m from the boat and at perhaps 200 or 300 m in height. It was swaying, a bit like the flame of a candle. The disc seemed to be 5 to 6 m in diameter, as well as the tail whose base was half the size of the disc and which was getting thinner and thinner towards the end. The disc was a dark red, more precisely a garnet. At its periphery and the elongated part of the tail it had the color of methane when it burns. Globular sparks were ejected from the tail but they disappeared as soon as they came out. I was stunned, if not scared. After staying there for about four minutes, the object slowly pivoted around an axis without making any noise, then returned to its initial position. It then resumed its advance on my left parallel to the surface of the water pointing its tail towards the west. Then it stopped again after covering 200 to 300 m. Finally it disappeared into the clouds, still without a sound and without having made any lateral maneuver. The object had described a total U-shaped trajectory. I then looked at my watch again: it was 8:52 pm", + "location": "ROMANIA, Danube Delta.", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\" - trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 305", + "Valeriu Bita", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2473" + }, + { + "date": "Late 9/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Carlos Peccinetti and Fernando Jose Villegas, employees at the casino, had finished work and were in a car on their way home. Arriving at the deserted stretch of Calle Neuquen, they saw a strange machine hovering above a vacant lot, less than a meter from the ground. It was a saucer. At the same time, the car lights went out and a powerful spotlight lit up the strange craft. Before they could realize what was happening, three dwarves with big heads were sliding towards the motorists, who were completely paralyzed, while they saw other dwarves near the UFO. Suddenly feeling extremely tired, they both lost consciousness. Upon waking up, they noticed puncture marks on the tips of their fingers and they had also received a telepathic explanation (...) (1967, late September)", + "location": "ARGENTINA", + "ref": [ + "True Flying Saucers and Ufo Quarterly No. 13 of Spring 79, pages 74 and 75", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2474" + }, + { + "date": "Early 9/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, between 1:30 and 2 o'clock two men were hunting. One of them was sitting under an apple tree at the edge of the forest and the other was about to sit down too: they were waiting for a third companion. Then they saw a light like a burning car, yet everything was silent. Without speaking they advanced towards the phenomenon, guns armed. An object was there 20 cm from the ground, beautiful like a meadow mushroom (Coulemelle or rosé des prés), it looked like a fluorescent tube with a red rectangle in the center like the morning sun. The white part of the \"mushroom\" was 7 to 8 m long and 2.20m to 2.50m high of a bright white. They arrived at 25 m from the thing and suddenly they were both stopped dead, as if paralyzed. The white part of the mushroom dilated and came towards them like a rolling cloud. (...) Serious physiological and psychological effects on the two witnesses. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 289, 290) Two hunters were patrolling an immense field of freshly mechanized wheat. Suddenly they saw at a distance of 150 to 200 m a \"car on fire\". (...) It was at this moment that the object dilated in a kind of mist that rushed towards the witnesses, the red rectangle remaining perfectly clear and in the middle of this cloud. The two hunters had different reactions at this moment. The first, in a painful effort, turned around and waited for it to pass, while the second, in a reflex of fear, shouldered his gun towards the phenomenon. But he could not fire... After a few seconds, the first, who had felt nothing, straightened up and found his companion frozen in the previous position, dazed, unable to make a gesture or pronounce a correct sentence. He had felt a feeling of heat when the phenomenon passed over his head (at 2 m) and he had instantly dreamed that he was levitating holding his dead son in his arms. (the witness has a 30-year-old son in 1979 and in perfect health). (1967, late September or early October)", + "location": "FRANCE, Missancourt", + "ref": [ + "Erich ZURCHER: \"Les apparitions d'humanoïdes\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 264", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2475" + }, + { + "date": "10/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: November 29, 1966) There were two other Soviet satellites with identical characteristics: Cosmos 185 launched into orbit in October 1967 and Cosmos 316, later in December 1969. Only Cosmos 185, among the four, had a relatively high inclination (64°) and performed maneuvers. It re-entered the atmosphere 15 months later. Such a short life span is surprisingly short for a satellite (...) The rapid fall of Cosmos 185 could thus lead to the idea that it was hollow. (October 1967)", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "see August 18, 1970", + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 128, 129", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2476" + }, + { + "date": "10/4/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Royal Canadian Air Force confirms the appearance of a brightly lit UFO, seeming to glide over the waters off Shag Harbour. Many coastal inhabitants had seen it. Then, a bubbling of water had occurred, accompanied by yellowish foam. The Canadian Navy had sent some small vessels to the scene; but the UFO had apparently eluded them. (Donald KEYHOE: \"The Space Strangers\" - Pocket Press 1975 - p. 158) Yvan T.SANDERSON dates this event October 4, 1967. The affair was reported in detail by the Light Herald of Yarmouth, N.S.: The object was first seen at 11:30 pm on Wednesday night, in the Shag Harbour area, Shelburne County, near Bon Portage Island. David Kendricks, who was driving a car with a friend, Norman Smith, in the area between Cape Sable Island and Shag Harbour, saw a bright red-orange light in the sky above Bear Point. According to him, the lights were tiny and seemed lined up in a row, and at one point they blinked. These lights formed an angle of 45°, plunging to the right, advancing in order from bottom to top. Approximately at the same time, Laurie Wiggins, nineteen years old, observed the object as he drove in a car with four other people in Woods Harbour. According to him, there were four lights in a row that went out and lit up in turn and leaned at an angle of 45°. They slowly disappeared into the water. As they got out of the car, they saw the lights change to become a single white light that swayed on the water about 800 meters offshore. Wiggins then called the R.C.M.P. (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) of Wood's Harbour who arrived at the scene after 20 minutes. Constable Ron O'Brien of the Barrington detachment of the R.C.M.P. and two other officers saw the light floating on the water about 800 m from the coast and reported that it was being carried out to sea by the tide and that it disappeared before they could reach it by boat. Meanwhile, a large number of other witnesses reported lights at the same time and in the same area. The R.C.M.P. immediately called the Canadian Coast Guard station in Clark's Harbour and Rescue Boat No. 101 plus eight local fishing boats began to search the area. After an hour, the boats had arrived at the place where the object had disappeared and reported a very large area of bubbling water and foam. According to one of the fishermen, the foam was 25 meters wide and it was yellowish; he said he had never seen anything like it in the area. Seven divers from the navy searched for two and a half days but found nothing and these searches were abandoned. The possibility that it could have been an airplane was ruled out by the Canadian authorities; no aircraft was reported missing.", + "location": "CANADA off Shag Harbour (Nova Scotia)", + "ref": [ + "Yvan T. SANDERSON: \"The Invisibles Under the Seas\" Albin Michel 1979 p. 59-60", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2477" + }, + { + "date": "10/11/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Othmar Willi observed three cylindrical objects with portholes while they hovered about 5 m above a cornfield. Each craft had a small cone and made a sound like that of a swarm of bees. Their dimensions were estimated to be 10 meters in length and 5 meters in diameter. (Jean-Marie DOUCHET - Nostra - 144 of 1979) They were turning slowly and the witness saw two rows of windows in the upper part of the craft. A very particular light was coming out of these small windows. The cylinders emitted a sound like the buzzing of a swarm of bees. Suddenly a hatch opened under one of the craft and a kind of rope appeared at the end of which was suspended an ovoid shape. A container? This stopped at the level of the corn ears, and only the container was illuminated by a light. Then the container was raised. All this lasted about a minute. The three cylinders suddenly started and left at a crazy speed. (Perrin Jack R.: \"The Mystery of UFOs\" - J'ai Lu / Pygmalion 1976 - pp. 23 to 25) Shortly after midnight, in the night from Tuesday 10 to Wednesday 11 October 1967, while he was contemplating the sky while savoring a last pipe, Mr. Othmar Willi, 37 years old, single, from Oberehrendingen, in the canton of Aargau, saw three cylindrical objects (in a vertical position), surmounted by a small cone, descend from the sky and station themselves about fifty meters from his house, about five meters above a cornfield. The cylinders were 10 meters high and had a diameter of about five meters, estimates Mr. Willi. (...)", + "location": "SWITZERLAND, Oberhrendingen (Aargau)", + "ref": [ + "The Saucers at Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2478" + }, + { + "date": "10/20/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) … interesting film taken by Roger Patterson (deceased since) a rancher from Yakima (Washington). (…) Having learned that traces had been found along Bluff Creek, he went there accompanied by an experienced hunter, Bob Gimlin. (…) on the morning of October 20th (…) he saw a huge being partly hidden by a large fallen tree trunk due to the flooding of the stream on the edge of which it was drinking. Patterson's horse began to tremble all over, refused to go any further, snorted and finally fell on its side. \"The creature was on my left, about 40 meters away on the other side of the stream. It had an almost human face but the features were much more fleeting, the forehead wide, the nostrils flared. When it walked, the ends of its arms reached almost to its knees. Its body, except for the face, was covered with brown hair between 5 and 10 cm long and appearing lighter on the surface than at the root. (…) pendulous breasts. The creature (…) crossed a sandbank and began to flee towards the hill. The rancher grabbed his camera (…) the (?) humanoid beast turned around and looked at its pursuer with insistence and curiosity. Then, without more, it entered the woods and disappeared (…) Bernard Heuvelmans believes that the film is a hoax, as does John Napier", + "location": "USA, Bluff Creek (California)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids…\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p 128, 129", + "…", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2479" + }, + { + "date": "10/21/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 10pm, four boys were driving on Route 7 when they saw three men on the road who \"seemed to fly away\" and disappeared. They were about one meter twenty tall and wore bright blue-green clothes. Their faces looked human but with very large ears. The next day, the mysterious footprint of a small foot with only four toes was found in the mud.", + "location": "USA, Oklahoma", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Marie DOUCHET - Nostra 144 of 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2480" + }, + { + "date": "10/25/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three young boys reported having witnessed the landing of a dome-shaped craft with a \"small bump\" on top. The object reportedly landed about 200 m away from the witnesses and left some traces.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Malvern", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Marie DOUCHET - Nostra 144 of 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2481" + }, + { + "date": "10/26/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A businessman was driving in his car when the electrical equipment of his vehicle stopped working. An object of about twenty meters in diameter passed at a hundred meters and at a height of fifteen meters. The witness spent the rest of the day in a kind of trance.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Reading", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Marie DOUCHET- Nostra 144 of 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2482" + }, + { + "date": "10/31/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man in a car suddenly saw a beam of light fall on him from an object located about thirty meters from the ground. Looking at it through the windshield, he saw that the beam had a diameter of 60 to 90 cm and that it was hollow. (Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\". - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 173) Suddenly driving at 100 km/h without knowing why, the car stopped, the headlights went out, the radio went silent. (...) Spargo's car restarted as suddenly as it had stopped, by what effect? This time Spargo stopped deliberately. He looked up at the sky, but all he saw were stars.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Boyup Brook", + "ref": [ + "Johannes von BUTLAR: \"Ovni, we are not alone - Presses de la Cité 1979, p. 180", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2483" + }, + { + "date": "11/6/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning, Carl Farlow was driving a truck loaded with stoves on the part of the A 338 road connecting the villages of Sopley and Avon. He was approaching the intersection near a bridge crossing the Avon River, when the headlights of his van went out. His diesel engine continued to run and assuming a simple short circuit, he stopped to look for the cause of this sudden malfunction. Before he had time to get out of the cab, he was surprised to see a curious ovoid object moving from right to left across the road in front of him, about 7.50m from the ground. It was magenta in color with a white base and was about 24 meters long, large enough to overshadow both sides of the road as it crossed it, exhaling a smell like \"a drill bit attacking wood\" and making a sound like \"that of a refrigerator\". As it crossed the road, the craft gradually accelerated, and after a few seconds it disappeared completely from Farlow's field of vision. Farlow then realized that a Jaguar that had come from the opposite direction was broken down on the other side of the UFO's trajectory. Its driver, a veterinarian, approached Farlow and explained that his vehicle was out of service and that his passenger was in a state of hysteria. He then offered to call the police, which they did. The police joined them shortly afterwards. A preliminary inspection of the site revealed that the surface of the road seemed to have melted. The veterinarian's passenger, in shock, was taken to the hospital.", + "location": "ENGLAND, Avon - Shopley (Hampshire)", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO Files\", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p. 30, 31", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2484" + }, + { + "date": "11/20/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7pm a dense and orderly formation of yellowish lights was seen heading south. It was spotted from the anchored lighthouse boat, and 55,000 spectators of a football match, looking up, were interested in the maneuvers of this aerial formation.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Lowestoft (Norfolk)", + "ref": [ + "J.G. Dohmen: \"To Identify and the Adamski Case\" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 75", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2485" + }, + { + "date": "11/20/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In both directions, five planes made calls to Brussels-National. Each pilot said they had been overflown by mysterious lights heading towards the Belgian-German border east-west.", + "location": "In flight, between London and Brussels", + "ref": [ + "J.G. DOHMEN: \"To Identify and the Adamski Case\" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 75", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2486" + }, + { + "date": "11/22/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9pm, a group of rugby players training received the visit of a large lens surrounded by blue, which came to frolic above the sports field. It stopped on the ground or very close to the ground and in a strong emission of light returned to its initial orbit. The UFO produced a sound not comparable to that of an engine.", + "location": "FRANCE, Fleury d'Aude (Narbonne)", + "ref": [ + "J.G. DOHMEN: \"To Identify and the Adamski Case\" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 76", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2487" + }, + { + "date": "12/2/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around midnight, while taking the air in his garden (note from vog: in December? what a heat my ancestors!) a Romanian was witness to the passage of a shining object that was moving at an extraordinary speed. The device in question had the shape of a cylinder and its luminosity resembled that of the sun when it is reflected by a window.", + "location": "ROMANIA, unspecified", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Marie DOUCHET - Nostra - 6.11.1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2488" + }, + { + "date": "12/3/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:30 PM (or 2:30 AM) police officer Herbert Schirmer, patrolling at night in his car, encountered a UFO which paralyzed him with a beam and he had a \"conversation\" with one of the occupants of the craft. (He saw an object with a row of blinking lights. Thinking it was a truck, the policeman \"put on his headlights\". The object took off (...) He returned home with a strong headache and heard a buzzing that prevented him from sleeping. He also had a red spot under his left ear) In Boulder (Colorado) he was put into a hypnotic state in order to be questioned about his encounter. It was Dr. Leo Sprinkle, a psychologist at the University of Wyoming, who conducted the hypnosis and the interrogation.", + "location": "USA, Ashland (Nebraska)", + "ref": [ + "for the parenthetical addition and italics..: Jacques VALLEE: \"Autres dimensions\" - trad. Robert Laffont 1989 - p. 266", + "Henry DURRANT: \"Le livre noir des S.V.\" - Laffont 1970 - p.215", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2489" + }, + { + "date": "12/3/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A woman encountered a strange small entity resembling a cactus with four limbs leaving deep tracks.", + "location": "Spain, Barcelona", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"All about Flying Saucers\", ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p.214", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2490" + }, + { + "date": "12/11/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A teenage girl looking out the window of her bedroom, saw a furry creature with extremely long arms and legs, standing in the yard of the house. It was very dark but the young girl could clearly distinguish the silhouette of the being in question, swaying in the yard.", + "location": "USA, Brooksville (Florida)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa 1977, p.169", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2491" + }, + { + "date": "12/12/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The voices seemed to come from a loudspeaker saying in unison the same thing, in an English that seemed translated as the words were chopped. (Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 186) A lady who wishes to remain anonymous had her car stopped by a flying saucer. She was driving towards her house at 7:15 pm with her 5-year-old son in the back seat. Suddenly she saw flashes of light through the windshield. She thought it was a police check. But then she saw an unusual object passing over her car. There were red and green lights, and the object was oval-shaped. The engine slowed down, all the electricity went out, so she stopped barely 40 meters from the first contact. The aerial object remained suspended above the car. Although the radio was not turned on, she heard like a choir, like a group saying the same thing at the same time, in the same tone but in a foreign language. A single voice seemed to speak in English telling her not to be afraid. Then the flying object started to move, and the car too, while the witness was not driving it, over a distance of two miles. When other cars appeared on the road, the UFO left and the witness finally regained normal control of her vehicle.", + "location": "USA, Ithaca (New York)", + "ref": [ + "APRG, on the Internet in May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2492" + }, + { + "date": "12/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) LAUNCH OF COSMOS 198, SPY SATELLITE INTERESTED IN EVERYTHING THAT MOVES ON THE OCEANS", + "location": "USSR, TIOURATAM", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 100", + "RADAR", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2493" + }, + { + "date": "12/26/1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 4 in the morning, Jorge Clerici and his wife were returning to Catamarca. They were driving on a deserted road when suddenly the night was pierced by two beams of violet light, which then turned green. Mr. Clerici stopped the car and turned off the headlights. He then saw a UFO about 2 meters in diameter pass by quickly and disappear. They continued on their way. A few kilometers later, the object reappeared and began to fly over the car, only a few meters above it. Completely panicked, Mr. Clerici made a U-turn and drove back to the village of Andalgala which he had just left. The object moved away. Mr. Clerici waited until daybreak before leaving again.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Catamarca", + "ref": [ + "Charles GARREAU: \"Alerte dans le ciel: le dossier des enlèvements\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p.172, 173", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2494" + }, + { + "date": "1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On a Saturday night, this merchant from Cuzco in a car towards his property in Urubamba to spend the weekend, saw around 9 pm and in a cloudy sky his car break down 50 or 60 m from the banks of the lake. He got out with his flashlight to examine the engine when a bright light illuminated the whole area and there was a very distinct sound of running water. On his right the witness then saw a disc emerge from the water, about 8 m in diameter, with a metallic shine and greenish reflections, equipped with several portholes and crowned with a rotating dome and leave at great speed passing on the other side of the road, vertically from the witness. Once the UFO was far away, the car started normally.", + "location": "PERU, Huaypo Lagoon", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 27 - 1976, p. 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2495" + }, + { + "date": "1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A collision was said to have occurred between a car and a UFO. The next day, the driver found a piece of metal at the observation site and he took a fibrous metal sample from the car. This fibrous sample contained 92% magnesium according to Lorenzen and according to Condon.", + "location": "USA, Maumee (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Confrontations\" - Laffont 1991, p. 68", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2496" + }, + { + "date": "1967", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Campbell first observed an unusual object in the sky, in the evening. Then he \"felt\" a presence. He decided to speak to it, and little by little, with small blue and yellow lights, a humanoid shape appeared, which vanished into nothingness.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA - in the west of the country", + "ref": [ + "ABC radio \"Investigations\" 24/3/75. - Keith Baskerfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2497" + }, + { + "date": "1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) THEN A NEW LAUNCH FAILURE WAS RECORDED IN 1968, WITH THE WEATHER SATELLITE \"NIMBUS\" CRASHING INTO THE SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL, OFF THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA. THIS TIME THE CONTAINER OF THE RADIOACTIVE LOAD (3 kilograms of plutonium) WAS RECOVERED, INTACT, BY A POCKET SUBMARINE.", + "location": "USA, off the coast of California", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 116", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2498" + }, + { + "date": "Late 1/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Axel Aberg was on the beach around 11 pm when he saw, astonished, a luminous craft emerge from the sea in a shower of water. The object approached the beach and stopped about twenty meters away from him. A luminous beam shot out from it and the witness felt as if he was paralyzed. As if in a nightmare, he saw two beings appear standing next to the UFO. Their height exceeded two meters and one was taller than the other. They seemed to be made of crystal, they moved stiffly as if they had no joints or were mummified. (Jean-Marie DOUCHET - Nostra - 20.11.1979) (...) (1968, late January)", + "location": "URUGUAY, Torres", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.75,76", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2499" + }, + { + "date": "1/31/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Serafim Sebastiao, married, 36 years old, security guard in a military installation was working that night and noticed that the radio receiver was not functioning properly. He went outside and saw an oval-shaped object, of metallic appearance with, on the upper part, a \"glass tower\". He first saw two humanoids. He stepped back to get a different view and then saw that there were two more, making a total of four: two inside the craft and two outside. When the witness directed his flashlight towards them, all he saw was that they seemed to be dressed in lead. He heard a sound like that of a bee hive. The object had a diameter of 6 m and a height of 3 m. The witness does not know how the two entities on the ground got into the craft which then took off at a lightning speed, enveloping the witness in an immense light beam, then in \"fumigations\" or gases which left him unconscious, just at the moment he decided to call for reinforcement by radio. It was there, at 5 o'clock in the morning, that he was found, still unconscious. He had to be hospitalized for 5 days. (1968, night of January 31st to February 1st)", + "location": "ACORES-PORTUGAL, Criaçao do Cabrito, Terceira", + "ref": [ + "collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenço; \"Diario de Lisboa\"-26.02.68,\"insolito\" n°13, n°14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2500" + }, + { + "date": "2/9/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4:30 PM, the witnesses, among others, observed a strange, loud object entangled in a cloud of smoke. It flew so low that it created a vacuum above the grass.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Redinha", + "ref": [ + "collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenço; \"Diario Popular\" 14.4.68", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2501" + }, + { + "date": "2/9/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3:20 a.m. the farmer heard his cows mooing in the field near the house, as if something was frightening them. He rushed to the window and saw, a hundred meters away in the dark night, a bright light of such luminosity that he could move around inside without turning on the lamp and outside he saw his animals in a semi-circle to the left of the light. It was an enormous circular craft, and the greenish light came from the concave side. Its apparent size was 30 cm, it remained stationary 6 or 7 meters from the ground, in the middle there were 7 openings or portholes which in real dimensions must have been between 60 and 75 cm in diameter. The cows were standing 30 to 60 meters from the craft and some were looking towards the object. And then, suddenly, one of the cows turned around and ran, tail in the air, towards the barn, the others followed. In a few seconds the field was empty. Throughout the time there was a noise (...) like the whistling of a piece of iron spinning, but it was also jerky at the same time. At the moment of departure this noise became louder and the jerks more rapid. It left quickly towards the southwest at an angle of 45° without ever changing its horizontal position. (February 9, 1968)", + "location": "USA, Groveton, Missouri", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK: \"New Report on UFOs\" - Belfond 1979, pp. 189-191", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2502" + }, + { + "date": "2/12/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An explosion occurred. Several people had previously seen an object flying over the virgin forest. After hearing the explosion, people went to the site and found a hole and also metal fragments. They brought to Bogota on February 20, a piece of 3 m in diameter and weighing 57 kg. The witnesses had tried in vain to break the metal to be able to transport it more easily but in vain. No tool was able to cut the piece. The surface of the metal was covered with small grooves, but even with a hammer or a chisel one could not trace grooves on it. [vog: so there is a fairly substantial UFO piece? we want to see it, touch it, make sure it's true, read the analyses that have been done, everything...]", + "location": "COLOMBIA, Pitipui", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - p.164", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2503" + }, + { + "date": "2/18/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 8:30am, the owner of a restaurant, Sekul Medenica, heard an explosion near his house in Sremcica (18 km from Belgrade), which broke several windows. Three trees were burned and a crater had been dug in the ground right next to the restaurant. The crater contained a striated, dark gray metallic body. Ovoid in shape, about 20 cm in size, it weighed 1900 g and appeared to be made of magnesium. (vog: yet another piece of unknown origin? let's see it then! I bet it was a fragment of an artificial satellite..) Unknown origin.", + "location": "YUGOSLAVIA, Sremcica", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\" - trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 254", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2504" + }, + { + "date": "3/8/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 04:00, a group of ten students were awoken at the university residence by Mr. A. Branco Rodriguez from the Chemistry department. They observed for five minutes an orange, slow-moving object. It alternated between round, like the sun, and triangular with what seemed to be helicopter blades at the ends. It then took an elongated shape before disappearing towards Figueira da Foz. Photos were taken: on one of the photos the object resembled the cone of the Apollo capsule, and on another a shape like an egg was seen resting on a plate. (1968, 8 March)", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Coimbra", + "ref": [ + "J.G. DOHMEN: \"A Identifier et le Cas Adamski\" - Ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 130", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2505" + }, + { + "date": "3/14/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Manselon, 37 years old, operating a small quarry, was returning around 7:50 PM from the hut where an employee was stopping the generator. Still lost in his thoughts, the witness walked with his head down. Suddenly a bright light made him look up and immediately he felt immobilized: he tried to back away, in vain, to advance: in vain. To call out: impossible, no sound came out of his mouth. In front of him there was a kind of luminous barrel, 1.50 m from the ground. It was 2 m high and 1.50 m wide. It was a very bright white but not dazzling. Two very bright antennas topped it: the object was 5 or 6 m from the witness. However, the upper edge was indistinct and blurred: the object did not light up around it. He stayed facing this thing for a minute, then it rose slowly vertically. As it rose, the witness was more relaxed. When it reached 8 or 10 m in altitude, the thing tilted and went out. He saw nothing more, heard nothing more, felt nothing more: he was scared and started to tremble. He ran towards the hut but the employee there had not noticed anything", + "location": "FRANCE, Malataverne (Montélimar - Drôme)", + "ref": [ + "L.D.L.N. \"Mysterious Flying Saucers\" - ALBATROS-ETAPES 1973 - pp. 99-104", + "after investigation this seems to be true: from that place he could not see", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2506" + }, + { + "date": "3/19/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Gregory Wells was leaving his grandmother's house, just a few steps from his home, around 8:30 pm when he saw a large oval object hovering above the trees. It was red and very bright. Suddenly, a tube emerged from the bottom and headed towards the boy. A beam of light shot out and Gregory was thrown to the ground, screaming in fear as the top of his jacket caught fire. He was taken to the hospital with second-degree burns.", + "location": "USA, Beallsville (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p 146", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2507" + }, + { + "date": "3/1968 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 6:00 PM, Valentina Flores went out to bring in the flock of sheep and llamas that were grazing a kilometer away. She had just finished locking up the sheep and was returning with the llamas when she noticed that the enclosure she had carefully closed was open and a kind of net was covering it. Inside the enclosure she saw a small man about 1.10 m tall, busy killing her sheep with a large tube with a hook at the end. Thinking it was a sheep thief, she threw stones at him. Then the strange creature headed towards a box resting on four legs, resembling a radio: he turned a wheel on the top of the post and it quickly absorbed all the net stretched over the enclosure. Mrs. Flores armed herself with a stick and approached to punish the thief. But he advanced towards her with the same instrument that had been used to bleed the sheep, throwing it several times against her, inflicting slight cuts on her arms. Each time the instrument returned to his right hand, like a boomerang. Then the humanoid picked up the box that had absorbed the net and a kind of plastic bag containing the viscera of the killed animals. The creature wore a helmet with a visor topped with a rod about 3 cm long, double-curved in the shape of an S. He wore a dark suit, his legs tucked into thick boots that seemed to be lined. On his back he carried a bag with sharp angles held by two wide, thick, light straps crossed over his chest. A rigid rod came out of the bag. Holding the net device in one hand and the viscera bag in the other, two large tubes emerged from under the backpack, on the side, until they touched the ground. Then the little man began to rise into the air and then, accelerating his ascent with an extraordinary whistling noise, he finally disappeared. The alerted police soon arrived: they noted the loss of 34 sheep and on each of the corpses small sections of the digestive tube and organs had been taken. (Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 98, 99 which dates from March) Mrs. Valentina Flores was busy in the kitchen when she heard her sheep stirring, etc… (1968, March (May 14?))", + "location": "BOLIVIA, Otoko (Uyuni)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids…\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p. 31, 32, which dates to May 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2508" + }, + { + "date": "4/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The USSR began in 1968 its tests of satellite interception under the cover of Cosmos. Three distinct phases are noted in this experimentation: a first period of tests extending from April 1968 to December 1971: six targets and seven hunters will be used on this occasion. [followed by February 1976] (April 1968)", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 148", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2509" + }, + { + "date": "Mid 4/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Military personnel working on an irrigation project saw a large disc followed by flames, land on the sand. It flew away as a motorbike team approached to examine it. On the ground remained a cross-shaped trace. (1968, mid-April)", + "location": "MONGOLIA, Gobi Desert", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 343", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2510" + }, + { + "date": "4/20/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:30 the witness saw at a hundred meters above the ground, an object that was gliding slowly and had an elaborate shape: the middle part in the shape of a disk with at the front a kind of conical cabin attached by a neck to the disk and divided into rectangular lamellas; at the back the tail looked like the rudder of an airplane. The observer noted no noise, did not see any smoke but was surprised by its sudden disappearance (Dan Fleseriu). (April 20, 1968)", + "location": "ROMANIA, Timisoara", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les Pays de l'Est\" - translation Laffont 1976, p. 308", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2511" + }, + { + "date": "4/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A bus driver was participating in a youth excursion to Tossa de Mar. All the passengers observed a bright and circular object that was clearly trying to land. It stopped and a tall man emerged. The young people fled and the driver remained alone. The strange visitor had a shining ball in his hand and he walked around his vehicle, then he got back in. The craft rose and flew away. The witness noticed that his watch had stopped. (Jean FERGUSON: \"Everything about Flying Saucers\", ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p. 201) (Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 175 and 179). (April 1968)", + "location": "SPAIN, Tossa de Mar (Gerona)", + "ref": [ + "Erich ZURCHER: \"The Appearances of Humanoids\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 203", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2512" + }, + { + "date": "5/17/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:45 PM, in a VW minibus, José Da Silva, the driver, and passengers Manuel Gonzalez, Flavio and Moises were driving with the windows closed because it was raining and the radio was on. Suddenly they saw a bright light and a noise like the sound of an electric drill. At the same time the van was lifted and held in the air (estimated height of 50 cm from the ground) for a moment, after which it fell and was immediately lifted again and placed with less force. After stopping they saw in front of them at 100 m altitude a strange intensely bright craft that suddenly accelerated and stopped at 500m. Frightened, the witnesses did not take their eyes off the thing: it was circular, appearing to be no more than 2 m in diameter, on the lower part several openings like portholes, through which indefinable movements passed. A reddish light seemed to rotate around the upper part. The UFO remained motionless for a few minutes, tilted and flew very quickly towards the sea. A truck driver arrived who had seen it all from a distance. The two vehicles did not leave each other until they reached their destination. Secondary effects: Moises was vomiting, Gonzalez had lost all the hair from his eyebrows and was suffering from itching, Da Silva who had a thick head of hair, became bald in less than a year. On the roof of the minibus a round burn with blisters of broken paint in the center.", + "location": "BRAZIL, between Florianopolis and Laguna", + "ref": [ + "Cuarto Dimension N° 20 pp. 26 to 28", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2513" + }, + { + "date": "5/18/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 5 o'clock in the morning C.S. Dos Santos, a night watchman, returned home after finishing his work. In the courtyard of his house he found a small metal cylinder partially embedded in the ground. It was of a fairly high weight (like a car battery) and at each end it had dials, protected by glass or plastic lenses, resembling manometers, (vog: there is no doubt that 1968 is the year when UFOs lose their sheets and bolts anywhere ...), said Dos Santos. Dos Santos took a snack before going to bed and placed the cylinder on the window sill of the bathroom. That night he went to work as usual and had completely forgotten his find. At 1 o'clock in the morning, he goes home to see if his wife needs anything (she is pregnant) and finds his wife, his son and the neighbors outside, in lively animation. His wife told him that she had been awakened by a buzzing like a large transformer and by an immense, suffocating heat. Fearing a short circuit, she got up to turn off the electricity. At that moment she saw an intense bluish light in the bathroom and the noise that seemed to come from there was indeed the one that had awakened her. Frightened, she went to call the neighbors. As soon as they were in the courtyard, an enormous crash resounded, the moment after the heat and the light had disappeared. In the bathroom there was a hole in the ceiling and debris of tiles everywhere. The object he placed on the window sill had disappeared.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Caconde (Sao Paulo)", + "ref": [ + "R. Jack Perrin: \"The Mystery of UFOs\" - J'ai Lu / Pygmalion 1976 - pp. 18 to 21", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2514" + }, + { + "date": "6/13/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A 19-year-old girl saw a tall, blond humanoid holding a crystal sphere emitting violent flashes in his left hand. (Erich ZURCHER: \"Les apparitions d'humanoïdes\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 203) At around 0:40, Maria Eliada Pretzel (19 years old) said goodnight to her fiancé and some guests as they left the family motel La Cuesta. Her father had gone out for the evening. She turned off the lights of the motel, then noticed a glow in the hall. That's when she found herself in the presence of a blond man over two meters tall, wearing a tight-fitting suit made of shiny sky blue scales. He held a sphere, also sky blue, in his left hand that kept moving. Smiling continuously, he waved his right hand, adorned with a huge ring in front of her. Light shot out from the tips of his fingers and Maria felt lethargic, while feeling \"kindness and goodness\" emanating from the creature. At the same time he muttered a language that made her think of \"Chinese\". (vog: really? It sounded like Chinese, really???) Maria was petrified, but after a few minutes the being slowly headed towards the side door and left. Maria fainted and was discovered around 0:50 by her father.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Villa Carlos Paz", + "ref": [ + "Guy TARADE: SV et civilisations d'outre-espace\" - J'AI LU 1969, p. 195, 196", + "“Dossiers OVNI”, ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Hors série, p. 32", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2515" + }, + { + "date": "6/14/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Shortly after midnight, the reserve units heard several bursts of machine gun fire in the area where Isidro Puentes was supposed to be, who was on patrol alone. It was only at sunrise that they found him lying on the ground unconscious. He was taken to the hospital in Pinar del Rio while the military intelligence services went to the scene. They found 48 shells from Isidro's machine gun and 14 flattened projectiles, as if they had hit a particularly hard surface. They also found a depression formed of a central hole one meter in diameter surrounded by three smaller marks. The radars had also detected a strange object. Within a radius of 5 meters the ground was charred and covered with gray dust. The Soviet specialists arrived and carried out detailed analyses. Isidro remained in a state of shock for 15 days, unable to express himself. He was taken to the naval hospital in Havana. (...) When Isidro was finally able to speak, he said that shortly before midnight he had seen a whitish blue light filtering through the trees. He approached within 50 meters of the object resting in the middle of a clearing. He thought it was an American helicopter and fired at the craft, which changed color to orange. The last thing he remembered was a loud whistle. (1968, night of June 14th to 15th)", + "location": "CUBA, Cabanas", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Confrontations\" - Laffont 1991, p. 145", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2516" + }, + { + "date": "7/15/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 5:30 in the morning, the inhabitants of a small town were disturbed by an extremely shrill noise, which woke them up, while at the same time they were bathed in a light that penetrated the walls, while everywhere dogs were howling to death. Gradually both the noise and the light diminished, but it took a while for them to completely disappear.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Salta", + "ref": [ + "The 1962 Ufo-Flap Remembered, Joseph Trainor, Saucer Roundup", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2517" + }, + { + "date": "7/17/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Pedro Dema Filho, residing at Conceiçao Street No. 12 in Rio de Janeiro, was at 11 pm on the main road of Sao Paulo near the Dom Bosco seminary when he heard a buzzing sound that grew louder. Suddenly he was blinded by a powerful beam of light and two green lights that appeared near him. When the lights disappeared he saw an object whose horizontal door opened, letting out four entities no more than 50 cm tall. The creatures were greenish and wore something like headphones on their heads. They ran in his direction. He tried to flee but found himself immobilized. He could still see, hear and think, but could no longer move or speak. The little creatures spoke to him in Portuguese, but he thinks it was telepathy because he never saw their lips move. Grabbing him by the arms, they pulled him inside the craft, which looked like a laboratory. He was subjected to a questionnaire and a physical examination. Bringing him outside, the abductors informed him that after their departure everything would be in his mind like a dream. Terrified and confused, he stood at the side of the road and watched the craft take off.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Sao Paulo", + "ref": [ + "R. Jack Perrin: \"The Mystery of UFOs\" - J'ai Lu/Pygmalion 1976, pp. 225 and 226", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2518" + }, + { + "date": "7/20/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three 14-year-old girls, at a summer camp near Lake Kaarna, were sitting around a table at the back of the house between midnight and 1:00 a.m. when they suddenly saw a star moving at great speed, joining a cigar-shaped object that had suddenly appeared and entering it. It was quite frightening, but since it was late, they were going to bed. As they were undressing, their room was flooded with light, and the large, shining cigar was then 150 m away. It was like a bus, surrounded by orange and yellow beams of light. The large light disappeared, but there was a luminous mist that shone with a bluish-green color. Around the object there was a belt of the same color. The object seemed to become smaller and finally there was only a disc. The blue light was very frightening to the teenagers. This had been going on for five minutes when they heard a very faint buzzing and the object disappeared, they do not know how. One of the young girls felt the need to go out and see, and at the corner of the house she saw a small human figure, a little woman with a silver ribbon crossing her chest. This good woman simply vanished into the air, and the young girl quickly returned to her room with her friends. They did not sleep all night. The next day, where they had seen the craft, they found an almost circular trace of 2 m in diameter with burned grass, and then another and another: over 180 m there were several of these imprints.", + "location": "ESTONIA, Vesti (Otepaa)", + "ref": [ + "International Ufo Reporter vol. 2, no. 12 - 1977", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2519" + }, + { + "date": "7/25/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was in the morning on an airfield. The four military personnel were intrigued by an intense glow on a rescue track. They went to the site in a jeep and saw a round craft, equipped with landing gear and equipped with headlights of different colors that was stationary on the ground. Three beings descended. Their size: 2 m. They had a human appearance but were dressed in phosphorescent uniforms. The frightened military personnel saw that the beings were coming towards them. The brigadier who commanded the group decided to shoot them, but in his nervousness, he fortunately did not hit them. The beings had luminous balls in their hands and these balls shot rays at the soldiers who were paralyzed. Immediately the strange visitors returned to their craft which flew away at full speed. (Jean FERGUSON: \"Everything about Flying Saucers\", ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p. 201). The corporal ordered the \"invaders\" to surrender and as they did not obey, he fired a burst of machine gun, which had no effect either on the craft or on the invaders. But at the same time the military personnel were paralyzed, for three minutes, by rays from bright spheres that the beings held in one hand raised above their heads. When the military personnel regained their senses, the UFO had left and was only a small point fading in the sky.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Olavarria", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on Humanoid ET\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 67, 68", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2520" + }, + { + "date": "7/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Four fishermen and a boy of about ten years old saw pass above the boat, a golden object, in the shape of a rocket. This object made a very light whistling sound. On the first pass the object quickly disappeared from their view, but it made a U-turn and returned. Then the object disappeared into the sea and the witnesses heard the \"splash\". They approached the place but found neither debris nor even bubbles in the water.", + "location": "MALTA, at sea, 30 km north of Malta", + "ref": [ + "Investigation by John Joseph Mercieca, Maltese ufologist - Internet November 1996", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2521" + }, + { + "date": "7/31/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 9 o'clock, Luce Fontaine, a farmer (...) was picking grass for his rabbits in the Plaine des Cafres when he saw in a small clearing 20 m away from him, an oval-shaped object, measuring about 5 m in diameter and 2 to 3 m thick, hovering 1 m above the ground. The central part of the craft was transparent and Luce Fontaine could make out two small, wide shapes inside the unknown vehicle, about 1 m tall, resembling Michelin men. One of them spotted the farmer and immediately there was a blinding light that erased the landscape in a fantastic explosion of white light. Luce Fontaine lowered his eyes to protect himself and when he looked again, the object had disappeared. Afraid of being mocked, Luce Fontaine did not immediately inform the authorities.", + "location": "REUNION (ISLAND OF THE ..) Plaine des Cafres.", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"Le dossier des Ovni\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 146-147", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2522" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Four patrol boats of the Lüda naval patrol, (...) were patrolling the sea not far from the coast. Suddenly the soldiers discovered a luminous object, which, of golden color, of oval shape, skimmed the surface of the water at an incredible speed. Shortly after this object disappeared to the right of the fleet. Almost at the same time, all the radars and all the wireless telecommunications installations of the four patrol boats broke down. The ships continued to patrol for half an hour and found that two large warships were rushing towards them. (...) The situation was very tense. At this critical moment, the communication instruments began to function normally again. (...) (1968, Summer)", + "location": "CHINA, Lüda (Liaoning)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.52", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2523" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A small flying saucer approximately 6 meters in diameter landed on the Nellis Air Force Base. Witnesses had seen it emerge a few minutes earlier from a huge saucer that had been hovering stationary above the base for three days, but at an altitude too high to be seen up close. To greet the visitors, a colonel was sent with an armed patrol in case of incident, but without any aggressive intentions. Then a small humanoid emerged from the craft, perhaps misunderstanding the intentions of the colonel or his men, and directed a blinding light beam at him, paralyzing him in place. Seeing this, the patrol leader ordered his men to shoot, but their automatic weapons jammed immediately and they too felt completely paralyzed by the blinding beam of the humanoid. (vog: we are in full fantasy fiction with this Chatelain...) The humanoid then calmly returned to his craft, closed the door and took off vertically in front of the astonished witnesses, who saw the small saucer join its mother in the sky. (1968, Summer)", + "location": "USA, Nellis Air Force Base (Nevada)", + "ref": [ + "Maurice CHATELAIN: \"The Messengers of the Cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, p. 28", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2524" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) R.L. and A.B., two women, had reached Bon-Pasteur Street at 19:30. The moon was shining brightly in the sky. The two women had reached a vacant lot when suddenly everything became dark: there was no more moon. A pitch black darkness that lasted a few seconds. Then the moonlight reappeared. Then the two women noticed in the vacant lot two small figures passing in the round disk of the moon, which was at the horizon level at that hour. Two beings, one of which was visibly smaller than the other. The larger one must have been 1.70 m and the other 1.60 m. (vog: not so small, and such precision on their size!) They were all black. They were wearing a garment that seemed to be made of one piece (...) They had a human appearance and a human-looking face. One of the two figures had a kind of pick (fork with two branches) and seemed to be probing the ground or scratching the earth. They were floating instead of walking. (...) (1968, Summer)", + "location": "Canada, Laval-des-Rapides (Quebec)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p. 43,44", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2525" + }, + { + "date": "8/2/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two women saw an rectangular object on the ground about 150m from them. The dimensions were estimated to be 9m in length, 4m in height, and 3m in width. \"Two legs located at the front of the craft formed its landing gear\" and two portholes were visible. When the object rose, it did so silently before disappearing on the horizon.", + "location": "SPAIN, Valdemanco-Ciudad Real", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Marie DOUCHET - Nostra - 27.2.1980", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2526" + }, + { + "date": "8/21/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Witnesses Marius Carré and Paul Billard were in a field almost at the top of a hill with a cart pulled by a tractor to collect bundles of rye. It was about 10:30. First Marius Carré noticed to the left of a pine forest, on a small hill 2 km away to the southwest, a very light white spot that had the appearance of a lozenge. He compared it to a picnic blanket spread on the grass. Paul Billard spoke of a mass on the ground the approximate size of a small car. Without thinking further, the two farmers began to load a cart. Half an hour later, the operation finished, they bring the cart back into a path, hitch another empty cart to the tractor and start to load it. They then see, from the point where the \"white blanket\" was, a kind of luminous extension in the shape of a tube or factory chimney, which lengthens approximately in their direction. In 5 to 10 minutes this luminous tube reaches the record length of 2 km and comes to a sudden stop on a hedge (a bush hedge marking 30 to 40 m from the witnesses, the limit of the field). This luminous tube is extremely bright and almost unbearable to the eye. Paul Billard nevertheless tries to look. This is perhaps why the next day he will have sore eyes and have to wear sunglasses. The two witnesses agree to describe the end of the tube of 1 or 2 m in diameter as a kind of bright, moving spider web, like the luminous points on a lit television screen. This situation lasts about ten minutes. Marius Carré, mainly concerned with bringing in his rye, the work continues undisturbed while the end of this fantastic thing is there, forty meters away, and follows the tractor in its progress. A hundred meters traveled in ten minutes. Then, just as slowly as it had lengthened, the tube begins to contract, disappearing completely after 5 to 10 minutes. The object seen on the ground about three quarters of an hour earlier is still there but Marius Carré now sees it green, like some wrapping paper. Suddenly it disappears. Paul Billard then believes he can see, in the pine woods, like a 2 CV going away.", + "location": "FRANCE, Villers en Morvan (Côte d'Or)", + "ref": [ + "L.D.L.N. \"Mysterious Flying Saucers\" - ALBATROS-ETAPES 1973 - P. 96 to 99", + "Henry DURRANT: The UFO File - Laffont 1973 - p. 137 to 140", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2527" + }, + { + "date": "8/27/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Dona Maria Cintra, a receptionist at the Clemente Ferreiro sanatorium near Lins, early in the morning, heard a loud noise and a prolonged whistle. (...) Then as suddenly as it had begun, the noise stopped. A few minutes later, Dona Maria heard knocking at the door. She went to open it and found herself in front of a tall woman with light eyes (...) her face looked as if it had been powdered with rice powder. She addressed the receptionist in an unknown language with staccato intonations as if she was having difficulty breathing. (...) Dona Maria thought she understood that she wanted water as she was holding a very pretty bottle engraved with incomprehensible motifs. Dona Maria then let her in and filled her bottle with water. She walked with the stranger outside to the car park (...) That's when she saw in front of the stranger, at some distance, a circular, silver vessel that was oscillating slightly above the ground. The visitor got on board. Completely shaken, Dona Maria turned around and ran back inside the sanatorium, where, with other witnesses, she saw the craft rise and disappear 5... (Jean FERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes...\" - éd. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p. 40, 41) Mrs. J.M. Cintra gave water to a humanoid who said several times \"Rempaua\" or \"Abaura\" probably to thank her. (Henry DURRANT: \"Premières enquêtes sur les Humanoïdes ET\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 187) Maria Jose Cintra was woken up by a noise. At the entrance door stood a woman with a strange look. She spoke in an unknown language and handed Maria a cup and a glass bottle covered with beautiful engravings. Maria filled them. The woman said something resembling \"Rempaua\" and headed towards a shiny object, shaped like a pearl, which flew away with a great noise of wings.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Lins", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, premier dossier complet...\" éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 101", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2528" + }, + { + "date": "8/31/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two employees of the Mendoza casino were returning home when their car stopped inexplicably. Immediately they were surrounded by three beings, no more than one meter forty tall, bald and with an abnormally large skull. These creatures were dressed in sky blue jumpsuits and seemed to come from the circular craft that the witnesses saw on the ground. \"We have just landed for the third time,\" the strangers said. \"We are studying the customs of your planet. The Sun is good,\" they added sententiously, \"without it we would not exist.\" Then the three of them had fun engraving characters resembling Chinese writing on the Argentines' vehicle with a tool similar to an electric welder. Then, using a beam of light as a bridge, they got back into their craft, dragging the witnesses with them, offered a short \"television\" program featuring waterfalls and explosions, and finally took off with a great noise. The witnesses also declared that they had been paralyzed by these beings who pricked their index and middle fingers to take a few drops of blood.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Mendoza", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Marie DOUCHET - Nostra 2.4.1980", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2529" + }, + { + "date": "9/7/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) I have already spoken with a young girl from Toronto (...) who swore to me that she was violated on September 7, 1968 by a being in an astronaut suit and ten months later she gave birth to a stone whose composition revealed a high nickel content! I was not able to see the child in its entirety because according to this lady, laboratories from around the world were fighting over its pieces... [vog: she should have demanded that he at least take off his astronaut suit!!! and if we don't believe this one, the author will tell us another] (September 7, 1968)", + "location": "Canada, Toronto", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Enigmas of the Present Time\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1979, p.106", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2530" + }, + { + "date": "9/11/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11:45 PM the witness, intrigued by a glowing shape at the top of the hill, got out of his car and climbed the hill. He saw four bright shapes with metallic reflections, which he described as \"eights\" composed of two balls, the lower one bigger than the upper one. The things quickly climbed the hill towards the object, taking a bouncing step (the upper ball stretched and seemed to pull the lower part, producing a faint whistle. The \"eight\" measuring between 40 and 50 cm long then fell back into its original shape and so on) and disappeared underneath the large orange dome (5 m high). They seemed to ignore the witness's presence. The object immediately flew away at great speed. (September 11, 1968)", + "location": "SPAIN, San Marti de Tous (Barcelona)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"Premières enquêtes sur les Humanoïdes ET\" - Laffont 1977 - pp. 175 and 79", + "Antonio RIBERA: \"Procès aux OVNI\" - De Vecchi 1977 - pp. 77-81", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2531" + }, + { + "date": "9/21/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Early in the morning, 52-year-old fisherman Juan Ballesta saw two strange beings with yellow faces on the Cargol islet. They had a device similar to a buoy and were wearing tight black clothes. Ballesta described their faces as \"yellow and terrible\", so he rowed away with force and once on the coast he alerted the Civil Guard. (Jean FERGUSON: \"Everything about Flying Saucers\", ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p. 201) At 3:00 a.m. two beings emerged from inside the UFO on the sea. [vog: what do Spanish ufologists say? Nothing… it seems to me…]", + "location": "SPAIN, La Escala (Gerona)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on ET Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - p. 175 and 179", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2532" + }, + { + "date": "9/27/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, around 03:00, Henrique Schneider, witness of the landing of a conical craft, was momentarily paralyzed and had the opportunity to converse for 10 minutes by telepathy with... some kind of metal plate that slid out of the craft along an inclined plane. The answers to his questions were brief and stereotyped. In addition to an oil smell that permeated the landing site for a long time, the next day the footprints of the tripod on which the device rested were found. Inside this triangle, a circle of 65 cm in diameter was burned and 3 years later nothing had grown back yet.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Joinville (Santa Catarina)", + "ref": [ + "J. Scornaux and Chr. Piens: \"In Search of UFOs\" - Marabout 1976 - p.108", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2533" + }, + { + "date": "9/23/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two young witnesses were walking back at 03:00 on a small road, after having abandoned their moped due to lack of fuel. At the turn of the road, hidden by the grove, they saw a round object on the ground, of a luminous orange-red color, resting on metal feet about 1 m from the ground. All around was a luminous halo produced by numerous projectors arranged like portholes. The upper part in the shape of a dome was of a dark color. The length of the craft was 15 to 18m, the height 1.20m. Surprised, they hid in a ditch and observed the object from 150m away, as well as three beings moving with very strong light sources in their left hand. They seemed to be looking for something and ran without touching the ground, above the grass, at about 60 cm. One of the beings approached the witnesses, who fled in terror. They did not see the craft take off. One of the witnesses, Guy Lemarque, reported to the investigators that the three beings sometimes moved by making jumps of 100m, as if they were sliding, so quickly that the movement could not be followed. (1968, September 23 or 30)", + "location": "FRANCE, Roncenay", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 304, 305", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2534" + }, + { + "date": "10/1/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Farmer Louie Maule, 35 years old, was driving north towards his home from South Johnstone when he saw a large black object descend from the night sky, surrounded by red lights. It was gigantic, he said. He stopped to observe. The craft was flying towards South Johnstone at about 100 mph. The altitude must have been 50 feet, the diameter 60 feet, very visible by the ring of red lights surrounding it. At the end of the observation, the object sped off and disappeared into the clouds.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Tully", + "ref": [ + "Australian UFO's, on the Internet in May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2535" + }, + { + "date": "10/14/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A farmer found a dead cow near 7 circular traces of burned grass. A few days later, mushrooms the size of basketballs grew on these traces. Around the date of the discovery of the dead animal, the neighbors had noticed unusual lights in the sky. (Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 307) A civilian pilot had noticed a strange drawing on the ground and went there with the military. As they headed towards the place where a saucer had previously landed, they discovered a circle of 6 feet in diameter where the earth was scorched. In the circle, eight giant white mushrooms had grown. One of the mushrooms measured 3 feet in diameter. - In the province of Santa Fé, other extraordinary mushrooms were discovered under the same circumstances.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Correa (Rosario)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 60 dated November 12, 1968 and located in Necochea", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2536" + }, + { + "date": "10/18/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A whole family was drawn outside by the furious barking of the dog. They were then able to see an object of purple color moving at three meters from the ground and a strong smell of ammonia was felt. The object was spherical in shape and its diameter was about ten meters. It was possible to distinguish two occupants, as the UFO was partially transparent. The pilots looked like normal human beings. The observation lasted a few minutes, after which the craft suddenly rose and disappeared into space. (October 18, 1968)", + "location": "USA, Medula (Florida)", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Marie DOUCHET - Nostra - 21.5.1980", + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"Le dossier secret des OVNI\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p 28, 29", + "Keel 74", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2537" + }, + { + "date": "10/19/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A few days after the Americans had put their first occupied Apollo cabin into orbit, the Soviet Union had already launched a space vessel \"Zond 5\" towards the Moon, which was nothing more than a Soviet Soyouz without an orbital compartment. On October 19th, Cosmos 248 was propelled to 520 km in altitude by a Scarp rocket and began to orbit the Earth at an inclination of 62°. The following day, an identical rocket, launched from the same place, reached an orbit of the same inclination, but much higher; it evolved between 840 and 3380 km. After several trajectory corrections, Cosmos 249 passed in a flash above Cosmos 248 and exploded. At the moment, the NORAD specialists who recorded the explosion did not understand well. The radars recorded 81 different fragments in place of Cosmos 249, while they did not yet know that it was a decided explosion. (1968, October 19th and 20th)", + "location": "USSR, Tyuratam", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 150", + "see November 1st, 1968", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2538" + }, + { + "date": "10/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) André Kesteleyn was at 04:00 in the morning at the bus stop of Steenakkerstraat, to go to work. He heard a whistling that was getting louder. He thought it was a fighter plane, but then he saw the UFO. It was a saucer with a dome and round windows that were lit up. The UFO was coming from the city and flew at a very high speed above the roofs of the houses. For a fraction of a second the object stopped in front of the witness. The object was very close, the witness hoped to see the \"pilots\" through the windows, but he saw no movement. When the bus arrived, he was still shocked by what he had just experienced. For the record: since this observation, André Kesteleyn has never been sick again, not even a cold.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Ghent (East Flanders)", + "ref": [ + "He confided - after a 30 year silence - his story to the journalist of \"Streekkrant\", Ghent Algemeen, edition of October 29, 1996", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2539" + }, + { + "date": "11/1/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: October 19, 1968) Twelve days later, on November 1, Cosmos 252 was launched in turn still from Kazakhstan, by the same rocket. The next day it also exploded, into 117 pieces this time, after passing close to Cosmos 248. (...) At that moment it was not yet very well imagined that the USSR had undertaken the development of an anti-satellite satellite system! (November 1, 1968)", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 -Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 151", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2540" + }, + { + "date": "11/1/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Famous case of \"Doctor X\", born in 1930, biologist and musician. The doctor was awoken shortly before 04:00 in the morning by the crying of his 14-month-old baby. He found the child very excited, making gestures towards the window. Through the shutters the doctor saw flashes of light but didn't really pay attention and gave the baby a bottle of water. It was raining very hard. There were more flashes coming from the south, but no thunder. When he opened a window onto the terrace he saw two disk-shaped objects, horizontal, silver-white on top, bright red underneath. On top there were several vertical and one horizontal antenna and a white beam illuminating the fog beneath the disks, which were approaching each other until they made contact, the beams overlapping, the flashes ceasing while the two objects merged. After a while the disk turned vertical, swept the house with a beam of light, there was a kind of explosion and the disk left behind a whitish glow slowly dissipated by the wind. In the following days the doctor noticed that not only had the bruise he had sustained disappeared, but also the after-effects of a wound he had received during the Algerian War. However, he had lost weight, felt very disoriented and after a day of cramps and abdominal pain, he developed a triangular pigmentation around his navel. Now, in the night of November 13-14 the same triangle appeared on the baby's belly. This pigmentation remained visible for 2 or 3 days before disappearing. But its appearance was recurrent each year, as it was filmed again in 1985. (Michel Aimé 1969; Lob/Gigi 1975; Jacques VALLEE: \"Autres dimensions\" - trad. Robert Laffont 1989 - p. 198 to 200) etc..", + "location": "FRANCE (unspecified - south of France)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2541" + }, + { + "date": "12/15/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) From 18:58 to 20:00, 20 passengers of the \"Armor\" train observed the maneuvers of a white luminous ball that followed the train. This ball of intense brightness moved on a trajectory that faithfully followed that of the train. It went up and down, sometimes passing a few hundred meters in altitude, sometimes at ground level. Near the agglomerations it lingered above the houses, then caught up with the train a little further on. At Lamballe it stopped vertically to resume its curious game until its arrival in Rennes where it took altitude and suddenly disappeared into the clouds.", + "location": "FRANCE, from Saint Brieuc to Rennes", + "ref": [ + "M.FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 322", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2542" + }, + { + "date": "12/15/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10 PM, Pierre Drivière observed an egg-shaped object the size of a large car, yellow in color with orange reflections, moving quickly without making any noise. On his night patrol around the buildings of the \"Ultrasonic\" factory, Mr. Drivière was very surprised to hear a high-pitched and powerful voice say: \"700 K... 700 K... 700 K\". Believing he was dealing with pranksters, he circled the building, when the same voice again uttered the words \"700 KA\". He then observed the object 100 or 150 meters away from him, moving quickly from the south-east to the north-west.", + "location": "FRANCE, Meaux (Seine et Marne)", + "ref": [ + "M.FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - Ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 323", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2543" + }, + { + "date": "12/21/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Apollo VIII: presence detected of a space disc during the circumlunar voyage. (Philippe SCHNEYDER: \"Ovni, premier bilan\" - ed. du Rocher 1983, p. 233) On December 21, at 6 pm a mysterious, luminous object remained visible for about an hour and moved towards the west. The object was photographed at 7:26 pm by the photographic telescope of Professor Furia of the Campo dei Fiori Observatory. The \"Corriere della Sera\" of December 22, 68 reported: \"...the specialists were unable to give any explanation to this phenomenon, at least one of them located it in a hypothetical field.\" (S. DELLO STROLOGO: \"Ce que les Gouvernements vous cachent sur les S.V.\" De Vecchi 1975 p. 186-187) Apollo 8, Dec. 1968 (Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, William A. Anders) Frank Borman and Jim Lovell reported the presence of a \"bogie\" (ghost) at fifteen kilometers altitude. (J. Allen HYNEK and Jacques VALLEE: \"Aux limites de la réalité\" - ed. Albin Michel 1978, p84) During this flight, at the moment when the command module emerged from behind the moon, Lovell transmitted: \"We have just been informed that Santa Claus exists!\". As it was the eve of Christmas, most people on earth understood that it was a message given with Lovell's humor, for the many children watching television. Others suppose that this term, used for the first time by Walter Schirra in the Mercury 8 flight, has another meaning. The eve of Christmas Borman and Lovell nevertheless reported having seen a UFO. Rumors circulate that NASA would have captured phrases in an unknown language (vog: by Berlitz and Moore e.a.), on one of the frequencies used during the mission.", + "location": "IN SPACE", + "ref": [ + "1989 - listing and research of Harvey S. Stewart", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2544" + }, + { + "date": "Early 12/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Before the 20th) The primary school students saw a UFO at close range and were all scared. They noticed a window and an antenna on the saucer-shaped object which hovered at low altitude around a clump of poplars making a kind of \"tic-tac\" sound. It was as big as half the school swimming pool. The children had reported the object to their teacher. Suddenly the object shot up and flew off in the direction of Hastings, leaving behind a trail of vapor. In Hastings a teacher saw for about ten minutes an object making a kind of come-and-go motion. The nearby aerodrome and civil aviation in Napier confirmed that at the time of the sighting there were no planes in flight in that region. (1968, Early December)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Te Mata (Havelock North)", + "ref": [ + "Bruce CATHIE/ P.TEMM: \"Harmonic 695\" - ed. Sylvie Messinger 1981, p. 141, 142", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2545" + }, + { + "date": "Early 12/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (before the 20th - same day) Mrs. M. Berg reported that while standing at her doorstep, she had seen an object coming from the south-east. \"It was the noise it made that made me look up. It was a strange noise - not like any two I know.\" As she watched the object, it passed over her house. The underside looked like a boat keel and it had square fins. (Early December 1968)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Lipscombe Crescent (Auckland)", + "ref": [ + "Bruce CATHIE/ P.TEMM: \"Harmonic 695\" - ed. Sylvie Messinger 1981, p. 142, 143", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2546" + }, + { + "date": "12/28/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A resident of Goulburn, while out hunting, had a similar experience to one he had ten years prior. He saw an object approximately 40 feet in diameter and 10 feet high. As he approached, a being emerged from behind the object and circled around to meet him. It was a humanoid about five and a half feet tall with a youthful face and long hair. It was wearing a silver-colored material. A conversation ensued in English, which may have lasted three minutes, during which the being declared it was from Saturn. After that, it ran back to the object, which rose about fifteen feet, stayed stationary for a moment, then took off. The man had time to take four photos before it disappeared.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Goulburn (New South Wales)", + "ref": [ + "Bruce CATHIE/ P.TEMM: \"Harmonic 695\" - ed. Sylvie Messinger 1981, p. 150, 151", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2547" + }, + { + "date": "1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two people in a car saw a bright disc in the sky. They slowed down, stopped to get a better look, as it moved in sudden jumps and rapid maneuvers. Finally it descended behind the trees and the witnesses continued on their way. However, on the part of the journey between Burford and Stratford one of the witnesses understood surprising news which she described as \"Nature\" and \"Reality\" and which were related to the appearance of this bright disc. After dinner at friends that evening, she went out and saw a strange silhouette and she was seized with a cold panic. It had goat or dog legs, was covered in a silky, dark and shiny fur in the darkness. It was crouching and staring at her with green grape-colored eyes without blinking, slit upwards and without pupils: its eyes shone and it was frightening. It had pointed ears and a long muzzle. If it had stood up it must have been 1.50m tall, its hands and fingers were thin like sticks. The witness went back inside to let her panic pass. She then went to see if the creature was still there: it was but had moved further into the shadows. The witness then did not dare pass near that window for the rest of the evening and linked the appearance of this creature to the observation of the bright disc.", + "location": "GRANDE-BRETAGNE, Stratford", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallée: \"Autres dimensions\" - Trad. Robert Laffont 1989 - p. 55, 56", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2548" + }, + { + "date": "12/1968", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 10 pm there had been a noise near the house, \"like something hitting metal\". Larry, his father and a relative, Arnold Hubbard, went out to see what it was. Then from the other side of the house, they heard rustling in the grass. \"We went to get a flashlight,\" said Larry, \"and then we saw... The monster emerged from the bush about 15 meters away. It was walking towards us and seemed to be more than three meters tall, with shoulders about a meter and a half wide, and arms as long as a monkey's.\" In the light of the flashlight the body seemed hairy and rather brown, the eyes shone above a nose that Larry said he couldn't describe. The teeth protruded, the ears pointed. (...) \"The thing put me in a kind of trance,\" said Larry. \"I couldn't speak.\" When Larry shone the flashlight on the monster, it fell to the ground and disappeared. Then a few minutes later, they heard it again, near the garage. Frightened, Larry's father went back home and brought a .22 long rifle and passed it to Hubbard. As the men crossed the fields, the monster suddenly stood up, clearly visible, fifteen meters away. Larry shone the flashlight on it and Hubbard fired. The first shot hit. The monster gave a horrible cry. (...) Then, inexplicably, in front of the three men, the \"creature\" was suddenly enveloped in a white mist. In less than a minute the mist disappeared, then darkness. (December 1968)", + "location": "USA, Point Isabel", + "ref": [ + "Leonard STRINGFIELD: \"General UFO Alert\", ed. France - Empire, 1978, pp. 97, 99", + "no trace found", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2549" + }, + { + "date": "1/14/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4:30 in the morning, the Vas family, recent immigrants, were awoken by their dog's furious barking. At the same time, they heard the buzzing of a swarm of bees, but louder. They stepped out of their caravan and saw at 25 or 30 meters away an \"enormous sombrero\" that shone with a violet light. Three \"men\" descended from it in a miniature craft similar to the large object. They seemed to be three times the size of humans. They also shone with a yellow-violet light. They began to pick sugarcane, which they put into the large craft through a transparent tube. After ten minutes, they entered the large vessel, which flew away. The takeoff made the witnesses' hair and fur stand on end.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Childers, Queensland", + "ref": [ + "1. \"North Queensland Register\" Jan 18 1969. 2. Adelaide \"News\" Jan 17 1969. 3. FSR 18/1/26. - Keith Basterfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2550" + }, + { + "date": "1/15/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) …a farmer was woken up in the middle of the night…by a strange, penetrating smell coming from outside. (…) He got up to go outside. When he opened the door, he came face to face with two small humanoids strapped in dark suits. The farmer noticed details that gave him the chills: they had a big head and big phosphorescent eyes. The two monstrous little beings advanced towards him, gesticulating. Frightened, the brave man closed the door and barricaded it as best he could. (January 15th, 1969)", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Jucy Province", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes…\" éd. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.32", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2551" + }, + { + "date": "2/6/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Tiago Machado, F. Hanse and B. Joana saw a luminous disc resting on the hill. Machado arrived first at the scene and saw two small creatures floating out of the craft, and two others remaining inside. The beings were 1.1 meters tall, wearing metallic-looking suits with ringed joints at the shoulders, elbows and knees. The helmet was round with a tube at its base. They spoke an incomprehensible language in a hoarse and guttural voice. As Hanse and Joana approached, they returned to the craft by floating. One of them directed a weapon resembling a blowtorch at Machado, from which a red-bluish flame emerged, hitting him in the knee. The witness fell. Many witnesses saw the craft take off. Machado, with swollen legs, had to be hospitalized. (CICOANI - Brazil) on 02/06/69 Tiago MACHADO: fainting; swelling of the legs; dehydration, hypersomnia and weight loss; healing by acupuncture (February 6, 1969)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Vila Pinheros (Pirassununga)", + "ref": [ + "source PS 21, page 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2552" + }, + { + "date": "2/12/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Luis Flozino had been married for nine years and was the father of eight children. At 5:40 in the morning, after finishing his breakfast, he was rolling his first cigarette of the day when he heard a noise of branches being crumpled in the nearby woods. Without transition he felt himself seized by a force that was pulling him out of the house, whose door was open, and dragging him in a semi-suspended state in the air. In his efforts to free himself he was braking with his feet on the ground and was losing his shoes. This force was irresistibly taking him to a small wood 200 m away. There he realized that all this was the work of two strange beings, about 140 cm tall, and \"very ugly\" by our usual standards. Their eyes were asymmetrical, their hair on their shoulders, a beard that covered the lower part of their face, he was seized again while these creatures were talking between them. He received three blows on his right ear, but Flozino, a strong man, managed to free himself. He was getting up, still dizzy, while the unknowns were coming back to the attack. He decided to face them, but they were agile. He still managed to knock them down one on top of the other. They exchanged some words between them and said to him in Portuguese: \"Now we are leaving, because with you we cannot...\" They were turning on their heels at the same time and were entering the wood without hurrying. The witness, furious at this aggression, pursued them, caught up with them and seizing their long oily hair tied them together by knotting them. These beings continued their way imperturbably without undoing their hair. The thickets in which they were progressing easily prevented Flozino from following them, so he had to give up the pursuit. The dog that accompanied Flozino everywhere had first started to bark furiously, then to howl and to roll on the ground moaning. (February 12, 1969)", + "location": "BRASIL, Pirassununga", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"First Investigations on Humanoids\" - Laffont 1977 - pp. 69-72: he places this case in 1968 on February 12, but all other authors place it in 1969", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2553" + }, + { + "date": "2/20/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the night José Antonio Fioco was woken up by the noise coming from the pigsty. He got up and went outside to take a look. In the fields, 20 m away from him, he saw a disc-shaped object resting on the ground on a tripod. Around the ramp of the craft stood three small beings: one was holding a tube about 35 cm long and was illuminating the henhouse with this instrument that emitted a pink light up to 250 m. A second one was looking into a \"box\" camera, the third one had a tube, longer than the first one, and was using it to examine the ground. When the witness turned around to alert other people, these beings finally noticed his presence. They were wearing a shiny metallic-looking suit and short boots. Immediately the craft took off. Duration of the incident: 3 minutes. (CICOANI - Brazil) (vog: now follows a completely different version….:) Jose Antonio Fioco (...) became the witness of several successive UFO landings near his farm. In one particular case (...) he was able to give details about the object and its occupants. (...) Fioco revealed that on several occasions he had noticed interferences in the images received by his television. This is how he had noticed that the programs of channel 4 of the Sao Paulo station were sometimes replaced by images showing women with strange clothes that went down to their feet and a kind of ruff around their face, as well as helmeted men, all of small size. These beings were speaking in a curious unknown language, which resembled the idiom of a Hungarian who had stayed for some time in the countryside with words containing very few syllables. The voice was deep and the phrases badly pronounced. The images received were unstable, blurry, rarely clear. The whole family was able to witness these strange interference phenomena. (...) radio broadcasts interrupted and replaced by an unintelligible voice, especially during certain space flights carried out by NASA. (...)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Pirassununga", + "ref": [ + "Pierre DELVAL: \"Contacts of the 4th Type\" - De Vecchi 1979, P. 212 to 214", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2554" + }, + { + "date": "2/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. and Mrs. X and their two daughters were lying down around 4 o'clock in the morning when an intense light coming from outside woke up the father and the whole family. From the window of the house, at the entrance of the beach, near the woods, they saw an object flying at their height at 60 m of distance. It had an octahedral shape with a semi-spherical dome, two kinds of antennas on the upper part of the dome, several portholes and three support points similar to legs. It measured from 5 to 6 m long and about the same in height. Its aspect was metallic, very bright, of a celestial blue. It descended slowly swaying and landed on the 3 legs. A light beam came out of the object and three beings of humanoid aspect descended through this beam which gave the impression of a solid inclined plane. They could not distinguish the features of their faces. They measured 2 m in height. A kind of suit covered their whole body, the gloves and shoes forming a whole with the garment, which had a vertical line all along resembling a closure and one could see like a kind of metal badge on their chest. They walked on the beach: each of them placed in the sand ten small tubes which must have had 10 cm in diameter and 25 cm in length, according to the traces found later. They then picked up the black stones (pumice stone) that were in that place so that the next day the witnesses could not find any more. Then, these beings dressed in dark blue picked up each of their 10 small tubes and went back into the object. The object rose diagonally swaying. During the observation a suction noise was heard. The witness's watch stopped at 04:38 marking the end of the observation. The witnesses had desquamations which healed three days later. They suffered from a nervous depression with a feeling of insecurity.", + "location": "CHILE, Valparaiso", + "ref": [ + "L.D.L.N. \"Mysterious Flying Saucers\" - ALBATROS-ETAPES 1973 - p. 83, 84", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2555" + }, + { + "date": "3/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) FRONTIER INCIDENTS OPPOSED SOVIET TO CHINESE. ON THIS OCCASION WERE LAUNCHED COSMOS 270 AND 271, EACH RECOVERED AFTER A WEEK. THE RHYTHM WOULD BE MAINTAINED FOR A LITTLE MORE THAN A MONTH, SO MUCH THAT A TOTAL OF EIGHT SATELLITES WERE COUNTED IN MARCH AND APRIL, WHILE THERE HAD BEEN ONLY FOUR IN THE PREVIOUS TWO MONTHS. (1969, March and April)", + "location": "USSR, Baikonour", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 9, 10", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2556" + }, + { + "date": "3/12/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Kjel Näslund, station director, began his shift at 6:00 PM with routine checks. \"Suddenly the alarms went off one after the other, so I went outside and then back in and called the Sundsvall station to report the disturbance. Around 6:30 PM I had the feeling that I had to go outside.\" He opened the door and saw an enormous object 15 meters from the building, estimated to be 150 meters in diameter, filling the ravine behind the station. Inside the object was a tunnel, glowing with a misty gray light. Next to the object and in the tunnel he saw about ten individuals: they looked like clouds without outlines and seemed to be floating, about 130 cm tall and 30 to 40 cm wide. The witness wanted to call the police but realized he couldn't move.", + "location": "SWEDEN, Hemliden", + "ref": [ + "UFO INFORMATION No. 6 - 1972", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2557" + }, + { + "date": "3/21/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:30 PM Marcel Baud was at the doorstep along with the Pointurier couple, Alcide Pointurier and Jean-Marie Reddat. Suddenly it seemed to them that a farm was burning a few hundred meters away. As there were no buildings in that direction, it seemed strange to them. Looking carefully, they saw that the phenomenon was moving slowly to the right in front of the ridges separating Evillers and Septfontaines. It was a black, rectangular object with symmetrically 4 or 5 openings in the lower part and 4 or 5 openings in the upper part. These openings were of a dark red color illuminating the black rectangular mass. The phenomenon was advancing at a very low altitude. Observation until 10:45 PM: it passed behind a house and was not seen again.", + "location": "FRANCE, Evillers", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 330", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2558" + }, + { + "date": "3/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On the Chanturgue hill, Mrs. B. observed in the afternoon three small human shapes. They were of a uniform grey color and \"squat\". The three gnomes did not touch the ground and seemed to jump several times before moving horizontally all at once, then returning to their original place, still without coming into contact with the inclined ground. These three silhouettes made these maneuvers together for 3 to 4 minutes, then disappeared literally on a horizontal movement forward.", + "location": "FRANCE, Beaumont-Clermont Ferrand", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 125 and 325", + "Continued: October 1969, same place", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2559" + }, + { + "date": "5/3/1969 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) José Antonio da Silva, a military man, was fishing in a lagoon north of Belo Horizonte and saw shapes moving behind him. He saw a flash of light hit his legs and felt a numbness that made him drop his fishing rod and fall to his knees. He was seized by two masked individuals, about one meter twenty tall, wearing metallic suits, who took him to a machine resembling a vertical cylinder. Inside, the beings gave him a mask similar to theirs and tied him up before taking off. The higher the aircraft flew, the harder it was for the soldier to breathe. He felt a fatigue similar to paralysis. After what seemed like an interminable journey, the aircraft landed with a jolt. He was untied but a band was put on his mask and they dragged him, his knees scraping the ground. He was placed on a seat without a back and the band was removed. He found himself in a room about 9 by 13 meters, 4.5 meters away from a robust dwarf who fixed him with an obvious satisfaction. The dwarf was very hairy. He had green eyes. Other similar dwarves arrived, until there were 15 of them. The three walls in front of him had neither door nor window. On the left, a platform held the corpses of four men, one of them black. He had to drink from a stone cube with an inverted pyramid carved into it, a dark green liquid. On the left wall there were paintings of animals, vehicles and very earthly houses. The dwarves examined his fishing equipment and took a double of each item: one of each type of hook, one banknote. A conversation by signs was established with the chief dwarf. At one point José Antonio had a vision of an entity resembling Christ. Then he was taken back. He lost consciousness and woke up alone near the town of Victoria, in the state of Espirito Santo, three hundred and sixty kilometers from where he was fishing. Four and a half days had passed. (May 3 (or 9?) 1969)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Bebedouro (Belo Horizonte)", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 71, which dates it to May 9", + "CICOANI-Brazil", + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Other Dimensions\" - trans. Robert Laffont 1989 - pp. 213 to 215", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2560" + }, + { + "date": "5/19/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the morning around 7:30am, Georges Kaiser went out to his tractor. (...) He crossed the farm yard when he had the sensation of an unusual presence. Surprised, he saw 6m away from him a being who, for two minutes, paid him no attention. It was at least 2.50m tall, standing but leaning forward. Its arms were the same length as a normal man's and its musculature seemed very developed. It had no neck, its head resting directly on its shoulders. Its hands had normal fingers (...) It had long hair falling down the back of its massive head. Its whole body was covered in hair, except for its face which was black and the palms of its hands too. Georges (...) made a movement to retreat, which drew the attention of the being. It immediately emitted a growl and turned around to flee. It jumped over the ditch bordering the road and disappeared. It was running at an astonishing speed.", + "location": "USA, Rising Sun, (Indiana)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa 1977, p. 164", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2561" + }, + { + "date": "5/20/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) José Perreira Sacramento lives at 190, P. Eustaquio Street, last house on the street. Around 1:00 AM the witness was woken up by a rumbling engine and he thought his scooter was being stolen. Hurriedly getting up he went to check: the scooter was still there, but now he heard the dog growling. He was heading towards the animal when he saw a luminous spot on the ground and looking up he saw a dark circular object hovering at about 500 m altitude. Very quickly the object grew bigger, as if it was descending, and scared the witness wanted to run back to the house: he was unable to move. When it reached 1 m from the ground, the witness saw an opening of one meter diameter and he was sucked inside into a circular compartment of about 14 m diameter brightly lit. Standing in this place he saw to his right and left a group of three small beings each time, 80 cm tall, sitting on round stools without legs. They were covered with a kind of flexible fabric wrapping the head and the visible part of the body: only the thorax. These beings had a language made of grunts and yaps and were only occupied with a panel in front of each of them. This lasted about 5 minutes. Then, the light increased even more in intensity and the witness lost consciousness. He woke up at 6:00 AM in his bed with pain in his shoulders and red and irritated eyes.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Nova Lima (Minas Gerais)", + "ref": [ + "CICOANI - Brazil", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2562" + }, + { + "date": "5/21/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. May 3, 1969) In the night, seized by a sudden impulse, José Antonio da Silva left the room and went to the garden where he found himself face to face with the 3 creatures who had abducted him. Terrified, the witness barricaded himself in his house.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Belo Horizonte", + "ref": [ + "CICOANI- Brazil", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2563" + }, + { + "date": "6/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Again incidents occurred between Soviet soldiers and Chinese border guards; once more spy satellites took to space at a rate higher than average (the average for photographic observation being around 3 units per month). (June to August 1969)", + "location": "USSR, Baikonour", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 10", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2564" + }, + { + "date": "6/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A 72-year-old artist, Benjamin Solari Parravicini, was walking outside when he was confronted by a tall, blond man with light eyes who spoke to him in a foreign language. Thinking he was dealing with a madman, the witness continued on his way, but he lost consciousness. He awoke inside a strange craft where he was told, among other things, that the people from the saucers are watching over the earth to prevent a catastrophe.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, unspecified", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Chronicles of the E.T. Appearances\" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 216", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2565" + }, + { + "date": "7/4/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:30 PM two children saw a bright object about 300 meters away. They grabbed a flashlight and sent signals. The object approached them until about 60 meters away. (10 meters and they could see an entity inside the object) The children called the rest of the family and the 13 (11) people living on the farm observed the light as it flew away and disappeared behind a hill, while the glow remained visible. The father, Arcesio Bermudez, 54 years old, took the flashlight and went to investigate. When Arceso returned, he was terrified. From a distance of less than 6 meters, he had seen a small being inside the upper part of the object which was transparent, while the rest of the vehicle was dark. He saw the being when he turned on his flashlight. The object became bright and flew away. (...) 48 hours after the observation Arcesio felt very ill, he was cold, his temperature dropped. He was unable to eat and had dark blue spots on his skin. There was blood in his stool. On the 7th day after the incident his family took him to Bogota(...) Arcesio died a little before midnight.(...) (Jacques VALLEE: \"Confrontations\" - Laffont 1991, p. 165-168, for the version where the father goes to search for the UFO) (Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 322: for the date and details in parentheses: these authors show the entity seen by the children, the adults only witness the departure of the UFO. The child died. (July 4th or 5th, 1969)", + "location": "COLOMBIA, Anolaima", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2566" + }, + { + "date": "7/21/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Armstrong and Aldrin, after walking on the Moon, returning to the Lem to rejoin Apollo 11, would have exchanged surprising remarks picked up by North American amateur radios and censored by NASA which, for this purpose, often retransmitted with a difference of 5 seconds the words of the cosmonauts (according to journalist Sam Pepper in the Canadian newspaper National Bulletin of September 29, 1969). (...) On their return Aldrin and Collins confirmed that on their way to the Moon they saw a huge cylindrical craft orbiting between their capsule and the lunar surface and Collins declared himself \"shocked by the traces on the Moon.\" (Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"The Enigma of E.T.\" - ed. Guy TREDANIEL 1995, p. 36, 37) Apollo 11, July 1969 (Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin) It is supposed that two UFOs were hovering at the moment when Armstrong was about to descend the ladder of the LEM placed in the Sea of Tranquility. The magazine \"Modern People\" says that Aldrin took some photos, which they published in their June 1975 issue. They would have obtained these photos from a Japanese source. (..) The halos seen around the astronauts is due only to a reflection on their spacesuits. (...) Timothy Good writes that HAM radio amateurs would have received VHF signals from the conversation, filtered by NASA: (\"They are here and they are watching us\") Timothy Good uses an excerpt from \"SAGA UFO SPECIAL #3\" as the source of his assertion. But the technical debriefing of Apollo 11 speaks of an object (debris?) very close to the Moon. Collins also said he felt a shock, but thought he might have imagined it. Armstrong also said that the distance was not evaluable, and therefore the size of the observed thing, either. They observed it with the telescope and found it more or less in the shape of an L: like an open suitcase. Or like two rings connected, difficult to specify, because the vision was very bad. (...) In his book \"Carrying The Fire\" astronaut Michael Collins makes no mention of this incident.", + "location": "SPACE", + "ref": [ + "1989 - listing and research by Harvey S. Stewart", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2567" + }, + { + "date": "7/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The American spy satellite films the explosion of a Russian super rocket at take-off. The same will happen at the same base in November 1971.", + "location": "USSR, Tyuratam", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 55", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2568" + }, + { + "date": "8/11/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jean Miguères was the unwitting hero of a terrible car accident, on the 13bis from Rouen to Paris, wanted and orchestrated by \"entities\" who took him as a guinea pig in the true sense of the term. In \"I Was the Guinea Pig of the Extraterrestrials\" he gives us his strange experience spread over 2 years and which was not finished.", + "location": "FRANCE,", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2569" + }, + { + "date": "8/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Guy L'heureux (...) along with Harley Peterson, was working on the installation of a pump at the dam. (...) Suddenly the two men saw a strange being covered in long fur moving on the other side of the dam. After a moment it stopped and sat on a rock (...) It stayed like this for a good fifteen minutes, then very calmly, it left towards the forest. Three witnesses who observed it at the same time, Floyd Engen from Eckville, Dale Boddly and Stan Peterson from Panoka, described it as a giant creature at least 4.50 m tall. . (August 1969)", + "location": "Canada, Big Horn Dam, Saskatchewan", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes...\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.125", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2570" + }, + { + "date": "9/4/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The observation began shortly before 7:30 PM. Moonless night, visibility 20 km. Capt. Cullum and First Officer Faircloth had just taken off for a routine flight on a Bristol-cargo of the Straits Air Freight Express, from Wellington to Blenheim. Suddenly the control tower calls: the airport radar has an unknown object located 6.4 km in front of the Bristol, which is flying at the time towards the north, then turns towards the west facing the coast, then towards the southwest towards Blenheim. It is at this moment that Faircloth locates a fluorescent, blue, bright, pulsating light, on the right rear of the Bristol at about 3.2 km. The radar is informed. The UFO flies very slowly, from 92 to 111 km/h. Its light pulses every two or three seconds and is as bright as a first magnitude star. It is heading south. During the return flight, 90 minutes later, Faircloth spots the same object resembling a group of lights, about 24 km off the coast of South Island, near the Cape Campbell lighthouse. The Wellington radar confirms the observation.", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, radar-optical", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: \"The UFO File\" - Laffont 1973 - p. 182", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2571" + }, + { + "date": "9/10/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In Bucharest a triangular UFO was photographed from the roof of the Scintea newspaper building: in fact, the editorial staff had received hundreds of calls about the UFO. It was bright white, the apparent size of a dessert plate. It stayed over the capital all day, with a period of complete immobility. It seemed to change shape but not volume: triangular, square, oval, elongated, bean-shaped. It was rotating very slowly. (September 10, 1969)", + "location": "ROMANIA, Bucharest", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les Pays de l'Est\" - translation Laffont 1976, pp. 333-339", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2572" + }, + { + "date": "9/22/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. L. and her son were walking on a small road near a wood, and were worried because their dog had disappeared during the walk. Suddenly, near the wood, about 150 m away, they saw an object on the ground, with three men outside, who were bent over, and two inside the craft, with their backs to them. The men were tall, about 2.30 m, and thin, wearing suits. The craft was oval and about 5 m high. The witnesses remained motionless observing for 10 minutes, then turned around to go and get the husband. When they returned to the spot with him, everything had disappeared. (September 22, 1969)", + "location": "CANADA, Montreal region", + "ref": [ + "J.C. BOURRET: \"The new wave of UFOs\" - France Empire 1975, pp. 137-140", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2573" + }, + { + "date": "9/24/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness was walking his dog around 8 pm. Suddenly a craft appeared in the sky: it came from the north and moved in a sparkle without emitting any sound. It stopped, its shape was triangular. \"This extraordinary delta wing had a murky luminosity, a mix of white and blue around the tail, a bit like the glows of neon lights in the city at night. The hull was a mix of dark red and dark yellow. Suddenly a second craft appeared and placed itself to the left of the first one, still motionless. It had an identical structure, but the fuselage was illuminated. This second object stayed motionless for a few minutes before disappearing all at once. An astonishing disappearance. The object was no longer detectable. The craft that had appeared first was still there, motionless, with its emissions of light and sparks. It was facing me slightly inclined. How long did I stay there? I don't know, five minutes? It was my dog pulling on the leash that made me realize I had my feet on the ground.\" (September 24, 1969)", + "location": "BELGIUM, Zellik (Brabant)", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Marie DOUCHET - Nostra - 19.11.1980", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2574" + }, + { + "date": "Early Autumn 1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) … an old man named Wei (…) went to work at 4 o'clock in the morning in a reservoir. When he left the village, a strange, luminous object flew towards him. The object illuminated the reservoir and the countryside as if it were broad daylight. The old man Wei immediately returned to the village and the object followed him at a fast pace. The old man almost got seized by the light. His eyes lost their sight (1969, Early Autumn)", + "location": "CHINA, Longquan, Qishui", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\". Ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.103", + "this lasted a year", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2575" + }, + { + "date": "10/9/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jacques Yerna, 16 years old, on horseback, saw at around 7:45 PM, 4 blinking lights arranged in a square, in a straight line, slowly, without any noise, hovering between 50 and 100 meters in altitude. White flashes of light at irregular intervals, suggesting a round shape. Arriving at a small grove of birches of 100 x 30 meters slightly elevated, the horse shivered and pricked up its ears. Suddenly, from the corner of the wood, from a field of beets, an electric flash of the same type as those emitted by the craft. He turned in that direction and saw, vertically above the trees, at an elevation of 10°, a black round shape with a small dome, motionless, with 4 red blinking lights arranged in a square. This second object seemed to be of smaller dimensions than the first and was about 6 to 7 meters long and 2 to 3 meters high. Suddenly, the second object moved very quickly and placed itself at 60 or 70 meters behind the first: the 8 red blinking lights then flew together in a straight trajectory. Total duration of the observation 15 minutes. At 100 meters beyond the witness encountered a car stopped with all lights off and a man standing about thirty meters away in a field looking south. At this moment the horse suddenly became very afraid, as did the witness, and so he returned directly to the stable.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Grâce-Hollogne", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 8, pp. 14-16 - 1973 - SOBEPS", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2576" + }, + { + "date": "10/11/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:15, in the place called \"Les Longues Raies\", the road worker Amédée Luquet saw, in the morning fog, 150 m away in a meadow a bright white light partially hidden by a hedge. A lighthouse rises and finally a dark mass (black ovoid block 12 m long or the size of a 4CV according to one or the other of the two investigators) dotted with red lights (6 to 10 for the investigator M. Lesbros) (5 to 6 for MM. Barthel and Brucker) Everything is strongly lit. The craft made a loop that brought it almost above Mr. Luquet at an estimated height of 50 meters. It made a complete loop and disappeared in the direction of Buicourt. At the closest, the witness heard a noise similar to that made by the wind in the foliage and a slight whistle. The cows in the meadow had no reaction.", + "location": "FRANCE, Wambez (Oise)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 331, 332", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2577" + }, + { + "date": "11/6/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Very many witnesses, including military personnel, observed the landing of a 6m diameter disc. On top, a lid lifted and two beings of about 1m10 emerged, while two others remained inside in a kind of glass cabin. Their complexion was greenish, they wore aluminum clothing and a helmet from which a rubber tube emerged. Through this tube, rough sounds were heard. They seemed to show a globe to the witnesses and something that fell. As the closest spectator smoked, they seemed intrigued and attracted the packet with their hand like a magnet. Men arrived shouting. The two beings then retreated without looking back and floated in the air to enter the craft. When the last one was half introduced, he directed a kind of blowpipe at the closest witness and a blue-red ray reached the young man's legs, paralyzing him. Then the craft took off. The two little beings had yellow eyes without pupils or whites, the end of their nose was flattened and their teeth interlocked with each other. Crushed vegetation and visible furrows on the landing area.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Pirasununga", + "ref": [ + "Pierre VIEROUDY: \"These UFOs that announce the Superman\" - Laffont 1979, p. 101, 102", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2578" + }, + { + "date": "11/14/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Apollo XII: two very bright objects were seen at about 200,000 km from the Earth. (Philippe SCHNEYDER: \"Ovni, premier bilan\" - éd. du Rocher 1983, p. 233) During the Apollo 12 flight, an unidentified object followed it for 3 orbits around the Moon and, three hours before landing, Conrad warned Houston \"that between the capsule and India they are flying over, there is an immobile bright light, as big as Venus, at least\". (...) (Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"L'énigme des E.T.\" - éd. Guy TREDANIEL 1995, p. 37) Astronauts Pete Conrad, Alan Bean and Dick Gordon say that a UFO accompanied them up to 212,000 kilometers from the Moon, preceding them all the way. (J. Allen HYNEK and Jacques VALLEE: \"Aux limites de la réalité\" - éd. Albin Michel 1978, p 84) Apollo 12, November 14, 1969 (Conrad, Gordon, Bean) On the first day of the trip, the astronauts informed the Ground Control that two flashing lights were seen above the capsule. After rejecting the possibility that they were spinning debris from the Apollo booster, the ground suggested that they might be protection panels dropped. \"It could be,\" replied one of the astronauts, \"but one of those lights just passed here at a dizzying speed\". It is however reasonable to think that they were indeed debris from one or the other satellite, not always American, orbiting on a different orbit. (1989 - listing and research by Harvey S. Stewart) Ground observatories observed the capsule accompanied by two bright UFOs near the Moon. Then, on approach to Earth before landing, a large UFO with red lights was observed. (November 14, 1969)", + "location": "IN SPACE", + "ref": [ + "Charles BERLITZ and William L. MOORE: \"Le Mystère de Roswell, les naufragés de l'espace\" éd. Franc Empire 1981, p.20", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2579" + }, + { + "date": "11/15/1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 5 pm, the witness was waiting at her window to feed the pigeons she usually feeds every day. Coming from her right, in front, at the level of the roofs, behind a chimney she saw a transparent dome with two heads visible. At first she had no reaction, went back to the kitchen and suddenly, surprised, she returned to the window. From behind the chimney, the object slowly emerged from its hiding place: a curved metal disc in grey, with a transparent dome from which only the heads of the two occupants were visible. Numerous lights like car headlights composed the underside of the craft. \"But it's a saucer,\" she said out loud. And she heard, as if whispered from the outside to her ear: \"Yes, it's a saucer, don't be afraid, you have to look.\" The two beings looked at each other, turned their heads towards the witness with a smile, then their heads disappeared inside the craft. In front of a tall chimney, on its trajectory, the object performed a loop. At the same time, two other UFOs, entirely identical to the first, with two humanoid figures visible, skimmed the roofs at 70 m from her. The first object joined the two others and the formation moved away towards the Rue d'Amerval (NO). The witness then wanted to warn her neighbors, but when she turned around she saw herself in the mirror and was stunned to see that her face and hands were swollen and that a bump, as big as a pigeon egg, adorned her forehead. (In 1978 a red scar still persisted). The swelling and the bump disappeared half an hour after the observation.", + "location": "FRANCE, Nancy", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 333, 334", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2580" + }, + { + "date": "Winter 1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:30 PM it was pitch black and raining. Mr. Carlet saw in the middle of the road an immense white mushroom-like object, 3 m tall, that was moving. He noticed that the thing was moving at 50 cm from the ground. It seemed luminous and ghostly, its contours were sharp and its base undulated like it was striped. The thing was moving at the same speed as the motorist and he considered overtaking it, but there wasn't enough room. He then flashed his headlights to force the mysterious intruder, which was about 80 m away in headlight range but 20 m away in dipped beam range, to give way. He then played around with the lights, convinced of the unreality of what he was seeing. Suddenly he accelerated and drove through his \"mirage\" in order to play a trick on this hallucination!

Alas! He actually drove into the thing. There was a metallic sound, the object passed over the hood, veered to the right, brushed against the windshield. The witness then braked and, turning his head, saw the thing outside the range of his headlights crossing the ditch and disappearing behind a wall. He returned home in the grip of a terrible headache. The next day he looked for the point of impact on his car: the hood was intact. (1969, Winter)", + "location": "FRANCE, Bourg-Lastic/Laqueuille", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 336", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2581" + }, + { + "date": "1969", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the time when she was 7 years old, when she was living with her parents in Missouri, Mrs. Jenny K… experienced an astonishing event. One night she found herself paralyzed in her bed. Then small beings entered her room through the windows of her window. They took the girl by the arms, lifted her from her bed and everyone left the house through the same process, through the closed window. The beings and the child floated in the air while approaching a huge mass above them. The girl also saw her little brother Mark who was being dragged in the same way by other small creatures. This was the beginning of a fantastic series of abductions that lasted until 1992.", + "location": "USA, in Missouri", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués\" - éd. Ramuel 1999, p. 141, 142", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2582" + }, + { + "date": "1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the same time (with the launch of the BMEWS alert satellites since Spring 1960) \"IMEWS\" (Integrated Early Warning System) were launched, equipped with two infrared cameras, one of which was equipped with a large diameter mirror, in order to discriminate between real rocket launches and simple reflections of the sun on clouds, which were the source of very numerous false alarms for the previous satellites. (...) The alert, if any, is transmitted to the nearest receiving station, in particular those of Guam or Australia. (...) These IMEWS are placed in geostationary orbit and not simply geosynchronous like those of the BMEWS. They are huge drums 3 m high and 3 m in diameter flanked by four solar panel panels giving them a wingspan of 7 meters. (From 1970 onwards)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 80, 81", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2583" + }, + { + "date": "1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Americans call the listening satellites \"ELINT\" (Electronical Intelligence) and deny possessing them. In retaliation, the Soviets launched a very large number of them since 1970. The first of them was Cosmos 389, placed on an orbit between 600 and 650 km altitude approximately, inclined at 81°. Their launch frequency has gone up to 4 or 5 (per year) eight years later. (From 1970)", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 86, 87", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2584" + }, + { + "date": "1/1/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: From Our UFO Visitors, by John Magor) It was close to five o'clock in the morning when Miss Doreen Kendall, a nurse at the Cowichan District Hospital, noted that one of the strangers in her care was agitated. Deciding that he was too hot, she opened the window. As she drew back the curtains, she was met with a flash of light in her eyes. It was still dark outside, and about 20 m away, above the children's pavilion to her left, there was a large luminous object, lighting up the area as if it were broad daylight. It was a circular object, the base was silver, but like a ball. All around it were lights in a necklace. The dome was transparent, made of glass and she could see inside. There were two figures, men, she thought. The one in front seemed taller, or was on a raised part. She looked on with immense curiosity but without any fear. Their heads were in something dark, tightly closed. She saw the craft rise, tilting, and she saw the figures from head to knees and they seemed to be facing chairs. They wore tight clothing of the same color as what they wore on their heads, but their hands were free and seemed human, with skin like that of the Earthlings. She saw a kind of panel, like a huge dashboard, going from the back of the object to the top, as if embedded in metal. This is how she forgot about Nurse Frieda Wilson, who was in the same room. She felt that she must not make any noise, nor call her colleague. The man in front slowly turned towards her, but his face was also covered, he touched the other man on the back, and the latter deliberately maneuvered a kind of lever and the saucer began to rotate slowly, still close to the building. (1970, 1 January)", + "location": "CANADA, Vancouver", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2585" + }, + { + "date": "1/7/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Aarno Heinonen, 36 years old, and Esko Viljo, 38 years old, were skiing in a forest 16 km north of Heinola. At 4:45 PM, as the sun was beginning to set, they decided to rest. A kind of buzzing sound was then heard and, looking up, Heinonen saw in the air a light of strong intensity that began a wide turn and came in their direction. It descended and stopped right in the space, surrounded by a kind of luminous grayish mist that manifested itself by pulsations, 15 m from the witnesses. Through the mist they saw an object of metallic appearance, the base of 3 m in diameter had three globes on a rim and in the middle a kind of large tube of about 25 cm in diameter. The mist gradually dissipated and when the object descended to 4 m from the ground the buzzing stopped. A beam of light came out of the central tube and a creature of about 90 cm appeared at ground level in this tube of light. Its face was pale like wax, on the head it wore a shiny conical helmet, and it was dressed in a light gray overalls that shone. The humanoid was wearing green boots. In his hand he held a black box from which a blinding flash suddenly emerged. The mist reformed around the object and the illuminated circle emitted green and red sparks. The fog thickened, the light trembled like the flame of a candle and returned to the tube. Then it was as if the mist scattered and everything had disappeared. Heinonen felt weak, paralyzed on the right side. It took them two hours to cover the 2 km that separated them from the village. He had headaches, vomiting, his blood pressure dropped, his balance affected. He was cold, despite the sedatives he had very sore neck, stomach and back for a while and could not return to work. Viljo had a red and swollen face and lost his sense of balance. He felt a kind of lightness in his legs and his chest and hands were covered with red spots. Other people went to the observation site and were sick for two days. (Inforespace n° 22, p. 2 and 3) Arno HEINONEN (36 years old) and Esko VILJO (38 years old): AH; heat and numbness in the side exposed to the UFO; respiratory difficulties; inability to work; EC: swellings, redness, loss of balance, headaches", + "location": "FINLAND, Imjärvi (Heinola)", + "ref": [ + "source FSR 16.3 page 2, 16.4 and 16.5", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2586" + }, + { + "date": "1/24/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness, having parked his car, began his usual jogging session in this rural area. After a journey, he followed a field with wide furrows. Suddenly he saw a vertical wall of blue and fluorescent light as if placed on the furrows. The shape of this wall of light was regular, a few meters from the path. Despite his astonished fear, the witness approached this palisade of light which, suddenly, collapsed like a mass of light snakes, forming a single entity with interruptions whose ends were like cut off. This wriggling agglomerate stretched like a rope and flew undulating through the fields, progressing in waves, as if it followed the height and hollows of the furrows taken across. Then, without stopping, it disappeared towards a wooded area. The witness then discovered the traces of the phenomenon on the crest of the furrows. He returned the next evening to the scene without discovering or observing anything. (1970, January 24 (not 23))", + "location": "BELGIUM, Rhode St Genèse (not Uccle-Calevoet)", + "ref": [ + "J. G. DOHMEN: \"To Identify and the Adamski Case\" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 85", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2587" + }, + { + "date": "1/24/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Saturday, early evening, around 7:30 PM. Mr. Herbosch was walking in the middle of Avenue de la Réserve when his gaze was drawn to something faintly luminous, about 20 meters in front of him, to his left, on the vacant lot, raised at this point by about 75 cm. It was then 7:45 PM. The witness stopped and saw that it was a kind of \"stain on the ground\", oval in shape, several meters in size, 7 or 8 meters at first glance, which suddenly became very bright, like a phosphorescent light green color. (...) He was looking for the lamp or light source that should have produced such an effect. Indeed, it was logical, only a powerful projector could have been the source of this stain on the ground. But no beam of light or any device was visible. There was NOTHING. Suddenly, when he was barely 10 meters away from this stain, the witness stopped dead in his tracks, so much so that what he saw seized him, bewildered him and scared him. (What follows took place in 20 or 30 seconds maximum). The stain became brighter and brighter; it seemed to vibrate, then it swelled or inflated, a bit like a balloon, first laid flat on the ground, then suddenly inflated. The luminous bell thus formed grew even more, and the top reached a height of about 5 meters. It also looked a bit like the dome that could be seen on old steam locomotives. The coloration became almost blinding and the green color became paler, tending more towards neon white. This mass of light vibrated in a frightening way but still kept a clear bell shape and seemed to be made up of thousands of tiny luminous particles moving and swarming in all directions inside the bell. This gave the impression of terrible nervousness. When it reached its maximum height, this insolent apparition violently illuminated the whole landscape, as well as the curtain of trees at the end of the vacant lot. These trees, which are about 100 meters from Avenue de la Réserve, were illuminated in their entire height, as if by a flash of extraordinary power. Mr. Herbosch was also able to notice through the bell which was translucent despite the strong brightness, that the base was perfectly elliptical. The spectacle was quite frightening, all the more so since it took place in total silence. No heat effect or smell was noticed. At that moment, in the face of this quite unusual and unknown phenomenon to him, Mr. Herbosch was seized by extreme fear, but he stayed there, frozen, paralyzed in front of this strange scene. Immediately after illuminating the landscape, which lasted a few seconds, the bell suddenly collapsed or deflated to take its initial form of a stain, identical to what it was at the beginning of the observation. The brightness became weak again and again of a pale green color. Then the stain moved on the ground of the vacant lot and moved away from the witness (perhaps at 10 or 15 km/h) and disappeared towards the northwest, in the direction of a villa under construction at the time..", + "location": "France", + "ref": [ + "investigation by P. Ferryn, Sobeps, in August 1971", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2588" + }, + { + "date": "2/18/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Leona Nielson was with two friends in her mountain cabin. They had had a pleasant evening and had gone to bed around one o'clock in the morning. But Leona couldn't fall asleep. Her room faced the Flat River flowing down the hill. Suddenly the room was brightly lit by a light coming from below and she went out onto the balcony to see what it was. She then saw, in the field on the edge of the river, an enormous flying saucer about 20 meters in diameter with a platform 2 meters wide all around it. Two strange beings were busy on this platform as if they were making a repair, and probably using electric welding, as sparks could be seen. These beings were of normal size, bareheaded, wearing white overalls and seemed to walk and work like human beings. With her two friends who had joined her, Leona watched the repair which lasted for nearly an hour, then the sparks stopped. The two humanoids went back into their saucer, it immediately started off at a fantastic speed and disappeared into the clouds. (February 18, 1970)", + "location": "USA, Glacier Park (Montana)", + "ref": [ + "Maurice CHATELAIN: \"Les messagers du cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, p. 37, 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2589" + }, + { + "date": "2/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A schoolboy saw a small green man who spoke to him in an incomprehensible language and offered the boy a strange substance, before disappearing. The substance sublimated or evaporated. (February end, 1970)", + "location": "CANADA, Terrace (British Columbia)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 316", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2590" + }, + { + "date": "3/26/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Nicolas Santos was driving when he could follow the maneuvers of an object of discoidal shape surrounded by portholes and surmounted by a dome. A reddish halo surrounded this thing that came to stop two hundred meters from the witness. Suddenly, under the object appeared several beams of bright light directed towards the ground. (...) \"Suddenly the object started to move. It was something extraordinary. It gathered its light beams like a bird gathers its wings. The light folded in on itself gently and simultaneously the halo surrounded the craft again and it moved away.\" Following the observation, the witness had to be treated for conjunctivitis. That night, for an undetermined cause, there was a power outage in the dam's installations. (Jean-Marie DOUCHET - Nostra - 24.12.1980) It was, the witnesses said, something extraordinary, an enormous disc of about 15 m in diameter and 3 m high, flying horizontally, \"majestically\" and without noise. Very slowly, impressive to behold. The spectacle lasted 3 hours. It was evolving at an altitude of about 200 meters. A dozen powerful light beams illuminated the ground: a very particular light, very similar in intensity to fluorescent light, but of a slightly yellow-greenish color. On the side of the craft, portholes were faintly lit. Fairy spectacle more than frightening since one of the main witnesses, Mr. Santos Nicolas, a teacher in Guijo de Grenadilla, said: \"I couldn't believe it. It had been more than an hour that I could contemplate something wonderful, something so unusual that it really couldn't belong to our world...\" This long observation caused the witness's vision to be altered, a burning sensation in the eyes. The ophthalmologist diagnosed conjunctivitis.", + "location": "SPAIN, Gabriel y Galand Dam", + "ref": [ + "but picked up in \"Stendek\" n ° 3 and 4", + "Charles GARREAU: \"Flying Saucers, 20 Years of Investigations\" Mame 1971 p. 215-216", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2591" + }, + { + "date": "3/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One night at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning, I went out to do a natural need. The weather was nice, the sky was all clear. On the porch, I instinctively looked up and saw, in the sky, to the northeast, something huge higher than the moon. This thing was luminous, 1.30m high and 1m wide, more than 2m long. The object looked exactly like a transparent door suspended in the firmament. Its luminosity seemed to me similar to that of a cinema screen. I was very surprised and stayed in the courtyard for about ten minutes without moving. (...) I went into the room to wake up my two other companions, but they were sleeping deeply and I didn't succeed. As I was cold and scared, I didn't dare go out again to see the strange phenomenon. The next day I fell ill and, for three days, I had a headache, I was always feeling like vomiting.", + "location": "CHINA, Weinanzheng, Gansu", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\". ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 103", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2592" + }, + { + "date": "3/31/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Re-entry of Explorer 1 launched on 1.31.58. - location not specified.", + "location": "USA, SPACE", + "ref": [ + "Acta Aeronomica, 1977, p. 97", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2593" + }, + { + "date": "4/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. July 1965) Then, from April 1970, the technique of launching in groups of eight was inaugurated, with the Cosmos 336 to 343. Each year since then, the Soviet Union has renewed this fleet at a rate of two or three group launches, that is 16 to 24 satellites. they orbit between 1400 and 1500 km under an inclination of 74°. under the same inclination, and at a lower altitude (around 800 km), they also launch other cosmos dedicated to military telecommunications, at an average rate of two per year, but these are individual satellites. (April 1970)", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 94", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2594" + }, + { + "date": "4/9/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the afternoon Max Krauss saw a small transparent ball about 40 cm in diameter floating 150 m away from him. Stopping at the side of the road, the object projected a tube whose end plunged into the rainwater running along the roadway. The object stayed in this position for a few moments, withdrew the tube, and moved away.", + "location": "GERMANY, Langenschlemmern (Wurtemberg)", + "ref": [ + "Canadian Ufo Report vol. 3 n° 6 - 1975", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2595" + }, + { + "date": "4/11/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Finally, there was the aborted Apollo 13 mission, which forced the return to Earth of the lunar module that was supposed to rest on the moon forever. Inside its sides, however, was a small nuclear generator (4 kilograms of plutonium) destined to power the scientific equipment that the astronauts were to deploy on the moon. This module fell into the Tonga Trench in the middle of the Pacific. The surveys that have been carried out since then fortunately show no modification of the underwater environment. (Note from Vog: this module is supposed to still be intact in the sea, off the Fiji Islands). (April 11, 1970)", + "location": "USA - SPACE", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, pp. 116, 117", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2596" + }, + { + "date": "4/23/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) This launch of \"China 1\" then baptized Tung Fang Hung (The Orient is Red) was only announced the next day by the China News Agency. (April 23, 1970)", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 16", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2597" + }, + { + "date": "6/26/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Joao Aguiar, a policeman, drew the attention of Mrs. Nazaré to what was happening in front of them in the sea: was a boat capsizing, with water spraying out in all directions? The occupants of the boat were in the water and gesticulating in their shiny clothes with something on their heads. They then seemed to be working on the boat's dome! It had a non-shiny metallic look and measured 4 to 6 meters. The policeman went to get help, Mrs. Nazaré and her family watched through binoculars. The phenomenon was 700 or 1000m away. After 20 minutes of immobility, the object approached a rocky outcrop 100m from the beach and stayed there for half an hour. Then it took off towards the southeast, gliding on the surface of the water with the sound of a motorboat. At that moment the policeman returned and observed the UFO with other witnesses. Its lower part was hexagonal with colored lights, green-yellow, white-red. Appearing metallic on the water, once in flight it seemed transparent and they saw two passengers seated inside. It disappeared silently. At the spot where the craft had been, one of the children saw a kind of white hoop, which disappeared, reappeared in the company of a yellow body, which floated half-emerged, it floated towards the beach and was followed by a green fringe. The yellow body made a 90° turn and left towards Gavea. The white hoop did the same and the witnesses lost sight of them. (Inforespace n° 8, p. 34, 35) Mrs. Maria Machado was looking out the window while preparing dinner and saw a gray disc, topped with a transparent dome, sailing on the ocean. Two silhouettes in luminous clothing were working on the deck. After 40 minutes the object left, leaving behind it a white mass floating towards the distance.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELLL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 134", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2598" + }, + { + "date": "6/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A truck driver saw, at night, a circular luminous object take off near the road. The object had flames at its base. This UFO descended slowly and the witness fled in fear. The area was inspected later and circular traces of burned grass and bushes were discovered. (June 1970)", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Emerald Coast (New South Wales)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 308", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2599" + }, + { + "date": "Early 7/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) ... one evening at 9 o'clock, my comrades and I were walking on the way back after a movie session. Hardly arrived in front of the improvised office on a deserted ground, we saw in the sky, in the northeast, a yellow lantern. More than ten people were already there to watch. (...) It was a luminous object in the shape of a hat inclined of 90°: its apparent diameter was more than one third of a meter. The whole seemed to be in a glass mask. The part of the dome appeared less transparent than the rest. The central part was brilliantly illuminated as if there was a powerful lamp inside. The luminosity remained stable during two minutes. When the object passed above us, it was at a hundred meters of the ground. My colleague Zhou Paizhong ... immediately had the idea to go and get a long view ... The object occupied the whole field of the eyepiece but we did not see the details of the inside of the luminous hat, which was heading towards the southwest and was getting further and further away, to finally become a small point in the eyepiece of our theodolite. (1970, beginning of July)", + "location": "CHINA, Lanzhou (Gansu)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\". ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 108", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2600" + }, + { + "date": "7/12/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 5 pm, a UFO descended slowly from the sky and landed in a field (...) The witness is named Cheng Gangdang. He was in a field with his wife to pull out wild grasses, when they suddenly heard a strange noise above them. They looked up and saw an object flying as bright as a diamond. The object was transparent. Its diameter was about 3 arms. The bottom was pointed and the top was conical. Several lights were seen on the body of the object, like electric bulbs, which lit up in turn. Inside, it seemed that there were many instruments. The object flew quickly spinning on itself and it was surrounded by a misty halo. (...) The unknown object descended slowly near a fruit tree and landed without ceasing to spin like a top. This object did not make any noise when it turned (...) Its rotation speed resembled that of children's tops. On the ground it did not leave any clear traces. Ten minutes after its landing, the object raised a cloud of dust and it rose quickly spinning. First it moved back to the north, then when it reached a certain height in the sky, it flew away in a flash towards the south. In a blink of an eye it had disappeared. (July 12, 1970)", + "location": "CHINA, Jiala, Taiwan Province.", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\". ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 104,105", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2601" + }, + { + "date": "7/16/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Joao Battista Marcellino was riding his bicycle towards Papagayos on a particularly deserted road. He was surprised to see some kind of headlights coming down from the sky, with a deafening noise. He felt he was suddenly suspended in the air and made desperate efforts to get off his bicycle. This lasted a few minutes, he tried to scream, but no sound came out of his throat. Finally he felt the bike gently descend to the ground and started pedaling again but again he was lifted, but this time in complete silence. The episode otherwise resembled the first one. Finally he was able to leave and arrived at his brother's house: they then discovered that a package of beef kidneys he was carrying on his luggage rack was missing...", + "location": "BRAZIL, Papagayos (Canelinha)", + "ref": [ + "R. Jack Perrin: \"The Mystery of UFOs\" - J'ai Lu/Pygmalion 1976, p. 164", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2602" + }, + { + "date": "7/25/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Etienne Géry, 16 years old, an apprentice baker, decided in the afternoon to go for a walk with the hope of discovering mushrooms. He took a familiar route, climbing a small slope. He passed the summit, the vegetation was very dense at this time, the ferns almost reaching the size of a man. Suddenly, between the ferns he distinguished something abnormal: a kind of dome of metallic appearance was there barely 15 m from him. At first intrigued, he stopped, then driven by curiosity he took two more cautious steps. With a stick he parted the curtain of ferns. In doing so, he was dazzled by a very bright yellow-orange light emanating from three kinds of rectangular tiles located just under the dome. In any case, the intensity of the light was such that it seemed to him that the top of the dome was separated from the lower part of the object. Etienne's curiosity turned into intense fear. He felt paralyzed, unable to make a move, neither to advance nor to flee. The cupola suddenly began to rise slowly, followed by the shell and the whole of the machine emerged from the screen of ferns. The orange beam followed the ascent of the object and Etienne was no longer dazzled. He then distinguished 3 or 4 circular portholes in the middle of the lower part as if they were part of a row that would have gone around it. He estimated the length of the machine at 5 or 6 meters and the height at 2.50 m to 3 m and compared its mass to the importance of a Renault Estafette. On the dome he noticed 3 antennas: the one on the right measuring about 1.50 m, the one on the left inclined to the left 60 cm and the one in the middle standing vertically 45 cm. The antennas seemed rigid to him. They did not oscillate during the ascent. He did not perceive any silhouette behind the portholes. Suddenly the object began to rise, accompanied by a shrill whistle. On the underside four absolutely identical supports were as if they had come out of 4 holes. Each one ended with a flat or slightly convex sole, longer than wide. The four feet retracted into the lower part, the object tilted, took a normal attitude and moved away. During the elevation of the machine Etienne felt a feeling of heat. Once at an altitude of about 100 m the object took off at a lightning speed and disappeared in 2 or 3 seconds on the north-north-west horizon.", + "location": "FRANCE, Jabreilles-les-Bordes", + "ref": [ + "L.D.L.N. \"Mysterious Flying Saucers\" - ALBATROS-ETAPES 1973 - pp. 61 to 74", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2603" + }, + { + "date": "8/5/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was 10:45 pm when the dogs started barking violently. When they went outside, the people found themselves in front of a two-meter-long rectangle standing on the ground. It could have been likened to a door or a window. It was visible on a moonless night and was luminous with a matte white that suggested a \"screen\" to the witnesses. The dogs stayed about fifteen meters away from the thing, attacking it from time to time with their hair standing on end. One of the two men present approached up to 10 meters and addressed the apparition in these terms: \"What do you want? Who are you? Come on! Let someone come out!\" The other went to get his gun. When he came back, the thing was off, it no longer existed...", + "location": "SPAIN, Cazalla de la Sierra", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Marie DOUCHET - Nostra - 18.2.1981", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2604" + }, + { + "date": "8/13/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:50 PM, Evald Hansen Maarup, a police officer, was returning to his home in Knud, in a police car. Between Kabdrup and Fjelstrup, as he was driving down a slight dip, the witness recounts: I was driving alone in the patrol car. Suddenly the car was plunged into a light of whitish-blue and at the same time the engine stopped. All the lights of the car went out, even the ignition light. I pulled over to the side and stopped. The dazzling external light, like neon, was so blinding that I couldn't see anything. To protect myself from the light I covered my eyes with my arm and managed to find the radio by feeling around. When I had my hand on the microphone and tried to call the station, I noticed that the radio was just as dead as the rest of the electrical equipment on board. The temperature inside the car rose and became pleasantly warm. It was like driving in the sun in summer. After a while the light rose. It was a light in the shape of a cone, with a base of 4 to 5 m in diameter. As I looked up, leaning forward, I could see that the upper end of the luminous cone was at the base of a large gray thing. No sound came from this object. After a few seconds the light was drawn inside. It is difficult to explain how. The light did not go out but its inner surface rose in such a way that the space under the luminous cone was plunged into darkness. The light was pulled up in about five minutes. I got out of the car and saw how the last part of the cone of light disappeared inside the lower part of the thing, through a hole whose diameter was around a meter. When the light had disappeared inside the object it began to move. It disappeared in a few seconds, rising vertically into the air. It accelerated strongly, still without the slightest sound. As the object moved away all the lights of the car's electrical system came back on.", + "location": "DENMARK, between Kabdrup and Fjelstrup", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: The UFO File - Laffont 1973, pp. 140-142", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2605" + }, + { + "date": "8/16/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The television film had just finished when an intense whistling sound was heard, the image blurred. It was impossible to restore it. As it was late, the witness turned off the receiver and went to the garden door to find the cause of the whistling. Astonished, she saw in the middle of the garage driveway a thing equipped with many lights, near which a man was standing looking at the lucerne field. She was so scared that she went back and locked herself in. After a moment she heard the same whistling again. Soon after, looking out the window, the thing had disappeared. The craft was about the size of a car: 4 m wide, 2.50 m high, of which 60 cm for the supports. An ellipsoid silver with a transparent hemispherical dome, at the top a white-bluish light that turned slowly. On the circumference of the object a gallery of small lights of various colors: white, violet, yellowish. The man was about 1.80 m tall, was dressed in a tight dark garment, his head tightly in a bonnet of the same color. Around the wrists, ankles and waist, he wore shiny bracelets. He looked at the field and suddenly walked quickly towards the UFO. At the place where the craft landed the ground shone: up close there were dark marks, like boot prints. These traces persisted for several days: during the day they were black, at night they shone slightly.", + "location": "SPAIN, Puenta de Herrera (Valladolid)", + "ref": [ + "STENDEK n° 11 - December 72 - p. 3 to 8", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2606" + }, + { + "date": "8/18/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. October 1967) COSMOS 316 was going to provide the key to the mystery. It too, in fact, re-entered the atmosphere, above the West of America. By chance, some fragments were able to be recovered, and then examined by experts. They were certain: these pieces constituted the envelope of a dummy bomb! (August 18, 1970)", + "location": "USSR - West of USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p.129", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2607" + }, + { + "date": "8/30/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) This Sunday, Altamiro Martin de Freitas of the dam security was making his rounds in the rain. Around 9:30 PM he saw something floating in the air emitting multicolored lights. As he approached the object he noticed that all the lights belonged to a silent and motionless structure, shaped like an elongated shell or bus, floating one meter above the ground. There were 15 rectangular portholes, about one meter long and 80 cm wide, with rounded corners. The object must have measured 20 m long and 3 m high. He started to crawl and drew his 9.4 mm Taurus 38. He fired once at 12 m from the object, which started to blink faster. Aiming carefully, he fired a second time. The blinking rhythm became so fast that he could no longer distinguish the extinguishing. A higher-pitched sound than that of a jet engine was heard. He was about to fire a third time when the object emitted a light in the form of a very intense white-blue ray that blinded and completely paralyzed the witness. Taken to the Guanabara hospital, he gradually recovered his mobility, but he remained blind for more than ten days, although ophthalmologists could not detect any serious injury. The investigation revealed that at the place where Altamiro had seen the object, the ground was dry in the middle of a bog resulting from continuous rain. Moreover, a woman from the state of Minas Gerais experienced a similar adventure. (Henry DURRANT: The UFO File - Laffont 1973, p. 111-112) ITATIAIA (RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL) 08/30/70 Almiro Martins de FREITAS: temporary blindness and paralysis; intense heat sensation (August 30, 1970)", + "location": "Brazil, Itatiala", + "ref": [ + "source PS 25, page 20; PS 26, page 22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2608" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 10pm a peasant saw on his way back, a metallic object flying in the shape of a saucer descending whistling on the hill. This object was throwing a very bright green light. When it landed on the hill it started to emit an incomprehensible music. Finding this strange the peasant ran to report it to the village chief. The responsible (...) immediately mobilized hundreds of militiamen to surround the hill. That night the sky was covered and black as ink. (...) But after an hour, the flying object, ejecting a powerful white light, forced the line of militiamen and quickly rose into the sky. (1970, Summer)", + "location": "CHINA, Taining, Fujian", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.55", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2609" + }, + { + "date": "10/5/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Lellier Case. Ms. Gabriel Lellier (59 years old) from Latourelle Street was the victim on October 5, 1970, of numerous physical discomforts, caused by a very bright object and a kind of vapor that she had seen from her apartment around 4:30 in the morning. She had gotten up because she could no longer sleep, as often happens to her. She headed to her living room to sit down; suddenly she saw bright orange beams entering her living room through the window that faced the house across the street and Laruelle Street. She rushed to the window and, looking up to the sky, she saw a very bright orange disc. She then realized that her gaze was fixed on the object, that she could not move, her body was completely paralyzed. After 30 seconds the object descended to almost the top of the house across the street. It had tripled in size. It was now surrounded by a very bright white halo that lit up the entire sky. In the center of the red ball, Ms. Lellier could make out a black object spinning quickly, giving her the impression that it was a camera. Thirty seconds later she saw the object rise up at a dizzying speed. Its ascent was accompanied by a long luminous trail. Ms. Lellier could now move and she headed to the door that opened onto the gallery, opened it, put her foot outside and suddenly saw a series of two or three small white clouds, floating in a kind of thick fog that was only in the back yard. Without wanting to, she entered the first cloud and immediately felt her throat seized. A horrible gas smell had taken her and in one go she felt suffocated. Feeling faint, she ran back into the house and collapsed onto her bed, losing consciousness. An hour and five minutes later she woke up and her eyes hurt terribly. Looking in the mirror she saw that her hair had turned yellow and she had the deep feeling of giving off electricity. (...) Health problems for weeks...", + "location": "Canada, Quebec", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Everything about Flying Saucers\" ed.; Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, pp. 161-164", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2610" + }, + { + "date": "10/20/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Target Cosmos 373 takes off on October 20 and enters orbit, placing itself at 510 km.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 151, 152", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2611" + }, + { + "date": "10/23/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three days later the Cosmos 374 Hunter is launched, which after finding its target, explodes into 90 pieces that scatter in space.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, pp. 151, 152", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2612" + }, + { + "date": "10/25/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4:00 PM, Pedro Machado and his son Euripide were grooming a cow separated from the herd with its calf. The cow was tied up not far from the paddock and the one-month-old calf was free at 5 m from its mother. The herd began to stir and moo, as well as the separated cow, which was looking at its calf with insistence. The calf also began to bellow. Astonished, the farmers saw the calf being carried in the air at 1 m from the ground, horizontally, towards the meadow, until a point at 20 m from its starting point, while they themselves felt paralyzed, unable to make a move. Suddenly, the calf, which was now silent, made a vertical ascent that lasted from 3 to 4 minutes, and suddenly disappeared from their sight in a cloud. (October 25-27, 1970)", + "location": "BRESIL, Alegrete", + "ref": [ + "R. Jack Perrin: \"The Mystery of UFOs\" - J'ai Lu/Pygmalion 1976, pp. 164-167", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2613" + }, + { + "date": "10/30/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: October 20 and 23, 1970) This time it was Cosmos 375 that in turn played hide-and-seek with Cosmos 373. After exploding, it only gave rise to 38 debris.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 152", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2614" + }, + { + "date": "12/23/1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The \"Sprint\" missile has succeeded in its first missile interception, after five years of development. The \"Spartan\" will succeed on January 11, 1971 after three years of testing.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 146", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2615" + }, + { + "date": "1970", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Linda Meyerson, aged 18, tearfully claimed to have been raped by an extraterrestrial who did it very well, since she gave birth to a monster. (vog: yet another unnatural gestation revealed by Jean FERGUSON... he does it on purpose!) Especially since the offspring she gave birth to has unknown physiological characteristics. Male, of human appearance, he can breathe safely in water or any liquid environment and can sniff a dozen deadly gases for ordinary humans. He has the gift of telekinesis, he can transmit his thoughts and read those of the people around him. So far, the father has not shown up to give a solid explanation about this \"space cutting\". . .", + "location": "Germany, Black Forest", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Enigmes du temps présent\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1979, p. 105, 106", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2616" + }, + { + "date": "1/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A camper was woken in the night by a loud humming. In a clearing he saw an egg-shaped object, glowing with a white light. Dark, human-like silhouettes were moving around. The beings entered the object, the light went out and the egg flew away.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, near Warragamba, New South Wales.", + "ref": [ + "MYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIA by Rex Gilroy, Nexus Publishing, Mapleton, Qnld., 1995, page 22- Keith Baskerfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2617" + }, + { + "date": "1/22/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Richard Williams said he observed an object 25 to 30 feet in shape of a diamond, equipped with white lights and two exhaust nozzles. The object initially looked like a bat, with wings wider than those of an airplane. In the middle of each wing it seemed there was a missile or a nozzle. The object had red and white lights on the wings and tail. (note of vog: did it perhaps look like a Convair Delta trainer?... or another plane of the same kind?) The object hovered first at about 100 feet from the ground before catapulting upwards. He thought he could make out a creature inside the object. In the back of the cockpit there was a blinking light. The sheriff's office of Huron County received 18 reports concerning this object", + "location": "USA, Old Niver Road, Willard (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "United Press International and Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch May 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2618" + }, + { + "date": "2/5/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3:00 PM, a being 90 cm tall approached the witness with small, rigid steps. It was wearing a one-piece garment. Then it moved away and rose into the air, heading towards the UFO. The witness managed to grab the foot of the extraterrestrial as it rose, but had to let go due to a burning sensation in his hand. The effects of the burn remained visible for two months.", + "location": "FINLAND, Kiunula", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 56 of 1981 p. 42", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2619" + }, + { + "date": "3/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Indeed, it took a year before a second satellite was placed in orbit, but it is true that in the meantime Chinese specialists had recorded a third failure. The \"China 2\" was launched in the greatest discretion in March 1971, since it was the American surveillance services who announced the news. The Chinese confirmation arrived only two weeks later.", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 17", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2620" + }, + { + "date": "3/5/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) M. Camus de Gevingey had a second store in Savigny: he made frequent trips between the two. That night he was returning around 01:10 and had just passed the small village of Trénal. A bright light in the distance caught his attention: it was not on the road, but more to the right. He continued to drive and quickly approached the place where this light source was located. He then saw that the lights were regularly arranged on the ground, on a line parallel to the woods. They were blue-tinted rectangles like fluorescent lights: he counted eight, the large side parallel to the ground. Then he almost simultaneously saw a kind of dull metal dome, about 8 m high and 15 m wide. Continuing to drive, a surprise awaited him: three beings were there, seeming to be waiting for him. He will qualify them as animals, so strange was their appearance. They were on all fours, climbing the embankment. Fear seized him. Especially when he saw about twenty of these beings in the meadow: some standing, others on all fours as if they were looking for something. The three near the tree were brownish, almost black, as if tanned. Their head had the aspect of an ant's, a rounded lobe framed by two other lobes swelling like cheeks. The car passed very quickly in front of them, they did not make any movement. Hardly had he passed them when a light filled his car: looking in the rearview mirror he had the impression that he was being shot at point-blank range. From that moment his fear disappeared. He had time to notice that the beings in the meadow were smaller and that they had their arms on the ground. Another feeling overwhelmed him: since he was hit by the beam, he was no longer aware of what he was doing. He had the impression that his car was driving alone, and it slowed down from 100 km/h to 20 km/h although it remained in 4th gear. He did notice that it was slowing down, but it did not affect him. A few moments later he noticed that the car's hood had become fluorescent, but this anomaly quickly disappeared. The car was only driving at 20 km/h and incredibly, it regained its regime on its own, without his conscious intervention. He did not stop, continued his journey at 50/60 km/h until Condamine completely disoriented. He only regained his senses in this village and continued to his home in Savigny. When undressing he was surprised to see traces of rectangles from 4 to 6 cm on 2 to 3 cm on the shirt, up to the belt. They were distributed on the left side; there were 7 or 8 of them. They were golden yellow, phosphorescent. Very fleeting they only lasted 5 to 6 minutes after he had taken it off. Three days later, brown rectangles appeared in the same places. It took three or four machine washes before they disappeared. The paint of the car was altered to the point that when washing it left green traces on the cloth. Pleasant consequence: for years M. Camus had suffered from headaches due to a liver disease: 6 months after this encounter he still has not felt any pain either in the liver or in the head.", + "location": "FRANCE, between Trénal and Condamine (Jura)", + "ref": [ + "L.D.L.N. \"Mysterious Flying Saucers\" - ALBATROS-ETAPES 1973, pp. 108 to 115", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2621" + }, + { + "date": "3/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Sun Trha Wong and five other soldiers on a routine patrol to check the state of the wells on the track to Erhlieh saw a huge luminous ball the size of a two-storey Western house, resting in a kind of rock-strewn circus from which one of the springs emerged. They hid to observe the phenomenon. After about ten minutes the luminosity of the sphere began to decrease slowly: they could not determine whether the ball was made of metal or plastic, it had no openings. Yet soon they saw three beings bustling around it with strange devices in their hands. They seemed to be looking for something and frequently looked in all directions. They were much taller than average and wore some kind of helmets. After a while they re-entered the sphere just as mysteriously and it took off and went north.", + "location": "CHINA, near Paiyunopo (Mongolian border)", + "ref": [ + "Gilles DANJOU - Nostra - 18.11.1972", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2622" + }, + { + "date": "4/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) THE SOVIETS WERE THE FIRST TO PUT A SPACE STATION INTO ORBIT, SALIOUT 1. THE VERY FIRST MODEL WAS SATELLITED IN APRIL 1971 AT 300 KM ALTITUDE AND WAS OCCUPIED BY THE THREE COSMONAUTS OF SOYOUZ 11 FOR THREE WEEKS; BUT THEY WERE TO PERISH ON RETURNING TO EARTH, DUE TO THE DECOMPRESSION OF THE SPACECRAFT. THE INTERRUPTION OF THE SOVIET HUMAN FLIGHT PROGRAM PUT AN END TO THE OCCUPATION OF THIS FIRST STATION WHICH WAS VOLUNTARILY PRECIPITATED INTO THE ATMOSPHERE FOR DESTRUCTION, SIX MONTHS LATER. IT HAD ACCOMPLISHED 2800 ORBITS.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 215", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2623" + }, + { + "date": "4/4/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: October 30, 1970) WITH COSMOS 400, TARGET, AND COSMOS 404, HUNTER, A SMALL INNOVATION APPEARS: THE INTERCEPTION, THIS TIME, IS SLOW, AND ONCE ACHIEVED IT DOES NOT LEAD TO ANY EXPLOSION. ON THE CONTRARY, ON THE DAY OF ITS LAUNCH, APRIL 4, 1971, THE HUNTER RETURNS HOME. THIS SERIES OF EXPERIMENTATIONS CONTINUES UNTIL AUTUMN 1972 WITH COSMOS 521. (April 4, 1971)", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 -Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 152", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2624" + }, + { + "date": "5/14/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Wilton Eater and his wife Rosalin were driving home after visiting friends in town. As they were approaching a hill, they saw a very bright light burst out to their right, which disappeared after a few seconds. Suddenly Mrs. Eater felt the car lift off the road, and to her great surprise, it floated in the air without leaving the right side of the road. Meanwhile, her husband tried in vain to steer the vehicle, with the headlights still on. A quarter of a mile further, the two astonished witnesses heard the sound of tires touching the road. (Allan 1971) (A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"Le dossier secret des OVNI\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p 35, 36) At night, Mr. and Mrs. Raw Eater were driving at 70 km/h. Suddenly a flash of light hit their car. The car floated about 60 cm off the ground, the speedometer stayed stuck at 70 km/h and despite the bad condition of the road there were no more bumps. This continued for a distance of about 400 m. When the strange light went away, the car regained contact with the ground. (May 14, 1971)", + "location": "Canada, near Gleichen (Ontario)", + "ref": [ + "Canadian Ufo Report, vol. 2 n° 4 – 1972 which dates this to May 24 in a place located in the Blackfoot Indian Reserve in Alberta", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2625" + }, + { + "date": "5/30/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Pierrette Debofle was cutting grass for rabbits in her garden at 2:05 PM. Looking up, she saw in the direction of the chalk quarry, whose summit was 178 meters high, a dark mass in the shape of a saucer with a dome, the size of a bulldozer, suspended close to the ground. She continued her work while keeping an eye on the unusual and motionless object. After a long time, a small being, with an abnormally large head, seemed to float rather than walk around the object. He moved around the object, bent down as if to pick something up, passed under the object where he disappeared inside as if sucked in. Immediately the craft took off without a sound (800m from the witness) like an arrow towards the hill and disappeared into the clouds.", + "location": "FRANCE, Dannes", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 360", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2626" + }, + { + "date": "6/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first \"Big Bird\" (formerly Super Samos) was put into orbit. These devices orbit at very low altitude, almost skimming the surface of the Earth on a scale of our planet. Initially launched at 170 km altitude, they then descend to 130 km and sometimes even less. This low altitude poses a problem due to atmospheric drag, multiplied by ten when descending from 170 to 130 km. (...) The big birds (officially \"LASP\") are enormous cylinders of 12 tons, equipped with an Agena rocket engine which regularly raises the altitude of the satellite above the fatal 130 km. (June 1971)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, pp. 32-36", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2627" + }, + { + "date": "6/7/1971 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Esther and Bill Clapisson, brother and sister, lived in a small house in the outskirts of Rosedale. On the night of June 7th Esther noticed a light approaching under the full moon. She went out onto the porch of the house with the dog. She saw an illuminated, rectangular-shaped object descending towards the ground near the intersection of two roads, 60 m from the house. The side of the craft facing her seemed to be occupied across its entire width by a control panel, but one of the men was hiding it with his back and outstretched arm. He made a sign to the other one inside, slightly leaning out to the right of the entrance, as if he wanted to attract the attention of a third one 6 m away on the road, collecting rock samples. She wanted to go and take a closer look, but the dog, in a state of panic, was pulling her back. She went inside to call her brother and when she came out again there was nothing, not even a light. The next day she found a 6 m long rectangular trace of burned grass at the edge of the road at the landing site. Four months later this imprint was still perfectly clear. (1971, June 7 (or 9?))", + "location": "CANADA, Rosedale (Alberta)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI.\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 161, 162", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2628" + }, + { + "date": "6/24/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Program 935 was continuing, but the 936 with the other secret aircraft YF-12a ended badly. As part of a research on being operational, this Black Bird (YF-12a) caught fire (in the right engine) Lt. Col. Ronald J. Layton and Maj. Billy A. Curtis first thought to land somewhere else, but took the right resolution to eject. Soon after the Black Bird exploded on the ground. [Ref 9-27] [Ref 9-28]", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "NASA Website 1997, \"On the Frontier\"", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2629" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Dhont couple and other witnesses observed in the late morning a silver cylindrical object coming from the NW. It flew slower than an airplane, seemed of considerable size and was heading SE at 60 to 70° elevation (1971, Summer)", + "location": "BELGIUM, Bruges (Flanders)", + "ref": [ + "GESAG n° 28, June 1972", + "see NASA program \"Big Bird\" initiated from June of this year..", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2630" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At about 2 o'clock in the morning, the peasants were startled awake by the noise of the village dogs and roosters and by the strange vibrations of the houses. Believing it to be an earthquake, people rushed out of their homes. That's when everyone could see a large bright disc quickly crossing the sky from NW to SE, almost skimming the roofs of the village. The shock caused by the gust tore off tiles, the leaves of the trees made a dull sound. (...) the villagers confirmed to me that their houses had trembled and they confirmed to me the existence of a disc of more than 3 m in diameter, but in the villages around no one felt an earthquake, nor saw this bright disc. (1971, Summer)", + "location": "CHINA, Dayu (Qiufu)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\". ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.103", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2631" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One day at dusk, the sun had already set and the sky was turning black. Having finished my work in the vegetable garden, I set off for the return. The moon was suspended in the sky in the southeast. I was walking in the direction of the north. I unconsciously raised my head and saw another bright moon in the northwest sky (...) which was almost blue, its brightness similar to that of a fluorescent lamp. (...) the blue moon shone particularly as if it had exploded. Two other luminous objects shot out at the same time from this moon, one above the other: they were even bigger, but less bright than the blue moon. This spectacle put me in a deep stupor. I couldn't believe my eyes. A few minutes later, another strange phenomenon occurred: these two luminous objects themselves divided into two, making five objects in all including the blue moon. The last two were the biggest but the least bright. These five unknown flying objects were perfectly alike and they all stayed in the sky for a moment. (1971, Summer)", + "location": "CHINA, outskirts of Beijing", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\". Ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 109, 110", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2632" + }, + { + "date": "8/7/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11:30 Mr. and Mrs. Locogne were in the courtyard. They heard the sound of a large plane and then saw a Dakota at about 1000m. At 50m to the right of this aircraft was a small spherical thing that was moving at the same speed as the plane, it had reddish reflections under the sun. This red point passed the plane and disappeared. (1971; August 7)", + "location": "FRANCE, Fresnoy le Grand (Aisne)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 365", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2633" + }, + { + "date": "8/12/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A Finnish couple, Ben and Helen K., left Gladstone at 11:35 PM for Rockhampton. They were surprised to find that the journey had only taken them 40 minutes, when normally it would take much longer. Furthermore, they had no recollection of the journey, except that they had seen a strange green light at one point. Their car, a 1971 Valiant Sedan, was covered in an odourless oily substance. Attempts to learn more through hypnosis failed.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Gladstone, Queensland", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO Files\", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p. 35", + "Keith Baskerfield, Australian Abduction Cases 1989", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2634" + }, + { + "date": "Late 8/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Li Chun) A peasant from my production brigade, named Zhang Rongchang, was tending to the corn fields. One day at noon, as he was returning home for lunch, in the middle of the path, he suddenly saw a man with a big head coming towards him. When Rongchang was 5 or 6 m away from the unknown man, the latter stopped. Astonished by the unexpected presence of this strange creature, Zhang stopped too and shouted twice to the man: \"What do you want?\" No reaction. The old peasant had the time to examine the man without seeming to and saw that he had a well-proportioned body structure. His body was dressed in a one-piece garment, like a space suit, made of metal leaves, with dots in front and behind. His clothing shone intensely in the sun. It was difficult to distinguish his arms and legs; His walk and his look seemed stiff, silent. His very bulky head was three times bigger than that of a normal man. It was covered with a helmet and the witness could not see any detail behind this helmet. Zhang Rongchang was very scared: he took a detour and ran desperately. When he was at some distance, he turned back to see the creature again, but it had mysteriously disappeared. (Zhang was never the same again, he remained prostrate, and died in January 1972) (...) (...) (1971, late August)", + "location": "CHINA, Chungking (Sichuan)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 321", + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - ed. M ercure de France 1983, p. 230 to 232", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2635" + }, + { + "date": "9/22/1971 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 7:30 and 8:00 PM, Paulo Caetano Silveira in his VW car saw a luminous object circling his vehicle at 3 m, causing it to stop. As the speed was engaged, the car jumped forward when the UFO moved away, but stalled immediately. Panicked and sweating, the witness turned the key and was able to leave, but twice more the red and blue object approached him, and the car stopped again. Three humanoids of 90 to 100 cm in height were approaching him, floating, and he was taken by the trio and transported inside the craft where he was examined without being touched. He was brought outside by some kind of elevator and collapsed on the ground. They dragged him 5 m to the edge of the road, where he lost consciousness. Ten minutes later he was able to get up and saw someone approaching: it was Doctor Crespo to whom he asked for help. (...) He immediately went to tell his story to the police, who saw him arrive with his arms and clothes dusty as if he had rolled on the ground. (follow-up on October 11, 1971) (Inforespace n° 56 of 1981, pp. 38 to 41) Between Natividade and Itaperuna, RdJ (Br.) on 22/09/71 Paulo Caetano Silveira (27 years old): temporary blindness; scratches and bruises; state of shock (source FSR 17.6 page 24). Paulo Silveira recounts that two figures in blue one-piece suits took him inside a luminous disc. He was driving towards Itaperuna when the disc blocked the road. A beam of light came out of it and the engine of the car stopped, while Silveira himself remained without energy. He heard a motor sound when the two extraterrestrials, the size of children of about ten years old, carried him on board. He fell into a coma. He woke up when they laid him on the edge of the road near his car, then they entered their craft and left. A passing motorist found the unfortunate, disoriented, dazed, and blind, and took him to the hospital. The abduction had lasted three hours. (1971, (12?) September 22)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Itaperuna, Serraria", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELLL: \"The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, pp. 134, 135", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2636" + }, + { + "date": "9/22/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Benito Miranda, truck driver, returned home on September 25, with his clothes stained with red and black earth, and his eyes injected with blood. He was treated at home, lay down and fell asleep. He told the police that while he was traveling around 24 hours between Itaperuna and Cataguazes, he saw a strange round object on the road. Approaching, he saw two small men measuring about 30 cm. From their belt, the dwarves took out a lamp from which a light beam, sometimes blue, sometimes vermilion, came out. The beam was directed at him and when the light hit him he was suspended in the air like a bird hovering. Every time the light intensity increased, the witness went higher, up to about 50 m: he felt paralyzed, unable to even scream. After about 5 minutes, headlights appeared in the distance. The dwarves lowered the beam towards the ground and the witness was taken back inside the truck. It took him a quarter of an hour to recover. (...) He stopped on the bridge crossing the Rio Carangola to check a steering defect, not knowing why he suddenly fell asleep and woke up at 6:30 the next morning, not understanding how he was in the car and had his clothes soiled). He returned home not remembering anything but had pains all over his body. 10 days after the incident, his left hand was still shaking slightly. [note from vog: confused all this! is it the 22nd or the 24th of September to start?] (1971, night of September 22)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Cataguazes", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 56 of 1981, p. 37, 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2637" + }, + { + "date": "9/23/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Several witnesses during the night, including police officers. Shortly after 8pm, the UFO, a red ball of nearly 20m in diameter and equipped with a cockpit like a helicopter cabin, was observed by the crew of a fishing boat. It illuminated the surface of the sea as if it were broad daylight. The ball circled the boat, at less than 50 meters, for a few minutes before sinking into the water 3 miles from their position. (1971, September 23-24)", + "location": "At sea - north of the coast of CHILE, Tocopilla", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 170, 321", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2638" + }, + { + "date": "Autumn 1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Joël Bodain and Philippe Bruntz observed in the direction of the east, at about a hundred meters away from them, around 5 pm, an enormous round mass, white, semi-transparent, more similar to a disk seen from the front than to a sphere, motionless above the roofs of the houses. The huge object (4 cm at arm's length, that is 6 to 8 m of real diameter) stands vertically and is dotted with round spots, all of the same size (1 m in diameter) whiter than the disk itself. As nothing happens, the children abandon their observation after one or two minutes. (1971, Autumn)", + "location": "FRANCE, Montluçon \"St Jean\".", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - Ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 369", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2639" + }, + { + "date": "10/3/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:14 PM, the ANA Boeing 727 flight 69 from Tokyo to Sapporo was flying at 27,000 feet when the captain, Tadayoshi Sugimura, saw a golden glowing object two o'clock away. Two other members of the crew were also observing the object. It almost filled the cockpit window, resembling a glowing stick, with four lights two-thirds of the way down its length and a trail following it. It was flying southeast at around 12,000 meters altitude and remained visible for nearly a minute. At 6:15 PM, another ANA Boeing 727, flight 68, was flying at 26,000 feet and the captain, Kenji Yamada, the co-pilot Akio Ishii, and flight engineer Roye Hopper observed the phenomenon 90° to the left of the nose of the aircraft. They estimated the length of the object to be 200 to 300 meters and 10 to 12 meters high, with a golden glow, with sparks at the front and a speed of Mach 2.", + "location": "JAPAN, Miyako (Iwate)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace #62 of 1983 pp. 10-15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2640" + }, + { + "date": "10/3/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:14 PM, the Boeing 727, Flight 71, took off from Tokyo, with Captain Toshio Shimada, co-pilot Kanki Uchida, and flight engineer Morii. As they climbed to 3000 m they saw an object in the shape of a cigar with a yellow glow, moving horizontally and emitting a flame from the rear. It was visible for 30 to 40 seconds and then disappeared into a zone of thin clouds. The captain estimated its speed to be Mach 8 and had distinguished a row of windows.", + "location": "JAPAN, Tokyo", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace No. 62 of 1983 pp. 10-15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2641" + }, + { + "date": "10/3/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:15 PM, JAL Flight 521 was heading north towards Chitose, the crew saw at 11 o'clock at about 26000 feet a white object with a slight bluish hue, accompanied by a bright smoke zone in front and behind. It flew behind the cockpit window and disappeared after 70 to 90 seconds of observation.", + "location": "JAPAN, in flight, Chitose", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 62 of 1983 pp. 10 to 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2642" + }, + { + "date": "10/3/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:14 PM, JAL Flight 877 was preparing to change course near Shimokota and was circling at 3000m when Captain Muryamma saw a bright object like a comet. This glow grew larger and its movement brought it across the sky from left to right in front of the plane. The phenomenon was moving horizontally at Mach 3- eastward at about 15000 feet. Duration of observation: one minute.", + "location": "JAPAN, Shimokota", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace #62 of 1983 pp. 10-15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2643" + }, + { + "date": "10/3/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 18:12 Flight 684 was at 4500m 25km east of Oshima Island when Captain Hidezaku Ichikawa and co-pilot Tohei Nakamura saw an elongated luminous object emerge from a cloud bank. It crossed the sky horizontally to the east: duration of observation: 15 seconds. (...)", + "location": "JAPAN, Oshima", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 62 of 1983 pp. 10-15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2644" + }, + { + "date": "10/11/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Omar Salera Armond took the bus from Italva to Itaperuna at 01:05. The 39 passengers were asleep. 8 km after Italva he saw a yellow-orange light about 500 m away and with an apparent diameter of 2 m. He told the conductor and the driver, who stopped the bus. The passengers got off to observe the phenomenon, which was then still. After some discussion, everyone got back on and the journey continued. During the last 31 km, the light accompanied the bus, except twice, it was constantly in front of the bus at 60° and executed various trajectory evolutions. The driver was suggested to make a call of headlights: he did. The UFO disappeared and returned a few minutes later. This happened 5 times. The bus stopped 3 more times on the way to observe the phenomenon.", + "location": "BRAZIL, between Campo and Itaperuna", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 56 of 1981, p. 36", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2645" + }, + { + "date": "10/11/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Continuation from 22.9.1971) Around 3:00 AM Paulo Caetano was suddenly awoken by a strong mental shock. From his bed he saw a light entering through the window. Without waking his wife he got up and went to the kitchen: he saw in the garden, 3 m from the house, an object identical to the one from his first contact, not touching the ground, staying at about 50 cm. Next to the UFO, small humanoids were pointing a box in his direction. They looked at each other like this for 10 minutes, then Paulo Caetano felt a sharp headache. The UFO left, he went back to bed, but he couldn't fall asleep again.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Itaperuna", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 56 of 1981, p.41", + "Continuation on November 17, 1971", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2646" + }, + { + "date": "10/16/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) … At two o'clock in the afternoon, I was walking on the left sidewalk of a street in the city. (..) I looked up without any particular intention and to my great surprise saw a strange flying machine shaped like a tank. I estimated its height to be between 4 and 5 m, its diameter between 2 and 3 m. It was in the sky at 400 or 500 m from the ground. It was a shining metal machine that flew along the street without making any noise. Its speed was equal to that of the cars and it was turning slowly on itself. I stopped to look at it better and the passers-by followed my example: everyone in the street was looking at it for a minute, then it disappeared.", + "location": "CHINA, Chaoyang (Liaoning)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 56", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2647" + }, + { + "date": "11/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) From November 1971, a larger satellite network (520 kilos instead of 45) replaced the IDSCP satellites. (...) They are compatible with other types of military telecommunications satellites launched in parallel, including the British Army's \"Skynet\" launched by American rockets, and NATO's \"NATO\". (November 1971)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 92", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2648" + }, + { + "date": "11/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) After the satellites of the Molnya I family, the first Molnya Type II is launched.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 96", + "continued November 74", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2649" + }, + { + "date": "11/2/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ronald Johnson was working in the sheepfold and his mother was calling him for dinner when he heard a rumble. He then saw an object in the shape of a fly agaric mushroom, which lit up from top to bottom in all colors, the base being very bright. It came over the shed, broke a dead tree on the way, broke a branch off another tree and stopped near the latter, about 60 cm from the ground, for several minutes. Then its base became brighter and it rose obliquely at great speed, passing over the shed with a shrill noise like that of a jet plane. Ronald called his parents who finally decided to come and saw the light of the craft disappear in the distance. Going around the shed adjacent to the site, Ronald and his parents saw in the dark (night had come) a bright circle with a faint glow. The ground shone with a gray-white color. The branches of the site also shone in the same way. Approaching closer, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson touched the circular surface. It was not hot, but to the touch the texture of the ground seemed strange, as if the ground was crystallized. Mrs. Johnson immediately felt that her fingers had become numb. She then rubbed her hand against her leg to try to dispel this numbness, but the part of her leg where she had rubbed became immediately insensitive like the tip of her fingers. She compared this numbness to a local anesthetic. Mr. Johnson also felt the same sensation after touching the ground. (...) Broken branches, crown-shaped trace whose ground is waterproofed, containing a whitish substance. No radioactivity.", + "location": "USA, Delphos, (Kansas)", + "ref": [ + "Henry DURRANT: The UFO File - Laffont 1973, p. 111-161 and 262 to 262 as well as photographic insert", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2650" + }, + { + "date": "11/14/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Angelo Cello, behind in his plowing, was with his tractor in the field and had been plowing since the night before at 9 pm, until November 14 at 1 am. At a certain moment he saw a light about 2 km away diagonally down and thought that a colleague was working like him. He went up the slope and felt that it was bright. He was flown over by lights without a defined outline, located at 50 m altitude and to his unpleasant surprise he saw these lights descend vertically and suddenly panicked. He left the tractor with the headlights on and the engine running. He fled to his brother's house a few hundred meters away. He nevertheless turned around and saw (it was as bright as day) five lights parallel to each other about ten meters above the tractor. Regaining courage he waited and after a few seconds the lights rose, rose to fifty meters and moved back on the trajectory followed on arrival.", + "location": "FRANCE, La Chapelle (Lot et Garonne)", + "ref": [ + "J.C. BOURRET: The new wave of S.V. - France Empire 1975, pp. 41-44", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2651" + }, + { + "date": "11/17/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: continuation of October 11, 1971) At 9:30 PM Paulo Gaetano was returning in a car with passenger Elvio Bianchi. He felt that the car was not pulling normally and he mentioned it to his companion, who replied that he was tired and wanted to sleep. The engine stalled and Paulo had to pull over to the side of the road. That is when he saw the craft about three and a half meters away from him. A beam of red light emanated from it, which apparently caused the car door to open. Several small beings appeared, took Paulo into the craft and laid him on a small table. After tying his arm they lowered an apparatus resembling X-rays from the ceiling. He felt a cut near his elbow. They then showed him three panels, one of which depicted the city of Itaperuna and the other an atomic explosion. Paulo felt numb. Did Elvio see the saucer? No, he only saw a bus. Elvio said that Paulo had become nervous and said that they were being pursued by a saucer. The car had stopped and Elvio had to come to Paulo's aid who had fallen to the ground behind the car. Elvio was unable to explain why the door was open and what had happened to Paulo who was injured on the elbow, nor could he explain why they had taken the bus. (see continuation on December 5, 1971 - also note that on November 15 and 16, 1971 Paulo Caetano had taken photos of the UFO each time) (Jacques VALLEE: \"Other Dimensions\" - trans. Robert Laffont 1989 - p. 216, 217) In 1971, two men from Babaeiras were allegedly taken aboard a UFO by some small \"aliens\" and held captive for five hours.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Bananeiras", + "ref": [ + "Paul B. Thompson, Nebula Editor PSCP, Pol at aol.com", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2652" + }, + { + "date": "12/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On the occasion of the Indo-Pakistani conflict, eight Cosmos satellites (463 to 470) were launched into space over the course of three weeks, six of which were dedicated to photographic espionage. The first one left less than 48 hours after the start of the conflict and was recovered five days later. (...).", + "location": "USSR, Baikonur", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, pp. 8 and 9", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2653" + }, + { + "date": "12/5/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Continuation from November 17, 1971). Everything is unfolding exactly as before, but this day he receives a telepathic message: they are on a mission of peace and are preparing people for their next visit.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Itaperuna", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace No. 56 of 1981, pp. 41, 42", + "See continuation on December 19, 1971", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2654" + }, + { + "date": "12/14/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11pm, two young men, Ytes and Schiller, saw an animated object of humanoid appearance, floating between the trees in a kind of fog, barely 20 meters away from them. It had a dog's head, pointed ears and a long nose. It was very large, nearly 2 meters and of a heavy appearance. The two men then moved to another point to observe better and saw on the ground a large object the size of a truck. This object was hemispherical and had windows. This object dissolved on the spot.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Waikerie, South Australia", + "ref": [ + "John Burford - Keith Baskerfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2655" + }, + { + "date": "12/19/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Continuation of December 5, 1971) At around 8:30 PM, while on his way to visit a client, Caetano saw the UFO one last time. He spontaneously got out of the vehicle to approach the UFO, and when he was about 100 m away he was enveloped in a luminous radiation and found himself suspended in the air 20 cm above the ground. A few moments later the UFO rose straight up into the sky.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Itaperuna", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 56 of 1981, p. 42", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2656" + }, + { + "date": "12/20/1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:30 PM Manuel Silva e Sousa left the military base of Itaperuna when he saw a bright light, like an airplane trying to land. The light disappeared and then he saw it in a field near the runway. He approached: it was a very intense light blue light. At twenty meters he noticed that it was an oval shape emitting this blinding light. And then he saw the being. He was walking near the thing, he was small, one meter tall or less, bareheaded, wearing a khaki uniform and small boots. They looked at each other fixedly, the being and the witness, who was terrified. Then the creature turned around, raised his arms horizontally and lifted off the ground, he returned to his craft as if he was attracted by a force, from the top, head first. Inside there were at least two other beings, they were looking at the witness without moving. A kind of slide closed with a small sound. The object moved away first slowly and at fifty meters at a lightning speed, disappearing in a second.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Itaperuna", + "ref": [ + "J. C. BOURRET: \"La nouvelle vague des S.V.\" - France Empire 1975, p. 147 to 149", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2657" + }, + { + "date": "1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three people in a car saw, at night, a \"man\" bathed in light. He had an outstretched hand and bounced a luminous ball from the ground into his hand. Then the three witnesses were surrounded by thousands of small lights that moved in rows. They left the area without waiting for the end of the observation.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Broome, Western Australia", + "ref": [ + "Bill Chalker - Keith Baskerfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2658" + }, + { + "date": "1971", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Fred Bell, who worked for NASA under Werner von Braun, who is a scientist, inventor, artist and mystic practicing alternative medicine, made a trip to India and the Himalayas. In 1971 he received his first sign from the extraterrestrial Semjase (note from vog: the one Billy Meier allegedly meets 4 years later...). The telepathic image takes shape under his pencil: he draws it very beautifully with long blond hair. In 1980 she will tell him that she comes from the planet Erra (note from vog: Billy Meier brings other entities from this planet...) whose configuration resembles the green valleys of the Swiss Alps. Semjase will be his inspiration for music and other inventions (note from vog: which he hastens to commercialize, of course) (...)", + "location": "USA, Laguna Beach, California", + "ref": [ + "Hans Richter: \"Die Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2659" + }, + { + "date": "1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first early warning satellites appeared late. The first was indeed \"Cosmos 520\" in 1972, deployed ten years after the American Midas 2.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 82", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2660" + }, + { + "date": "2/12/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) We had just crossed the pass and were beginning to descend towards Saint-Pierreville, Bernard Vialle recounts, when we suddenly saw a brilliant light burst from the ravine, along the road, about 300 meters ahead of us. Surprised, and a bit scared, I braked. It took me about 200 meters to stop. We opened the doors, ready to flee, for during those few seconds, a luminous sphere had appeared, rising slowly from the ravine. It seemed to have a diameter of about thirty meters. It seemed to us that it was heading towards us. We ran away, abandoning the car. But we quickly realized that the thing was not pursuing us. At a very low altitude, it had begun to fly over the side of the valley, very slowly, sometimes stopping. It lit up the ground in a radius of 300 meters. A firework light. A bit unreal. It was something wonderful and terrifying at the same time. We were so captivated by the spectacle that we didn't notice the time passing. We suddenly realized that we had been there for more than an hour. We can't stay like this, Jean-Claude said. Tomorrow, when we tell this, we'll be called \"lunatics\". We got back in the car, but taking the road that follows the opposite slope to the one being flown over by the \"thing\". When we arrived at the hamlet of Feouzet, we discovered the valley again. The enormous luminous sphere was still there. Fascinated, we watched it again for a long time. Then we rushed to wake up the deputy mayor, Eugène Payot. \"When Bernard and Jean-Claude came to wake me up, they were so excited that I had a hard time understanding what they were saying. Nevertheless, I got up and went out to look. It was more beautiful than I could have imagined, this kind of disc hovering, motionless, above the valley. I have no words to describe it. We couldn't take our eyes off it and we fought against sleep to observe it for as long as possible. Around six in the morning, the craft moved away towards the east. Its luminosity gradually weakened, then it disappeared. We parted without daring to talk. Thus, for five hours, the UFO explored the valley, sometimes motionless, sometimes moving very slowly and scanning the ground with its spotlights. And during those five hours, Saint-Pierreville experienced an inexplicable power outage. The gendarmes and the mayor confirmed it to me. A curious outage, since, if the light bulbs refused to turn on, the electric radiators and the clock of the bell tower continued to work. \"It was an electromagnetic phenomenon,\" said a technician. \"That is why only the devices in a closed circuit continued to work. (1972, night of February 12th to 13th)", + "location": "FRANCE, Saint-Pierreville (Ardèche)", + "ref": [ + "Charles GARREAU: Flying Saucers: 20 Years of Investigations\" Mame, 1971 p. 218-220", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2661" + }, + { + "date": "3/2/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Pioneer 10 is launched. Its official mission will end on March 31, 1997. Yet after this date, the NASA center at Moffett Field, California, will still intermittently receive a signal from this satellite orbiting the Moon. The signal is weaker than that of an electronic alarm clock...", + "location": "SPACE, USA", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2662" + }, + { + "date": "3/3/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: The Loveland Ohio Creature, by Charles J. Wilhelm) The witness was driving around 1am on Riverside Road towards Loveland. There was ice on the road and he was driving very slowly. He then saw what he thought was a dog on the side of the road. He had to maneuver to avoid it. As he stopped, the animal immediately stood up and in the headlights looked towards the driver, then jumping over the guardrail. The witness described it as being about one meter tall, its body resembling leather, weighing between 25 and 38 kilograms, and from the front looking like a lizard. Later that evening he returned to the scene with a friend. There were tracks leading to the river. There was no official report.", + "location": "USA, Loveland (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "continued on March 17, 1972...", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2663" + }, + { + "date": "3/10/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Daniel Laurets (Loretz?), a fireman lieutenant, saw at 9:25 PM through the windshield, to the right of the road, something descending towards the ground and landing very quickly. He braked. He estimated that the object was 200m away from him. At the moment of the landing, a kind of small red ball covering the UFO went out. At the front, two elliptical openings were diffusing a pale light obliquely towards the ground, which was lit. At the back, a weak red glow was lighting the plowed field. Thirty seconds after the landing, the lights went out and in the now black night, nothing was visible anymore. He had a hard time making the engine of the new R6 work properly and it coughed for several hundred meters before running normally. (1972, 10th March)", + "location": "FRANCE, Civières, hamlet of Aubigny", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 373", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2664" + }, + { + "date": "3/12/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. and Mrs. Dugué observed from 9:15 PM and for 3/4 of an hour a large, immobile sphere, so bright that Mrs. Dugué put on her sunglasses. Suddenly the ball began to move, swaying two or three times from right to left and left to right and then... it was a bit higher. There it stayed for 5 to 10 minutes, then it made the pendulum movement again and was even higher. And so on. Around 11 PM it suddenly disappeared.", + "location": "FRANCE, Maubeuge \"Sous le Bois\"", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 374, 375", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2665" + }, + { + "date": "3/17/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: March 3, 1972) Another driver had a similar encounter. He was driving in the opposite direction and saw, lying in the middle of the road, what looked like the corpse of an animal. He got out of his car with the intention of moving the corpse off the road. As he opened his door, he saw in the light of the headlights the creature moving, half running, half hopping, and jumping over the guardrail while turning its head towards the witness. The witness took his gun and fired, but missed. The description of the creature matched that given fifteen days earlier. This witness went to the police station to report it.", + "location": "USA, Loveland (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "following 19 March 1972", + "From the files of Ron Schaffner", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2666" + }, + { + "date": "3/18/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7:15 PM, Edouard Sessière and his 17-year-old son Christian, in a car, were suddenly blinded near the \"Cantamin\" house in the Brochet district. The light came from an object stabilized at 35 m high. The light was so dazzling that Mr. Sessière had to stop abruptly. It looked like an electric arc as reflected by rotating mirrors. The object did not appear to be metallic, its diameter could be 10 m. After two minutes it pivoted into a horizontal position, started, stopped 100 m further on to take up its vertical position and disappeared at great speed describing a yellow-pink-red \"S\" in the direction of Charvieu. The \"S\" disappeared after a quarter of an hour. Physical effects on the watch and on the car.", + "location": "FRANCE, Pont de Cheruy", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 378", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2667" + }, + { + "date": "3/19/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: March 17, 1972) The witness from the previous day saw the creature and fired at it. He emptied his service weapon on it. No one wants to talk about it anymore and the witness has moved to Florida.", + "location": "USA, Loveland, Ohio", + "ref": [ + "Source: Loveland Herald Cincinnati Suburban Press 7/18/85", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2668" + }, + { + "date": "4/13/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jacques Fortier was walking at 10:30 PM. \"Having reached the top of a small hill (...) I saw lights that went out in front of me. (...) I continued to walk with my head down and it was after a while, when I looked up, that I saw with astonishment a kind of \"machine\" in the shape of a spinning top, difficult to describe. I am sure I heard something moving inside. At the same time I realized that I was no longer able to move, I was like frozen in place. A whole panel of the half of the machine in front of me opened (noise) and out of it came an extremely strange object, a kind of double triangle (thickness) attached at the base and which stayed close to the \"machine\" at the level of a kind of raised hem that separated the machine in the middle. It was like a kind of transmitter device that transmitted this to me: \"Don't talk too much, for you too will no longer speak\". The voice was hard, hoarse, separating the words (I heard it in my head and maybe not elsewhere...) The speaking thing was spinning while staying close to the central bulge of the machine and the background noise seemed like a kind of buzzing: bzz... bzz...\" The witness's surprise came mainly from the fact that he was immobilized for half an hour while normally it only takes five minutes to go from the neighbor's house to his own. He arrived home at 11:35 PM. (...)", + "location": "Canada, Val Senneville (Quebec)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, pp. 71 to 73", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2669" + }, + { + "date": "4/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During an excursion with 4 cars and a total of 15 adult people and two children, when they arrived at Huaypo around 8:00 pm, all 4 cars suddenly stopped. Worried, they started to examine the engines and then heard a buzzing coming from the north. It was an object of 10 to 15 m in diameter moving quickly in a straight oblique line towards the lake and slowly submerging into it. It was a silver-blue disc surrounded by an orange halo and when it submerged, the water of the lake turned orange at the point of impact. The engines of the cars could be restarted 2 to 3 minutes after this phenomenon. (April 1972)", + "location": "PERU, Huaypo Lagoon", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 27 - 1976, p. 14, 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2670" + }, + { + "date": "4/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. X was driving and was 2 km from his home. It was around 10 pm. In a bend near a wood, he saw on the right a light seeming to come from a clearing near the road. When he got close, he was astonished to see a very large disc-shaped object with a dome on top, apparently resting on four legs. Panicked, the witness tried to drive away and noticed that the headlights were off and the car wouldn't start. He stayed there for 45 minutes. A progressive paralysis spread through his limbs and voice. At the end of his forced wait, in absolute silence, he saw a tiny, blackish figure, thin, 1m tall, jump out of the wood bordering the clearing, jump onto the edge of the disc, then jump again and disappear into the dome. Immediately the craft took off in a pendular ascent, stopping for a few seconds between 50 and 90 meters. Then, in a beam of light, it headed towards Marans, the marshes of Brie and St Michel to the north. Mr. X saw his headlights come back on but was still shocked. He was dazed, crying at the wheel of his car, unable to move. It was 10:50 pm, when Mr. G.'s (Mr. X's neighbor) magnetic detector went off, emitting a discontinuous sound. Mr. G., interested in UFOs, took his car and found Mr. X, half-unconscious. It was only the next day that he could tell his story and remember. However, he was left with partial amnesia, not remembering the events of 6 months ago. His memory returned several weeks later. There were numerous traces, including a cow in the meadow near the wood from which the humanoid had emerged: the farmer found it dead, marked with three neat holes in the middle of its forehead between the eyes.", + "location": "FRANCE, Sainte Soulle", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 384 to 386", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2671" + }, + { + "date": "5/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) While driving, the witness saw at around 10am a pale green ball the size of a coconut, motionless on the left side of the road, 50 cm from the ground, about twenty meters from the car. Suddenly, the ball started moving in a slightly ascending straight trajectory, heading straight towards the Peugeot, whose driver instinctively braked. Less than a second later, the ball exploded on the windshield at the driver's face level, with a muffled sound, leaving no trace.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Basse-Wavre", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 23, p. 14,15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2672" + }, + { + "date": "5/26/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Joe Anderson, Andy Dufrene, and Bob Ashmead, all three from High Level, were travelling together in a truck. One of them noticed an object with exhaust pipes above the trees. The object followed them for 80 km between High Level and Edmonton. The object split into several segments at one point, each going its own way and then reuniting again. Silent. The object maneuvered from left to right. The witnesses called their boss on the radio for him to look. He did so with his wife. Reported to the Police.", + "location": "CANADA, Alberta", + "ref": [ + "Canadian Ufo Report vol 2 no. 6 1973, pp. 23-25", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2673" + }, + { + "date": "5/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the morning, Ferret saw three \"dwarves\" of a stature of about 105 cm, in clothes resembling sacks, walking around and looking at the shop displays. They were extremely thin, their skin was chocolate brown and wrinkled. They had pointed ears and short hair.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Grafton, New South Wales", + "ref": [ + "QUFORB - Keith Basterfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2674" + }, + { + "date": "5/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Last launches of satellites by the Thor Agena rocket, which served for more than ten years.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 29", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2675" + }, + { + "date": "6/20/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) More than fifty witnesses saw appear at 9:35 in the morning, a gigantic saucer coming from the west. It was the size of a small truck. Its shape was perfectly oval and its color gray-blue emitted a slight luminescence. The sky was cloudy and the craft stood out against the clouds. It stayed for nearly twenty minutes oscillating slightly above the suburbs of Pag Ting. It was photographed. The military hunt intervened in order to intercept it, but as soon as the planes got close, it disappeared at a prodigious speed towards the north. According to the testimonies its speed probably exceeded mach 4.", + "location": "CHINA, Pag-Ting (near Beijing)", + "ref": [ + "Gilles Danjou - Nostra - 18.11.1972", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2676" + }, + { + "date": "6/20/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A red fireball, one meter in diameter, changing color and becoming green, then white, was observed hovering above the trees of a farm. Bernie Smit fired several shots at the object, with no result. An hour later, the alerted police arrived and they then saw a black sphere fleeing behind the trees at their approach. They fired at the ball. It then became gray-white, frolicking above the trees, with a loud noise of air stirring. (Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 350, 351, placing this on June 20th) June 26, 1972 - Port Beaufort, Farmer de Klerk was watering his cattle in a meadow. Suddenly he saw a plume of smoke in the clear and cloudless sky. The smoke quickly headed towards him and exploded into a roaring fireball. Terrified, de Klerk dropped his bucket and ran to fetch the boss, Bernie Smit. Mustering a group of workers, Smit returned to the scene to find the fireball hovering above the meadow. As the men climbed the fence, the fireball fled and rose up. (1972, June 20th or 26th)", + "location": "SOUTH AFRICA, Fort Beaufort (Cape Town)", + "ref": [ + "Internet, 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2677" + }, + { + "date": "6/22/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Javier Bosque, preparing a degree in theology and philosophy, lies down on the bed to read \"Don Quixote\" and turns on the radio at the lowest volume. At a late hour of the night, he does not hear due to this a crackling of background noise: around two o'clock in the morning he is still reading. Suddenly it seems to him that the light increases in intensity. He puts down his book and looking towards the window he sees a strong luminosity through the slits of the slightly open window. His curiosity turns to fear when he realizes that the window is opening slowly, allowing passage to a luminous object that comes towards the center of the room. It moves slowly, two meters from the ground, without noise. The light hurts the eyes and Javier has taken refuge under the covers, eyes half-closed. The object rises, descends to 40 cm from the ground, stops. Since this thing is in his room the transistor emits strangely high-pitched whistles. He sticks out his arm from the covers and turns on the recorder. The device descends even lower, begins an exploration with a laser-like beam of 5 cm in diameter, from the radio to the recorder. Once this beam is completely retracted the device rises to 2 m, after a few seconds of immobility, flies towards the window and disappears. When no more whistling was audible he stopped the recorder and went to the window: deserted street and partially cloudy sky. The recording has been the subject of several studies. (1972, night of June 22nd to 23rd)", + "location": "SPAIN, Logrono (Old Castille)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"From S.V. to UFOs\" - SOBEPS 1976 - pp. 55 to 59", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2678" + }, + { + "date": "6/23/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Sergio Gugerman, 12 years old, ran back home around 1:30 pm, drawing attention to an object suspended at a certain height above a pine tree. The child said he had seen the object rise up from behind the cane and banana plantations, in the middle of a whirlwind of dust, leaves and grass. The spectacle made the horses and cows gallop. The witnesses ran towards the object and saw that it was round, dark underneath, and shiny on top. It looked like an enlarged bladder. It moved without making any noise. Before accelerating southwards, it dropped a rain of shiny paper leaves, which the children wanted to catch, but suddenly they rose towards the craft, as if sucked up by it. Traces. The day before, Sergio's father had heard a noise around 7 pm, which his wife thought was a branch falling, but they had not gone out to see.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Apacurana (Parana)", + "ref": [ + "STENDEK n° 10 p. 32-33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2679" + }, + { + "date": "7/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) For their first remote sensing satellite Landsat 1, launched in July 1972, and built from the base structure of the Nimbus weather satellite series, the Americans chose a ground resolution of 80 meters. It was kept for Landsat 2 then lowered for Landsat 3 to 40 meters and to 30 meters for Landsat 4, launched during the summer of 1982.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 57", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2680" + }, + { + "date": "7/15/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Severino Porchietto driving a 1968 Ford Falcon and his passenger Attilio Brunelli, both in their fifties, were surprised at 3:10 AM by a bright flash of light illuminating the area as if it were broad daylight. A few moments later they saw to the left of the road, 50 meters away, a row of rectangular lights which they took to be those of a stopped train: 2 meters high and 70 cm wide, separated by dark posts 50 cm wide, emitting an orange light. As they talked between themselves, they suddenly realized they were in a town they estimated to be Rio Primero, which they found strange since they should have gone through towns like Transito and Santiago Temple. They were back home at exactly 3:30 AM, having covered the 185 km in only one hour! The car had only consumed 12.5 liters of gasoline! Then the driver remembered, but two days later, that at a certain moment, after the flash, he had been surprised by the abnormal smoothness of the car's driving, as if it were swaying gently. There were physiological consequences.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Arroyito (between Balnearia and Cordoba)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace #11 - pp. 33-36 - 1973 - SOBEPS", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2681" + }, + { + "date": "7/25/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Giordano Orioli was woken up around 1:15am by the barking of the dog, which was running frantically from the door of the house to the garden gate. He simply brought the dog in, which calmed down. Around 4:40am Lina Orioli, shortly after getting up, opened the window and immediately saw the object while it was still dark. She called her husband. They thought it was a broken down truck parked outside the road. Around 5:00am Giordano went out with the tractor intending to move this \"truck\". But.. it was a rectangular object 6 or 7m long and 1.50m high with a curved top part bringing the total height to 3.5m according to his estimation. On the wide side, in the curved part, there were two rows of four round, nickel or silver-colored portholes, about 40cm in diameter, and a tube or curved antenna coming out of the narrow side and pointing towards the ground. When he got to 6 or 7m from the craft, it suddenly began to rise making a noise like 3 or 4 gas bottles opened at the same time. Too stunned, the witness didn't even follow it with his eyes", + "location": "ITALY, Bagnacavallo (Ravenne)", + "ref": [ + "Notiziare UFO 46, July-August 1972 - CUN - Bologna", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2682" + }, + { + "date": "7/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (note from vog: the name \"Goldfield\" must be a coincidence...) Silver dust was discovered in three Chinese pea fields, and this at the same time as perfectly circular craters.", + "location": "USA, near Story City, Goldfield and Laurens", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2683" + }, + { + "date": "8/9/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 2:30 in the morning, the witness who was camping with her husband in the garden of a friend's couple was taking a breath of fresh air outside. She saw a very bright illuminated shape the size of a Fiat Isotta in the hills when she heard footsteps behind her, like those of a child. She turned around and saw at 3 or 4 meters a shape facing her. This shape was 1.20m tall, absolutely black. The body was parallelepiped-shaped. It seemed to her that the shape was made of wood 30 to 40 cm thick, topped with an ovoid shape in place of the head. Two white circles of 5 cm placed in place of the eyes were the only thing that stood out from this motionless mass, whose bottom was hidden in the tall grass. The witness felt a morbid impression as if the shape wanted to neutralize her, and she jumped into the tent to join her husband. He did not have the courage to come out and closed the tent from the inside.", + "location": "FRANCE, St Jean du Gard", + "ref": [ + "J.C. BOURRET: \"La nouvelle vague des S.V.\" - France Empire 1975, p. 108 to 113", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2684" + }, + { + "date": "8/16/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A third generation of American spy satellites is born. They are propelled into orbit by an even more powerful rocket than the previous ones: the Titan III B. An important step is taken, as these are maneuverable satellites, capable of changing orbit.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 29", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2685" + }, + { + "date": "8/18/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two masons working on the construction of a house heard a buzzing sound. \"We looked towards the road and saw two beings approaching. They were tall, nearly 2 m. They wore silver faceted clothing. They seemed to float in the air and we saw neither nose nor mouth on them. They were getting closer to us, and when they were about 15 meters away we saw that they were green.\" They flew away when a woman was coming towards us on the road.", + "location": "MEXICO, Ixtapalapa", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 155", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2686" + }, + { + "date": "8/19/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Appearance of a monster with a humanoid, silver and scaly body, with large ears and on the head sharp, pointed and razor-like. (1972, August 19th and 23rd)", + "location": "CANADA, Thetitis Lake (British Columbia)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 316", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2687" + }, + { + "date": "9/15/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 03 hours. Three university students heard an irritating noise outside their residence. Going out to see, they saw a 3-meter-tall monkey facing the entrance door. There was a flash and the creature disappeared, seeming to enter the body of one of the students, who then felt very ill. Later there was another flash, the monkey came out of the student and was replaced by a whinnying horse. [note from vog: finally a refreshing story!]", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Armidale (NSW)", + "ref": [ + "Bill Chalker.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2688" + }, + { + "date": "9/18/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 1:30 AM, Mr. and Mrs. Mahaut were awoken by an unusual, very loud noise: a sort of hissing, and at the same time their bedroom was suddenly illuminated by an orange light. A few minutes later, the phenomenon repeated in reverse. Mrs. Mahaut jumped out of bed, opened the window, and saw in the bend 250 meters away an orange, elliptical light spread out on the ground. Everything was bathed in this light, which in fact represented a hemispherical volume of several meters in height. The phenomenon moved away to the west. The orange light was replaced by orange rays, which disappeared and a cyclamen sphere rose up.", + "location": "FRANCE, Louvroil/Hautmont", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 397", + "Continued on October 25, 1972", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2689" + }, + { + "date": "9/20/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 0:45 an UFO coming from St Damase swaying lightly stayed at the top of the hill for 10 minutes. 3 witnesses. Estimated width 45 m at least. The object looked like the planet Saturn, the hemisphere above the ring was gray aluminum pierced with oval portholes three times wider than high. Two of the witnesses decided to leave, the third had the idea of making headlights. To his great surprise the UFO then started up and in the blink of an eye dived towards the car, barely missing it before disappearing. Wanting to leave, the motorist found that the engine was stopped. He was trembling like a leaf and the next day he was still white as a sheet: he thought his last hour had come.", + "location": "CANADA, Rougemont Mountain", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 11 - p. 31, 32 - 1973 - SOBEPS", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2690" + }, + { + "date": "9/21/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The scene of the observations was the IKA-RENAULT factory. At 05:40 Merlo headed towards the changing rooms (of which he was the guardian). At 01:40 he had closed the access doors and he had to open them for the maintenance personnel who would arrive around 06:00. He opened the first door and switched on the light, then opened the second door and placed soap and towels near the first sinks. At that moment he noticed that the light on his left was off and that a person was sitting on one of the small sinks. He was surprised. Immediately a second lamp burst with a sharp noise, while the one that was off lit up and he noticed at the same time that the seated figure had disappeared. Merlo quickly stepped back, but he could not find any trace of him. He checked everything up to the inside of the metal cabinets: there was nothing. He did not dare tell anyone about his experience for fear of being accused of negligence. In the evening, at 21:10, taking the bus to return to his night shift at the factory, sitting on the 3rd row he suddenly saw in the rearview mirror the face of the figure observed in the morning. After 3 minutes the image faded and he then saw the scenes inside the bus. Around 22:30 he started work, but disturbed by the events he had experienced, he decided to confide in Romero, head of the factory protection department. The whole affair was kept secret. The witness suffered for 3 days from an irritation of the eyes and there were strange incidents with the lights in the changing rooms and with the witness's watch.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Santa Isabel", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"From S.V. to UFOs\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 174 - 177", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2691" + }, + { + "date": "9/22/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A motorist was completely paralyzed by three entities wearing green, with a yellowish-gray skin appearance. They transported him into the bushes and there the witness saw an oval-shaped UFO. One of the entities told him that his name was Freddy Miller (this man, very attracted to UFOs, disappeared in 1959 during a boat expedition) and had been abducted by a UFO and taken to Venus to live. After a few minutes of this conversation, the entities entered their craft which flew away.", + "location": "DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, Palenque (San Cristobal)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 324", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2692" + }, + { + "date": "9/27/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Again at the IKA-RENAULT factory. Around 10:30 PM, the young Moreno deposited documents on the table in the Engineering Office, without turning on the lights, as per routine. Immediately the lights turned on and off, three times in a row. After that he heard a sound like a turbine, quite unusual for the area. He was scared and quickly got on his motorcycle to head towards the depot, 200 meters away. At 11:13 PM he made the return trip when he saw, quite far to his right, a kind of rainbow near the ground. Suddenly, at a distance of 100 meters to the right of the path and 10 meters from the sidewalk, a bluish-green figure was moving slowly. When he was 30 meters away from the being, it turned around. The exhaust pipe of Moreno's motorcycle produced a discharge, the machine was shaken, the engine slowed down. His motorcycle eventually stopped inexplicably, facing the being. It was 230 to 240 cm tall, athletic, angular face, whitish or light green, no hair, pointed ears, bright and round eyes. No eyelids, no eyelashes or eyebrows, straight mouth. This lasted about 30 seconds before the motorcycle started again towards the left, made a sudden jump before starting to obey the witness. The factory's stop work siren sounded, it was 11:30 PM but the witness's watch had stopped at 11:13 PM. He informed the guards of the events. The next day, around 10:30 PM, looking out the window he saw the same being outside, in a deserted corner. (1972, September 27th and 28th)", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Santa Isabel.", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 177 to 187", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2693" + }, + { + "date": "9/28/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 03:40, truck driver Rodriguez arrived at the IKA-Renault factory to unload some sheet metal. This he did. He was about to back up when he saw the air light up. Someone came from behind, walking along the right side of the truck. Through the window, Rodriguez saw the tall figure from the side, but not the head. When the figure arrived at the front right of the truck, the witness saw it through the windshield. The figure pivoted on itself and stared at Rodriguez, then made the same movement in reverse and continued walking. Its movements were those of a robot. As it moved away from the truck, the being crossed the road diagonally, heading left into an alley where it disappeared behind the metal frames placed there.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Santa Isabel", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 19, p. 36", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2694" + }, + { + "date": "9/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mc Farlan, his wife and the 3 children were driving at night. Suddenly a bright object approached the car at an altitude of 10m. It was oblong and shiny \"the size of an oval dining table\": 1.20m to 1.50m long, 30cm thick. The driver accelerated, slowed down several times: the object remained above the roof of the car. At a crossroads Mc Farlan stopped and turned off the headlights. The object was still there. So they left, accompanied by the UFO. Arrived at the mother-in-law's house: the UFO was waiting for them 3m above the house of the latter, swaying slightly and turning in oscillation. It appeared solid through a halo of white light, but no details were visible. Five minutes later still rotating, it slowly moved away to the west. (September 1972)", + "location": "CANADA, Beauséjour (Manitoba)", + "ref": [ + "Canadian Ufo Report vol. 2 n° 6 - 1973 p. 23-35", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2695" + }, + { + "date": "10/4/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 3:15am, Gilberto Grégorio Coccioli, 50 years old, was taken to a laboratory by occupants of a UFO. They allegedly extracted blood from one of his fingers using a kind of instrument resembling a fat pencil. Then they took some of his sperm. After his experience, the witness noticed that his hand began to swell constantly.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Buenos Aires", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace #41 of 1978, p. 9", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2696" + }, + { + "date": "10/11/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Halvard Persson, an engineer, and his mother observed at noon 6 objects resembling miniature planes or delta wings. They came from the south and flew over the lake at an incredible speed: in one minute they covered the entire length of 7 km. At the end they split into two groups: 3 flew towards the northeast, 3 others towards the northwest. They resembled Draken fighters, but were only 30 cm wide. They flew at 700 or 800 m altitude. [vog: these two witnesses had eagle eyes...]", + "location": "SWEDEN, Pontrask (Overkalix)", + "ref": [ + "Skandinavisk Ufo Information", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2697" + }, + { + "date": "10/19/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Several witnesses observed a disk that seemed to be in distress above the lake. One of the witnesses noted the fall of silhouettes resembling vaguely wounded and disjointed men. The police who arrived at the scene discovered the body of a being that measured 1 m 34, with gray skin, and despite a long stay in the water showed no signs of putrefaction. He had a prominent belly. The specialized divers checked if there was no wreck at the bottom of the lake: no wreck, no other bodies. But traces, photographed: a long regular trench 4.60m wide which widened in certain points. In rocky places the stone had been cut to the same width, but no trace of metal torn off. The rocky walls where the rock is attacked are literally vitrified. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 616, 617) Around 11 o'clock in the morning a peasant passing by a pond near Tashkent sees an oval device of 10 m in circumference, violently shaken, falling into the pond. Little beings are ejected during the fall. A few days later a fisherman discovers the corpse of a small humanoid without ears, with gray skin, 1 m 34 tall (...)", + "location": "USSR, Tashkent, Ryzl Lake", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"L'énigme des E.T.\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 112", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2698" + }, + { + "date": "10/22/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: May 10, 69, Mexico) Around 10 pm Enrique Mercado was enjoying the cool air on the terrace of his house. Suddenly a tall young man was behind him. \"Enrique, do you want to come with me?\" Enrique agreed. He had to attach himself to the young man with his belt and then they found themselves flying in the air, on an invisible beam to a saucer 10 meters wide. In the saucer Mercado was amazed by the apparent simplicity of the equipment: a panel with 5 buttons of different colors, a kind of screen and two armchairs, that's all. They flew to a mothership, around which twelve other saucers were circulating. Mercado was then dressed in a green suit and was presented to the commander of the ship, a tall man over two meters tall, who was dressed in blue. The commander's name was Yastek and he showed Mercado a map of the sky. \"Where are we?\" asked Mercado. \"Some 100,000 km from Mexico\". Suddenly, he found himself on the balcony of his house, two hours had passed, it was close to midnight.", + "location": "MEXICO, unspecified location", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued on January 7, 77", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2699" + }, + { + "date": "10/29/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between Beauvechain and Tirlemont, shortly after 11 pm, the Garin couple in their car were accompanied at 3 or 4° elevation by two blinking light points. At 11:30 pm Mr. Garin stopped the vehicle to observe better. They then saw that these blinking lights belonged to a dark, metallic gray, oblong-shaped object, stationary above an apartment building. The front was pointed and the back had a vertical fin with a blinking light at its end. The couple stayed for ten minutes observing this strange, silent thing that had two rows of square windows clearly visible and lit up with a yellow light. Then, very slowly, the object started moving west and the witnesses then heard a very faint whistling sound, like a muffled electric motor from a coffee grinder. As it moved away, it suddenly emitted 4 or 5 flashes of silver light that illuminated the bottom of the object. Then it disappeared into the night.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Tirlemont", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 26 - 1976, pp. 22, 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2700" + }, + { + "date": "11/2/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In broad daylight, at 4:20 PM, in splendid weather. \"It happened above my fish ponds,\" said Georges Vuillien. (...) my eyes were drawn to transparent spirals that descended to the ponds. And there, at 50 m, I discovered this enormous thing, motionless at about 10 m high above the small chalet. I saw it from the side. It had a diameter of about 25 m. It was topped with a small dome of 2 to 3 m high. The disc itself was of a matte aluminum color. The dome was shiny like a mirror. No trace of an opening. (...) frankly I was starting to get worried. Around this motionless and silent machine, no shrubbery, no leaves moved. Not even when it started to move. (...) I was really scared stiff. Slowly it pivoted as if on a horizontal axis to turn on its side and take the shape of a disc. It rose slowly to about 50 m. It lasted 4 or 5 seconds. Then, suddenly it shot up to the sky, like a cannonball. It stopped at 10000 or 12000 m and was then the size of a grapefruit. After three minutes it started moving again. My legs were shaking, I had to sit down to recover.\" (November 2, 1972)", + "location": "FRANCE, Hérisson Waterfalls (Jura)", + "ref": [ + "GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 155 to 158", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2701" + }, + { + "date": "11/14/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Professor Hernandez, an atomic scientist and director of the INEN (National Institute of Nuclear Energy) is giving a lecture in the large hall. For the first time he sees the female extraterrestrial Elyense or Lya. She is a beautiful young woman of Oriental type, dressed in black trousers and a black blouse, these clothes seem to be made of plastic. (Note from Vog: there are fans of this kind of erotism, we already knew that!) Her hair is long and black and she has beautiful green eyes. She approaches him and simply says \"You will often have news from me\" and then leaves the room. [Continued on December 18, 1972] (November 14, 1972)", + "location": "MEXICO, Mexico City", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1989", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2702" + }, + { + "date": "11/28/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Witness: 1; Time: between 10:00 and 10:45 It was after a conference on flying saucers that I met the Mercier family from La Sarre. (...) Mr. Louis-Charles Mercier, forty. Mrs. Rose Mercier, forty. Marlene Mercier, 14 years old. Mario Mercier, 11 years old, the main witness. The incident concerns Mario, but the whole family collaborated in the investigation with remarkable spontaneity. (...) \"I was then 9 years old. I had gone to have fun on the skating rink located 214 m from the house. Then, for no reason, at one point, I looked up at the sky. It was then that, with astonishment, I saw like a cloud descending towards the ground at a vertiginous speed and which landed close to the shed attached to the house, on the side of the kitchen. This unusual spectacle was becoming more and more interesting, but also frightening, when three small \"divers\" black and square in shape, with a grayish face and measuring about 1.20 m, came out of this round cloud. I saw one who hid behind the shed, another behind the solid cloud and the third, he, was picking up snow with some kind of small black boiler as black as the costume of the one who held it. I did not see any hands, the handle was hidden in the costume. The owner of the boiler stood up, because he had bent down to collect the snow and he rushed towards the chicken coop, forty feet or more from the house. He was about to open the small door when I shouted loudly \"ouch!\" He turned his face towards me and he ran towards me, frozen with fear. I felt a great feeling of anxiety rising in me, not knowing what could happen to me. So I took refuge in my net used to hold hockey pucks when they are thrown in that place. I may have stayed a minute. Then, I got up. The square man was heading towards the cloud not paying any attention to my presence, contrary to what I had believed at first. With his companion, he got into the cloud. What I found very strange is that only two of them got in. The other, I do not know what became of him.\".(...)", + "location": "CANADA, La Sarre (Quebec)", + "ref": [ + "Jean Ferguson, ufo Quebec no 5, brief summary Quebec Unusual", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2703" + }, + { + "date": "12/18/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: November 14, 72) Again Lya is at the entrance of the large hall, looks towards Hernandez who is talking to a colleague, then she disappears into the crowd of students.", + "location": "MEXICO, Mexico City", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1989", + "continued in January 73", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2704" + }, + { + "date": "12/24/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The crew of the Romanian ship Moldoveanu observed, at 60° North latitude and 61° West longitude, an object radiating quickly towards the boat flying over the sea. When it arrived above the ship, it slowed down and changed shape repeatedly. Its color also changed, from red to yellow and then to a bluish white, each time the shape changed from circular to elongated oval. After an hour of observation (so from 3 to 4 in the morning) the object jumped up and disappeared, becoming smaller and smaller.", + "location": "LABRADOR, at sea", + "ref": [ + "Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: \"Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est\" - trad. Laffont 1976, p. 357", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2705" + }, + { + "date": "12/30/1972", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:30 PM, the 73-year-old witness was sitting 6 m away from the small shelter in which he lived and was drinking his \"maté\". He had just finished his evening meal. Near him were his 4-5 year old dog and a cat with kittens. He was listening to his transistor when suddenly it stopped working. He then heard a loud humming, louder than that of an angry swarm of bees. He saw a light illuminating the whole region and distinguished a large floating object almost above his head at 10 or 20 m in height (...) At first only one figure was visible from the size of the head through a porthole, and then he saw a second occupant, and then others. He only remembers their slanted, fixed, deep eyes and a simple slit for a mouth. The object moved in all directions. On the tight-fitting uniform of one of the visitors he saw an emblem resembling a seahorse surmounted by a crown, next to it there were symbols on the right side. He saw a large number of instruments and dials. A blinding flash came out: this beam carried away the cat which disappeared on the spot. The humming became louder and the device became blue-green. In total the observation lasted only 20 seconds. The cat reappeared 48 days later, on February 16, 1973 and its back showed signs of burns and scratches. Different physical effects felt by the witness (having only two years of primary school): still under the device he felt tingling in his legs. This sensation lasted 2 days and only disappeared on the 3rd day. Three or four hours after the observation he had a terrible headache, which worsened, and for which aspirin was ineffective. This lasted eight days before gradually decreasing. At that moment the pains were also felt in the neck and neck. Eight to nine hours after the observation he had violent colic, up to 8 times a day. This diarrhea lasted eight days and it was then possible to cut it with Streptocarbocaftiazol. The first four days the colic were accompanied by nausea and vomiting. He lost his hair abnormally with each comb. Fifteen days after the observation he had red pustules in the neck that itched. After the observation the witness had difficulty speaking and could hardly move his tongue: this lasted 10 to 12 days. In addition, the eyes were crying, this lasted 5 days. (Perrin Jack R. \"The Mystery of UFOs\" - J'ai Lu / Pygmalion 1976, pp. 103-109, based on an article published by F.S.R.) Following a visit to Maceiras, from 19 to 21 February 1973, Romaniuk noted: \"Since around 10 February, Maceiras has seen new teeth grow in his upper left gum. I can confirm that on the day of my visit, two front teeth and two side teeth were growing, and they already had two to three millimeters long\"", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Buenos Aires Province", + "ref": [ + "Leonard STRINGFIELD, \"General Alert UFO\", ed. France Empire 1978, p. 84", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2706" + }, + { + "date": "1972 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two young women in their twenties saw a gray, metallic, egg-shaped UFO that was lit up. They were suddenly struck by a red beam and both were paralyzed from head to toe; they could neither breathe (note from vog???) nor hear, nor scream. After a fierce struggle, one of the two young women managed to free herself for a few seconds. As she was about to reach her companion, the beam struck her in the back. She then felt an unbearable heat and a vibration throughout her body. Both felt abandoned and had lost their sense of time (note from vog: still without breathing?). Finally freed from the beam, they rushed into the nearest house. Their clothes were covered in mud and one of them had lost a shoe [note from vog: logical, after the beam adventure!] (1972, unspecified date)", + "location": "FINLAND, Pulkinnan", + "ref": [ + "Leonard STRINGFIELD: \"General UFO Alert\", ed. France - Empire, 1978, p.78", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2707" + }, + { + "date": "1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first successful experience dates back to 1973, the year when the Americans managed to shoot down a guided target missile above their Kirtland base, passing close to the \"LASER\" air defense. Progress was however relatively slow to go from a range of tens of meters to an action radius measured in kilometers.", + "location": "USA, BAF Kirtland", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 205", + "see 1976 Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2708" + }, + { + "date": "1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Another group of Soviet electronic listening satellites, launched on a slightly lower and less inclined orbit (74°) appeared in 1973 with \"Cosmos 544\" to cease to exist in 1979. An average of 4 were launched per year during this period.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 87", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2709" + }, + { + "date": "1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) As part of a space geodesy campaign using laser shots on satellites, a special Baker Nunn camera was installed by the French in Ouagadougou.", + "location": "HAUTE VOLTA, Ouagadougou", + "ref": [ + "\"La Guerre des Satellites\" - Tome 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 61", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2710" + }, + { + "date": "1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First researches concerning the construction of the F-117A under the code \"Have Blue\" by the USAF and the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency). In particular on the use of a fiberglass material which must reduce the radar signature of the aircraft (Radar Cross Section or RCS). (1973, beginning)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Gesag, bulletin n° 96 sept 97, p. 3", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2711" + }, + { + "date": "1/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. Dec. 18, 72) While Hernandez was giving a lecture to the students, Lyan entered the room. Hernandez interrupted his lecture to go to her, but when he was able to make his way to her, she had already left.", + "location": "MEXICO, Mexico City", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued Dec. 22, 74", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2712" + }, + { + "date": "1/10/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 1 o'clock, Mr. Pouget (Pourain?) and Miss Donez were driving down Rue du Dauphin towards Blanc Misseron and the Belgian border. Near the stadium, a grey-white light was moving slowly. At first they didn't think much of it. But when the light suddenly and intermittently projected intense beams of light, moved east, zigzagged, rose and fell, moved in a saw-tooth pattern, curved, arrived at Rue du Dauphin and directed its beam towards the witnesses, and then suddenly went out, the witnesses were scared. After regaining their composure, five minutes passed and the phenomenon appeared again. It no longer projected a beam: it was a square with rounded corners, with a dark curved vertical line, and a large halo around it, giving it the size of a house. A veranda was lit up by the phenomenon and the witnesses could see all the details. (vog: I suppose here we are talking about the details of the veranda and not those of the phenomenon). (1973, 10 January)", + "location": "FRANCE, Quarouble", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 402, 403", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2713" + }, + { + "date": "3/26/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was 5:00 in the morning, Mr. A. was on his way to work (Puch factories in Graz-Thondorf). When he arrived at the Puntigam bridge, he noticed that the road and the air were lit up by a blue glow. He then saw an object gliding through the sky, just above the high-voltage line. The object was approaching at a constant speed, like a glider ready to land, its front pointed towards the ground. The object had the size of a medium-sized car, colored blue, ending in 4 or 5 fan-shaped points on a kind of parallelepiped (box) with rounded corners, and at the front there was something like a ledge. The witness on the bike pedaled faster, feeling a strange feeling of insecurity, so much was he taken aback by this apparition. When he arrived at a corner of the road, he looked around and saw the flying object close to the ground parallel to the road. That's when he saw 8 or 10 fixed red points, like small domes emitting a very bright red glow that contrasted with the blue of the rest of the object. Suddenly, without any noise, it went out, leaving the area in complete darkness.", + "location": "AUSTRIA, Graz", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 21, June 1975, pp. 19, 20", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2714" + }, + { + "date": "4/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A second station, Saliout 2, was launched in April 1973, but eight days later it became unstable and broke into 25 fragments. The Soviets never specified if it was to be occupied by astronaut crews.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 216", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2715" + }, + { + "date": "4/25/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Late at night, Henry McDaniel was watching one last movie on television. A noise reaches him, someone is scratching at the door. He wonders who it could be at this late hour. He gets up and goes to open the door. There, an indescribable being is looking at him. It measures between 1.20m and 1.50m. It has three legs, a hunched body, two small arms coming out of its chest and its two pink eyes the size of a flashlight reflector are fixed on McDaniel. The dark grayish creature tries to enter the house. Horrified, McDaniel does not give it the chance. He rushes to his gun and without warning, he opens fire. With the first shot he has the sensation of having hit it, but he notices that the monster does not seem to be any worse off. With a wild cat hissing, it jumps in three bounds and covers a distance of at least 25 meters. It then disappears behind the steep slope of the railway line in the bushes. (...) The police will discover paw prints, similar to those of a dog but with six toes. (April 25, 1973)", + "location": "USA, Enfield, Illinois", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa 1977, p.180, 181", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2716" + }, + { + "date": "5/22/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3 o'clock in the morning, Onilson Patero, a 40-year-old employee, had dropped off a passenger in Itajobi and was continuing the journey home to Catanduva. The car radio had strong interference, the engine was stuttering at the same time as an intense blue light began to sweep through the interior of the car. As the vehicle jolted, a blinding but lower light source startled him as he saw his engine in great detail: the hood and dashboard seemed to no longer exist, as if he was looking at it with X-ray eyes. He then stopped the vehicle. Inside, the heat was so intense he was suffocating and he opened the door. Then he saw the object hovering 10 meters above the ground, 15 meters away from him, emitting a turbine buzzing sound. It resembled two hats stuck together, without any structure, and from a single source it emitted this intense light. Then a kind of tube descended from the lower part and a semi-transparent veil covered the craft: the witness no longer felt the heat or lack of air. (...) He lost consciousness. Around 5 o'clock in the morning a policeman found him unconscious in a stream near the road, 30 meters away from his car parked on the side, doors open and headlights on. The man was taken to the hospital. Inside the car, the briefcase had been opened and the documents it contained were scattered. Physiological effects: brown hair had become completely black, yellow pigmented spots on the body. (Inforespace n° 11 - p. 36, 37 - 1973 - SOBEPS) Finally he was seized by such panic that he left his vehicle and ran, head down, into the nearby forest. After running about thirty meters, he felt a mysterious force pulling him back like a spring. Desperate, he tried to free himself from the lasso he thought was holding him prisoner, but his hand did not encounter any tangible link. When he looked towards his car he noticed other unusual transformations. This time the witness was so terrified that he lost consciousness.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Catanduva (Sao Paolo)", + "ref": [ + "A.SCHNEIDER - H. MALTHANER: \"Le dossier secret des OVNI\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p. 34", + "Emmeneger 1974", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2717" + }, + { + "date": "5/29/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Miguel Angel Gonzalez was driving peacefully in his truck loaded with plaster and asbestos plates, when he saw a group of small men, similar to dwarves and dressed in a strange way. These characters immediately fled as soon as the witness stopped the truck to examine them closely. He searched for them for a few minutes without seeing them, and returning to the truck he saw that it was surrounded by gigantic blue flames producing no heat. In a few moments the truck and its load were destroyed. This strange fire had spared the plastic of the seats, the paint of the doors, the fuel tank...", + "location": "MEXICO, Vera Cruz", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 23 - October 1975, p. 11", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2718" + }, + { + "date": "6/25/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A little after midnight, Randy Needdham and Judy Johnson were parked in their car on the boat dock of the Big Muddy River. Suddenly a shrill cry. Looking up they saw, coming from who knows where, a huge giant walking heavily towards them. He stopped six meters away. He seemed white, with short hair plastered with the mud of the river. He was of very strong build and measured about 2 m. The witnesses fled to go and warn the police, who found traces.", + "location": "USA, Murphysboro (Illinois)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa 1977, p.182", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2719" + }, + { + "date": "6/30/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Concorde piloted by André Turcat was flying over Chad at 17000m altitude and Mach 2, on a scientific mission: observation of the solar eclipse. Jean Begot, a technician from the CNRS, was taking pictures. Upon development, one of the photos showed a bright point in the night of the eclipse. (15 km from the plane) Upon magnification, this \"star\" took on the size of a flying saucer. This bright point had been observed by the entire crew: planet or saucer? (Robert ROUSSEL: \"OVNI, the end of the secret\" - Belfond 1978, p. 20) IN REALITY: According to Pierre Guérin, a well-known astrophysicist and an experienced ufologist, the bright spot has absolutely nothing mysterious about it. That day at 11:12, the swarm of Beta Taurid meteors was indeed passing over the equatorial African zone and was therefore clearly visible. René Fouéré from GEPAN thinks it was a development fault, such as one caused by the presence of a small air bubble.", + "location": "CHAD, in flight", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"Le dossier secret des OVNI\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p. 249, 250", + "Bougard 1974/16", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2720" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) As this is a report grouping 118 separate testimonies of encounters with unknown creatures, the date and location have been generalized. Each report differs somewhat but all have certain details in common. The common thread of the reports is the encounter with one or more hairy creatures, resembling monkeys, with glowing eyes, prominent ears, large noses, carnivorous teeth and long arms. Where Gordon was able to take footprints, they were very large. The encounters usually took place in wooded areas or near rural villages. During the observation of these creatures, domestic animals usually remained calm, but in the period before and after, animals and small children were very agitated: cows mooed, dogs barked, children cried all night. These creatures have often been seen in association with UFO sightings, seen entering or exiting a UFO, and occasionally telepathic messages from these creatures have been reported. On three occasions the witnesses shot at them from close range, which caused the instant disappearance of the entity, in a flash of light. (1973, Summer)", + "location": "USA, throughout Pennsylvania", + "ref": [ + "DON ELKINS with CARLA RUECKERT, CASE NUMBER 4, Investigator: Stan Gordon, MUFON State Director", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2721" + }, + { + "date": "7/8/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. 16th Oct. 60) For four days Hans Klotzbach visited the planet of these extraterrestrials, the planet Plandor. (1973, July 8th to 11th)", + "location": "GERMANY, Mainz", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Secrets\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2722" + }, + { + "date": "7/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was a day in July 1973, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Suddenly we observed an object flying from north to south, in our direction. Its speed was slow and no sound was heard. Looking at it more closely, we noticed that it resembled a large shuttle and that its two ends were pointed. Its entire body was transparent like glass. In its front part there were lights inside as bright as an electric arc. The middle and back were divided into four floors with portholes neatly arranged like those of a large boat. At 7000 meters altitude, it seemed enormous to us. If it had landed on the ground, it would have been at least as high as a two-story building. Throughout its journey over our heads, it made no noise. We immediately alerted the other fighters of the barracks and everyone came out and looked in amazement. (...) Our observation lasted in all five or six minutes. The object disappeared in the distance. (July 1973)", + "location": "CHINA, Changchun (Jilin)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\". ed. Mercure de France, 1983, pp. 117, 118", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2723" + }, + { + "date": "8/10/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Students near the ravine \"El Jordan\" who were to collect samples of vegetation saw at the edge of the almost dried-up stream, 4 small beings no more than 20 cm tall: they were examining the mud. Dressed in white, with small gray caps, they looked like miniature little men. Upon the approach of the students they disappeared \"into the air\". A police officer was also a witness to the phenomenon. The footprints of the little steps were photographed. (GEPA n° 45 - p. 27 - 1975) Four young boys saw tiny entities in the muddy bed of the river.", + "location": "COLOMBIA, Varones de Ibague", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 322", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2724" + }, + { + "date": "8/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 2pm, Edmond Cardoso, working at Fazenda Velha, heard a rustling in the leaves 20m away from him: through the leaves he saw a sparkling ball near a bush whose leaves were agitated (even though there was no wind). As he got closer, he noticed that the object was floating 50cm from the ground, that it was a ball 2m in diameter of a blue-aluminum color with a nearly blinding shine. The object was horizontally encircled by a dark green band and at the top of the ball emerged a vertical cylinder 4-5m high and 50cm wide. The cylinder was finished with a funnel-shaped form also 4-5m high. This object rotated on itself in 2-3 seconds and swayed with an amplitude of about 50cm. Cautiously, he stepped back a few paces when he heard a clap, like a metal door. He turned around and indeed saw in the lower part of the ball an opening about 1m high and 60cm wide and saw at the same time that the thickness of the wall was indeed 5cm. In the frame appeared 30 seconds later a being of human appearance that was floating outside 50cm from the ground, completely dressed in black from feet to head, except for the details that were ash-colored: the wrists and hands were smooth, the shoes 20cm long, 5cm wide and 3cm thick, a band around the neck 6cm wide, openings for the eyes and mouth. The fabric was of the bubbled kind, like several juxtaposed half-spheres. The being was connected to the craft by two transparent cables 5cm wide coming from the shoes towards the inside of the UFO. In 5 strides it advanced 3m towards the witness who, terrified, ran away. (1973, August (a Tuesday))", + "location": "BRAZIL, Nova Friburgo (Rio)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 34, p. 12", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2725" + }, + { + "date": "9/14/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was 7:45 PM, night had just fallen, Mr. Plume was driving his daughter Sonia to Mons. \"Suddenly, at the exit of a bend, we saw in front of us on the left of the road an immobile object at about 200 m of height, almost vertically above an electric cabin, at less than 200 m from us. It was like a flower pot of the size of a small car, with at its upper part a kind of saw of which one could only see the teeth. At the extremities of this part two short oblique antennas. The whole was of a vivid orange color. Four dazzling yellow lights on the antennas and at the base of the object were twinkling. The upper part under the teeth was more clear and blurry, yellow-orange. The teeth were brownish. An orange clear and blurry halo was crowning the object between the antennas. It was animated by light vibrations. A few seconds later, arrived at the height of the electric cabin, the object inclined towards the right and moved away towards Ciply. Its light was decreasing in intensity and its contours were fading.\"", + "location": "BELGIUM, Cuesmes", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 73 à 76", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2726" + }, + { + "date": "9/20/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 10:30 PM and midnight, Serge Ribeiro Lisboa, Maria Filomena Costa Lisboa, and Maria Carmela Santos Costa were travelling together in a car. Near Sao Laurenço and Tua, they heard an unusual buzzing coming from outside the car, and a faint light moving to their right. The driver stopped and all the passengers got out. They then saw a white, luminous object, like a disk, emitting a powerful red light from its upper part. These flashes allowed them to see part of the structure, which appeared to be metallic, light aluminum. The object was small: 2 m in diameter, 1 m high, and seemed to be at 300 m altitude. Feeling uneasy, the witnesses got back in the car and continued their journey to the town of Alija. There, the engine had some difficulty with its speed, for no apparent reason, and they heard the buzzing again, with a sound of modulated, brief cadence, without any light being seen. After a journey of 4 or 5 km, they saw an unusual object in the headlights on the road. A strange cylindrical object emitting a bright green color. The driver slowed down, fearing it was some kind of explosive, and narrowly avoided the object. At the same time, the passengers saw two human forms lying on their backs on the embankment. They were wearing lead-silver colored suits, were 1.5 m tall, and had spherical helmets with a horizontal rectangular window at eye level and an antenna 50 cm long emitting red glows at its end. The observation was brief. Frightened, the driver accelerated and as the car passed the cylindrical object, the two humanoid forms rose from the ground, in a rigid manner, without any movement of their arms or legs. The witnesses then saw a kind of backpack on the backs of the humanoids as they rose and disappeared above the car. [vog: to note that of this observation in Portugal, I have absolutely seen nothing in the list of Portuguese ufologists themselves!]", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Alija-Vila Réal (Oporto)", + "ref": [ + "Pierre DELVAL: \"Contacts of the 4th Type\" - De Vecchi 1979 - pp. 177-180", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2727" + }, + { + "date": "9/27/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Antoine walked to a small clearing to pick mushrooms. It was 5:30 PM, the sun was already low, the sky covered with a few clouds, not a breath of wind. He noticed a large \"mushroom nest\" and bent down to pick it, but when he looked up he saw two \"children\" coming out of the bushes 30 m away from him. He called them to come pick mushrooms with him. But they were not children: they were small people 1.2 m tall, with regular and fine features, wearing a beret, dressed in a tight beige jumpsuit, their hands were bare, but Antoine did not see their feet, hidden in the grass. Yet one detail struck him: they had no ears. At Antoine's call they looked surprised, emitted a kind of laugh, then disappeared into the bushes. A few seconds later, an oval shape, gray-blue matte, without visible opening, rose from behind the bushes. It measured 5 m long and about 2 m wide, it rose to 20 m, dragging the dead leaves up to 6 m from the ground. It remained motionless for a brief moment, then flew horizontally at a dizzying speed towards Mont Ventoux. All this was done without the slightest noise, except for a slight whistle during the vertical ascent. There were traces on the ground at the supposed landing site.", + "location": "FRANCE, Bédarrides (Vaucluse)", + "ref": [ + "Pierre DELVAL: \"Contacts of the 4th Type\" - De Vecchi 1979, pp. 172-175", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2728" + }, + { + "date": "10/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The same scenario was repeated in October 1973, during the Yom Kippur War between Arabs and Israelis. This time the means employed were much more important, in proportion to the stakes. Eight satellites were launched in two weeks, the first three (Cosmos 596, 597, 598) were recovered after 6 days of observation. For the others, the delay ranged from 7 to 13 days. (October 1973)", + "location": "USSR, Baikonour", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 9", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2729" + }, + { + "date": "10/3/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A truck driver was temporarily blinded when he stuck his head out of the open window to get a better view of a UFO. His wife, who was accompanying him, said a big ball of fire jumped in his face, tearing off his glasses. She took the wheel to drive her husband to the hospital. The doctor examining the glasses said a terrible heat had expanded the frame and one of the lenses had fallen out. The truck driver was treated for his burns and did not start to see again until several hours later.", + "location": "USA, in Missouri", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELLL: \"The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p 148", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2730" + }, + { + "date": "10/6/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 12:45am, the R.N. couple saw the light of a large projector about 500m away, sweeping the ground of their land. The husband assumed it was the police looking for cattle thieves reported in the area. At around 11:35am, while hanging laundry behind the house, Mrs. R.N. saw a thick smoke on a wet, plowed land. She called her husband, as this smoke in that place was rather unusual. In the same direction, the witnesses saw a yellow-orange dome about 25m in diameter with blurry edges, as if submerged in the fog. The object was 500m from the ground and a yellow-orange \"bulldozer\" emerged from it and moved away 65m from the large machine, to the edge of the stream near its source. Then there was a back and forth of 5 small figures, 1m tall, wearing bright orange suits, moving quickly, very busy and as if in a hurry to finish a job. The small craft moved again following the stream and stopped 100m further. The observation lasted between 20 and 25 minutes, but the witnesses went about their business, coming to see from time to time \"if the children\" were still there! At around 11:55am everything had disappeared. The witnesses' daughter went to see on the spot and found a large circle 18m in diameter and a smaller one 4m in diameter, where the grass was flattened and burned in some places. As soon as she was back home, she was taken with headaches and vomiting.", + "location": "CANADA, St Mathias de Chambly", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 22 - August 1975 - p. 13", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2731" + }, + { + "date": "10/11/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Charles Hickson, a 45-year-old shipyard foreman, and Calvin Parker, 19, were fishing on the banks of the Pascagoula River (in the town of the same name - Gulf Coast of Mexico) at around 7:00 PM when they both noticed an oblong shape emitting a bright blue light. The object was already very close and was descending towards them, making a humming sound. Suddenly, an opening appeared and three pale, reddish beings floated out of it. Without having to use force, they grabbed the witnesses by the arms: two of them took hold of Hickson, the third of Parker. They felt themselves being lifted off the ground and guided towards the opening of the object. From then on, the young Parker could not remember exactly what happened to them. Hickson recounts that inside there was a white luminescence without a visible source. He floated like the beings and stayed there for between 20 and 30 minutes, under the gaze of what looked like a large eye. Various instruments that he could not identify were visible, but there were neither seats nor windows, only this opening. He was unable to move, scared to death. The humanoids moved around him and he was apparently observed by an electronic device. In the end, the creatures brought the two men back, still floating, to where they had found them. These beings, about 5 feet tall, did not seem to be dressed. They emitted a faint humming sound. According to Parker: they looked like ghosts, were naked and their skin was wrinkled. Hickson estimated the dimensions of the craft to be 14 feet long by 8 feet wide. It suddenly disappeared. The witnesses were convinced that no one would believe them, but after reflection they decided to alert the authorities. The police officer declared: \"they were so scared they were on the verge of a heart attack\". The men were interrogated again and again in the following days and gave another part of the observation under hypnosis.", + "location": "USA, Pascagoula", + "ref": [ + "as well as all other authors, of course", + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - pp. 146-148", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2732" + }, + { + "date": "10/12/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Heitfeld had set up her mobile home next to a department store warehouse. Around 2:30am she woke up, tormented by a terrible thirst. Her gaze was drawn to a bright light outside. She pulled back the curtains and saw a row of lights forming an arc. Each light as big as an open hand. There were 6 of them, spaced 120 cm apart. There was also another light that appeared in the parking lot, just behind her caravan trailer: a car parked there was masking the lower part of this light source. It was at this moment that a creature resembling a monkey appeared in the glow. Terrified, Mrs. Heitfeld watched all this for 2 to 3 minutes, thinking that the creature was very close to the car. Her 13-year-old son, who was sleeping in the mobile home, was awakened by her. When she returned to the window, she noticed that the creature was about 10 m away from the car. It was inside a shield of light: it was like a standing monkey, tall and without a neck. It had a kind of muzzle ending in a point directed downwards. Its body was uniformly gray. Only the arms moved jerkily, like a robot. The witness never saw legs or other details in the rest of the body, which moved as if sliding on the ground. She called the police and was told \"Madam, we have already been to the place\". \"But it is still here; this can in no way be a human being!\" she cried. While her mother was on the phone, young Carl saw a car approaching the one near the caravan and connecting the battery of one to the hood of the other, and he went back to bed. Shortly afterwards a dull noise was heard: Carl assumed that the car had left. There was indeed a car breakdown by Cliff Fulmer of Tina Marie Arrico's car: these two people noticed nothing special. Mrs. Heitfeld's observation had ended, without her seeing how the being had left.", + "location": "USA, Cincinnati (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - P.148 to 151", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2733" + }, + { + "date": "10/15/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Shortly after midnight, George Willis was awakened by a piercing noise. His room was bathed in orange light. He could make out three nightmare creatures in front of him: one to one and a half meters tall, round heads, large ears, and wrinkled skin of a grayish white. They had jerky, mechanical movements, like robots. Willis fainted. He remembers that when he woke up, he was on the floor; the entities grabbed him and propped him up against the wall. In this vertical position, his body and limbs suddenly stiffened. Helpless, he saw that the three intruders were examining his body with a strange little oval object. When the device was pointed downward towards his leg, his leg bone was visible! Immediately he was seized with a violent headache and he fainted again. He only came to at dawn. Fearfully he looked around. The lights were still on. The sheets were neatly folded.", + "location": "USA, Omro, Wisconsin", + "ref": [ + "Leonard STRINGFIELD, \"General UFO Alert\", ed. France Empire 1978, p.85", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2734" + }, + { + "date": "10/17/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Clarence Ray Patterson (...) was only 50 km from his home in Pensacola, it was 10 pm. Suddenly, in his windshield, a few hundred meters away, he saw an enormous shining object appear, so big that he did not hesitate to compare it to a football field. The object stopped above his truck which was literally sucked into the UFO. In the heart of the craft, six beings of strange and incredible appearance approached and forced Patterson to get out of his vehicle. Round, with one eye, hands like crab claws, they were of small size, their heads barely reaching Patterson's chest. They busied themselves around the man for more than 30 minutes (...) They moved around him with a slow, affected air. (...) Finally, they relaxed him on a road about 80 km from his home. The journey had covered 112 km. Completely broken, dazed, he drove to Pensacola where he stopped at the police station. There, he collapsed on a bench, crying hysterically. He told his adventure to Sergeant Lucien Mitchell. [vog: this author, decidedly, will have contributed enormously to the description of monstrous extraterrestrials, he had a very fertile imagination...]", + "location": "USA, Loxley (Alabama)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids...\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p. 99", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2735" + }, + { + "date": "10/17/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Paul Brown reported to the police that a bright light had passed over his car with a whistling sound, just before he saw an object shaped like a cone land about 100 m in front of him. He stopped, surprised. When small creatures emerged from the object, he put his hand on the revolver in the glove compartment and crouched behind the open door, ready to shoot them. The creatures did not advance, they returned to their craft which quickly departed while Brown claimed to have fired some shots without hitting the flying object.", + "location": "USA, Danielsville, Georgia", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELL: \"The World's greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 10", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2736" + }, + { + "date": "10/18/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A red light seemed to be escorting an Army Reserve helicopter, piloted by Captain Coyne, then quickly approached it. The pilot descended to the ground to avoid collision, while the cigar-shaped object flew over it and illuminated it with a green light. During this time, the onboard radio was silent. Then the UFO moved away and Coyne realized that his aircraft had inexplicably risen 700 meters.", + "location": "USA, Mansfield", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"From S.V. to UFOs\" - SOBEPS 1976 - pp. 152-153", + "Science et Vie, Special Edition 1997: 50 Years of UFOs, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, pp. 60-63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2737" + }, + { + "date": "10/19/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Driving alone on the road from Huntsville to Tifton around 3:30 PM, a businesswoman encountered the unusual. Suddenly the engine and all the car's systems failed and she felt a strange sensation rising in her. Looking to the left, \"the being\" was there, against the door. She dared not look straight at him and did not want to believe that this apparition was real. Standing 120 cm tall, it seemed entirely clad in a metal resembling tin. In place of the head, a dome of the same material the size of a motorcycle helmet, pierced with two rectangular slits at eye level. After 5 or 6 minutes, the being moved from left to right, then back around the car. The walk was normal but the head turned mechanically. The witness did not see the bottom of the being's body: she only saw him up to the waist. When the creature had disappeared, as she saw no one around, she decided to open the hood to attract the attention of passing motorists: when she lifted the hood, smoke came out even though there was no fire. An hour and a half later, a police car finally stopped near her. When the tow truck came, the hood was almost at the point of fusion, the metal was soft but the paint was not affected. It took 3 hours before they could touch the heated engine.", + "location": "USA, Huntsville", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - P. 154, 156", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2738" + }, + { + "date": "10/22/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Gary Flatter had just accompanied his friend, police officer Ed Townsend, to Hartford City where a motorist had reported the presence of two strange creatures on the highway. When Flatter and Townsend arrived, they saw nothing out of the ordinary. Ed Townsend then left for other duties while Gary Flatter decided to stay a bit longer. Suddenly, a whole menagerie rushed past his stopped vehicle: he counted 7 hares, a raccoon, an opossum, and several cats. At the same time, he heard a kind of sharp whistle. Looking more closely, Flatter saw two creatures staring at him, dressed in silver suits, on the opposite side of the road. They measured about 1 m 20, had an egg-shaped head covered by something like a gas mask. Flatter turned on the headlights. Far from being bothered by the light, the creatures began to put on a kind of show: they jumped to a remarkable height, and to come down they floated, and so on. Finally, they flew away leaving a kind of faint red trail.", + "location": "USA, Hartford City (Indiana)", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELL: \"The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 10", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2739" + }, + { + "date": "10/25/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) … American witnesses saw two giant (2.50m) humanoid creatures come out of a flying saucer and immediately start walking on all fours. They had gray fur and green eyes, shining in the darkness. (Jean FERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes…\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p 127 and p.187, 188, the only author who dates it to October 27) … The trio walked up the hill; the object was landed. It was bright white, could have been 30 meters in diameter and made a lawnmower noise. In the light of the craft, they saw two tall beings, like monkeys, with shining eyes. They emitted shrill sounds and an odor of \"burnt rubber\" filled the air. One of the young men was scared and ran away. The man with the rifle fired several shots above the heads of the creatures, without stopping them. Then he fired three shots, this time at one of them. A moan rose up, then the one who had been hit raised his arm and both of them disappeared into the woods. The UFO disappeared. (Leonard STRINGFIELD: \"Alerte générale OVNI\", ed. France – Empire, 1978, p. 91 to 93 which dates it to October 25) Around 9 pm, the young farmer Stephen Pulaski, according to the report published in the Flying Saucer Review, and at least 15 other witnesses saw a red glowing ball hovering over a nearby field. Stephen took his 30.06 rifle, and with two boys about ten years old each, sons of neighbors, drove to the thing to see what it was. The headlights of Stephen's car dimmed when they arrived near the object, and when the object descended to the ground, Stephen's German shepherd, left at the farm, became like crazy.", + "location": "USA, Greensburg - Uniontown (Pennsylvania)", + "ref": [ + "DON ELKINS with CARLA RUECKERT, CASE NUMBER 6, Investigator: Berthold Eric Schwarz, M.D., Consultant, Brain Wave Laboratory, Essex Co. Hospital Center, Cedar Grove, New Jersey, Consultant to FLYING SAUCER REVIEW.", + "… etc.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2740" + }, + { + "date": "10/28/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Very early in the morning, the truck driven by Dionisio Llanca had a flat tire. He therefore stopped outside the road, in a secluded place and began to busy himself to change the wheel. He had seen small lights in the distance, but had not paid attention to them until they approached and were of a bright blue. Trying to see what the object carrying this strange light was, he found himself paralyzed and could not move. He could however see how a dome-shaped disc descended, hovering just above the ground, next to the truck.

On the ground, near the vehicle, there were three humanoid entities: two men and one woman. They had long blond hair and almond-shaped eyes, wore silver one-piece suits, boots, but their head was free of helmets, they were not armed. The entities spoke among themselves, then one of them lifted Llanca by the collar of his sweater. Llanca was in the utmost terror, but the man adjusted a small black box around the index finger of his left hand and instantly Llanca became relaxed. In a few moments he lost consciousness. He woke up the next day, lying on the road. He told his story. Despite the use of hypnotherapy and truth serum, Llanco could not even remember a shred of what had happened to him after he lost consciousness. He could only say that the extraterrestrials had made contact with the earth in 1950 and were studying how the earthly man could live on this planet. He could describe the interior of the spacecraft, saying that one did not enter it either by a ramp or by stairs, but by a beam of light. He also said that the entities did not want him to remember anything else. (DON ELKINS with CARLA RUECKERT, CASE NUMBER 7, Investigator: Liria D. Jauregui, APRO Investigator) They spoke among themselves in a kind of language without vowels. The sound emitted made me think of a badly tuned radio. One of these beings took me by the collar of the jacket and forced me to stand up. I wanted to speak but I had no voice. The other placed a device on the index finger of my left hand, they applied it to me for a few seconds, I felt nothing. When removing it I saw two drops of blood on my finger. It was at this moment that I must have fainted, I do not remember the rest ..\" (1973, 28 October)", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Bahia Blanca", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 41 of 1978, p. 9 which dates this from November", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2741" + }, + { + "date": "10/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) George Chubert was on his way to work on his moped. It was 5:30, still dark. His engine had some hiccups in a slight curve and stopped. He resumed his journey pushing the moped. As he came out of the curve, he was blinded by a strong bright white light and a few meters further he could make out a bright shape blocking the whole road. He was scared. He was completely terrified when he saw a being approach him and put his left hand on his right shoulder. \"Where are you going?\" the being asked. \"To work\" Chubert replied. \"I'll be back\" said the other. \"But now don't look at what I'm going to do\". Real exchange or telepathy? In any case, Chubert obeyed and turned around. A few seconds later the craft flew away with a \"buzzing of a bee swarm\". 3m.", + "location": "FRANCE, Nohant en Gout (Cher)", + "ref": [ + "GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975- J'ai Lu, p. 150, 151", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2742" + }, + { + "date": "11/4/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Rex Snow ordered his dog to attack the two silver-clad figures frolicking in his well-lit garden. The dog, a trained attack German shepherd, leapt forward towards the intruders. But when it got to within 10 meters of them, the creatures stopped their gamboling and stared fixedly at the dog. The animal stopped, growled, and with its tail between its legs, returned to the safety of the house. Snow had a .38 caliber pistol in his hands, but he was trembling so much he couldn't use it against the strangers. Overcome with a visceral fear, he followed the dog back inside. He watched the creatures through the window: they seemed to be faintly luminous, had oversized ears, sunken dark orbits for eyes, and a very pointed nose. On their heads they wore a Ku Klux Klan-style hat, silver like their costume. (November 4, 1973)", + "location": "USA, Goffstown (New Hampshire)", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELL: \"The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 10", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2743" + }, + { + "date": "11/6/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Four fishermen, joined by coast guards, discovered a strange object underwater. (...) In the dark waters, the men were preparing to cast their nets. Suddenly Raymond heard his brother Rayme calling him: he was signaling him to come and see. Near Rayme's boat, in less than four meters of water, all four saw a bright light in the water. (...) for a moment the Ryan (Raymond and Rayme) played cat and mouse with the device (...) \"It was big, maybe more than 30 meters in diameter, it was round and metallic\". \"It was like the top of a parachute, with ribs coming from a dark bump in the center\". (...) etc.. (Leonard STRINGFIELD: \"General Alert UFO\", ed. France-Empire, 1978, pp. 150-154) In the night three witnesses saw an object submerged southwest of Pascagoula. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"UFO, First Complete Dossier...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 426) It was a small object 1 m long and 15 to 20 cm wide, shining like steel, playing cat and mouse with the coast guard at the mouth of the Pascagoula River (November 6, 1973)", + "location": "USA, Pascagoula", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 172", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2744" + }, + { + "date": "11/16/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witnesses were two eleven-year-old boys (Richard Thiel and Danny Fleming). They were going to play in a vacant lot (around 7 pm) (...) when they discovered an object that was motionless. (...) They slowly approached it. Five minutes passed, then one of the boys started to tap the object three or four times with an electric torch. The object, described by the boys as a clear grey, immediately came to life. The taps made a metallic sound. At the top of the object, the dome began to shine with a red light (alternating). At the same time, the object rose to 1 meter - 1 meter 20. Around the perimeter of the object, green lights flashed successively. The object began to spin on itself, making a rather dull sound. (...) and the object rose into the air, still making the same sound. The boys started to run; they felt assaulted by shivers, tinglings, and were overcome by a great weakness. (November 16, 1973)", + "location": "USA, Lemon Grove (Los Angeles)", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"The Secret UFO File\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p 34", + "Rasmussen 1974", + "Leonard STRINGFIELD: \"General UFO Alert\", ed. France-Empire, 1978, p. 162, 163", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2745" + }, + { + "date": "11/21/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night this woman was unable to sleep and went to the kitchen. Around 2 o'clock her attention was suddenly drawn to a white object that seemed to be floating on the other side of the window. She approached it and discovered something 4 feet tall: a humanoid being, with a round head and normal eyes. She saw neither nose nor mouth on the face. Around the head, or helmet that surrounded the head, there was a kind of halo or aureole of flames. She also saw some kind of laces around its neck. The shoulders were not built square like a human's but started from the base of the head or helmet, at an angle of 45°. She was not scared, the being even seemed beautiful to her. She felt drawn to the humanoid, but felt unable to move. When the creature disappeared after about 15 seconds, she suddenly realized that a strange event had just occurred and ran to the bedroom to wake up her husband. But there was nothing to be seen anymore.", + "location": "CANADA, Joliette (Quebec)", + "ref": [ + "Pierre DELVAL: \"Contacts of the 4th Type\" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 81", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2746" + }, + { + "date": "12/2/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two fishermen, father Georges Jean and son Noël, arrived on the field around 05:30 in the morning. A big light was revealed at sea level, on the sand. Stunned, the fishermen did not dare to advance at first, but still went down towards the beach, each one going towards his lines. The son saw the light right on his lines and went to get the father, explaining that the light was at the heart of his nets. They headed towards it, pointing their lamps in front of them. The light did not move. They were scared and went back up towards their mopeds. Before leaving, they saw the yellow light go out, then a blue-green beam swept the ground and the dunes. Apart from fear, the witnesses felt nothing. (J. C. BOURRET: \"la nouvelle vague des S.V.\" - France Empire 1975 - P. 62,63) The same night, a curious accident happened on the coast. The trawler Archipel which was near the breakers of Urville just west of Cherbourg and on the trajectory of the object, lost its way, apparently due to a disturbance of its Decca-navigator (L.D.L.N), a deviation of the compass (J.Vallée Collège invisible p. 72). The boat hit the rocks and sank. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 426) They advanced to about 150 m from the object which had the appearance of an intense yellow window of 3.50m long by 1.50m high emitting a conical beam towards the ground. (...) but it suddenly changed: the yellow light went out. At the place where it had hovered was now a blue-green balloon which flew away at 6:05.", + "location": "FRANCE, Carteret-Barneville", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Le collège invisible\" J'AI LU 1975, p. 65 à 67", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2747" + }, + { + "date": "12/2/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:30, the witness, Rita Franco, was returning from a short walk with her young shepherd dog. As she was climbing the steps of her building, she heard a crackling noise. She turned around and saw, towards the Chaussée de Boitsfort, a gray-blue luminous beam. It was directed vertically towards the sky and was hollow. The top of the beam was cut horizontally. While she was looking at this phenomenon, it started to move: the crackling was replaced by a whistling. During its movement, the beam described quite tight circles. The dog's fur was literally standing on end. She expected to see the phenomenon reappear momentarily, hidden by a building, but then she saw a gray-matte craft emerge, which stopped in the air after a silent trajectory of about ten meters. This thing was not lit. It was egg-shaped, with the large end downwards. It seemed to have important edges or welds, but too small to be wings. At that moment, the panicked dog ran towards the hall and she followed it. She hoped to be able to examine the phenomenon from the terrace, but when she got there, there was nothing to see anymore.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Boondael (south-southeast of Brussels)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - pp. 76-79", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2748" + }, + { + "date": "12/6/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 6:45 pm two 14-year-old boys, Fernand Perez and Jean Paul Dazévédo, were out for a ride on their mopeds to the chapel of Saint Baudile. Almost at the top of the steep hill they saw a strange light illuminating the chapel. They abandoned their mopeds and continued on foot: they discovered a circular object about 10 meters in diameter and about 3.5 meters high, resting on legs, a bit lower down. The object was the color of aluminum and they heard a faint humming like that of a small electric motor. All around the dome there were red and white flashing lights. A door opened in the middle, sliding on the upper part of the dome. They were scared! They went back down to their mopeds, avoiding making any noise, and returned to Fabrègues to alert people. Three of their friends went back up with them. When they arrived at the site they were blinded by an intense light that prevented them from seeing anything. The story spread around the village, and when everyone arrived at the top, they saw an object that seemed to be trying to land, but it disappeared over the crest of the hill in the direction of Sète. - Traces (GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, pp. 207-209) Note: the Fabrègues case is thought to be a hoax set up by the two main young witnesses, but no counter-investigation has come to our knowledge.", + "location": "FRANCE, Fabrègues (Hérault)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 430", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2749" + }, + { + "date": "12/13/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Beginning of the CLAUDE VORILHON = RAEL affair. \"That is how I found myself at the bottom of the crater (note from vog: extinguished! Phew!); And suddenly I saw a flashing light above the volcano (...) It was only when it stopped two meters above the ground, about twenty meters from me, that I noticed it had the shape of a huge bell, four meters high and seven meters in diameter. It had the color of silver metal\". The lower hatch of the craft opened and inclined towards the ground, unfolding like a removable footstep. \"Seeing two feet appear, then two legs clad in green, I was panic-stricken. I only regained my composure when, above a thin silhouette, about 1.20m high, I saw the face of this mysterious being. With his slanted eyes, wide forehead, black beard and olive complexion, he had an Asian type. A kind of halo enveloped his face. (...) (Vorilhon follows the stranger inside the saucer) At the request of the extraterrestrial, he will return five days in a row at the same time to the bottom of the crater. He will receive a long message and stunning details about the origin of the worlds. (December 13, 1973)", + "location": "France, Clermont Ferrand, Puy de la Vache", + "ref": [ + "René PACAUT: \"They Met Extraterrestrials\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre, 1978, p 190 to 196", + "etc.. etc.. ", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2750" + }, + { + "date": "12/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness lives in a modest row house and makes the observation from the ground floor. The 75 m² garden is delimited by three high whitewashed walls, behind the back wall there is the property of a convent of religious women housing a school. V.M. was already in bed that night, when around 2 o'clock in the morning he woke up for a natural need and had to go out to a small building attached to the kitchen. He did this without turning on the light, in the darkness. When he arrived in the kitchen he heard the sound of a shovel falling outside. Through the window curtain he saw a greenish light outside. His garden should normally have been plunged into darkness at this hour, the witness was very intrigued. He went to the window, moved the curtain aside. In the back of the garden was a small being of about 1m10 dressed in a shiny suit that emitted a greenish light. The character was visible from the back and three-quarters. He was of medium build, the head, legs and arms proportionate to his height. On his head he wore a transparent helmet in the shape of a ball and a tube came out of the back to connect to a kind of backpack that the character wore on his back. This bag, rectangular in shape, covered his back from the waist to the shoulder blades. This equipment had the same appearance as the clothes. On his stomach, at waist height, he wore a small bright red, luminous and sparkling square box, attached to a belt. The bottom of the billowing trousers was taken up in small tight boots of the same greenish aspect. The hands were gloved and the sleeves of the garment tightened at the wrists. Seen from the back, the head appeared round and black. A halo surrounded the visitor partially illuminating the ground and the left wall. He held in his hand a device comparable to a vacuum cleaner or a mine detector which he slowly passed over a pile of bricks at the bottom of the garden. The character seemed to move with difficulty. He was waddling as he walked. V.M. then used the flashlight and made two light calls in the direction of the creature. At this signal the humanoid turned around by pivoting in one piece. V.M. then saw for the first time the black face of the visitor. He saw neither nose nor mouth: only small pointed ears. The eyes, oval and yellow, were particularly bright and surrounded by a green edge. On the iris the witness noticed small black and red veins, the pupil was black and oval (note from vog: he saw all this at 25 m distance? This creature must have had ENORMOUS eyes!) When the eyelids lowered, the face became completely dark. Then the being answered the witness by raising his hand and forming a \"V\" with his index and middle finger (note from vog: unless it was donkey ears he was representing!) after which he turned towards the back wall. He put one foot flat against the masonry, then the other and climbed the wall holding his legs straight, arrived at the top of this 3 m high obstacle, he tilted forward to descend (probably) on the other side. A minute having elapsed, V.M. saw an aura of white light appear behind the wall and a round object gradually appear, of about 5 m in diameter, which eventually rose vertically to 20m, then tilted and left behind a luminous trail. During the flight of the craft there was a sound like the rubbing of the elytra of a cricket, which amplified into a whistling when the craft left.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Vilvorde (north-northeast of Brussels)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976 - P.79 to 83", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2751" + }, + { + "date": "12/25/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 9 pm, Mme Jendreaux left the farm to check if the dogs were properly tied up for the night. The sky was particularly cloudy and low. Suddenly, towards the east she saw the phenomenon, as if it had just lit up: first a kind of milky dome above a meadow 100 m away from her, which was stationary close to the ground. Mme Jendreaux had the impression that it was made of a transparent or translucent material because she seemed to make out a kind of vertical \"stovepipe\" inside. On either side of this pipe, the dome was stained with two vaguely circular dark areas. The dome was the size of a small tractor. Above it, offset to the right, were two yellow neon tubes placed one above the other, horizontal and motionless. These tubes were clearly visible just above the line of trees. The whole thing was perfectly silent and Mme Jendreaux, fascinated, watched the phenomenon for several minutes without moving from the doorstep and without thinking to call her husband inside the house a few metres away from her. Suddenly she felt drawn, sucked towards the phenomenon. She had the distinct impression that she was rising, that her feet were leaving the ground... So, she clung to the door handle. At the same moment, the dog, which had not yet reacted, panicked and ran between her mistress's legs to take refuge in the house. At the animal's touch, Mme Jendreaux lowered her eyes and when she looked up again... there was nothing. The sky was empty.", + "location": "FRANCE, Les Riveaux (St Bonnet Tronçais)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 433, 434", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2752" + }, + { + "date": "12/31/1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The merchant Liefooghe at 6 o'clock in the morning, on a route he takes every weekday, saw in a field, 100 m away: a rocket 30 to 50 m high. Upon his arrival it had tilted, emitted red-orange to white and disappeared into the sky at an incredible speed. Gendarmerie alerted and traces on the ground observed. (J.C. BOURRET: \"La nouvelle vague des S.V.\" - France Empire 1975, p.78 to 82) ... the witness alerted the gendarmerie who, less than 3 hours later, was on the scene. They discovered, not only, clear traces left by the cigar, but also footprints of small feet measuring 17 cm long. (Erich ZUCHER: \"Les apparitions d'humanoïdes\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 105) Around 7 o'clock, on a cloudy and foggy day, Mr. Liefooghe sees the shape of a DS Citroën car, with two yellow-orange headlights directed towards him. He finds it strange that a car is parked against the flow of traffic, but continues to move at a moderate speed. At 50 m from the parking spot of \"the thing\" he suddenly sees a craft leaving the side of the road and, having reached the middle of the road, performs a kind of turn. This \"car\" has no rear lights or reflectors. 400 m further on he sees an orange glow in front of him on the left. He then sees a large cigar-shaped object in a field 100 m away. No superstructure is visible. Quickly the luminosity of the cigar increases in intensity, it quickly tilts at about 20 degrees on its own axis. The luminosity is at this moment so strong that it partially blurs the previously sharp outlines. The surrounding fields are lit by a yellow-orange light and the witness sees it as if it were broad daylight. The illumination does not vary during the ascent of the object, but it suddenly stops after a few moments. Traces on the ground: traces of the craft and traces of small feet.", + "location": "FRANCE, Haisnes - Hulluch \"La Tonne de Goudron\" (Pas de Calais)", + "ref": [ + "Charles GARREAU: \"Alerte dans le ciel: le dossier des enlèvements\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p.253, which says \"29 December\"", + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 435, 436", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2753" + }, + { + "date": "1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Comedian Jackie Gleason was a friend of Richard Nixon. Beverly McKittrick, his ex-wife, claims that in 1973 Gleason accompanied Nixon to view the bodies of 4 dead extraterrestrials collected by the Air Force. The bodies seemed embalmed and arranged on operating tables, classified as \"top-secret material\". Mrs. McKittrick adds that during their visit her husband and Nixon were under strict guard (...)", + "location": "USA, Homestead AFB (Florida)", + "ref": [ + "MUFON Journal February 1988 N° 238", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2754" + }, + { + "date": "1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The USAF requests the American aerospace industry to construct or present a new prototype F 117 A. The initial project is renamed \"Experimental Stealth Tactical - XST\" and is partially funded by DARPA, the criteria for the construction of such a device are established. Minimization of radar signature, visualization, engine noise, infrared emission and improvement of ECM electronic warfare equipment. (1973, end)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "Gesag, Bulletin No. 96 Sept 97, p. 3", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2755" + }, + { + "date": "1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Vermeulen living in Uden, woke up one night, around 2:30, and got up to go to the bathroom. Through the small window of this place, she saw something white outside, but didn't pay it much attention. When leaving the small place, she saw through another window, three creatures about 1.2 meters tall, moving towards her house. They all wore a kind of monk's robe and had a kind of pointed headgear. They moved in single file. The one who closed the small row, a bit taller than the other two, suddenly looked in Mrs. Vermeulen's direction. Simultaneously the three little creatures turned around and disappeared from view. Mrs. Vermeulen was about to wake her husband, and in the bedroom, she saw through the other window, a large red ball suspended in the air about ten meters from the house. The diameter of this ball was around 5 meters. At the moment her husband woke up, everything disappeared, as if by magic.", + "location": "NETHERLANDS, Uden", + "ref": [ + "(c) 1997 Jeroen Slurf and Jeroen Kümeling.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2756" + }, + { + "date": "1973", + "desc": "(Translated from French) For six years the police received hundreds of calls from people who had observed a UFO. Finally in 1979 the truth was revealed: drug traffickers were sending shipments from one side of the border to the other, usually from Mexico to the USA, using small homemade rockets. (1973-1979)", + "location": "USA, Border with Mexico", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 43", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2757" + }, + { + "date": "1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two \"short\" entities were taking a fossil hunter away in a UFO. He had barely entered when he was back outside again. He remembers seeing on board two little girls (human). He believes he did not meet the extraterrestrials' requirements, that these entities rejected him: a door opened and he found himself alone in the desert. (1974,)", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Clifton Bore (South Australia)", + "ref": [ + "Australian Flying Saucer Research Society", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2758" + }, + { + "date": "1/7/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was exactly 8:20. They had left Chateaulun a little earlier and were in Saint-Nic, at the top of a slight height, when one of them saw an object in the sky, which caught his attention and aroused his curiosity. Gendarme Kaminski stopped the staff car at the request of his companion and both observed the strange \"thing\". \"It was approximately in the axis of Cap de la Chèvre,\" explains Mr. Le Stunff. The color was orange, the shape elongated. As we said, it was 8:20. It was not very clear but the night had stopped. Due to its direction, it is obvious that this light could not be confused with that of the sun. The object was motionless and the light contrasted with the \"cloud\" behind it. We observed it for about five minutes. But during this period, it changed shape, in fact it looked like a kind of \"condensation\" of \"smoke\", I can not think of another word. At the start it had an elongated shape, then it took the shape of a dome (a mushroom cap) before coming to a standstill above the aircraft carrier \"Foch\" in the bay of Douarnenez. Then the whole seemed to burst before taking the shape of a circle. After that, the UFO changed shape again into a dome, but this time the condensation surrounded it at its base, before taking altitude and disappearing into the clouds. (..) \"(Jean François BOEDEC: \"Les OVNI en Bretagne, Anatomie d'un Phénomène\", ed. Fernand Lanore 1978, pp. 90 to 92) At the place called \"Coat Madiou\" two gendarmes from the Telgrunc brigade, Le Strunff (the Stroumph, blue ???) and Kaminski, saw in the sky a strange object at 8:20 in the morning. It was in the shape of an orange half-sphere and was followed by a pale orange cloud. The phenomenon came to stabilize above a building of the navy in the bay of Douarnenez: the aircraft carrier Foch. Later the witnesses learned that the nuclear submarine \"Redoutable\" was on an immersion mission under the \"Foch\". The cloud came to stabilize under the object and the contours became clearer. Later, this kind of \"mushroom\" luminous burst or seemed to explode to take the shape of a pale orange sphere. Then it took its initial shape and its first colors, the contours became crazy, it rose slowly to disappear into the clouds. (Philippe SCHNEYDER: \"Ovni, first balance\" - ed. du Rocher 1983, pp. 53, 54) This observation is reported on the date of February 3, 1974 by:", + "location": "FRANCE, Chateaulin", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET / J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, First complete file ... \" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 441", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2759" + }, + { + "date": "1/7/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness was driving his AMI 6 at 60/70 km/h from Comines to Warneton at around 8:40 PM. The car radio was working normally. There was a bright moonlight and the sky was clear. Suddenly the car headlights went out and almost simultaneously the engine stopped after a few stutters and the radio became silent. The car continued to roll for about a hundred meters, then its owner stopped it with the handbrake. He was about to get out of the car to see what was happening, his hand already on the door handle: he didn't have time to complete his gesture when he saw, on the right side, in the elevated field, what he took for a hay wagon 150 m away from him. But there were white and orange reflections on the object and he also noticed that it was standing on three legs. The whole object reminded him of a \"Tommy\" helmet. Through the windshield he then saw two silhouettes in the field, 30 m away from the car. They were walking towards him in a rigid and slow manner, stopped at 15 m and then resumed their progression. The first one, the smallest, looked like a Michelin man but with barely marked rings. He had a helmet on, the round helmet had a large window behind which one could see a face. He was holding a kind of short thick ruler in his right hand and pointing it towards the car. The second one was a bit taller (1.20 m to 1.30 m) and he was wearing an opaque cubic helmet, except for the front wall which was transparent and showed a strange face. The two faces were alike like those of twins: pear-shaped head, grayish complexion, two perfectly round eyes like agate beads, barely pronounced eyebrow arch. Small nose with little relief, the mouth a horizontal slit without lips. When one of them opened his mouth at one point, the witness saw neither teeth nor tongue. The costume was gray metallic matte. The shoes were big and pointed. Inside the helmets there was a soft light. Shortly after the beings had stopped very close to the ditch, the witness felt a slight shock at the back of the skull, at the height of the cerebellum: after this shock he heard (before he heard nothing, the windows being closed): a deep modulated sound, increasing in intensity. During all this time a third Michelin man stayed close to the craft in the field. The face-to-face was suddenly disturbed: suddenly the two beings turned their heads in a perfectly synchronized movement, the sound stopped, the beings turned around and quickly went back to the UFO. The tripod disappeared, the beings were inside the thing which rose 50 cm and after 3 or 4 seconds of immobility it rose horizontally and disappeared. In the rearview mirror the witness saw the white lights of a car approaching. Slumped in the seat the witness will see a Belgian motorist open the door for him and ask him: \"Did they hurt you?\" He had seen them too, he had engine stutters but not the headlights going out. After a few starter solicitations the witness's car was also able to leave.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Warneton (Franco-Belgian border in the north)", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976- pp. 83 to 89", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2760" + }, + { + "date": "1/8/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) John E. Justice, a night guard, having taken his car at the end of his shift, at three in the morning, was driving normally on the long park avenue, when suddenly his headlights dimmed and his engine stopped. In a few seconds Justice saw large lights descending and spreading out in the sky a short distance in front of his car. Then the rainbow of lights went out, and an oval-shaped light about two meters in diameter appeared. It was too bright for him to make out any shape of the fuselage. \"The trees, the road, everything was lit up,\" said Justice. \"And in my car I could have cut my nails, it was so bright.\" The object was getting closer. Soon it was only two meters in front of the car and slightly above. He could now see inside the oval object. It was a golden-colored room with 5 occupants seated on high chairs on the left side. They were motionless, in a row, wearing capes of the same color as the chairs. (...) their hair was so long that it covered part of their faces. They all looked alike. (January 8, 1974)", + "location": "USA, Springfield", + "ref": [ + "Leonard STRINGIELD: \"General UFO Alert\", ed. France - Empire, 1978, p. 135", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2761" + }, + { + "date": "1/18/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On January 18th 1974, it was Mr. Jaffres, from the village \"Bellevue\" in Ladivisiau who observed a \"glowing ball\" at the height of the clouds. This object descended vertically and came to a stop above a meadow. Mr. Jaffres then decided to take his car and go to the scene \"to be sure\". To his surprise, upon arrival, the UFO had changed shape and presented itself as an immense vertical cylinder of metallic appearance, 6 meters high and 3 meters wide. Two rotors were visible above and below it: they emitted intermittent flashes of light. The witness, not very reassured by this presence, sent out several beacon calls: the craft then began to rise and fall! And it would do so with each call. Mr. Jaffres parked his vehicle near a slope, grabbed his... pistol and advanced towards the meadow... The UFO approached slowly... Mr. Jaffre then felt a tingling in his eyes... That was too much. Our man quickly returned to his home. The observation continued for 2 hours from the window of the first floor, in the company of two other witnesses, before the cylinder transformed again into a sphere before returning to the clouds... (Jean François BOEDEC: \"Les OVNI en BRETAGNE, Anatomie d'un Phénomène\", éd. Fernand Lanore 1978, p. 74 ) It was 10:30 pm, it was raining, Mr. and Mrs. Jaffrès and Mrs. brother were about to go to bed, when, through the window, a bright light caught their attention. It came from a ball two to three times as big as the full moon, under the cloud ceiling. The wind was blowing hard from west to east. This ball was descending at great speed vertically, slowing down greatly when it was no more than 200 or 300 m from the ground, moving above a field. The shape, then more distinct, was cylindrical, with the lower and upper ends formed of rings. It was about 300 m from the house. Mr. Jaffrès finally, after already 3/4 of an hour of observation, took the decision to go out in the car and go to the edge of the field. Despite the rainy weather, the whole area of the place called \"Belle-Vue\" was lit up. After 10 minutes, he had the idea of making beacon calls. At each \"code-phare\" passage, the object went up and down, giving the impression of a helicopter in difficulty. The witness then had the certainty that the extreme rings were turning on the cylinder, projecting sparks and sparks of the color of a continuous flash. The witness got out of the car. The object sometimes moved slowly, sometimes much more quickly. When it came back to the witness, he felt for the first time a discharge of heat very clearly and he heard a buzzing like that of a fan. The witness was not really afraid, but became nervous and when the object was 20 m from him, he felt tingles and his eyes were tingling. Caution: he had armed himself with a defense pistol before going to meet the UFO... Then, seeing the object rise and believing that it was leaving, the witness returned to the house. It was already twelve thirty. They continued to watch the evolutions of what they took for takeoff attempts. At 03:00 in the morning, the light dimmed and they saw the ball return to the clouds. The next day the witness went to the field to find any traces: he found grass lying in places and in some places there was a liquid substance that looked like fuel but was not. Unfortunately, he did not have the idea of collecting a little of this liquid for analysis. (1974, January 18th to 19th)", + "location": "FRANCE, Landivisiau (Saint Derrien? ) (Finistère nord)", + "ref": [ + "Philippe SCHNEYDER: \"Ovni, premier bilan\" - éd. du Rocher 1983, p. 73, 74", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2762" + }, + { + "date": "1/24/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: New 1999 book by veterinarian and ufologist Nick Redfern, U.K.) A UFO crashed in the isolated Clwyd valley and the bodies of two aliens were removed from the wreckage, writes this author. \"Farmer Huw Lloyd, 39 in 1999, was then a 14-year-old boy watching television at his home in Llandrillo, very close to the crash site, that night in 1974. He says he saw a large object followed by a luminous trail and a flashing blue light. Huw remembers: 'It was amazing how quickly the police arrived and how many people came to see.' Among the arrivals, Redfern says, were units of the British army, and it was they who removed the body of the aliens. One of the soldiers, named 'James Prescott' (pseudonym) was sent from Llanderfel with four other soldiers, and loaded two long oblong boxes into their armored truck\". The truck was taking the boxes to the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment at Porton Down, near Salisbury, in Wiltshire, with the strict order not to stop under any pretext or for anyone. \"Mr Prescott is retired today and is too scared to allow the use of his real name. He says that once they arrived \"the boxes were opened by senior officers in our presence. We were amazed to see two creatures in decontamination suits. It was obvious that they were not creatures of this world; upon examination they were found to be deceased. They measured 5 to 6 feet, had a humanoid shape, but in a way resembling skeletons covered with skin. Although I did not see the craft at the crash site, I was informed that a large craft had crashed and been found by other army units.\"", + "location": "ENGLAND, Berwyn Mountains, Clwyd (Wales)", + "ref": [ + "Daily Mirror of London for October 22, 1999, \"How Alien's My Valley?\"", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2763" + }, + { + "date": "1/23/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:39 PM a violent explosion shook the villages (recorded in Edinburgh: 3.5 on the Richter scale). Above Mount Berwyn a large pulsating orange light and shortly afterwards blue and orange lights flew around the summit. Police stations were flooded with calls from people claiming to have seen a ball of light crash to the ground, followed by a huge explosion. One of the witnesses who called the police saw a military patrol on the way back ordering him to immediately leave the area. Local farmers were ordered not to leave their homes for a week. On the side of the hill, there was still this orange ball...", + "location": "ENGLAND, Llanderfel, Clwyd", + "ref": [ + "Sentinel News No. 6; July-August '97", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2764" + }, + { + "date": "1/25/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Witnesses were flying in a TAP Boeing 707 from Lisbon to Cape Verde and Las Palmas. Alerted by technician Francisco Duarte, captain Rodrigo Freitas saw at Freitas' coast, and facing their plane, at 80 miles, a formation of 5 lights. Two of these lights were spinning. The phenomenon was followed by a trail. The plane was flying at 900 km/h at 19000 feet. The lights were at 16000 feet above the plane. The pilot tried to find out if other planes were confirming this observation and learned that a South African plane had encountered the strange formation 40 minutes earlier. Knowing the position of the other plane, Mr. Freitas later calculated that the formation was flying at a speed of 36000 km/h and made a report to NASA. (1974, 25 January)", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Sagres - Algarve", + "ref": [ + "collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenço; CEAFI, Lisbon", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2765" + }, + { + "date": "1/26/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A Swedish pilot, Captain Lars Berglund made a statement to the newspaper \"Skaanska Dagbladet\" regarding the observation of a fleet of 10 to 15 UFOs above Lisbon, during his flight from Las Palmas to Sweden. These objects were flying in single file at 20 km above the ground. Captain Berglund added that he had confirmation of this observation from three other planes, one Portuguese, one Swedish and another British.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Lisbon, in flight", + "ref": [ + "collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenço; \"Diario de Noticias\" 19.2.74", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2766" + }, + { + "date": "2/6/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. A., who lived alone in an isolated house in the middle of the woods, was watching television. Having heard a clanking noise at the entrance, and thinking it was stray dogs, she took her gun, only to scare them. She thus headed towards the door and turned on the outside light. Instead of a dog, she found herself face to face, two meters away, with a simian-looking, hairy creature two meters and twenty centimeters tall. The giant raised his hands above his head. Frightened, the woman shot, thinking he was going to throw himself at her. To her great surprise, he simply disappeared in a burst of light. (...) Her son-in-law, who lived with his wife and children in a trailer 300 meters away, had heard the gunshot. Immediately armed with a 6-shot revolver, he went to his mother-in-law's residence. Approaching, he saw at the edge of the woods \"four or five furry shadows\". It was a terrifying sight: simian-looking beings two meters tall, with long arms \"with glowing eyes like embers\". He fired two shots, then ran to his mother-in-law's house. Looking out the window, they both saw at a hundred and fifty meters from them a bright red light motionless above the woods. It looked like a Christmas tree ornament or the rotating beacon of a police car. Panicked, they called the police [note from vog: who came and found no trace..]", + "location": "USA, near Uniontown (Pennsylvania)", + "ref": [ + "Leonard STRINGFIELD: \"General UFO Alert\", ed. France - Empire, 1978, p. 94, 95", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2767" + }, + { + "date": "2/7/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) RE-ENTRY OF MIDAS 2 LAUNCHED ON MAY 24, 1960 - FALL LOCATION NOT SPECIFIED. (February 7, 1974)", + "location": "USA, SPACE", + "ref": [ + "Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 116", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2768" + }, + { + "date": "2/21/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) M. Laporte, a postman in Montcuq, left his farm at \"Borde Haute\" at 9:10 PM and saw an object flying from left to right, like a bus with 5 or 6 portholes on the side and two headlights in the front projecting two long beams of light to the right. The light from the portholes was bright and multicolored: yellow-blue-green. Rays of light were emanating from the portholes, directed obliquely towards the ground and illuminating the gorse and juniper that dotted the moor. The beams of light from the front were still visible. Suddenly the witness saw nothing. No sound. Altitude 200 to 300 m. Length of the object: 14 to 20 m. (February 21, 1974)", + "location": "FRANCE, Montcuq (Lot)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet... \" éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 449", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2769" + }, + { + "date": "2/22/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11pm a fairly thick fog forced Jean-Michel Lartigaud and his wife Marie-Thérèse to drive at about 60 km/h. At Sauvagny the fog dissipated and visibility became perfect. \"At the same moment, I felt a great cold that froze me from head to foot, followed by a shiver like I had never felt before. In front of me, to the right of the road and 3 to 4 m below, I saw an enormous luminous object, which seemed to be resting on the ground. Instinctively I slowed down, shaking my wife who was dozing. It looked like a cylinder 8m high and 3m in diameter at the top and slightly narrower at the base. I could not detect any solid structure. It was perfectly still. The top was made up of a kind of camembert box lid 3m in diameter and 1m thick. It emitted a dry light of extraordinary power, almost bluish white, but this light did not radiate. Under the lid a luminous cone evoked frosted glass. On the ground, the base was not clearly defined. Everything remained dark around this object whose sharp outlines contrasted sharply with the black of the night. \"Go away, get away quickly,\" Marie-Thérèse ordered, feeling a sense of danger. Almost immediately the fog raised a cottony wall in front of the car headlights", + "location": "FRANCE, Sauvagny (Allier)", + "ref": [ + "GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, pp. 201 to 203", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2770" + }, + { + "date": "2/25/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A mason was astonished to see three creatures standing on the edge of an object topped with a dome that was approaching him. The creatures were about 150 cm tall and had normal human proportions, dressed in tight clothing. They remained standing, motionless as the object passed in front of his eyes at a distance of about thirty meters and at a speed of about 50 km/h. Two to three minutes later he lost sight of it behind the hills.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Yorks Plains, Tasmania", + "ref": [ + "TUFOIC TA84048 - Keith Baskerfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2771" + }, + { + "date": "2/26/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (source: \"Le Bois Vert\" No. 2 vol. 10, March-April 1974) \"An extraordinary event is said to have occurred at 731 in the night of February 26th. It should be mentioned that on several occasions before this date, Koehring operators would have seen in the sky of 731, a strange object, like a very large star, of an even greater luminosity. After remaining motionless, this \"thing\" quickly disappeared from their view. But according to several employees of this camp, what happened during the night of February 26th, around 4 o'clock in the morning, is much more surprising! J.S.L., who told us this strange fact himself, was traveling in a truck with his work companion F.B. and the \"thing\" suddenly appeared to them at a distance so close that they were frightened and called for help to the camp by radio. According to these two eyewitnesses, the craft stopped nearby, and they stopped their truck. They could no longer use the radio because the interference made it unusable. For at least 20 minutes, this mysterious apparition remained there, motionless, at the height of the treetops. \"It must have been at least 30 feet long,\" J.S.L. told us. A blinding light prevented them from distinguishing the shape of this unknown craft, but they saw a green light on top. As for the rest, it was rather oval in shape, very bright yellow and incandescent red in the center. To finish the story, a car with J.P.L. and P.G. on board left the camp in response to the call they had received. Unable to communicate with the occupants of the truck, they suspected that something not very nice was happening and accelerated. When they arrived at the scene of the \"appearance\", these last ones saw the object sparkling with all its lights, which immediately described a large circle and disappeared like a flash in the firmament. This account of Mr. S.L. is supported by at least five other employees who were witnesses of this apparition. (...) \" (February 26, 1974)", + "location": "Canada, camp 731 (80 km NE of Baie Comeau)", + "ref": [ + "Jean THOMAS: \"Synthèse Ovni\", ed. Louise Couteau, 1999, p. 127, 128", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2772" + }, + { + "date": "2/28/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 5:30 the witness left his home on a moped to go to work. He had just crossed the bridge over the Thon and was face to face with \"two cosmonauts\" and noticed at the same time that he was stopped. The men were about 1.70m tall and wore dark suits. They had a cubic helmet on their head, with an opening in the face area, but in the darkness the witness could not make out anything. They wore gloves covering their arms up to the shoulders. He was astonished as he did not remember braking or stopping. On the left side of the road, in a meadow below at 35m, he could make out a large dark circular mass: there was no light or noise. The two figures, facing the witness, firmly held the handlebars of the moped. The witness was scared, especially as their gestures seemed to urge him to eat something. The witness was panicked. One of the beings made a sign to his companion who started rummaging in a kind of bag he was carrying on his back: he took out a small piece of substance (1 cm²) which he presented to the witness, urging him to eat it. He ate it. It was brown, like chocolate, soft in consistency, without taste. As soon as he had swallowed the material, the figures stepped aside and the witness was able to leave.", + "location": "FRANCE, Origny en Thiérache.", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976- p. 52 à 54", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2773" + }, + { + "date": "2/28/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:17 PM, the witness was watching television when he saw through the window a large row of circular portholes topped at the front by another row of teardrop-shaped portholes, suggesting the curve of a more or less curved surface. The portholes seemed to go all the way around the craft, but this change in shape happened suddenly, all at once. They emitted a fixed light exactly like that of a sodium vapor trail. The witness went outside and heard an unusual sound like the amplitude and frequency modulation of an electric motor whose speed was suddenly changed. The witness wanted to go and inspect the area but his wife held him back. (February 28, 1974)", + "location": "FRANCE, Châteaugay (Puy de Dôme)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet... \" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 460", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2774" + }, + { + "date": "2/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) .. at 9 o'clock (...) Xi Shuzi, an old woman, was outside tending to the pigs. When she looked up, she saw an unusual flying object in the sky. She immediately ran to her house to call her family, who came out into the courtyard. In the end, there were more than ten witnesses (...) It was a main object accompanied by seven smaller ones. The main body was oval-shaped and not shiny. The seven small flying objects in the shape of a sphere, emitted a yellow-white, transparent and dazzling light. They were on the same plane, around the main object and at an equal distance from it. Their light illuminated the main body well. They flew together, at the same speed, without any noise. (...) The UFO was 100 m away from the witnesses. It was a good night, the full moon illuminated the landscape. One could clearly distinguish these flying bodies, which, seven minutes later, disappeared in the northwest. (February 1974)", + "location": "CHINA, Qiqihaer (Heilongjiang)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\". ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 119", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2775" + }, + { + "date": "2/28/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Dirant Mello Ferraz, 18 years old, at his home, suddenly finds himself elsewhere: transported from the kitchen to a small square room without an opening. A voice coming from the ceiling tells him not to be afraid. On the empty wall a door appears and opens to let a large egg-shaped object pass through. From this egg emerges a human: the witness's double! It has the consistency of human flesh and even has Dirant's voice, then the double disappears through the wall. A television screen materializes and Dirant sees his double at home: he is being rude to his entourage. From 7:30 PM on February 28th to the next day March 1st at the same time Dirant remains facing his double, not aware of the passing of time, his watch having stopped, fascinated by his double who was crossing the wall. When he was bored, books and magazines materialized. (1974, February 28th to March 1st)", + "location": "BRAZIL, unspecified", + "ref": [ + "Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: \"Enquête sur les enlèvements E.T.\" - Plon 1995, p. 132, 13", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2776" + }, + { + "date": "3/5/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9 pm, Mr. Pasquier and his wife were occupied watching television at a neighbor's house, Mrs. Lalande. Suddenly their gaze was drawn to the kitchen window by an extraordinary blue light, turning green, yellow, then red. Intrigued, they rushed outside and thus saw a strange \"composite\" object. It was formed of two balls connected by a kind of blue neon tube. The first ball, orange in color, was bigger than the following green one. The object ended with a kind of shadow sprinkled with small colored dots. The craft moved silently at a constant speed (approx. 80 km/h) at a relative altitude of 25 to 100 meters and at a distance of about 150 meters from the witnesses. The length of the object was estimated at 2 or 3 meters. The observation ended with the disappearance of the object behind buildings.", + "location": "France, Wé", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Michel LIGERON: \"Ovni en Ardennes\" 1981, p 59, 60", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2777" + }, + { + "date": "3/7/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Raymond Laffourcade was driving to Toulouse. He was on the CD3 around 6 o'clock and was in view of Comberouger when he saw to the NE, resting in a field about 150 m away, an elongated object resembling a \"micheline\" that was projecting a strong orange light so bright it illuminated a nearby house. A few moments later the witness saw the object slowly rise and take on the successive shapes of a crescent and then a ball (the size of a tractor wheel). No sound.", + "location": "FRANCE, Comberouger \"La Bécade\"", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 470", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2778" + }, + { + "date": "3/9/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Early in the morning, this woman, not disposed to believe in UFOs, saw a pulsing red light at the height of the treetops, from which two beams emerged that crossed her car from side to side, immobilizing the engine and producing interference on the on-board radio. Shortly after, she received a telepathic message, telling her to go on a certain road, which she did. Again her engine stalled and the radio emitted strange noises. But this time she saw four small humanoids, quickly coming towards her, each in a small vehicle resembling a garden tiller, but moving quickly just above the ground. One of the entities approached the car and telepathically asked her to open the door. But when she opened one of the doors, all four opened wide at the same time. The entity examined the woman's neck, applying a small device that left five puncture marks. She was told that thousands of their vessels had already visited the Earth for years. Nearby was their mothership, while their planet of origin was called \"Omnius\" or \"Omnigus.\" They added that they had examined thousands of people, but not all had done so voluntarily. She was not to touch the entities to prevent any contamination. She was also told that she might have terrible headaches for several weeks after the contact. The entities measured between 1m20 and 1m40, and wore helmets that masked their features. However, small eyes could be seen shining. They wore uniforms and a belt with a symbol made of wavy vertical lines.", + "location": "USA, Duxbury, Mass.", + "ref": [ + "Don ELKINS with Carla RUECKERT, CASE NUMBER 12, Investigator: John Giambrone, MUFON field investigator", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2779" + }, + { + "date": "3/20/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On the night of March 20, Maximiliano Sanchez was driving his truck when he noticed a very bright light in the middle of the road, about 600 m ahead of him (...) completely blinded, Sanchez was forced to stop on the side of the road. The light eventually dimmed and Sanchez was able to continue in his direction, but when he was only about 200 m away, his headlights went out and his engine stopped. He then discovered that he had a magnificent flying saucer in front of him, about 12 meters in diameter, silver metallic in color, perfectly smooth, without any rivets or openings, resting on three rounded feet and lit from below. He then saw a second saucer that remained stationary in flight like a helicopter, above and to the right of the first. Two creatures of human appearance wearing shiny suits were making gestures (...) and seeing Sanchez's truck, they got back into the saucer which rose about ten meters, placing itself next to the other craft at the same height. Seeing that the road was clear and his headlights were on, Sanchez tried to start the engine which turned on the first try. (...) he stopped, turned off his headlights, got out of the truck to see what was going to happen. The first saucer had descended to the ground. (...) scared, Sanchez went home. (...) The next day, March 21, he went to Lagunilla and arrived there around 11:15 pm. (...) Instead of two, there were now three saucers, one of them on the road and four humanoids. (...) [note from vog: same scenario with slight variations, and to my knowledge Spanish ufologists do not talk about this extraordinary observation]", + "location": "SPAIN, between Horcajo and Lagunilla", + "ref": [ + "Maurice CHATELAIN: \"Les messagers du cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, p. 38 to 41", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2780" + }, + { + "date": "3/24/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During an observation evening, Mr. Bréchant and his brother-in-law Mr. Cosme, and the child Patrice Bréchant, 11 years old, observed with the naked eye and binoculars: A white luminous ball on the ground, whose contours gradually became red. To the right of this ball, a series of 4 to 6 rectangles of a violent white light illuminated. With the binoculars, Mr. Cosme observed a luminous ball which projected from its base a triangular luminous beam, base coming from under the ball, point oriented towards the witnesses. Mr. Cosme observed with the binoculars two luminous silhouettes, stiff, seeming formed of two blocks and disproportionate: elongated head, too small for enormously wide shoulders. One of the silhouettes was behind the triangular beam projected by the white ball, the other slid on the beam towards the point and disappeared into the night. The one that remained near the sphere had on the left a kind of satchel, it gradually diminished as if it was collapsing and completely disappeared. The beam then went out and then the ball. They left and after 10 minutes observed through the back window, a white-yellowish luminous ball at the height of the trees which followed the car and according to the sinuosities was seen sometimes on the right, sometimes on the left. It approached very quickly taking 6 to 10 times its volume and a yellow-green color. The UFO hunters chased found the road to Beauvais and quickly returned to their home. (1974, night of March 24th to 25th)", + "location": "FRANCE, Thérines: Clévrau and Taupin woods (Oise)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 476 to 478", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2781" + }, + { + "date": "3/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 3:00 in the morning, the witness was driving from Nogaro. He was driving at 90 km/h when the engine of his vehicle stopped on its own. Trembling, the witness saw a being standing there. It was small, about 90 cm, and green in color. Its arms were so long that he couldn't make out its hands. On the top of its head it had pointed ears. Its eyes were very black. Turning its back to the witness, the being headed towards the ditch and descended into it. Only the upper half of its body remained visible. When it finally looked at the witness, he felt a wave, followed by two more very close together. Scared, the witness looked away. Shortly after, his engine started up again. He turned around and returned to Nogaro, where he arrived without noticing anything unusual. He wouldn't reveal anything about his adventure until 1977.", + "location": "FRANCE, Nogaro", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 462", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2782" + }, + { + "date": "3/31/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:00 PM the witness was escorting a friend with his wife and son. In the heart of the Valensole plateau he saw an object on or very close to the ground. This device in the shape of a small car was lit from the inside where shapes seemed to move. (vog: ??? a small car on the ground is therefore a UFO?) Very familiar with the night and day landscape, this phenomenon seemed very unusual to him; Back in Valensole at 8:15 PM he no longer saw anything. But from his in-laws' house, he could see the object again. With his wife and son he could get as close as 500 or 800m, stopping his car 2 km from Valensole, on the road to Manosque and walking along a dirt path leading to the fields. He could not go any further in the night. It was 8:30 PM.", + "location": "FRANCE, Valensole", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 482", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2783" + }, + { + "date": "4/11/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Case No.: 19740411 A) At 2 o'clock in the morning, four people in a car, including Karl Heinz N., observed a disc-shaped object at a short distance and low altitude which emitted a beam from some kind of projector. The beam gradually widened, then retracted back into the projector. Suddenly, the beam was emitted directly into the car after which it retracted back into the object's projector. It was like a \"solid\" light. After this outburst, the flying object accelerated and disappeared into the clouds. While the witnesses thought they had observed the phenomenon for a quarter of an hour, two full hours had actually passed.", + "location": "GERMANY, Hochheim (near Frankfurt)", + "ref": [ + "Hans-Werner Peiniger, GEP e.V., JUFOF - Germany", + "JUFOF Nr. 41, 5'1985:129ff", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2784" + }, + { + "date": "4/16/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 1:00 AM, Mauro Bellingeri and his wife Carla Farè were returning home in their car when they saw a luminous object that stopped about 12 or 13 meters above the roof of their house. They stayed near the car and observed it for a few minutes. It was absolutely silent and motionless. There was a round cabin and they noticed the presence of 3 or maybe 4 helmeted beings inside and something near their mouths like a muzzle (sic!). One of the helmets turned towards the witnesses and at that moment there were 4 or 5 jets of flames under the craft. Carla ran towards the house. Around the cabin there was another separate disc with small red, green and yellow lights that were spinning slowly. There was a kind of air displacement. The UFO started to move when this outer disc began to spin faster, a whistling sound was heard, and it headed towards Milan.", + "location": "ITALY, Casale", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 21 - pp. 20, 21", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2785" + }, + { + "date": "4/20/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, a modulated sound sometimes unbearable was heard in about twenty different places for an hour. Several people also noticed an unusual light while others mostly described an object in the shape of a disk, moving regularly at the height of trees. Physiological sensations (headaches, tingling..), a television breakdown, and an effect on vegetation were also noted. (1974, April 20th and 21st)", + "location": "BELGIUM, Charleroi region", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"From S.V. to UFOs\" - SOBEPS 1976- p. 92 to 117", + "Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unexplained Cases, p. 60 to 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2786" + }, + { + "date": "4/21/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 1 o'clock in the morning, Anne Ruchon returns from the ball with her fiancé Jean Louis Rimet. They are in a car. Suddenly they see a yellow mass emerge, which descends quickly and lands in a meadow about 500 m away at the place called \"Les Lydes\". \"We felt a strange feeling. After 2 to 3 minutes the light disappeared and we saw four night lights: three yellow and one red. The silhouette of the device was cut out like a kind of disk topped with a milky dome. For a few seconds I was able to see three shadows moving inside. Then this part went out too. At this moment a powerful spotlight came on and began to sweep the horizon in complete rotations, sometimes stopping in one direction. We heard a faint humming like that of an engine at idle. At one point the spotlight stopped in our direction. We were scared and left without waiting any longer.\" When she arrived home Anne woke up her parents so they could watch the show, perfectly visible from the house. The spotlight illuminates a house located about 2 km away. After observing it for an hour, the witnesses go to bed. Anne has pain in her eyes and can't fall asleep. (GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 67) IN REALITY: The farmer, Mr. Juven, late in his work, sowed corn from 8:30 pm to 3 o'clock in the morning. The witnesses will have seen his tractor in operation.", + "location": "FRANCE, Hostum (Drôme)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 672 to 678", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2787" + }, + { + "date": "5/7/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:15 Claude Tardy was riding his motorcycle towards Bourg les Valence. It was drizzling. Between the first and second tunnel of the \"Petits Goulets\" he saw to his right, on the other side of a cliff where the Vernaison river flowed, a white ball with two feet that slanted outwards. This ball seemed to be against the rocky wall or in a station nearby. Note: there is a geological fault at the location and a cave called \"La grotte du Diable\" which the witness was totally unaware of.", + "location": "FRANCE, Petits Goulets/ Ste Eulalie en Royans", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 485", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2788" + }, + { + "date": "5/16/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Multiple reports of UFO sightings dancing in the sky at dusk. Small red and green spheres emerged and returned to a larger yellow disc, stationary in the sky for 40 minutes.", + "location": "INDIA, Mahabaleswar (near Bombay)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 335", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2789" + }, + { + "date": "5/20/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around midnight the witness was swimming alone near the beach. Suddenly he saw a disc-shaped object approaching parallel to the ocean and descending vertically to the ground. The craft had a diameter of 15 to 18 m, was biconvex in shape, and on each face a circular edge occupied the center. It was equipped with several lights, and was resting on four feet ending in a kind of tuft. It emitted a buzzing sound and gave off heat. After a few minutes a hatch lowered on the underside as if it were pivoting around a hinge. An electric motor noise then dominated the buzzing. Through the slope created by the opening, an occupant emerged: \"humidity emanated from the occupant\" at the time of his exit and extended up to 70 or 80 m. He was at least 1.8 m tall, and a garment covered his entire body, including his head. The garment was voluminous, tubes coming from the back of the maxillae joined behind the neck and descended along the back. He only took a few steps on the beach before re-entering the craft, whose door closed and then took off in the direction from which it had come. The witness could not specify whether his observation lasted 20 or 60 minutes. After the departure, the witness examined the landing site with a flashlight: in the hollow of the feet there was a pink paste, in which there was a thick liquid. At dawn the tide had leveled it all out.", + "location": "USA, Hampton (New Hampshire)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 22 - p. 16 and 17", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2790" + }, + { + "date": "5/26/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) This witness had already observed several UFOs in the past. One night, he was woken up in his caravan by a buzzing and pulsating lights. He tried to call his family, but had no voice and felt paralyzed. He saw four toothed lights, red, orange, yellow and blue-green. The next morning he woke up two hours later than usual, with bloodshot eyes and feeling pain all over his body. He had the feeling of having been inside a UFO, but his memory refused to restore the details. Later, under hypnosis, he remembered better, and spoke of a row of gyroscopes along a partition. The toothed lights dynamized them to form an artificial gravity field. He had seen eight men of normal appearance. Seven of them were dressed in brown metallic fabric uniforms, the eighth wore a light blue work outfit. He saw on a screen a close-up view of the planet Saturn, there was a control panel and three reclining chairs. The entities examined his eyes with a magnifying glass, telling him to expect other contacts.", + "location": "USA, Mitchell Caverns, California.", + "ref": [ + "Don ELKINS with Carla RUECKERT, CASE NUMBER 11, Investigator: Isabel Epperson, MUFON field investigator.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2791" + }, + { + "date": "6/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The SALIOUT 3 space station, launched in June 1974, received its first crew, that of SOYOUZ 14, the following month, for two weeks. In August, SOYOUZ 15 missed its docking and had to return to Earth. This SALIOUT 3 was not reoccupied and self-destructed, like the first, in the atmosphere in January 1975, after having previously released two film capsules taken automatically on board after the departure of the cosmonauts.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 216", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2792" + }, + { + "date": "6/7/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (see January 7, 1974 in Warneton) Five months later, second contact, but quite particular, in the same place, same witness, same time, same circumstances. The witness had just resumed his evening classes for improvement the day before for the first time since a work accident in February. The witness sees the two beings posted at the side of the road (apparently the same ones) like two hitchhikers. There are engine misfires but since it is still daylight, there is nothing to say about the headlights. The radio is silent. The witness stops at the height of these two creatures who are then so close that they could touch the bodywork. He does not move from his vehicle: emotion and prudence. Again a small shock behind the head and a modulated sound for 2 or 3 minutes, which stops: the two beings disappearing abruptly as if disintegrated, without any noise or other reaction. After this instantaneous disappearance the radio works again, the engine starts without difficulty. Shortly before this second encounter, the witness had been overtaken by a Ford car registered in Belgium which, however, was not affected and the driver would not have seen the ufonauts.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Warneton", + "ref": [ + "Michel BOUGARD: \"Des S.V. aux OVNI\" - SOBEPS 1976- pp. 83 to 89", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2793" + }, + { + "date": "6/15/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mountaineer Keo Wha Unan was inspecting a rock formation in the upper part of Mount Dahjar. At one point, emerging from a kind of rocky cave, he saw above a ridge a silver disc, unlit and quite smooth in appearance, hovering 1.30 meters from the rock. Three humanoid creatures jumped out and began to collect samples of snow and rock. After five minutes, they had finished and climbed back up a kind of sliding ladder that had come out of the base of the UFO. Once everything was inside, the humanoids and the ladder, he heard a buzzing sound, the machine rose a few meters vertically, and then, like lightning, the object disappeared into the clouds. (June 15, 1974)", + "location": "HIMALAYAS, Mount Dahjar", + "ref": [ + "\"The Bizarre Ancient Astronauts of Tibet\" - Harry Hill, p. 64", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2794" + }, + { + "date": "6/19/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At midnight the sentry woke up the soldiers of base 103 to show them an unknown object. In the sky they saw a strange cylinder (like a cigarette at arm's length) and silent. Through binoculars the military observed three triangular shapes under the object. They slowly rotated changing color, along the cylinder ran waves like hot air. The object was stationary for 10 minutes towards the north at 20° angular height. It then came above the witnesses but its dimensions were decreasing. It suddenly stopped while another luminous object coming from the west approached and circled it 5 or 6 times. The two objects left together towards the northeast.", + "location": "FRANCE, Cambrai", + "ref": [ + "Michel MONNERIE: And if UFOs did not exist? - Les Humanoïdes Associés 1977", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2795" + }, + { + "date": "6/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) … It was made by a clergyman from Fouesnant, while he was driving alone in the direction of Beg-Meil (Finistère). For two minutes, he was able to notice the presence in the sky of a black matte spherical object. It was about 6 pm. This flying object, whose size was compared to that of a football, was moving at 300 meters of altitude on a trajectory oriented southwest/west. It appeared as a solid volume and, curiously, dragged in its wake a triangular \"luminous cloud\" of orange color of about 200 meters in length. The UFO, which did not emit the slightest noise, veered towards the sea. The witness then rushed into a cafe to alert the customers: when they arrived, the craft had unfortunately disappeared. (June 1974)", + "location": "France, Fouesnant-Beg Meil", + "ref": [ + "Jean François BOEDEC, \"Les OVNI en Bretagne, anatomie d'un phénomène\", ed. Fernand Lanore 1978, p. 40", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2796" + }, + { + "date": "7/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It is certain that at least one of these families (Molnya type satellites) corresponds to military use satellites, but it is very difficult to make the discrimination among those who have a civilian vocation. There was even a geostationary Molnya (Molnya S-1) in July 1974, which opened the way for the first Soviet telecommunications satellites using this type of orbit.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 96", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2797" + }, + { + "date": "7/10/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three young girls returning home saw a bright object land in the countryside. Almost immediately a yellow beam was directed towards the sky. Other witnesses observed the phenomenon. One of them, accompanied by his mother and sister, drove to the landing site. They discovered in a harvested field a half-sphere of intense red color, 8 meters wide, 4 meters high and whose base seemed to be enveloped in luminous mist. Frightened, they turned around and alerted the firefighters. When they arrived 20 minutes later, the craft had disappeared, the straw and thatch at the craft's location was charred.", + "location": "ITALY, Pavia", + "ref": [ + "GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 226, 227", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2798" + }, + { + "date": "7/29/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Ke Jingzhi) ..(21 hours) .. as night was falling I was returning to dinner at the restaurant reserved for young city cadres transplanted to the countryside. As I was walking along a vegetable garden I suddenly noticed a completely black man standing in front of me; at 8 or 9 m. He seemed robust and tall (1 m 80). As it was very dark I couldn't make out the details of his face. This black man stood out well in the night as his whole body was slightly glowing. I thought he was a peasant come to check the irrigation system. I shouted to him: \"Who goes there? Come quickly to plug the ditch!\" The glowing black man didn't move or answer my call. So I joked: \"If you don't come, I'm going to hit you on the head!\" Immediately the man started glowing brighter, and suddenly he hid himself in the tall grass of about one meter. I rushed into the grass to find him, but in vain. And after a few minutes I gave up. Then I got scared and ran away. (...) yet, two days later, in the same place, the head of our production brigade and the head of our team encountered a slightly glowing black man. The same man may have been. (...) (Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - ed. Mercure de France 1983, p. 233, 234) A student saw a luminous black creature in the vegetable garden. Two other witnesses saw him the day after.", + "location": "CHINA, Lanzhou (Gansu)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 321", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2799" + }, + { + "date": "7/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The young girl was only thrown to the ground (..) Her fall was not serious however as she landed in a pond. The Yeti twisted the necks of the unfortunate beasts. According to the young person's words, the Yeti measured 1 m 50, had a wrinkled forehead and very small eyes. His chest was covered with a thick black fur crossed at the level of the stomach by a band of white hairs. All his back on the other hand seemed covered with a brown fur. (...) very large fingers with powerful nails. (...) a large mouth bordered by thick and black lips. His globular eyes surmounted by thick bushy eyebrows. His feet look human despite being covered with hair. He smells terribly bad. (footprints photographed by the police). . . (Jean FERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes...\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p. 126) A young girl was keeping yaks, sitting near the river. She heard a loud noise and saw a \"Yeti\" with black and reddish-brown fur, very large eyes and a prominent eyebrow arch. This creature grabbed the young girl and carried her for some distance. Finally he let her go, exasperated by her cries and tears? The creature then killed two yaks: one with a punch, the other by breaking its neck.", + "location": "NEPAL, Pheriche", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 199", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2800" + }, + { + "date": "8/16/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (source: Graham Conway, Aufora) At around 8pm, three boys, David Bates (8 years old), Steven and Henry Stillie (10 and 7 years old) were taking their usual shortcut through a wooded area, on a path that would lead them back to the street where they lived. Halfway through the path, they heard a sharp whistling sound, so much so that the kitten that David was carrying in his arms was desperately trying to escape, scratching and clawing, and David had to let it go. The kitten ran off like a mad thing, then fell on its side \"asleep\", said David. The other two boys said the kitten was \"playing dead\". Looking in the direction of the shrill noise, the children saw an object above the trees, going from south to north, above the railway bridge over the river. It had a red light on top and flashing green and white lights at each end. The shrillness was so unbearable, especially for David, that he covered his ears with his hands, though David doesn't remember this. The UFO then began to descend, and the noise became very faint in no time. The kitten regained its senses and came back to David, who took it back in his arms. To their great surprise, less than 50m away from them, the object touched the ground sending a very hot and violent gust of air, which made the boys enveloped in a cloud of dust. Before touching the ground, the object extended its feet and then something inside the craft made the earth and stones fly around. Here the testimonies differ. The Stillie brothers had seen enough and sprinted 100m to get back home, at Olympic speed, they say. David Bates, either braver or more stoic, stayed long enough to observe a door on the craft, without portholes and square on top. This is confirmed by the other two boys. There was like a chain around the object and at that moment, David started running towards his home too. His parents confirm he came back in a state of hysteria, eyes wide. Meanwhile, the sister of the Stillie brothers explains that when they came in, the boys closed all the doors and shutters before hiding under the sheets in their bed. There were still visible traces of the landing the next day.", + "location": "CANADA, Port Coquitlam", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2801" + }, + { + "date": "8/26/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Miss Moret went to the fairground attractions and was supposed to be back at 8:30 pm. The parents were worried. Mr. Moret went out in front of his house at 8:55 pm to see if his daughter was on her way back. At 9 pm, suddenly, he distinguished in the sky an object that was descending very slowly, it was round, black in color, with a slight white halo, standing out against the grey background of the sky, at about 200 m of distance. He ran to get his wife so that they wouldn't be the only witnesses as the street was deserted. Mrs. Moret also saw the thing which, after 15 minutes, stabilized at about 20 m from the ground. Then this ball opened up in the vertical direction, by a slow spreading, forming two black half-moons with a peripheral luminosity. The one on the left stayed in place without changing, the one on the right moved away, shrinking until it disappeared in the nightfall. Then, towards the flat side of the remaining crescent, a kind of veil was pulled slowly, as if one was sliding a single black curtain. On the new background, still black, two \"cosmonauts\" dressed from head to toe in metallic grey were gradually discernible. Their arms and legs were seen moving, but their heads seemed to be encased in a kind of bulky helmet. They moved by waddling like puppets, crossing from one side to the other. The scene lasted about 40 minutes. Then, all of a sudden, the parents remembered that their daughter still hadn't come back, it was 10 pm. The UFO occupants' show continued, but Mrs. M. went back inside to set the table and Mr. Moret left on his bicycle towards the fairground. When he came back with the young girl, he didn't even look at the thing in the sky, if it was still there.", + "location": "FRANCE, Feignies (Nord)", + "ref": [ + "Pierre VIEROUDY: \"Ces OVNI qui annoncent le surhomme\" - Laffont 1979, p. 66 à 68", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2802" + }, + { + "date": "8/28/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Patricia Riega was taking the air, sitting in the courtyard, her parents being in the house. At exactly 8:55 pm she heard for 1 minute 30 a jet engine noise. Very quickly distinct sharp whistles were heard, suggesting a rapid rotation. She looked up at the sky, and she only saw stars (note from vog: at 8:55 pm in August, with a clear sky, you can already see stars at summer time valid in Belgium? Really amazing!). The noise increased to the point of piercing her ears and suddenly, as if coming out of a small cloud, an object appeared, comparable in size to a Boeing, a saucer surrounded by a round red-orange halo radiating strongly. The craft seemed to be rotating rapidly, it moved away obliquely on a SSE-NNO trajectory as if on an air cushion. The mother heard at the end of the observation for a few seconds the noise that was fading away. The witness remained shocked by what she saw, trembling all over and was unable to sleep all night", + "location": "BELGIUM, Mont-sur-Marchienne (Charleroi)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 24, December 1975, pp.29-31", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2803" + }, + { + "date": "9/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) As he was arriving at his farm in his pickup truck, a farmer was sucked with his vehicle inside an enormous disk, parked about 150 m above him. This happened in front of his wife, his daughter and a neighbor. He was never seen again. [vog: he drew from ancient legends to make us believe this!]", + "location": "USA, Hobbs, New Mexico", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"The Mystery of the E.T.\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 99", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2804" + }, + { + "date": "9/1/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around ten o'clock... Edwin Fuhr began to harvest his rape in a field located about 500 m from the house. (...) He had been harvesting for nearly an hour and was near a bog (...) When he looked up (...) he saw a metal dome about fifteen meters away from him, apparently resting on a grassy area between the rape and a ravine. He stopped his harvester, got down and approached the object to within about five meters. When he got closer to the metal dome he noticed that the grass was moving at the base and that the object itself was rotating very quickly. Fuhr was naturally very scared and he backed away, without taking his eyes off the object, until he reached the harvester whose engine was still running. He circled it, climbed onto the seat and looked at the rotating dome from this higher observation point. He then saw four other metal domes, all the same size, all rotating (...) He heard no noise, perhaps because of the harvester's engine. After several minutes, it seemed to him, the objects suddenly rose into the air in a staggered formation, at a height of about 60 meters. They stopped and a puff of dark gray vapor escaped from pipes similar to exhaust pipes at the base of each object, accompanied by a downward gust of wind that almost blew Fuhr's hat off and flattened the rape. The objects were now in perfect straight formation. After remaining stationary for one or two minutes, they suddenly rose into the low clouds and disappeared.", + "location": "Canada, near Langenburg (Saskatchewan)", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen HYNEK and Jacques VALLEE: \"At the Limits of Reality\" - ed. Albin Michel 1978, p 279 and following", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2805" + }, + { + "date": "9/29/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first witness, Younic Le Bihan, was a sergeant in the army and 21 years old. Around 00:50 he had just returned to his home, near the Carrefour de la Villeneuve, while a violent storm was breaking out. Arriving in the living room he saw a fleeting orange light. Reaching his bedroom on the upper floor he noticed a red halo, like that of a fire. He then saw 500 or 600 m to the southeast a blaze the size of a house. He took out his binoculars and saw three rectangles of bright red color topped with folding shutters. Simultaneously he saw three luminous masses of phosphorescent white pass beneath these hatches. He clearly distinguished the contours of the object: a horizontal base topped with a truncated cone-shaped cabin, in which the red rectangles were still visible. In front of the object he saw three silhouettes the size and aspect of human beings, of phosphorescent white. They moved in his direction. The witness then alerted his parents, Francis Le Bihan and Yvonne Sallin, who observed with the naked eye and binoculars. The object suddenly had a slight lateral jolt and disappeared, while the three figures remained on the ground. Simultaneously there was a yellow light to the south, like a flash. Frightened, the parents left the house to take refuge with friends 300 m away. (J.C. BOURRET: \"Le nouveau défi des OVNI\" - France Empire 1976, pp. 84-98) »", + "location": "FRANCE, Riec sur Belon", + "ref": [ + "Jean François BOEDEC: «Les OVNI en Bretagne, Anatomie d'un Phénomène», ed. Fernand Lanore 1978, pp. 105-122", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2806" + }, + { + "date": "10/8/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 8pm Collette P., 49 years old, was tending to her rabbits and crossing the courtyard to get some water. In front of her, to the right of a walnut tree at the back of the courtyard, she saw a stationary, silent, luminous phenomenon that did not light up the surroundings: three concentric circles, the largest of which had a diameter of approximately 4m. The whole was surrounded by a white, oval-shaped halo 15m long. These circles at a low altitude gave the impression of being horizontal, but seen from below they were comparable to neon tubes. The whole thing slid behind the walnut tree and disappeared behind the ridge of the barn. Collette wanted to follow the phenomenon, but feeling an uncomfortable sensation, she did not dare to go alone. She called her sister Lucette, 54 years old, who was in the hangar. In the meantime, the phenomenon had become entirely oval and luminous, moved towards the road and then returned to the farm. Lucette made calls with the electric torch but nothing happened. To avoid being disturbed by the lights of the courtyard, Lucette went behind the hangar and continued her calls. Then the thing moved behind her towards the hangar. Collette ran to get her brother Dominique (53 years old) from the stables, while Lucette advanced along a path towards the cemetery. Her sister and brother joined her but no longer saw the phenomenon, which had just disappeared behind a roof. All three of them saw it reappear, it stopped again above the path in the form of concentric circles but this time with the colors of the rainbow. Then it changed shape, taking the form of three luminous points arranged in a triangle with the point upwards. This was followed by a mysterious ballet from left to right over a width of a hundred meters. Then the phenomenon changed back into concentric circles of different colors and quickly disappeared in the alignment of the path to the NE. The witnesses' mother had glimpsed the phenomenon from her armchair through the dining room window.", + "location": "FRANCE, near Calais", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 524, 525", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2807" + }, + { + "date": "10/16/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) ... a round, half-oval shape, orange in color, like that of a city on the water. This light moved from right to left etc. ... (October 16th, 1974, off the coast of North Scotland)", + "location": "The trawler \"Avel-Mad, captain Jean Chorlay, returned to the port of Douarnenez, after a voyage to the North Scotland, marked by the appearance of a UFO. The facts are troubling. They were observed by three members of the crew who were on duty between three and four in the morning, as the boat was coming from the Isle of St Kildo and heading towards the Isle of Barra. Manon, a sailor, recounts the event as follows: \"I was on the bridge with Michel Kerivel, the chief mechanic, and José Morel, a sailor like me. In the south-east we observed on the horizon for about ten minutes, a round, oval shape, glowing with an orange color. This light moved from right to left. What's more, we were able to pick up on the ship's radar screen the echo of this strange thing. Its point was as big as the Isle of Barra itself. And it varied at an angle of 25 to 30 degrees in less than a second, at an extraordinary speed\". (...) The next day this unusual presence was confirmed by the captain of a trawler from Concarneau, the \"Kerscadec\". (Jean François BOEDEC, \"Les OVNI en Bretagne, anatomie d'un phénomène\", ed. Fernand Lanore 1978, p. 57, 58) (note from vog: this passage is reproduced, with very slight changes and additions in: ...)", + "ref": [ + "Philippe SCHNEYDER: \"Ovni, premier bilan\" - ed. du Rocher 1983, p. 55", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2808" + }, + { + "date": "10/21/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the early morning Mrs. J. Rustenburg is busy in her home, when she perceives a powerful noise coming from outside. This curious noise makes her think of the sound that would be produced by water thrown on a red stove round, except that it is deeper and very loud. (note of vog: like the one made by close lightning?) She puts on a garment and hurries outside, believing that an airplane has crashed and fearing for the safety of the children playing outside. (...) She watches with astonishment a strange machine (which she compares to a Mexican hat) floating above the old barn, located 15 to 20 m from where she is. She estimates the diameter of the object to be about 20 m. Not yet recovered from her surprise, she sees through the translucent upper part of the object, beings of human appearance, of an indescribable beauty. They seem to be dressed in a blue suit, fitted like a ski suit! They have long golden hair (...) and their faces express tenderness and compassion in a striking way. (...) Recovered from her amazement, the witness's attention is diverted by the presence of her children, to whom she hastens to ask if they too see this strange vehicle. \"Yes mom\" they all agree in chorus. Then, looking up, the witnesses realize that the object is no longer there. (...) The object moved a little further away to come back and make three circles above the witnesses. Soon after and still in silence, the object stops and disappears in a dizzying vertical acceleration!", + "location": "ENGLAND, unspecified location - in the countryside", + "ref": [ + "Synthesis UFO by Jean THOMAS, ed. Louise Cousteau, 1999 p. 200, 201", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2809" + }, + { + "date": "10/25/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Carl Higdon, a mechanic in an oil field, 40 years old, athletic, passionate about hunting, parks his truck under cover and walks into the forest to hunt elk. He finds the forest strangely silent. Suddenly he sees an elk, aims and shoots: the detonation is muffled, the bullet flies in front of him in slow motion and falls to the ground a few meters away, as if crushed. The hunter picks it up and puts it in his pocket, when he hears a crack of a branch. He sees a creature of human appearance, very tall, yellow skin, straw-colored bristly hair, dressed in a black suit, under a birch tree 15 m away from him. \"How are you?\" asks the stranger. \"Very well\" answers the witness. \"Are you hungry?\" asks the creature. \"Yes, a little\" says Higdon who immediately finds a box with 5 pills in his hand. He must swallow one \"which will feed him for 4 days\" and he obeys. The stranger invites him to follow him and the witness agrees. In the clearing he sees a transparent cubic structure surrounded by a luminous halo. Then he sees himself walking with the gun in his hand on an unknown path and he falls by chance on a stuck vehicle, but with the CB on board. He makes a distress call and waits. He did not even recognize his own truck, stuck 8 km from where he had parked it. He was found at 11:15 pm, did not recognize his wife, his body was covered with bruises and he only repeated a story of a man in black and pills. He finds the crushed bullet in his pocket. He is taken to the hospital where nothing serious is detected. It is only the next day that the memories come back to him: Higdon floats towards the cubic structure, finds himself inside in the company of 5 other characters dressed in black. From the outside the structure seemed transparent: here it is opaque and much more voluminous than it seemed. He is seated in a chair and there is a vertical acceleration, up to the planet of the entities. He can not get out of the vehicle but sees a giant tower at the top of which turn unbearable lights. He also sees some \"humans\" (Earthlings). Then he is told \"We are bringing you back because you are not suitable for what we are looking for\". This is the return journey and the brutal expulsion through a hatch. Higdon falls from 2 or 3 meters and slides down a scree.", + "location": "USA, Medicine Row (Wyoming)", + "ref": [ + "Bertrand MEHEUST: \"In Flying Saucers\" - Imago 1992 - pp. 34 to 36", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2810" + }, + { + "date": "11/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first Molnya Type III is launched. Nearly 70 Molnyas are launched between 1965 and 1980.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 96", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2811" + }, + { + "date": "Late 11/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the middle of the night, the peasant whose hut overlooks the lake was awakened by the barking of the dog and the grunts of the sow. He thought she was about to give birth and got up. When he went out, he saw a flattened fireball of about 6 m in diameter flying over the terrain at high speed and heading towards the lake. When it reached the middle of the lake, it suddenly plunged into the water. The sound of the water jet was perfectly audible in this high altitude area. (1974, late November)", + "location": "PERU, Huaypo Lagoon", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n°27 - 1976 - p.14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2812" + }, + { + "date": "Early 12/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) William Bosak, 70 years old, was returning from a farmers' meeting. It was 8:30 PM. He was almost home when his attention was drawn to an object on the left side of the road. He stopped a few meters away from the craft. It was a kind of transparent bell-shaped vehicle. There was a curious figure inside, illuminated by a diffuse light source. The upper body was visible. The occupant had their hands raised (...) Their straight hair (3 cm) stuck out from either side of their head like a rag doll's. Their body was covered in natural fur of a ginger brown color. (...) Their ears, straight like a calf's, were no less than 8 cm. The being was thin and their height seemed to not exceed 180 cm. Due to the fog, Bosak could not see if the craft was on the ground or floating. (vog: but he saw all the details reported above?) He could not make out the lower body of the occupant either. (...) Their face was hairless, Bosak was 2 m away from the craft and the creature was looking at Bosak. He put his car back in motion and when he passed by, the strange vehicle seemed to project itself directly towards the witness. It then became very dark in the car and the witness heard a rustling sound as if something was brushing against the car. (1974, beginning of December)", + "location": "USA; Frederic (Wisconsin)", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa 1977, p.190, 191", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2813" + }, + { + "date": "12/22/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:30 PM, Mrs. Page (in her eighties) had just gone to bed, but she was still wide awake when she was drawn to a bright light coming through the partially raised window shade of her bedroom. (...) Looking outside, she clearly saw an oval-shaped object \"somewhat boat-like\" hovering just above her neighbor's house, about 125 meters away. The object was large. Green and white lights lined its perimeter. On one side were three small square windows through which shone white lights. The object remained in view for a quarter of an hour, rising and falling slowly in the sky. The sky was clear when Mrs. Page saw the object move slowly in a straight line towards the church which was on the side, a block away. Then it positioned itself above the center of the church and resumed its vertical up and down movement. \"It stayed above the church for maybe half an hour,\" Mrs. Page would say. That's when she saw two dark silhouettes above the windows of the craft in what seemed to her to be a transparent dome. She opened the kitchen door to get a better view. It was cold and she didn't stay, but while the door was open, she hadn't heard any noise. Finally, the UFO moved in a straight line, leaving the church towards the north, and suddenly gained tremendous speed. \"The silhouettes I saw in the craft were those of two small men. I could see them up to their waists. Their arms were constantly in motion. They went back and forth from one end of the craft to the other and seemed to meet in the middle,\" she said.", + "location": "USA, Fairfield (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "Leonard STRINGFIELD: \"General UFO Alert\", ed. France - Empire, 1978, pp. 136, 137", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2814" + }, + { + "date": "12/1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) SALIOUT 4 space station was put into orbit, while SALIOUT 3 was still orbiting. After being gradually raised to its final altitude of 350 km, SALIOUT 4 was visited by the cosmonauts of SOYOUZ 17, who spent 4 weeks on board the following month. Two other cosmonauts followed them in May 1975 for a two-month stay. After their return, the station remained unoccupied, before being precipitated into the atmosphere in February 1977 after having completed 12,000 orbits around the Earth.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"La Guerre des Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 217", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2815" + }, + { + "date": "1974 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:15 PM, the 14-year-old witness was in the backyard with two family members when they heard a loud noise and all the lights went out at once. He ran outside and saw an object in the shape of Saturn, 6.50 m in diameter and 4 to 4.50 m high, radiating beams of light of all colors. The upper part was transparent and the witness saw 4 or 5 entities, dressed in dark frogman suits, about 1.80 m tall and humanoid in appearance. During this observation, the witness was unable to move and lost track of time. He regained his senses as the electricity returned and the object left. (1974, unspecified)", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Rio Tinto-Oporto", + "ref": [ + "Mario Neves; collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenço", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2816" + }, + { + "date": "End of 1974", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A young shepherd went to pick mushrooms. He traveled in all directions in a mountainous region. Around 5 pm he saw, at 500 m, a strange cylindrical object. The witness estimated that it had a length of 100 m and that it was moving at 150 m above the ground. Its color was a bluish green. The object seemed to slow down, then stopped in a vertical position above a road. At the top of its middle part, the object emitted a powerful orange-colored light beam that rotated and blinked like a police beacon. It clearly emitted a whistle composed of a long sound and three or four short sounds. Shortly afterwards, a hatch opened under its middle part and three luminous balls of blue, red and grayish white color fell first in a free fall, but soon changed into an ascending and slow flight. When the three balls disappeared from his view in the distance, the witness was astonished to find that in the meantime the carrier vessel had also disappeared. (1974, end of year)", + "location": "Italy, SARDINIA, near Diolianova", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"The Secret File of UFOs\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, pp. 203, 205", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2817" + }, + { + "date": "1/1/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 6:25, Manolo Agnera, Felipe Sanchez, and Ricardo Iglesias, military personnel in a car, saw a luminous body describe a curve and head towards the ground at great speed. Manolo stopped the car. At the presumed impact site, on the other side of the road, at the crossroads, there was a glare like that of a stadium projector. The witnesses saw the object in the shape of a truncated cone, 2 m high and 3 m wide, emitting a yellowish light, but downwards it seemed to emit streams of light towards the ground, which it did not seem to touch. Suddenly it went out and darkness became total. Not for long, because immediately afterwards 4 identical objects, apparently aligned and separated by barely a few centimeters, lit up one after the other. The witnesses' reaction was according to their personality: one wanted to stay and watch, another to approach, another to leave immediately. This is what they did, but only for 50 m, then they stopped again. Finally they continued their journey slowly. When they arrived at the barracks they informed the superiors. The military personnel found on the observation site a fallow field, a burned area 40 m long and 4 m wide.", + "location": "SPAIN, Burgos", + "ref": [ + "Stendek n° 19 - March 1975 - p.3-9", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2818" + }, + { + "date": "1/3/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 9:30am, while driving from Caleta Olivia to Comodoro Rivadavio on a winding and steep road, Juan Carlos Ascensci saw through the windshield, in the center, a dazzling flash. He then saw an object that seemed to be made of chrome metal reflecting the sunlight, coming from the north. He braked, pulled onto the shoulder and the object passed to the right side of the car. It made a noise like when the wind blows through a shutter. It had the size of a large car, flew at 100m distance and at very low altitude. The car radio produced a discharge when the object flew over. The thing was disc-shaped, swollen in the upper middle part.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Caleta Olivia (extreme south - Patagonia)", + "ref": [ + "Cuarta Dimension, #21, 22, 23, 1975", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2819" + }, + { + "date": "1/4/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The sailor J.J.C. was driving a service vehicle at the Naval Arsenal at 5:55 PM when, about sixty meters from an intersection, he saw an immobile ball above a tree. The witness started to drive slowly towards the crossroads. The object began to descend very slowly in a gliding motion. It was matte black and resembled a hot air balloon. Continuing its slow descent towards the ground, it took the shape of a crescent, with the points facing down and emitting a slight black smoke to its right. The witness stopped at the intersection, the object descended to 4 or 5 meters from the ground, stabilized for a second or two, then inclined towards the buildings of the headquarters while taking a slight ascent. As it passed between the trees and the buildings, the witness could see two protrusions on its lower part.", + "location": "FRANCE, Lorient (Arsenal)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet ...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 529, 530", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2820" + }, + { + "date": "1/4/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Alves Ferreira family was lying down. During the night a violent light suddenly shone on the house and passed, leaving a pungent smell of burning. The chairs caught fire: for the family it was obvious, a UFO had hit the wall of the house. The next day, Antonio, the 13-year-old son, was playing in the garden when he saw a UFO the size of a \"Volkswagen\" emerge and emit a beam of white and hot light towards him. A hatch opened, a ladder came out and two creatures descended to the ground. Antonio was frozen in place and without understanding how he found himself inside the machine, surrounded by masked beings whose appearance terrified him. The ship flew off and landed in a place Antonio did not know. \"A multitude of people were waiting for us\".

He was taken to a white hemispherical building where a humanoid asked him questions in an unknown language. Antonio remained silent. Irritated, the humanoid looked at him fixedly and as if by a click Antonio understood and answered in the same language. Really absurd questions: what is the speed of cars on earth, what do earthlings eat etc. Suddenly, the humanoid punched Antonio in the chest. A red spot appeared, and reappeared with each subsequent \"contact\". He was brought back around noon. He began to passionately draw dark-skinned entities with large pointed ears, slanted eyes, their helmets from which an abundant brown hair escaped, their uniforms, their ships seen from the inside and outside.

In all, Antonio would have made 11 trips to these aliens. Their writing is somewhat similar to Chinese ideograms, the streets are covered with conveyor belts: the whole panoply of science fiction comics. There money does not exist, there is only one animal, the \"antitolilai\". The aliens ask to offer them a dog, a cat, a parrot and in exchange Antonio receives a metal statuette representing one of them, medals and a gun. Antonio returned these gifts, because the neighbors accused him of possessing works of the devil. The ETs did not return the animals offered. Unusual detail: for a 36-hour stay of Antonio with these ETs, he was replaced on earth by a \"clone\" of which the parents would have noticed.

(Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: \"Enquête sur les enlèvements E.T.\" - Plon 1995, p. 283 to 285) The Aliens would have told Antonio Alvez Ferreira that they had to keep him for thirty-six hours. So that his family could not worry about his absence (the entities usually have no such scruples!) they sent them a double in the meantime instead of the real Antonio! Better (or worse, depending on your choice): on a screen aboard a UFO, Antonio could follow his double confronted with his parents, who would have realized quite quickly that bilocation was not their offspring .. (1975, January 4th and 5th)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Maranao", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, the unmasked invaders\" - ed. Ramuel 1999, p 168", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2821" + }, + { + "date": "1/4/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jane Putman was reading, alone in the living room. The curtains were drawn. (...) Suddenly, a high-pitched voice, like a song, broke the silence. Jane dropped her book, and listened. (...) (Her husband Ray) was awake: she heard him walking quickly on the landing at the top of the stairs. At that moment, the singing stopped. \"What the devil is going on?\" Ray cried out. And without further ado he grabbed the phone and called the police. (...) Agents searched the house and the entire yard, and found nothing. (...) Early the next morning, Jane, unsatisfied, carefully examined the ground under the window facing the lawn. Astonished, she saw a half-circle depression in the grass. The arc, about twelve meters long, went up to the vertical of the ends of the branches of a large oak. (...) (January 4, 1975)", + "location": "USA, near Cincinnati", + "ref": [ + "Leonard STRINGFIELD: \"General UFO Alert\", ed. France - Empire, 1978, p. 69, 70", + "in July 1975 the trace still existed", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2822" + }, + { + "date": "1/5/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Carlos Alberto Diaz, 28 years old, was returning from his work in a workshop at the station. It was 4 o'clock in the morning. He was suddenly blinded by an incandescent light that paralyzed him. He wanted to scream, but no sound came out. A force literally sucked him up to the edge of a saucer. Three beings who had no hands at the end of their arms then pulled his hair. He fainted. When he regained consciousness he was in Buenos Aires, 600 km from Bahia Blanca. (GARREAU and LAVIER: \"Face aux extra-terrestres\" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 173, 174). (Jean FERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes...\" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.100, 101) He was suddenly blinded by a pulsating light while he heard a kind of whistling resembling a radio wave. He said that the air and even the street seemed to vibrate violently. He felt lifted off the ground. At three meters high, he looked down and fainted. He woke up in what seemed to be a bright, very illuminated sphere. Three silent, somewhat greenish creatures were near him. They pulled out tufts of his hair, but he felt no pain. Four hours after being sucked up into the air in a street in Bahia Blanca, he woke up dazed on the side of a road in Buenos Aires more than 500 miles from his home. Near him was the bag containing his work clothes and the newspaper he had bought that morning.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Bahia Blanca", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 71", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2823" + }, + { + "date": "1/5/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Yvon Vildier, 12 years old, went outside to the courtyard to urinate at around 7pm, turning on the outside light. He then saw, 120 meters away from the house in a field, a strange craft: he only saw the dome with a yellow, shining porthole, the rest being hidden by a hedge. He was struck with stupor and a few seconds later the object rose up, spinning, until it reached 100 meters high vertically. It seemed to be composed of 3 or 4 levels, and in the upper part there were 5 portholes the size of a bowl. Three 50 cm tall legs seemed to be connected to the center of the base to form a seat and they retracted into the craft when it left. He estimated the size to be 15 meters by 3 meters, oval-shaped. Without the legs, the height could have been 4 meters. It left to the left at a great speed. Duration of the observation: 30 seconds. The child returned in a state of shock, unable to say a word due to his fear. Ground traces and analyses were carried out.", + "location": "FRANCE, Laulne", + "ref": [ + "J.C. BOURRET: \"Le nouveau défi des OVNI\" - France-Empire 1976, pp. 99-109", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2824" + }, + { + "date": "1/25/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A small group of people - including ufologists - observe various phenomena multiple times in a wooded area, near the Der-Chantecoq lake. Luminous balls on the water, motionless, then dancing a ballet and seeming to react to the actions of the witnesses; luminous balls on the ground or at high altitude; shape appearing from far away like a military target (circle on a rectangle) but up close like a solid in slow rotation. (1975, January 25th to February 5th)", + "location": "FRANCE: Eclaron (Haute Marne)", + "ref": [ + "Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, pp. 60 to 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2825" + }, + { + "date": "1/14/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7:15 PM, the witness, having left work in Vic-Fezensac, joined Bezolles via D 112 and saw a light that transformed into a large, very white sun, whose rays were spaced and were 5 to 6 m long. This thing was stationary 2 or 3 m above the road. The witness flashed their headlights: immediately they saw nothing. Relieved, they drove off slowly and saw through the curtain of trees a reddish glow. They continued on and when the curtain of trees broke, they saw again a redder, less precise light in a wasteland, behind a small grove. The witness stopped and the light disappeared. Total duration of the observation: one minute.", + "location": "FRANCE, near Bezolles", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet ...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 532", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2826" + }, + { + "date": "1/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) After closing his shop in the evening, George O'Barski drove home passing through North Hudson Park. The car radio began to crackle with static. Low in the sky, a bright object passed the car, buzzing, and stopped 3 m from the ground, beginning its descent. O'Barski observed a 9 m long vessel illuminated by a row of windows. A door opened and a dozen small, hooded figures in winter sports attire, all the same color, descended by a kind of ladder. Without paying attention to him, they dug in the ground, collecting soil, roots, and leaves which they put in bags before quickly returning to the UFO which took off and quickly disappeared. The next day O'Barski found the traces on the ground. Budd Hopkins, who collected this testimony, found another witness to the event: Bill Pawlowski, the doorman of a nearby building, was intrigued by the lights coming from a large dark mass. The Wamsley family reportedly went out into the street to watch the spectacle. Frank Gonzales, meanwhile, reported an identical incident occurring a week earlier.", + "location": "USA, Manhattan", + "ref": [ + "Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: \"Enquête sur les enlèvements E.T.\" - Plon 1995, p. 66", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2827" + }, + { + "date": "2/10/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between February 9 and 10, four returns of satellites to the atmosphere were expected: the Soviet space station Saliout-3, whose calculations did not predict observation from the Alpes Maritimes department (France); Titan-D: US military satellite 10 m long, twelve tons; a small German satellite of 170 kg very dense; a solar panel from Skylab. [vog: for the date of the 10th, the same book relates 22 UFO observations in connection...] (February 10, 1975)", + "location": "SPACE", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 539", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2828" + }, + { + "date": "2/10/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man saw a very bright object emerge from the sea and fly away at a dizzying speed.", + "location": "LA REUNION, Petite Ile", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 167", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2829" + }, + { + "date": "2/14/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 12:05 local time, Antoine Séverin, 21 years old, was strongly shocked by a light beam coming from a bright ball on Mount Calvary. The interested party returned home on foot. He saw three little men come out of the craft which did not touch the ground, observed them and was thrown to the ground by a powerful flash from the upper part of the saucer which then rose whistling very loudly. The witness became blind and mute from the shock of the observation. When, regaining his speech after 4 days, the witness explained his observation, he declared to have been disturbed by incessant beeps in his ears since the morning of February 12. Just before the observation these beeps were so loud that he thought his eardrums would burst. He then felt a burning breath and felt paralyzed. That's when he saw the craft in the shape of a large hat, which shone intensely. It had an aluminum color and was hovering 1.50m from the ground. A three-step ladder appeared from below, it inclined at 45° but did not touch the ground. Then a kind of Michelin man, plump and shiny, came out and was carrying a shiny object 30 cm long in his hand. On the stairs he seemed comfortable, but on the ground he moved his feet together. A second, then a third man joined the first. The first one scratched the ground, the witness did not see that he was putting earth in the shiny bag that the second one was holding out to him. All three had antennas on their heads on each side, the witness saw them in profile. To face him, one of the men pivoted and his antennas moved. That's when the powerful flash came that threw the witness to the ground. Faster than they had descended, the men went back up into the craft and the object left whistling. The witness does not know how long he stayed on the ground, does not remember having been blind and mute. Note that between February 19 and 25, each time the gendarmes brought the witness to the observation site, he fainted. Later he said that the cause was \"beeps\" heard as soon as he approached this place.", + "location": "LA REUNION, Petite-Ile, piton Calvaire", + "ref": [ + "J.C. BOURRET: \"The New Challenge of UFOs\" - France-Empire 1976, p. 110 to 134", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2830" + }, + { + "date": "2/23/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two 7-year-old boys saw a light in the sky that descended into the garden. They approached and saw the UFO on the ground. It had \"Oriental\" inscriptions unknown to the boys. A ladder came out of the craft and a silver entity with a large head, quite strange, appeared. Inside they saw another identical creature sitting, with its hand on a lever. As the children were about to flee, the entity that came out of the craft spoke to them with a voice, like that produced by a record spinning too fast on the turntable. They fled and called the parents of one of them. The latter came out and saw the luminous object but did not approach it. (February 23, 1975)", + "location": "JAPAN, Kofu", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 340", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2831" + }, + { + "date": "2/27/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 6pm, Mrs. G. saw three or four times a \"shadow\" of human form approach her house, then a large \"headless bird\". She felt the strange impression that these shadows \"came out of her\" and that a click happened in her head as if a part of her was going elsewhere. (vog: was she, then, the extraterrestrial?) Numerous poltergeist phenomena occurred in the house: a lamp oil glass disappeared from the kitchen table and reappeared wearing aluminum foil after the witness observed that the dimensions of the room and the light seemed to be modified; the cover of her bed undulated like a snake; the bed vibrated; a pencil moved by itself. All these phenomena happened when the witness was alone. One day she suddenly thought that the responsible for these phenomena could be two African masks adorning her room. She removed them and the phenomena stopped. [vog: you didn't know that these African masks come from another planet?!!] (February 27, 1975)", + "location": "FRANCE, Malesherbes", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 506", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2832" + }, + { + "date": "Late 2/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Last week of February. It was in the last week of February, while his wife and he were watching an opera on television around 3 pm. Suddenly the image began to flicker and fade. At the same time, both of them heard a hard, sharp, piercing noise - a sound of \"cut glass\". (...) and lasted for about 5 minutes. Frightened, the W.s got up and looked out the window. They saw nothing out of the ordinary (...) A strange glow was coming from the china cabinet facing the window. Approaching it, Mrs. W. saw that this light - multicolored like a rainbow - was being radiated by a silver salt shaker and pepper shaker placed among the china plates. (...) The two silver objects were burned. The upper half was covered in black powder, but the lower half still sparkled. (...) Then Mrs. W. had suddenly opened the door of the cabinet, seized the two objects, still glowing. For a moment, she had held them out at arm's length, then had run across the room to put them in the sink. \"At the moment she passed in front of the window, the luminescence on the lower part of the objects stopped, the piercing noise stopped, and the television image returned to normal\". (...) \"The silver objects, at the moment she took them, were not even warm\". [vog: what pranksters these E.T.s must be. They must not have liked the opera and they put their own spice in it.] (1975, Late February)", + "location": "USA, unspecified location", + "ref": [ + "Leonard STRINGFIELD: \"General Alert UFO\", ed. France - Empire, 1978, pp. 63-66", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2833" + }, + { + "date": "2/28/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The driver Daniel L. was driving in the direction of Chatillon sur Seine towards Montbard, between midnight and 01:00 (night of 27 to 28 February) when 2.5 km from Montbard he saw the phenomenon at the exit of a wood. The device appeared in front of him, coming to meet him in the axis of the road. It had an indescribable mass of metallic gray color and occupied the width of the road (7m40). The object passed at a dizzying speed, skimming the cabin and at the same time there was a violent flash. The appearance lasted only a few seconds and disappeared immediately. Witness emotionally shocked who spent the rest of the night in the hospital.", + "location": "FRANCE, Montbard", + "ref": [ + "Robert ROUSSEL: \"Ovni, the end of the secret\" - Belfond 1978 - p. 37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2834" + }, + { + "date": "2/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. A.S. begins to make her first UFO observations. From this date she will make more than 300. Each one is noted meticulously in a notebook. Here are some of the singular phenomena she recorded: a very loud buzzing, similar to a multitude of bee hives, one night above her house; white luminous balls entering her living room during UFO passages; two large circular traces in the crushed grass (other witnesses were with her); a large orange ball the size of half the moon, decreasing in size and descending towards the ground... One winter she noticed in a field near her house, footprints in the snow of small feet 10 to 15 cm long, with no trace before or after!", + "location": "FRANCE, somewhere in Haute Marne", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"The Enigma of the E.T.\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 85, 86", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2835" + }, + { + "date": "3/3/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Antonio Gianuzzi, a seasonal merchant, had been interested in the UFO phenomenon for several years. On March 3 he felt an internal impulse prompting him to go out and photograph the sky. He set off early and went to a deserted and slightly wooded area 7 km from Lecce. After a few moments, in the direction of the north, he saw, like a flash, an object that first emitted a faint buzzing sound, then a continuous whistle. After recovering from his surprise, he took several shots. Gianuzzi was also able to photograph a curious flaky substance. [Note from vog: \"cloudy\" in fact. ]", + "location": "Italy, Lecce", + "ref": [ + "A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: \"The Secret File of UFOs\", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, pp. 129, 130 and 222", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2836" + }, + { + "date": "3/15/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10 pm Mr. Sporta arrived 100 m before the intersection of Espérance and was drawn to an unusual light. In a meadow to his right there was a strong illumination, he slowed down and stopped 50 m from the intersection, turned off the engine, applied the handbrake, but left the headlights on. He got out and could clearly see a saucer shaped like a camembert box topped with a dome. On the ground it was 4 to 4.5 m in diameter, brown-khaki in color, the narrow and high dome was lighter. A strongly luminous nebula was emitted, forming a very bright, white envelope that allowed the grass around it to be seen for a radius of about ten meters. No sound was emitted. Then, multicolored glows appeared on the entire body of the UFO, spinning together giving the impression that the entire craft was rotating slowly at first, then faster. The brown color of the body was no longer discernible, the mass rose gently vertically in a stable manner. At about twenty meters altitude it suddenly took a horizontal trajectory that brought it over a wood, where after accelerating, it quickly disappeared", + "location": "FRANCE, Dourlers \"Espérance\" (Nord)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 546, 547", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2837" + }, + { + "date": "3/15/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source Ian Haysom from the \"Hamilton Spectator\") Mrs. Corrie DeJong, her 14-year-old son Charles, and her 9-year-old daughter Sylvia witnessed an incredible spectacle in the evening. Charles came back from church and rushed in saying to his mother to look outside; it was then 9:45 PM. \"We were going towards the window,\" said Mrs. DeJong, \"we saw three huge golden balls in the field, in front of the house, about 750 to 800 m away.\" These balls still hovered for a minute, dropped four or five smaller balls towards the ground and then disappeared. Afterwards, eight huge golden balls flew close to the ground, at 1.5 to 2 m altitude, for a few minutes, and then imploded. But the surprise was not yet over: there was still a large red ball on the ground, looking like a setting sun.", + "location": "CANADA, Grimsby/Hamilton (Ontario)", + "ref": [ + "Ufo JOE on the Internet in June 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2838" + }, + { + "date": "3/26/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Juan Muniz Feliciano was attacked in the evening around 10pm by an animal covered in grey feathers, with a very large neck, much bigger than a goose. He estimated the weight of the beast to be around 25 to 30 kg. The animal fled when Juan threw stones at it while shouting to call the neighbors.", + "location": "PORTO-RICO, Moca", + "ref": [ + "STENDEK", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2839" + }, + { + "date": "Late 3/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Residents see a \"strange bird\" flying in the air and simultaneously in the villages there is suspicious slaughter of various animals. Cecilio Hernandez lost 35 chickens in the span of a few days. He was able to see a kind of woolly dog, without legs or head, running off in the direction of the mountains without making any noise. He adds: \"I have never seen anything like it, it was like a body of wool running at full speed.\" (1975, late March)", + "location": "PORTO RICO, entire country", + "ref": [ + "Stendek", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2840" + }, + { + "date": "3/31/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3:30 the witness was awoken by the furious barking of the dogs: they were unleashed and even climbed onto the table! He got up and saw through the double curtains of the bedroom a red luminosity. He even heard some kind of indistinct murmurs. His stepson who lives at the back of the house, intrigued by the commotion, turns on the light in the courtyard, looks out the window and sees a rectangular mass of intense red, 4.50m long, 2m wide and 2m high, moving around. It progresses at 40 to 60 cm above the ground, hopping. It continues on its trajectory, becoming round with a green and blue color, with a predominant electric blue. At 60m from the witnesses, the first witness' wife and her two daughters join the two men, and the object lands on the left side of the road, taking on a green-white hue. A few moments later the object moves again close to the ground and lands at 80m from the witnesses, on the right side of the road, now being green and spherical. The dogs calm down, the stepson turns off the light in the courtyard and goes back to bed without responding to his stepfather's calls and without witnessing the rest of the observation. The intensity of the sphere decreases and becomes comparable to that of our electric lamps. The witness wants to go out but his wife prevents him. He stays at the window for another half hour, but as nothing happens he goes to bed. At 4:40 the street lights turn on, the dogs start barking furiously again, the five witnesses get up quickly, the object has already moved and is approaching close to the ground in the form of a green sphere emitting a sound like a pot. Then, suddenly, when it reaches the witnesses' home, the phenomenon disappears. The first witness and his wife complain of sore eyes. Strange tracks of \"paws\" 14cm long, 11cm wide with \"3 toes and a spur\" are discovered the next day.", + "location": "FRANCE, St Hilaire de Cambrai (Nord)", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 548 à 550", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2841" + }, + { + "date": "4/6/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Willie Lopez at the Rock Radio studios on the top floor of the Darlington building heard three knocks clearly at around 10:30 PM at the outside window, just behind the control desks. Through the curtains he saw something bright moving quickly, but being alone he called a friend living in the building to come join him. At 10:45 PM, not having waited for his friend's arrival, he suddenly pulled the curtain and saw, a few centimeters above the cooling tower, a bright yellow object about 12 meters in diameter, stationary and swaying slightly. Frightened, he closed the curtains, interrupted the music program to broadcast on the airwaves the story of his adventure. However, his nerves had been severely tested and he had to be treated for some time afterwards.", + "location": "PORTO RICO, Miramar de San Juan", + "ref": [ + "STENDEK", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2842" + }, + { + "date": "4/17/1975 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Amphibious UFOs were reportedly seen off Algesiras, crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, according to the Spanish newspaper \"El faro de Ceuta\". The newspaper writes that a mysterious object projecting a strong light was observed by travelers making the crossing between Europe and Africa. The UFO emerged from the water, traveled a long distance above the waves before diving back in. The phenomenon was observed twice (1975, around April 17)", + "location": "GIBRALTAR", + "ref": [ + "AFP", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2843" + }, + { + "date": "4/18/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) San Lucas hospital's concierge, Mr. Orlando Franceschi, saw something pass by the window in the back courtyard around 8:00 PM. Thinking it was a stray dog, he went out with a shovel: he saw a monster, 1.5 meters away from him. It was 1.3 meters tall with big ears and a big nose, a slit for a mouth, two black spots for eyes, vaguely resembling a monkey, walking like a zombie. The witness quickly gave it a shovel blow to the chest, making it retreat, then a second blow with another retreat. As he was about to give a third blow, he fell off balance and couldn't get up: the creature was gone. In the night, five young people coming back from Glenview had seen a strange dwarf to which they had thrown stones. Near Franceschi's house, a dead rooster was found the next morning. A week after the event, the witness \"heard voices\". He heard them seven times in a row and they told him that on May 31st, churches should remain open all day so people could pray. If this didn't happen, even worse things would happen. In fact, nothing happened at all.", + "location": "PORTO-RICO, Ponce", + "ref": [ + "Stendek", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2844" + }, + { + "date": "4/22/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. December 22, 74) Lya waits for Professor Hernandez, sitting in her car and they go to Queretaro, get out, walk a hundred meters, to find themselves in front of a small saucer of 3 meters, landed. Lya manipulates a small box that she holds in her hand, and the saucer opens, they board. Hernandez sees the lights of the city disappear, then realizes they are in orbit, he sees several satellites in space. The conversation is ecological, talks about climate changes and their cause. They talk about the ozone hole, deserts and virgin forests. She asks him to stop nuclear testing. Then she lands and takes the professor back to his car. She announces her departure for a group of extraterrestrials called in her language the Xhumz (note from vog: she read \"The Cycle of Tchaï\" published in 1968 and 1969 by Jack Vance!) and who have invaded our earth for 6000 years. They are responsible for abductions and animal mutilations. She also explains that the white race on earth comes from Maldek who gave birth to the world of Sion. They are responsible for the disappearance of the Atlanteans. (note from vog: she does Pangermanism and anti-Semitism!) In his diary Professor Hernandez will note several times how his contacts with Lya have changed his way of being and thinking. He will write e.a. \"when I talk to her about my life experiences, she believes I'm crazy and I'm going to end up in a psychiatric asylum\" On February 2, 1984, Hernandes mysteriously disappeared, leaving no trace (vog: was it looked for in all the madhouses?). (April 22, 1975)", + "location": "MEXICO, Mexico City and Queretaro", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2845" + }, + { + "date": "4/25/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9 PM, 4 people from the P. and T. home in Marly le Roi observed an elongated, triangular-shaped light phenomenon moving parallel to the southern horizon towards the north. Initially yellow, the phenomenon took on a green hue and stretched out like a ruler. It then maintained both colors: green in the front, yellow in the back. The object moved like a piece of gum being stretched and shrinking in fits and starts. One of the witnesses observed a small trail of balls following and persisting for a few moments behind the ruler. The object moved faster than an airplane, but slower than a shooting star. Its height on the horizon was 20°, and the angle of vision between appearance and disappearance was 90° to 100°. Apparent dimensions at arm's length: during phase 1 (triangle): 5 mm for the thickest part and 18 mm in length. During phase 2 (ruler): thickness less than 10mm, length 30 mm. Color of the phenomenon: 144 and 358 of the \"Pantone\" shade card (April 25, 1975)", + "location": "France, Marly le Roi", + "ref": [ + "Christian DE ZAN: \"Guide du Chasseur de Phénomènes OVNI\", ed. De Vecchi 1980, p 112, 113", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2846" + }, + { + "date": "5/1/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Gendarmes Dutel and Stroka of the Lezay brigade saw, during a patrol, near the Bois de La Trouille (vog: !) at 23:10 a bright yellow ball of 20 cm moving from east to west and approaching the ground at a regular speed. This object seemed to want to land at a short distance from them. They moved towards the supposed landing site and saw through the hedges 3 or 4 m from the ground a sparkle. At 23:17 they got out of the vehicle not seeing anything particular in this area. Almost immediately they heard a slight rustling of wings and noticed that a machine, whose shape and color they could not distinguish, was rising quickly from east to west, showing two faint red luminosities horizontally distant from each other by about 60 cm. The estimated distance of the object was about thirty meters. At 23:20 the object regained its bright yellow color and stabilized at an altitude they could not appreciate. The apparent diameter was 20 cm. During the prolonged immobility they observed it with binoculars, and saw two fins of 10 cm one above, the other below the disk which seemed to be dotted with black spots. At 23:25 they went in search of other witnesses. Around 23:45 the object quickly disappeared towards the west.", + "location": "FRANCE, Lezay \"Vaugru\"", + "ref": [ + "J.C. BOURRET: \"Le nouveau défi des OVNI\" - France-Empire, p. 135 to 139", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2847" + }, + { + "date": "5/3/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Carlos Antonio de Los Santos Montiel, 23 years old, pilot, aboard his Piper Aztec PA-24, found himself accompanied to the left and right of his aircraft by a saucer topped with a dome with a small porthole and an antenna, all of a mouse gray color. In front came a third saucer at high speed, just diving under the plane. There was a strange noise, like a shock. The pilot realized that the saucer was trying to lift the plane and the pilot tried rolling movements, but the controls did not respond. He nevertheless managed to establish radio contact with the Mexico control tower at 12:15. The three objects raised the Piper 200 m and slowed its speed to 40 km/h. Vertically from Tlalpan, the object on the left went in the direction of the volcanoes, immediately followed by the one on the right. The pilot does not know what became of the third saucer. On approach to the airport, the aircraft responded again to the controls, except for the landing gear which refused to come out. After 40 minutes of attempts, finally the gear came out and the plane was able to land without further damage. It is 13:34. (May 3, 1975)", + "location": "MEXICO, in flight, above the Ajusco Mountains", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 30 of 1976, pp. 15-18", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2848" + }, + { + "date": "5/10/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (between 9 and 10 pm) Chuck (15 years old) had gone out, after turning on the outside lamp, to bring in his horse. (...) Suddenly an abnormal noise had occurred in the immediate surroundings. It was a buzzing, similar to that of a swarm of bees. Having turned around, the young boy had seen an immobile object, about seven meters high, above his neighbor's vegetable garden, some 25 meters away. (...) According to Chuck, the UFO had started to go up and down like a bobbing cork in the water. At that moment the ground had vibrated. There were two distinct sources of light on the object. One, radiant and green, came from a rectangular section, under the craft, near the front. (...) The rectangle, about three meters long by one meter twenty wide, was faceted or rather had rows of circular lenses, but the whole gave off a stable and green light. (...) The other light came from the tail of the craft which narrowed down to a needle point. It shone by pulsations, with flashes of brick red. (...) On the top, towards the front, there was a kind of dome without a source of light, without portholes or other particularities. (...) The porch lamp of the villa and the lights coming from the windows were reflected on the body of the craft, which thus appeared of a beautiful metallic green. (...) \"Then a ray of light came out of the green rectangle. It was a darker green, perhaps olive green and it lit up the bushes in the neighbor's courtyard. (...) It was a beam of light, like a laser\". (...) The beam came towards me and touched me. It was as if someone had thrown a bucket of very cold water at me? I suddenly felt frozen. I could not move anymore (...) I was like cast in plaster (...) \"I did not lose consciousness, but I had strange thoughts coming from outside\" (...) \"I saw mathematical equations apparently without sense, and I remember having seen the omega symbol\" (...) \"Then the ray went out and I fell face down on the ground\". (the UFO had turned off its ray but was still there) \"The buzzing became more intense, then there was a very high pitched metallic sound, through which I heard another sound, regular, like a drum beat. (...) The craft suddenly turned around, pointing vertically towards the sky, tail down. It stayed in this position for 4 to 5 seconds, then the brightness of the tail intensified, and everything became like a confused cloud\". Chuck still remembered a soundless purple flash, followed by three or four seconds of silence, then a loud clap of thunder. The UFO had gone. (...) (May 10, 1975)", + "location": "USA, Florence, Kentucky", + "ref": [ + "Leonard STRINGFIELD: \"General UFO Alert\", ed. France - Empire, 1978, pp. 71 to 77", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2849" + }, + { + "date": "5/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A dredger located at sea 30 miles from Gorleston in Norfolk had its propeller severely damaged by an object located 50 meters deep. The ship returned to the site using its echo sounder system, but nothing was found.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Norfolk (at sea)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 164, 165", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2850" + }, + { + "date": "6/9/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11:45 PM, returning from a hay errand in a tractor, André François, a farmer, observed a luminous ball about 60 cm in diameter. He parked the tractor in the barn and sat on a hill to observe the thing, which was about 250m away, for 5 minutes. When it began to rise very, very slowly, he called his wife and for another 5 minutes they observed together the slow ascent of 1m up to 100m as it moved away to the NNO in complete silence. Then, returning home, his wife went to bed. The farmer went back out and still saw the ball at the same altitude, when after a minute he received two violet reflections directly in his eyes. It hurt so much that he could only see black and he was very scared. (Robert ROUSSEL: \"OVNI, la fin du secret\" - Belfond 1978, p. 48, 49) André François, a farmer, was returning to Quémestéfan when his attention was drawn to the northwest by a strange light. Intrigued, he approached and was able to better make out the configuration of the phenomenon. \"It looked like a cylinder about 60 centimeters in circumference. The craft was very bright. At first it was stationary, then it moved on a horizontal trajectory that I estimate to be 60 meters. Its speed was constant and regular. Then, before disappearing, it emitted two violet rays that completely blinded me. Its altitude was about 15 meters.\"", + "location": "FRANCE, Saint-Tudel (Tudec?) (Finistère)", + "ref": [ + "Jean François BOEDEC: \"Les OVNI en Bretagne, Anatomie d'un Phénomène\", ed. Fernand Lanore 1978, p. 76", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2851" + }, + { + "date": "6/14/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11:40 PM, Jean-Pierre Narlot had just parked his car along the wall that encloses the castle park. He was accompanied by Sylviane Uyttersprit. It was pitch black, the moon had set about an hour ago. They saw a light, the UFO crossed a path, passed behind a small hedge and appeared in its entirety: two triangles joined together forming a cream-colored diamond shape that was shining but not illuminating the surroundings, 4 meters wide and 2.50 meters high, 50 cm from the ground. It moved slowly without making any noise above a field of broom. It stopped after a few minutes, a dark band seeming to come from the back of the object on the right side, which was the blurriest, unrolled downwards on the left side. Then the shadow disappeared and the object resumed its original shape. Mr. Narot then turned around...", + "location": "FRANCE, St Nicolas d'Acy \"Les Moroseaux\"", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 558, 559", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2852" + }, + { + "date": "6/26/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Miss Maria M. saw in her courtyard around 8 pm, while it was still light out, a very thin shape (about 20 cm) luminous, about 1.50m tall, wearing a brightly colored jumpsuit in yellow and red resembling the color of flames. It resembled the character from the old advertisement for the thermogene. This human shape leapt over the wall of the courtyard, apparently without touching the ground, and disappeared into the path leading to the M farm. A few seconds later Miss Maria saw the character jump from a meadow about 120 m away. She did not see its head or limbs but is sure it was not a real human person.", + "location": "FRANCE, Laguiole \"Alcorn\" (Aveyron)", + "ref": [ + "J.C. BOURRET: \"Le nouveau défi des Ovni\" - France-Empire 1976, p. 140 to 153", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2853" + }, + { + "date": "6/27/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11:15 PM, Mr. Plaquet was closing the shutters and saw a dark cylindrical object in a vertical position at 10 meters altitude. At the top of the object were two antennas, like butterfly antennas spreading outwards. Each antenna had an orange light at its tip. Three identical lights were placed one below the other on each side of the walls. A non-blinding white light was emitted at the base of the cylinder. The object was above a cement post. The object pivoted and the witness only saw a vertical row of orange lights. Then the object moved at the speed of a car for 200 meters, stopped just before disappearing behind the roof of a house and made the same journey in the opposite direction, stopping above the post. There it then made a vertical jump and moved away to the west.", + "location": "FRANCE, Bouillancourt-la-Bataille", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"OVNI, le premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 561, 562", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2854" + }, + { + "date": "7/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was only in July 1975 that \"China 3\" was launched. It was, in this case, a real giant, whose weight, although never revealed, must have been around 3 and a half tons. A more powerful rocket, derived from a long-range missile, had therefore been used. From then on, the Chinese were able to launch satellites that were no longer just symbolic. (July 1975)", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 17", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2855" + }, + { + "date": "7/4/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 12:05, Mr. Cahill and Miss Tiger were driving when they saw a general deltoid shape, with a translucent green turret protruding, with vertical metallic stripes, spotlights and a very large blue-green light at the slightly concave front and rounded back, as well as red and white lights distributed along the belt line, flying at 9 or 10 km/h at about 25 m from the ground. Suddenly it rose so quickly that in less than a second it completely disappeared. The witnesses then alerted the Parsippany-Troy Hills police.", + "location": "USA, Tarsigny (New Jersey)", + "ref": [ + "Skylook No. 94 Sept. 1975 p. 3-5", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2856" + }, + { + "date": "7/6/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: Canadian Northeastern Ufo Organization) A UFO landed on the land of farmer Joseph Borda. The provincial police arrived to investigate and took samples of a strange blue-green substance. According to the ufology group investigator, Thomas Grey, this farmer had seen a UFO topped with a luminous dome in his field while he himself was busy on a tractor doing a spreading. Two days later, while inspecting his tobacco field, he finds a circular area where all the plants were burned. The police found no other trace of vandalism. The soil samples with the blue-green material were analyzed and it appears to be an unknown silicone-based oily substance. A similar incident occurred in another farm in the area in 1962. However, in this case, Mr. Borda had not alerted the police and was surprised to see a limousine registered in Arizona heading directly to the damaged area without asking for his permission. Angry at this intrusion, he followed them and found the three occupants busy taking samples. When he asked them what they were doing there, they replied that he could go back to his work as this did not concern him. So Borda called the police.", + "location": "CANADA, near London (Ontario)", + "ref": [ + "Gateway to Oblivion\" Hugh Cochrane; Flying Saucer Sightings, Harry Foell from the Hamilton Spectator", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2857" + }, + { + "date": "7/12/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: June 1966) Many amateur astronomers had taken to following the passages of \"Pageos\". On the evening of July 12, they were surprised to see in place of the satellite, a multitude of small luminous bodies. The best equipped observers, particularly in England, counted up to 27 of them, of which only 5 or 6 were visible to the naked eye. (...) The calculation of the speed of the different fragments led to the estimation that the explosion occurred at 10 minutes past. At that moment, Pageos was off the coast of Peru, above the Pacific, in the firing line of a missile fired from Kwajalein... (July 12, 1975)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 147, 148", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2858" + }, + { + "date": "7/15/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Shortly after the 14th. Eric Darnaud, 17 years old, and his friend were walking to Lamastre between 10 and 11 PM. They were 100 m away from the village of St Julien la Brousse when they saw a dark silhouette walking towards Lamastre. It was a human-like figure wearing a large robe. The silhouette changed from dark to white. The entity's movement gave the impression of gliding. In a turn, it disappeared. Then, to their great terror, they saw it come back at great speed, still gliding. The young men ran to the village, knocking on several doors that remained closed, except one. They told the old man their adventure and asked him to host them for the night. Without success. They sat on the terrace of a closed café facing the washhouse. They saw a round, red-orange, very bright light, the size of half a full moon, leaving a white smoke. (July 15, 1975)", + "location": "FRANCE, Saint Julien la Brousse", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"OVNI, le premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 565, 566", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2859" + }, + { + "date": "7/29/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Having been warned of a UFO landing near his usual camping spot, Oscar Magocsi went there and prepared himself physically. On July 29th he finally dared to enter the saucer (without a pilot). The next day, July 30th, the UFO took off with Magocsi, flew over Canada, New York and the ocean towards Egypt. Finally the UFO landed, probably in Syria. Magocsi got out, noticed a military column with tanks and heard artillery fire. So he got back on board and when he was at 3000 m altitude, he was chased by three \"Arab\" planes that shot at the UFO. But the UFO sent out a blue ray that made the planes explode. The next stop was Tibet. There Oscar was introduced to an \"extraterrestrial\" convent. (vog: ouf! I could feel this enormity coming...) He received instruction there, as there were other people present, whites, Asians, blacks. The next day he was taken back to \"his\" UFO, which immediately set off towards South America. At the height of Peru, other UFOs joined them. The journey ended at Mount Shasta in California around 11 pm. (continued on August 2nd, 1975). (1975, July 29th and 30th)", + "location": "CANADA, Toronto", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\" Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2860" + }, + { + "date": "7/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the Methodist mission school the students saw small dwarves appear, 50 to 60 cm tall, covered in black and thick fur, who fled when the boys approached them.", + "location": "FIJI, Lautoka", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 329", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2861" + }, + { + "date": "7/31/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A farmer saw a UFO on the ground and small creatures with slanted eyes. He received a beam of light in his face. (Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 351) Danie van Graan approached what he initially thought to be a caravan in his field, but it had no wheels. He heard a buzzing and saw four strange occupants in the object. A light beam hit him, he was disoriented. The intensity of the sound increased and the object took off quickly. Traces were discovered on the ground, as well as gray powder, and the vegetation was affected. (Science et Vie, special edition: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, p. 60 to 63) At dawn on this foggy July 31, Danie van Graan headed towards the water reservoir surrounded by a 3 m high earth wall, when he saw the roof of a caravan in the sheep enclosure. He knew that sometimes government prospectors come to search there (uranium) and surprised that they had not asked for his permission, he headed towards the thing, to offer a cup of coffee to the visitors. That's when he saw that the caravan had no wheels, but rested on three crutches. He saw four men inside the object and was struck by the slowness of their movements, their small size (1 m high), their thinness and their paleness. They wore a cream-colored jumpsuit with a hood pushed back from the head. They had blond hair, slanted eyes, prominent cheekbones, and a pointed chin. Three of them seemed to be dealing with an instrument, the fourth was near a panel with flashing triangular lights. Intermittently the device emitted a low buzzing. When Danie had approached to about 3 meters, he heard the sound of a click. He saw that the four occupants were looking at him and a beam of light hit his eyes. He was swaying, felt like he was drowning, nauseous and tried to escape the light. The beam suddenly stopped and Danie then realized that he was bleeding from his nose. The buzzing intensified and the UFO took off at a dizzying speed, brushing the windmill at a few centimeters. In 20 seconds the device was invisible, on a 45° trajectory. The vision problems (double vision and lazy vision in the morning upon waking) lasted for several months.", + "location": "SOUTH AFRICA, Loxton (Cape Town)", + "ref": [ + "Cynthia Hind, Mufon Ufo Journal n° 353 page 15 - Sept. 97", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2862" + }, + { + "date": "End of 7/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 11 PM. The observation was made on board a fishing boat whose home port is the island of Yeu. The captain was at the helm when he noticed that his boat was being followed by a luminous disc of metallic appearance. The size of the object was estimated at 5 meters, although its distance from the boat could not be appreciated. The object was topped with three antennas, one of which carried a green light. It swayed in the air and approached the boat when the latter turned off its lights. The captain, who was alone at the helm, woke up his crew who in turn observed the object. A strong smell of sulfur was so strong that the captain checked that his box of matches had not caught fire. After two hours of observation, the object became red and moved away at very high speed, faster than any plane could do. A few days before, another fishing boat from the island of Yeu had observed a similar phenomenon in the same area. (End of July, 1975)", + "location": "AT SEA off Spain", + "ref": [ + "Christian DE ZAN: \"Guide du Chasseur de Phénomènes OVNI\" - ed. De Vecchi 1980, p. 127", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2863" + }, + { + "date": "1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jack Dyball was driving in the fields near the town in a tractor. He saw a silver-gray craft descending from the sky. The craft was coming so fast that Jack thought an accident was imminent. But suddenly the craft righted itself and flew away. \"It had no wings,\" he said. \"I saw five burners at the back spitting out blue flames.\" (1975,)", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, St George", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELL: \"The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 139", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2864" + }, + { + "date": "8/2/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. July 29 and 30, 1975) (note from vog: there is a gap because he was at Mount Shasta in California and suddenly back in Canada, but with a personal UFO anything is possible...) On August 2, Oscar Magocsi boards the UFO that takes him to the mothership. On board the mothership, the journey continues and two days later Oscar arrives on a planet called Argona. The taxi driver previously encountered in Toronto now presents himself as Argus and takes him to a training center where there are other participants in the course. (vog: probably pre-Taliban!) Oscar obviously meets Quentin whose real name is Spectron, he is the commander. (...) The teaching is mystical and concerns IHM, the Cosmic Christ. On August 7, Oscar will be back in Canada. Argus warned Oscar against the MIB, who are adversaries. (August 2, 1975)", + "location": "CANADA, Toronto", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued in Nov. 85", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2865" + }, + { + "date": "8/10/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The observation began shortly after 11 pm, when the witness, a woman, drove Imelda Victor, 12 years old, home. They saw a lit object that was initially quite far away. The object quickly descended and approached their truck. Leaving the vehicle in front of the Victor's garage, the witnesses rushed into the house. Imelda's mother was alerted by their screams. (...) \"The thing I saw was round, with 4 equidistant arms, like a landing gear. The central round section was bigger than a car but smaller than a house. Between the 4 arms there were 4 small protuberances similar to antennas coming from the center of the circle and on each one a headlight was mounted, similar to those on the top of a police car, with the difference that the lights were red and green and they were spinning.\" (...) testimony of the first witness. Mrs. Victor: \"I ran into the street and saw this gigantic round flying machine with 4 antennas forming a kind of landing gear and, coming out of it, all these blinking white and red lights... It was metallic gray and it was immense. It was there motionless in the sky. It was much higher than the trees.\" Mrs. Victor's husband witnessed the last part and said: \"It was very big and I saw it just as it was moving away. I could see from the panel where all the lights were to the top, it had the shape of a triangle. At the moment it disappeared, the object was going very fast in the NNE direction, heading towards San José. (August 10, 1975)", + "location": "USA, Gilroy", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Confrontations\" - Laffont 1991, p. 114 to 123", + "continued on September 15, 1975", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2866" + }, + { + "date": "8/18/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Patrice Labonne, Bernard Gregory, Marion Towroslo, Claude Jouhan, Marylin Morin, Michel Pequeur (all aged 19 to 25) were camping at the \"Hameau du Soleil\". Two witnesses were in a tent, the others in the cars: the tent was separated from the cars by a curtain of trees. Between 2:30 and 3:00 the witness came out of the tent and saw 15 meters in front of him, four phosphorescent masses, two to his right, two to his left: two meters high, one meter wide each. Believing himself to be the victim of a hallucination, he called Patrice Labonne, who in turn observed the strange phenomenon. Frightened, the two of them rushed towards the cars. Starting a car, everything began to light up: all the electrical equipment began to behave like a warning in action without any intervention, to make the phenomenon stop, he turned off the engine. Marylin Morin declared that the moon (which had set at 2:02) was behind a single elliptical cloud in the sky. It was of an opaque hue and a kind of trumpet, similar to a water spout, descended towards the ground behind the trees. The high-voltage line that crossed the place emitted a loud buzzing, no more night insects made noise, but the dogs barked and the roosters sang during the presence of the elliptical cloud. Three luminous points arranged in a triangle above the ground: the trumpet descended on its left side. The next day a substance \", similar to lime, formed an ellipse on the ground: it disappeared as soon as the sun appeared.", + "location": "FRANCE, between La Colle sur Loup and Cagnes sur Mer", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: \"OVNI, le premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 568, 569", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2867" + }, + { + "date": "8/22/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 8:15 pm, two regular customers of the local bar burst in: - \"Come quickly, there's a flying saucer...\" This was immediately met with general hilarity. (...) Then they all decided to go out onto the sidewalk, near the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nabucet. They just had time to join the previous witnesses when suddenly an \"object in the shape of an overturned ashtray\" appeared above the \"Gouffès\" wood. This object was hovering at the height of the roof of a nearby house: it was moving quite slowly and then suddenly stopped a little further away. That's when the witnesses saw a \"beam of light coming from the craft, like a flashlight\" but much more powerful, of a raw, very bright white color. (...) the observers agree to describe this beam as cut off at its end. (...) The phenomenon lasted a few moments without a sound and nothing could be seen except for some bright points. And suddenly, as if the light source was cut off, everything went out! (Jean François BOEDEC: \"Les OVNI en BRETAGNE, Anatomie d'un Phénomène, ed. Fernand Lanore p. 67) At 8:55 pm, about ten people saw an object in the shape of an overturned ashtray above the Gouiffès wood. The object emitted a beam of light that seemed to be looking for something.", + "location": "FRANCE, Saint-Evarzec", + "ref": [ + "Philippe SCHNEYDER: \"Ovni, premier bilan\" - ed. du Rocher 1983, p. 85", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2868" + }, + { + "date": "Late 8/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) To early September. Between 9:30 and 10:00 PM, Maria-José Araignon and Miss Turban were getting ready for bed. Maria-José went out to the balcony on the first floor and heard guttural voices that seemed to be coming from a microphone. Suddenly, she could no longer hear the voices, but she saw a dark, elongated mass silently gliding down the road in front of the gate, 15 meters away from her. The object was about 2 meters high and had two chrome-like bands running along its length. The craft passed by and Maria-José heard the guttural voices again, fading away. Her friend inside asked her what it was. (1975, late August)", + "location": "FRANCE, Cazères", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"OVNI, le premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 575, 576", + "N.D.A.: a prank cannot be ruled out", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2869" + }, + { + "date": "9/9/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) While hanging laundry to dry on the back terrace, Mrs. Delgouffe saw an object with clear edges, gray and elliptical, 2 m long, with headlights shining horizontally, approach to within 40 m of her at an elevation of 15°. At the moment of its sudden disappearance, the witness heard a noise \"like a sink draining\".", + "location": "BELGIUM, Brussels-Jette", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 27 - 1976 - p. 21", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2870" + }, + { + "date": "9/15/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: August 10, 1975, Gilroy) Mrs. Victor was at a family member's house. After watching television for a while she went to sleep in a room at the front of the house. Suddenly, she woke up and found two beings standing near her. They were wearing silver suits and had small slits for eyes, nose and mouth. Their suit covered their whole body as if it had been painted and molded rubber. The surface was smooth and without wrinkles. She felt very calm when she saw them. They seemed to communicate telepathically, asking her to \"come with them\". (...) One of the two lifted Mrs. Victor by the elbows. Together they went to the front door. Mrs. Victor felt like she was flying. She clearly saw the flat roof, the garage. She saw the stars above her and a UFO hovering. It was identical to the one she had seen in Gilroy. They floated inside, passing through the heart of the object through its material and followed a ramp that went up at least three levels. One of the beings stayed with her, leading her into a circular room with an emerald floor, illuminated by a milky white light. The walls were silver, smooth, with large round instruments. She had a feeling of immense beauty. To her left was a door. Suddenly something traumatic happened. She was blinded by a white light, remembers nothing else and prefers not to know the end of the story. She woke up in her bed and realized it was day. (...)", + "location": "USA, Industrial City (California)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Confrontations\" - Laffont 1991, p. 119, 120", + "continued on May 15, 1978, Gilroy", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2871" + }, + { + "date": "9/26/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:40 PM several inhabitants of the village and the surrounding area saw an enormous light disk - estimated to be 250 to 300 m - slowly oscillating on the edge of a private airfield in Salemagne, where no aircraft was present at the time. Coming from different directions, about ten witnesses converged towards the field in their cars. The motorists were about 500 m away when the engines of their vehicles stalled, their headlights went out and their car radios suddenly went silent. The witnesses approached on foot, amazed and a bit worried at the sight of this mysterious hovering craft, about twenty meters above the ground and whose countless portholes emitted, they report, a not very dazzling light. An officer of the reserve, witness like the others, saw a kind of cone detach itself from the central dome of the UFO, take altitude, pirouette like a top, then land again on the base hull which disappeared into the night sky in five seconds, leaving behind a kind of fluorescent cloud which did not dissipate until after about ten minutes. No trace: no footprint or trace of combustion.", + "location": "France, Assevent - Maubeuge", + "ref": [ + "\"Historia\" special issue no. 46 of 1976: Flying Saucers, p. 58", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2872" + }, + { + "date": "9/27/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"At 7:20 PM, on my way back from Charleville-Mézières, while driving on the RN 51 towards Maubert Fontaine where I live, my daughter, my wife and I were able to observe for several minutes (about a quarter of an hour) an enormous object that was illuminating all around it. ... a very powerful light like a lightning bolt through the trees, from the exit of Lonny to the top of the Harcy hill where I stopped to look better. It was clearly something huge, impossible to define, it was already night. The sky was cloudy and covered, it was not cold. I turned off the headlights. The phenomenon seemed solid, it projected light rays in all directions that seemed white to orange, then blue. It projected luminous sparks. The multiple projections occurred at intervals of about every 20 seconds. The brightness and luminosity were quite bearable.\" The object disappeared in the distance.", + "location": "France, Harcy (Charleville-Mézières)", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Michel LIGERON: \"Ovni en Ardennes\" 1981, p 85, 86", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2873" + }, + { + "date": "10/4/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The author was unable to sleep at an advanced hour of the night, when he suddenly saw very distinctly a human face of incomparable beauty, inside his room. After a certain time this face took an expression inspiring confidence. The lips moved as if something was being said, but no sound came out. He felt at that moment as if hypnotized by the apparition and felt detached from his body. Unsettled by this unusual phenomenon he made a mental effort of resistance and after a certain time the vision faded. (vog: eh ben, mon pauv'vieux…) It should be noted that at the same time there were UFO manifestations in the north of France.", + "location": "FRANCE", + "ref": [ + "Pierre DELVAL: \"Contacts of the 4th type\" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 65", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2874" + }, + { + "date": "10/7/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 8:30 PM, Robert A. Suffern's sister called him to say that her barn seemed to be on fire. Robert went out and saw nothing. Shortly after, taking the car to check on the livestock which seemed to be restless, he saw in the middle of the road an object of a matte aluminum surface, with an irregular and wavy texture, without any lights. Its height was around 2.50m, its width between 3.60m and 3.80m, in the shape of a saucer, resting very close to the ground. He accelerated and the object took off.

To return home he took the road along the lake, when he saw the creature: it pivoted and without any effort jumped the fence and disappeared into the meadow. It was stocky, broad-shouldered, moving like a monkey or a dwarf, full of agility. Its head was covered with a helmet, its costume was of a single piece of silver-colored material, but the helmet was whiter. Back home, suddenly the sound of the television disappeared and the screen went black. He went out and saw behind the barn an orange fluorescent light that followed the contours of the terrain to head towards the lake. (Flying Saucer Review, vol 22 n° 1 1976, p 18-19) (...) there was a kind of black ribbon that was spinning around the vehicle and a small platform at the lower part. The object was parked on the road that leads to the lake. He only saw the object on the ground for a few seconds, as it rose vertically, without noise, smoke or steam. Mr. Suffern turned around in his car to return home. When he arrived at the top of the hill, he had to brake abruptly to avoid colliding with \"some kind of creature\" that was not taller than the height of the car's bumpers. It had two arms and two legs and it was wearing a costume of light metal, deflated. It had a helmet on its head, a bit lighter than the color of the costume. The creature turned around, took two or three steps, and jumped a fence. It disappeared from his sight. When he returned home, he could just barely see the saucer hovering near his house, before it left beyond the lake. The witness was badly shaken by this experience.", + "location": "CANADA, Utterson, Bushkong Lake", + "ref": [ + "NUFORC, \"Looking Back\" by Bob Gribble", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2875" + }, + { + "date": "10/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Since the beginning of the month, the inhabitants of Tururu, Urubumetama and Sao Gonçalo do Amarante have been living in fear and no longer dare to go out after 6 pm. UFOs have appeared that have paralyzed witnesses. A strange object indeed always manifests itself at nightfall, moving at very low altitude, spinning on itself, emitting blue and orange beams. Many people were affected and some had to be hospitalized, suffering from second degree burns. On October 29th it appeared in Sao Gonçalo around 10 pm and stayed spinning above the town for two hours, while the inhabitants had run to take shelter. Stationary above a gas station, the UFO caused a general short circuit in the establishment", + "location": "BRAZIL, Ceara State", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 26 of 1976 p. 38, 39", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2876" + }, + { + "date": "Late Autumn 1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The barracks were guarded by two soldiers. Suddenly they saw in the sky in front of them, an immense object in the shape of a saucer. The object was red-orange. It was spinning above their heads (...). One of the two guards went into the camp to give the alarm and the other, Zhang Ke-Tao, stayed in front of the door. A few minutes later, when the battalion commander arrived with his men at the entrance, the soldier who had stayed outside had disappeared. (...) They searched for him meticulously: in vain. A few hours later, 4 soldiers (the guard had been reinforced) were surprised by a moaning coming from behind them. They turned around and to their astonishment they saw their missing comrade sighing at the foot of the door. They headed towards him to lift him up, and all were astonished to see that his eyebrows, his hair and his beard were long as if several days had passed. When he woke up the soldier had lost his memory, he remembered nothing. Another astonishing phenomenon: his watch had stopped, but as it had no calendar, it was impossible to know how many days the soldier had spent \"elsewhere\". (1975, Late Autumn)", + "location": "CHINA, Jianshui, Yunnan", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.58", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2877" + }, + { + "date": "11/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) China 4 took off for space four months to the day after China 3. It weighed 3 and a half tons, but had the particularity of being able to be - at least partially - recovered. Six days after its orbit, after 96 revolutions, a capsule detached from the main body to be recovered. (November 1975)", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 18", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2878" + }, + { + "date": "11/5/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Travis Walton incident. Early in the evening, loggers in a truck were driving on a forest road when they saw a UFO hovering. Mike Rogers, 28 years old, stopped the truck. One of the loggers, Travis Walton, jumped out of the truck and ran towards the UFO, his comrades shouted for him to come back, but he did not listen. He threw himself flat on the ground in the bushes and crawled towards the object. He then heard a shrill noise, stood up, and a bright beam of light from the object hit him in the chest, he lost consciousness. The driver drove off in a hurry, stopping a little further away, the bright light between the trees gradually disappeared. They returned to look for Walton, but there was no trace of him. He reappeared after 5 days, exhausted, upset, having lost his memory. Under hypnosis he spoke of a medical examination on board the craft. (November 5, 1975)", + "location": "USA, Sitgreaves Forest near Heber (Arizona)", + "ref": [ + "Johannes von BUTLAR: \"UFO, We Are Not Alone\" - Presses de la Cité 1979, pp. 183-185 and almost all other authors", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2879" + }, + { + "date": "11/6/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three young children from the area, questioned by the gendarmes, never varied in their statements: Denis Dubich, 10 years old, was lying down around 10 pm when he heard the dog howling. He got up and when he was with the dog he saw a ball like a big balloon coming from Guebwiller. The UFO was whistling like a siren. It eventually landed in his parents' cabbage plantation, 50 m from the house. It was round, about 2 m high, with a belt of square, luminous portholes and topped with a dome. Three hatches opened up below and three legs unfolded to land. At one point the dome lifted and a form emerged that looked like the head and torso of a human. The form turned towards him, then went back into the craft and the dome closed. At the same time a claw came out from under the craft at the end of an arm and this claw took three cabbages in three times, which it brought back up into the machine. The craft began to rumble, rose up, folded its legs and took off diagonally towards Reguisheim. This lasted 15 minutes. (November 6, 1975)", + "location": "FRANCE, Merxheim (Haut Rhin)", + "ref": [ + "J.C. BOURRET: \"Le nouveau défi des OVNI\" - France Empire 1976 - p. 208 à 214", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2880" + }, + { + "date": "11/6/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The young K., 10 years old, recounts that while lying down around 9:45 PM, he woke up because it was too hot. He opened the windows and shutters and saw a ball coming from Guebwiller, descending gradually to land in a field 200m from the house. This is how he saw that it was a flying saucer. He closed the shutters and went back to bed.", + "location": "France, Merxheim", + "ref": [ + "J.C. BOURRET: \"Le nouveau défi des OVNI\" - France Empire 1976 - pp. 208-214", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2881" + }, + { + "date": "11/6/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Little Christine, 9 years old, said that she had just come home with her parents around 10 pm and had gone to bed right away. When closing the shutters, she saw a round, quite large object with multicolored lights all around it, but she didn't look at it long enough to say if the object was stationary or not. (November 6, 1975)", + "location": "France, Merxheim", + "ref": [ + "J.C. BOURRET: \"Le nouveau défi des OVNI\" - France Empire 1976 - p. 208 to 214", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2882" + }, + { + "date": "11/7/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A doctor from Leira saw, while driving, an odd object flying in front of him at 10 meters altitude. The object flew over the car and the doctor stopped 150 meters away from the craft and got out of his car. The object then hovered above the trees. The underside was circular, and on the upper part, in the shape of a cone, there were four rectangular windows. The diameter of the UFO was around 15 meters. The doctor smelled an ozone odor during the observation. He did not want to stay in that place for too long but had difficulty starting the engine. He called his friends on CB, but there were also interferences there.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Senhora do Monte-Leiria", + "ref": [ + "collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenço; \"Seculo Ilustrado\" 7.1.76", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2883" + }, + { + "date": "11/14/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 3:30 or 4:00 pm. About ten employees working at the Lebon factories had the opportunity to observe, at the place called Davant Nouzon, in the direction of the \"Maroc\" or \"Chesnois\" quarters, an unusual object in the shape of a disk composed of two plates seeming to be glued together with the lower part dark, of a blackish color. It stabilized, remained still, allowing to observe that the upper part was of a grayish color and a series of white flashing lights on the edge, with a kind of fixed red light at the base. It seemed to be stationed about ten meters above the treetops. After a good quarter of an hour it rose slowly, progressively moving towards the northwest. The sky was clear, sunny. It was smaller than the diameter of the moon and one could see a kind of small halo around it. (November 14, 1975)", + "location": "France, Nouzonville", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Michel LIGERON: \"Ovni en Ardennes\" 1981, p 87, 88", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2884" + }, + { + "date": "11/14/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 6 or 7 pm, a single witness reported having observed a luminous, elongated mass, resembling a kind of flying cigar. The observation lasted about 5 minutes. The object was lit on the side by a series of 8 white lights, and at the back there was a fixed light of red-orange color around which several small lights were blinking intermittently.", + "location": "France, Nouzonville", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Michel LIGERON: \"Ovni en Ardennes\" 1981, p 88", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2885" + }, + { + "date": "11/15/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the Phare de la Couronne, at 4:00 PM, while the witnesses were having coffee, facing the sea, at the foot of the radio transmitter antenna, a silver disc of about 10 m in diameter emerged from the water and rose to a height of 120 meters, making two loops. It stayed at that altitude for 90 seconds and then headed south at high speed after making a 90° angle. Seventeen witnesses.", + "location": "FRANCE, Marseille", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"OVNI, le premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 588", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2886" + }, + { + "date": "11/20/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 4 in the morning, L.B., having finished his night shift, was driving home in his truck when he was followed at low altitude by an object shaped like a cigar, about 5 meters long. A white light blinded him. L.B. tried to get away, but the UFO, emitting a kind of buzzing sound, kept close to the truck. \"It was about 10 meters above my windshield,\" the unfortunate driver said. L.B. arrived home and woke up his wife and three teenage children. They all noticed the UFO hovering above their house. Its shape was now that of a disc. Soon it rose up again and stopped, still emitting the same buzzing sound. The police were called. Two patrol officers confirmed the presence of the UFO; one of them shone his spotlight on the object as it approached the truck. The dog kept barking as long as the UFO hovered above the house. (November 20, 1975)", + "location": "USA, Cherry Grove", + "ref": [ + "Leonard STRINGFIELD: \"General UFO Alert\", ed. France - Empire, 1978, p. 44", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2887" + }, + { + "date": "11/24/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7:15 PM, the Breon couple got into their car and saw, at the edge of a stable 50 meters away, an oval object hovering a few meters above the ground. The object was spinning silently and emitting four beams of light towards the ground. It then rose towards a vineyard and came back towards the witnesses, gaining altitude up to 10 or 15 meters above the ground. Mr. Breton's father and the Lugny gendarmes, who had been alerted, observed the object's ascent with short bursts. With each increase in the rotation speed, the object rose. On its upper part, it had a small dome and at one point a phosphorescent square light lit up under the dome during the ascent.", + "location": "FRANCE, Sagy - \"Cruzille\"", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"OVNI, le premier dossier complet...\" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 588, 589", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2888" + }, + { + "date": "11/24/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A witness who was at the gendarmerie when Mr. Breton made his declaration wanted to see the thing up close: they saw an object of rectangular shape with rounded edges, half red and half dark, rising above a wood. This thing was of great size. His father-in-law, a passenger in the vehicle, observed it with her. (November 24, 1975)", + "location": "France, Sagy", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"OVNI, le premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 588, 589", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2889" + }, + { + "date": "11/30/1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Greband, a fisherman, was at 4 o'clock on the beach to retrieve his nets. He saw a bluish beam coming out of the water and turning like a lighthouse, falling back and repeating five times with an interval of 2 seconds between each emission. After observing the thing, despite his fear, the fisherman decided to set his lines. He moved towards a reference point that a friend kept near the trammel stakes. He then noticed that the blue beam was moving, covering a meter with each flash, up to his height. (...) He then directed the flashlight towards the glow that he no longer saw, but saw a luminous trail coming out of the water and leaving at a dizzying speed towards the open sea. Strangely, the flashlight went out quickly, despite the new battery. (November 30, 1975)", + "location": "FRANCE, Quend-plage", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"OVNI, le premier dossier complet...\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 589, 590", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2890" + }, + { + "date": "End of 1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The story is recounted by the son of the head schoolteacher: \"It happened at the end of 1975 when I was attending college at the University of Oregon. One weekend, I came home, and my father shared an incident with me. The previous Tuesday, several students from Toledo Jr. High School, where he was principal, had acted strangely all morning. Some teachers noticed and informed my father. He thought it odd and spoke to the three affected children, two boys and a girl, all living in the same area east of Toledo, near Pioneer Mountain. They seemed reluctant to share, so my father didn’t press further. On Wednesday, the girl was absent, but the boys continued their strange behavior. Thursday, the girl returned, and along with a fourth child from near Pioneer Mountain, all acted even more bizarrely, seemingly scared of everything. Finally, one of the boys decided to tell my father what had happened.

On the night of Monday, they had seen strange lights on the north side of the mountain, accompanied by odd noises. He further claimed a spaceship had landed near his house. The next morning, the ship was gone, leaving only a large patch of burnt grass. The parents advised their children to keep quiet for fear of ridicule. But on Wednesday night, the ship returned, this time with apparent extraterrestrial beings in shiny suits, collecting plants and even taking a cow with them. They seemed scared but didn't approach the beings. The following morning, the beings were still present. At this point, my father had each child confirm the story independently. One child, witnessing it for the first time the previous night, added they had stolen chickens and rabbits, describing the beings as log-like figures with limbs.

Thinking the children had misinterpreted some event, my father called the police. Jerry, the Toledo police chief whom my father knew, accompanied by a local newspaper editor, decided to investigate. Upon reaching the location, they noticed an odd atmosphere – every house was shut, and no dogs were outside. Venturing further, they saw a UFO with three small beings around it, collecting items. The journalist tried to take photos, but his camera malfunctioned after one of the beings pointed a \"magic device\" at it. The beings continued their collection undisturbed. The two men later spoke to locals who advised them to stay indoors when \"these things\" were around. They shared that aside from the cow, the beings didn’t take much. This was the longest they had stayed. Eventually, the UFO departed and was never seen again in the area. (Reported by Don Ecker, UFO Magazine, based on the account of T.G. Browning, the school principal's son).\" (1975, end of the year)", + "location": "USA, near Toledo, Oregon", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2891" + }, + { + "date": "1975", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A horse tethered in a corral and 4 others at liberty were found dead: their bodies were mutilated, showed a clear incision around the anus and one of their eyes was covered with a whitish skin. In the year there were 203 cases of animal mutilations in Colorado.", + "location": "USA, Cripple Creek (Colorado)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 360", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2892" + }, + { + "date": "1975 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the mid-1970s. (Source: Organization: OzEmail Pty Ltd - Australia) A taxi driver from Adelaide came to find Colin from the ufology organization, asking him if extraterrestrials eat potatoes? Because for the last 30 days of this period he received every morning an envelope without address, white, containing cash and written instructions. It was mentioned a place in the hills of Adelaide, where, every evening at 6:15 pm he had to deliver a ton of potatoes in 20 bags of 50 kilos. The first time such an envelope reached him, he did not believe the story, but as the money attached to the envelope was real, he left with a van to deliver the potatoes to the place and time indicated. He then left, ambushing with the van in a secondary road, under the cover of trees, to see what would happen. He fell asleep around 9 pm and did not wake up until the sun's rays the next morning. He went to see the delivery place: the potatoes were gone! After this first delivery, he thought he would never hear anything from the anonymous customer again. But when he got home, there was a new envelope, with thanks, money, and the order of a new ton of potatoes. This lasted a whole month. Then the man met Colin to tell him the story. Colin asked to see the instructions, and the taxi driver took them out of his pocket: all were typed on a typewriter. The paper seemed quite old and yellowed, the typewriter characters looked like an old mechanical machine. Then Colin accompanied the driver to the delivery place, with a ton of potatoes. At the place Colin found burn marks on the ground and his counter indicated a certain degree of radiation. Colin set up the camera and with the driver went to ambush on the secondary road. He saw nothing all night, but in the morning, the potatoes were gone! Colin accompanied the driver-deliverer of potatoes for nine evenings, and never, nothing happened, while the potatoes were vaporized. On the ninth night when Colin accompanied the driver, the camera had photographed an orange ball in the sky, while the two men had not seen anything visually. In the morning of that day, the taxi driver found neither envelope nor money in his mail. In 39 days, 40 tons of potatoes had thus taken the key of the fields ... The driver had received nearly $9000 for his services and for the goods .. [note of vog: which was quite well paid in my opinion: because in FB it makes 450,000 fr. of 1975, while the potatoes at the wholesale price were worth about 5,000 to 6,000 francs per ton, or for the whole between 200,000 and 240,000 francs.] (Around 1975)", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Adelaide", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2893" + }, + { + "date": "1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1976 it was a success. At Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, a laser managed to shoot down an airplane and a helicopter. Two years later the weapon could be considered operational, as it was able to destroy TOW anti-tank missiles travelling at 800 km/h.", + "location": "USA, Huntsville, Restone Arsenal", + "ref": [ + "\"La Guerre des Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 205", + "continued: December 1980", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2894" + }, + { + "date": "1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Lockheed receives the contract for the construction of a stealth fighter (F-117A) and carries out the first wind tunnel tests. The components of the first XST prototype - one year after the signing of the contract - leave the Lockheed workshops in Burbank (California) and are assembled at the USAF base in Nellis.", + "location": "USA, Nellis (Nevada)", + "ref": [ + "Gesag, bulletin n° 96 sept 97, p. 3", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2895" + }, + { + "date": "1/3/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A giant white bird with a monkey head attacked and injured one named Armand Grimaldo. The unfortunate had to be hospitalized, suffering from multiple contusions. [vog: is this still a UFO \"object\" or is disinformation being spread?]", + "location": "USA, Willacy Texas", + "ref": [ + "Guy TARADE: \"I have tracked down the trail of the extraterrestrials\". ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1980, p 249", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2896" + }, + { + "date": "1/5/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A 10-year-old boy, Jean-Claude Silvente, who was alone at the place called \"Les Mortes\" saw, around 6 pm, a luminous object of conical shape, about 2.50 m high, resting on the ground and emitting various glows: its appearance was preceded by a hissing sound. The engine having opened, he saw a yellow light inside and a man 2m tall came out, wearing a tight and luminous white suit. He had yellow hair and on the top of his hands a \"green circle\". The boy did not see his face, nor his feet, his legs seemed stiff like sticks, he walked like a somnambulist with his arms outstretched. When a door opened silently on the left of the device, a kind of undulating carpet descended slowly to the ground after a click, it was on this inclined plane that the tall being appeared. He stretched out his arms towards the child who fled, while hearing a loud noise behind him, like a flush. (Continued on January 6, 1976). (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 591, 592) A child saw an entity come out of a luminous device. It was tall, with long hair and a shiny and tight garment. The face was not visible. It advanced towards the child, both arms outstretched towards him, the latter fled, terrified.", + "location": "FRANCE, Domène \"Les Mortes\" (Isère)", + "ref": [ + "Erich ZURCHER: \"Les apparitions d'humanoïdes\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 205", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2897" + }, + { + "date": "1/6/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: January 5, 1976) Around 6 pm, Jean-Claude Silvente was discreetly accompanied by his future brother-in-law Marcel Solvini to get milk: indeed, following the events of the previous day, his mother thought he might have encountered an unbalanced person. Solvini was standing on the opposite sidewalk. On Jean-Claude's left was a garden bordering the road, separated from him by a fence. Suddenly, right in front of a tree, less than 4 m away from him, he saw the silver silhouette, without a face or feet, perfectly still. The boy screamed in terror, his brother-in-law crossed the road but saw nothing. The humanoid had gone out. The child, in a real panic, rushed home. His mother, sister, and brother-in-law went to the site: there was nothing, when suddenly they saw a light source turn on above the house, bright like a rugby ball, staying in place at 1m50 from the ground. It made no sound. Taking fright, the two young girls quickly went home.", + "location": "FRANCE, Domène \"Les Mortes\"", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 593", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2898" + }, + { + "date": "1/7/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Alverico Guajardo, who was sleeping in his camper, heard dull noises on his roof. Armed with a knife, he went out to try to capture the intruder who had climbed the mobile home. In the light of his vehicle's headlights, he discovered a strange animal about 1.5 meters tall with imposing wings. Its face was that of a bat. Two eyes were fixed on Alverico, a long and thin beak like the blade of a sword gave the creature a menacing look. [vog: same observation, unfortunately.]", + "location": "USA, Brownsville", + "ref": [ + "Guy TARADE: \"I have found the trail of the extraterrestrials\". Ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1980, p 249", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2899" + }, + { + "date": "1/10/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 10 and 11 pm, Mr. Masseron was sleeping alone in his caravan when he was awoken by knocks against the wall and some kind of scratching, then the vehicle was shaken. Believing it to be pranksters, Masseron looked out the window and saw, a few tens of meters away, a luminous object in the shape of an egg, either on or very close to the ground. This object moved in a spiral trajectory, emitting a stridulation that increased as it moved away. Wanting to know more, Masseron went outside. He now heard a kind of message similar to one received by a walkie-talkie, with the characteristic crackling. He didn't understand the message but heard a voice saying: \"...L.P.X... L.P.X... L.P.X\" On the left, something moved and caught his attention. It was the black silhouette of a man of average height, running across the path in a crab-like fashion: the axis of his body oriented along the extension of his right leg. He passed between the fence and an unoccupied caravan. Next to it in the other caravan was the Zamora family, sleeping. Mrs. Zamora was awoken by voices: \"What am I doing?\" \"You do like me\". She eventually opened the window and heard a message identical to the one received by Masseron. Strange footprints were left.", + "location": "FRANCE, Merville", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p.600, 601", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2900" + }, + { + "date": "1/12/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11:30 PM, aboard their old Karmanguir from 1965, Herminio and Bianca R. were driving from Rio to Belo Horizonte. Having passed Matias Barbosa, Herminio, tired from the journey, stopped on the side of the road to rest. He dozed off while his wife kept watch. Half an hour passed and Bianca saw through the windshield what she took to be a very pretty glowing balloon. The balloon approached, went dark, and disappeared. Suddenly it lit up again, directing a beam of light towards the car which then went dark again as the balloon stopped. Thinking it was an airplane in trouble about to crash into their vehicle, she screamed, and Herminio woke up with a start. Both of them then experienced a strange feeling of lightness, a kind of emptiness. (...) The car was sucked up, and they found themselves with it in a circular room. (...) Two young people helped them out of the car and then there was a medical examination and a message for contactees. Then there were other contacts. (Jimmy GUIEU: \"Our Masters the Extraterrestrials\" - Presses de la Cité 1992 - pp. 39-52) They were released 48 hours later. (January 12, 1976)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Matias Barbosa", + "ref": [ + "Maurice CHATELAIN: \"The Messengers of the Cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, pp. 58-60", + "following January 9, 1977", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2901" + }, + { + "date": "1/21/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7 o'clock Albert Meritto arrived at the place called \"Les Bessins\" and saw on his right a yellow luminous object resting in a field. The object was trapezoidal in shape and of large dimensions. On the perimeter of its upper side and on the right and left sides it was equipped with red lights. A rod was placed obliquely at each of its two upper angles. This machine, as big as a house, rose up and passed over him in the direction of Chamrousse and it hovered above the mountain.", + "location": "FRANCE, Uriage", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p.603, 604", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2902" + }, + { + "date": "1/26/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:45 PM while driving on the road to Bouze, Claude Crétin (note of vog: sic!) received two successive calls of spotlights. An immobile yellow-orange scaphandre, with arms very detached from the body, the head equipped with a helmet at the top round, barred at the height of the eyes by a rectangular \"mirror\" surmounted by a headlight emitting a whitish glow. The bottom of the silhouette located at 6 or 7 m from the witness is hidden by the bushes.", + "location": "FRANCE, Bouze-lès-Beaune", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 604", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2903" + }, + { + "date": "1/28/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 00:30, Miguel Fernandez Carasco, 24 years old, was walking back to his village after visiting his fiancée. 1 km from the entrance of the village, he heard a loud noise like a \"caterpillar tractor\" and when he turned around he saw a very powerful light at a low altitude, coming closer to him. Scared, he started running while the light approached and moved away from him several times. Finally, the craft landed 6m away from the witness: it looked like a telephone booth, 2m wide and 4m high, dark green, with a dome or rotating beacon on top emitting red and white flashes. Just below the dome were semi-circular wings 50cm long, and the whole thing was resting on a tripod. A door opened on its hinges, releasing a ramp and two human beings 2m tall emerged, wearing tight and phosphorescent frogman suits. Their wide belt had a buckle that emitted blinding red and white rays. These beings approached the witness up to 4m, who, dazzled, covered his face with his hands and couldn't see their faces. They spoke an incomprehensible language for Carasco, but with a perfectly human tone. Again scared, Carasco ran away while the beings returned to their craft which immediately took off obliquely. This maneuver was accompanied by the emission of a photographic flash and smoke that stained his cheek, palms, hair and jacket: the whole right side of the witness, who at that moment, fainted. Without knowing how, he found himself in front of his house in a state of confusion so his parents called a doctor.", + "location": "SPAIN, Benacazon", + "ref": [ + "STENDEK n° 24, June 1976", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2904" + }, + { + "date": "1/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A young woman, Shelley McLenaghan, walking the few hundred meters to the bus stop, is abducted by extraterrestrials in broad daylight and suffers severe consequences. She and her family are continually disturbed by strange phone calls, followed by the visit of two men in black, one of whom has lost an arm and calls himself \"commander\". Shelley and her parents have had, for two hours, a kind of telepathic mind manipulation.", + "location": "England, Bolton, Lancashire", + "ref": [ + "Jenny Randles 1988", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2905" + }, + { + "date": "2/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: April 1968) The second period begins in February 1976 and ends in May 1978, after requiring 7 and 9 satellites respectively as hunter and target.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 148", + "continued: April 1980", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2906" + }, + { + "date": "2/12/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first target of this year is Cosmos 803, launched on February 12, towards which Cosmos 804 is heading, behaving like Cosmos 404 on April 4, 1971: it returns to Earth after passing at the shortest distance from the craft it had to catch up with. Same scenario for Cosmos 814, after a quick approach. (February 12, 1976)", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p.152, 153", + "see July 1976", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2907" + }, + { + "date": "2/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A couple was going to bed, and she fell asleep, leaving him awake. Suddenly, 3 creatures passed through the closed door. One of them tried to put a bag over the man's legs, with the obvious intention of abducting him. He managed to wake up his wife, upon which the entities disappeared through the closed window.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Hobart (Tasmania)", + "ref": [ + "Keith Baskerfield - Australian Abduction Cases - 1989", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2908" + }, + { + "date": "3/21/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Traveling on the RN 518 at the place called \"The House of the Devil,\" Jean-Lucien Robert was around 9:10 pm dazzled by a kind of luminous cigar, about 1.20m high, 60 to 80 cm in diameter. Stopping and cutting the contact, he saw an oval object placed vertically with two kinds of dark red portholes spaced about 40 cm apart on the edge, from which very bright lights were escaping. The witness felt a fear like never before. The object being blinding, he protected his eyes with his hands. When he looked again, the object had disappeared. Before going home he entered an establishment shouting \"I saw a monster! I saw a monster!\" still hiding his eyes with his hands. His eyes were stinging as if someone had thrown sand at him. He made a statement to the gendarmerie and the gendarmes confirmed the state of shock of this witness.", + "location": "FRANCE, Echevis", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 607, 608", + "Robert ROUSSEL: \"OVNI, la fin du secret\" - Belfond 1978 - p. 71, 72", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2909" + }, + { + "date": "3/22/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three witnesses: a couple in a car and a driver in his truck were parked in front of the town's hotel when they saw a small white car with its headlights on arrive. At that moment a bright green light descended on the white car, which was then enveloped in a thick white fog, and its headlights went out. After two minutes, the fog dissipated and a woman got out of the car to wipe the windshield with a yellow cloth that seemed to be covered in a white substance. A few moments later the woman was about to get back into her car when the headlights came back on by themselves. Surprised, she threw away the yellow cloth which immediately caught fire. She got back into her car and continued her journey towards Nundle, under the astonished gaze of the witnesses who saw a strange object disappear at an incredible speed into the clouds. [vog: the more spectacular, the more he likes it this author... as if all ufology wasn't already confusing enough]", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Neminga (New South Wales)", + "ref": [ + "Maurice CHATELAIN: \"Les messagers du Cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, p. 177", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2910" + }, + { + "date": "3/24/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around noon, the gendarmerie was informed by H.G., manager of the La Bekere restaurant in Capesterre de Marie Galante, that two bright spheres of approximately one meter in diameter had been discovered on the beach of La Feuillère. The gendarmes noted that these spheres were buried quite deeply, at the edge of the breaking wave and partially covered by the sea water, 14 meters apart from each other. A very thin metal coating covered them, with a thickness of about 0.5 mm. On one of the spheres, the coating seemed to have melted, revealing another very resistant metal that could not be scratched with the tip of a knife. The gendarmes, in order to continue the investigation, waited for instructions and kept watch until nightfall, and cleared the things the next day. It turned out to be two half-spheres that fit perfectly into each other and seemed to have been welded together with a material resembling plastic. At 10 o'clock, the mayor arrived on the beach, claimed ownership of these things for the municipality, and despite the prohibition, had them removed to be exhibited in the municipality.", + "location": "GUADELOUPE, Pointe-à-Pitre", + "ref": [ + "J.C. BOURRET: \"OVNI, l'armée parle\" - France Empire 1979, p. 125, 126", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2911" + }, + { + "date": "3/27/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The gendarme M.G. was stopped by a UFO which presented itself in the form of a stationary fog at the side of the road at the crossroads, before suddenly accelerating and disappearing. At the time of the event it was day, it was between 6:50 and 6:55 when the vehicle had a breakdown of ignition. The small cloud was on his left. Its appearance was like that which one sees on roads in hot weather.", + "location": "LA REUNION, Saint Denis", + "ref": [ + "J.C. BOURRET: \"OVNI, l'armée parle\" - France-Empire 1979, p. 68 to 70", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2912" + }, + { + "date": "4/2/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Alberto Ballarín and his wife María Josefa Tarrés were driving on the N-240 towards their home in Monzón. Around 10:30 pm they arrived at the village of Angüés, where they made a short stop and filled up with gas. They then set off on a straight 3 km stretch of road. It was then that they realized something very strange was coming towards them. It was a strange light coming at a speed of about 55 km on the other side of the road. But they could clearly see that it was not a vehicle: there were no headlights or wheels and it was moving in a wave-like motion. It was pear-shaped, 3.5 m tall and 7-8 m long and was about 50 cm off the ground. The object thus passed them in the opposite direction and, turning around, they saw that it left a kind of trail of sparks, like a firework. The wife then saw the object quickly ascend into the sky. \"Look, look there!\" said the husband. The two of them then saw the object ascend surrounded by a brilliant light. They then already arrived at the village of San Roman, without having passed through Lascellas, and arrived home at 10:50 pm, a good quarter of an hour earlier than expected, although they knew the route and the time it took to cover it very well. But the encounter was beneficial: the couple felt better, in better health, more serene, and even the car ran better than before and braked more quickly.", + "location": "Spain, Angües", + "ref": [ + "Encuentros con el misterio, OVNIS EN LA CARRETERA, Article appeared in the magazine ENIGMAS, Javier García Blanco", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2913" + }, + { + "date": "4/5/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Gholam Reza Barzagani, 19 years old, was walking in the woods near the town of Chalus. As he walked, he saw a UFO in the sky that quickly descended and stopped above him. He was then unable to move, while 4 entities emerged from the saucer and took him inside the craft. He said he spent some time being examined by these entities before losing consciousness. He regained his senses early in the morning, not in the woods but in a deserted terrain. He had to walk all morning before finding a dirt road leading to the town of Isfahan. He had been put back on land 480 km south of his walking place. Barzagani was examined by doctors from the Red Lion and Sun Society Hospital in Isfahan. He was declared physically and psychologically healthy. The SAVAK, the national police of Iraq, investigated the case, and during the investigation they learned that villagers from the surroundings of Isfahan had seen a disc-shaped object in the sky. (April 5, 1976)", + "location": "IRAN, Chalus (Caspian Sea)", + "ref": [ + "Tehran Journal for April 7, 1976; Unsolved Ufo Sightings, vol.3 n° 3, Autumn '95: \"UFO's and the Persian Gulf War\" by Timothy Green Beckley, page 41.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2914" + }, + { + "date": "4/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 6 pm, two young girls noticed a strange man on the Atwater line. He was about 2 meters tall and had an olive complexion. He appeared to be between 60 and 65 years old, not very hairy, with very black hair dyed with gray regrowth. His eyebrows extended to a point on his forehead with a line from the eyelid going up. His eyelids were metallic gray. He had a coarse nose, thin and dark lips. His clothes, in very good condition, were from a fashion of the 1950s. (...) He got off at the Berri de Montigny station. He walked in a very stiff way, arms close to his body, fingers joined together, his strange walk made him look like a robot, he moved in small, very stiff steps and at a rather slow pace. (...) [note from vog: maybe it was just a street \"artist\" who was used to doing \"the automaton\"? I couldn't find a Canadian author talking about this case.] (April 1976)", + "location": "CANADA, Atwater (Montréal)", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Our Masters the Extraterrestrials\" - Presses de la Cité 1992, p. 101, 102", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2915" + }, + { + "date": "5/2/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Dominique Menuge, a butcher-charcutier, was driving between 9:00 PM and 9:30 PM in Le Banel between the woods of Rappes and the Fountain of the Noue des Planes, heading towards the pond. Night was falling, the sky was cloudy, the weather was warm and stormy. Suddenly he saw about fifty small beings, frog-like. They were standing, some facing him, others in profile. They did not seem to be aware of the witness's presence. They were green, did not seem to be wearing a suit, their arms were hanging down their body and reached halfway down their legs. Their hands were webbed like frogs. Their head seemed to be wearing a mask or a diving suit with two big red eyes (diameter 10 cm) resembling road signaling lights. Their size was about 1 m 15, their build average. They were making no gesture. The witness immediately turned around and went back immediately to his brother's and told him about his adventure. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 611, 612) M. D. Ménuge lives in a marshy area. It is 9:15 PM... A large number of small frog-like beings, green, with webbed feet and hands, round head and cut horizontally at the top. They had big round eyes and were totally motionless. The witness fled... (Erich ZURCHER: \"Les apparitions d'humanoïdes\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 230) The witness's attention was drawn to the red glows of the eyes, so he immediately turned around. Finally, as he was leaving, he saw on his left, about 3 or 4 meters away from him, another one of these creatures, identical to the previous ones, also totally motionless. The witness was very scared and, in panic, quickly fled the scene. (May 2, 1976)", + "location": "FRANCE, Le Banel", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Michel LIGERON: «Ovni en Ardennes» 1981, p 89", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2916" + }, + { + "date": "5/4/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During his military service, one evening around midnight, while on guard duty at Salto Osorio, Florisval de Jesus saw a dazzling light that then dimmed, allowing him to make out a strange craft and two men wearing metallic clothing. He heard a voice telling him: \"We will come to get you on May 4, 1976 at 7 o'clock in the morning, at Mata Burro (a passage connecting the two sides of a fault) of a farm. He was indeed at the Agropecuaria Planalto livestock farm on May 4. He disappeared at 7 o'clock in the morning. His entourage, who had not taken his first warning very seriously, began to search for him alone, then asked for the help of the police. (...) He was located at 6 pm by an army plane 50 km from the place where he had disappeared; he had a broken ankle and could no longer speak. (...) When he regained his speech a week later, he said he had been taken aboard a craft and that on his return he had broken his ankle by jumping from a height of 4 meters, the craft that was bringing him back not being able to descend any lower to drop him off. (...) The extraterrestrial Hitz Mitz had told him he would come back to get him a year later, on May 4, 1977 [vog: here again, story told exclusively by Jimmy Guieu] (May 4, 1976)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Salto Osorio (Mato Grosso)", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Our Masters the Extraterrestrials\" - Presses de la Cité 1992, p. 90, 91", + "following this date", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2917" + }, + { + "date": "5/30/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening, Trevor White had watched television, as usual. Going to bed he put on the radio, which he usually did to fall asleep to music. Around 2 o'clock in the morning, there were a lot of crackles in the radio, which Trevor first attributed to the poor quality of his device. Then his dog, a German shepherd, started barking. Trevor got up to see the reason for this agitation. Through the glass door in his room, he saw part of his garden, where someone of average stature (1 m 75) was in a silver suit, wearing a dark visor helmet, and a box of 30 x 30 cm attached to the chest, by straps. The box bore an inscription. The apparition had normal proportions. So Trevor went out with the dog, but the creature also advanced towards Trevor, which made him turn back quickly. Through the window he saw the creature rise, although it had no motorized device, but a little higher in the sky a cigar-shaped object was waiting for it and it entered it. The cigar was silver and a red light came out of the back, a green light was above it. The object was above the trees to the west and when the occupant had entered it, it left in the direction of the north.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Daw Park (south of the country)", + "ref": [ + "Keith Baskerfield - TUFOIC", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2918" + }, + { + "date": "6/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) While SALIOUT 4 was still orbiting, another station was set up to be occupied during the month of July by the cosmonauts of SOYOUZ 21. Those of SOYOUZ 22 and SOYOUZ 24 would follow for short stays. Then in August 1977, this SALIOUT 5 disintegrated in the atmosphere. (June 1976)", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 217", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2919" + }, + { + "date": "6/12/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Case No.:: 19760612 A) At 01:45, during their night patrol, the two police officers H.W. Nösler and U. Roschlaub observed an unusual flying object in the sky above a construction site. In the report sent to the Ministry of the Interior, they wrote that the light emitted by the thing was so strong that the security lights placed around the construction site no longer seemed to give any clarity. According to their estimates, the object was at a distance of 200 m and very close to the ground.", + "location": "GERMANY, Ennepetal - Schweflinghausen", + "ref": [ + "Hans-Werner Peiniger, GEP e.V., JUFOF - Germany", + "JUFOF Nr. 37, 1'1985:2ff", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2920" + }, + { + "date": "6/22/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 10:30 pm, Doctor Francisco Julio Padron was admiring the stars, comfortably seated in his car. His driver Francisco Esteves was driving. They were heading to Galdar. (...) Doctor Padron was the first to spot, at about ten meters from the road, a large, luminous globe the size of a three-story building, perfectly circular, of a gray-bluish color. It was transparent, as the two men had the impression of seeing the stars through the craft. The object was a few meters above the ground. The witnesses distinguished two human-like silhouettes in the center of the object and these beings could have been 1.8 meters tall. They were wearing brightly red clothing. Their faces had a distinctly human aspect, in the sense that their complexion and appearance resembled those of the men from here. They were wearing a kind of fabric band around their head, in the manner of a turban, which concealed their ears (...) and which was radiating a luminous halo or aureole. The most curious thing were the hands of these creatures. They were a kind of pointed stumps ending in wings that the beings were slowly moving as if they were hands. (...) The creatures were busy with feathery appendages on what could have been a dashboard. (...) While the two witnesses continued their observation, the car radio went off and at the same time they felt an intense cold sensation while the outside temperature was very mild. Meanwhile, the sphere began to rise slowly and it seemed to grow bigger as it gained altitude. (...) (Jean FERGUSON: \"The Humanoids...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.41, 42) About fifty serious witnesses including a doctor and three astronomers, suddenly saw, around 10 pm, an enormous transparent sphere of light blue color, through which one could see the stars, descending towards them until it remained hovering about one meter above the ground. Inside this sphere one could see two strange characters, with big bright eyes, wearing red suits and seeming to be busy in front of some kind of dashboard, as if they were trying to repair something that wasn't working and without paying attention to all the witnesses who were looking at them with curiosity. Finally, after hovering above the ground for a few minutes, the mysterious craft took off and disappeared as quickly as it had appeared.", + "location": "CANARY ISLANDS, Galdar", + "ref": [ + "Maurice CHATELAIN: \"The Messengers of the Cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, p. 177, 178", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2921" + }, + { + "date": "6/23/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 11:30 PM, José Alves Coutinho, 18 years old, was returning home after evening classes. Suddenly he saw in the sky a very bright light coming towards him and stopping a few meters in front of him. He tried to run away but felt paralyzed in place. The light dimmed and a small being with a big head, big eyes, pig-like nostrils, a small mouth, big ears and a completely bald skull emerged from it. José instinctively moved towards this strange being, felt himself lifted off the ground higher and higher until he was floating above the electric poles and lost consciousness. When he came to his senses he was lying on a table inside an enormous unknown craft that seemed to be 200 meters long. He was surrounded by 9 humanoids, 3 of them female. On a screen they showed him his parents and his fiancée who were looking for him everywhere, believing him lost forever. The humanoids explained to him that on their planet there were no sexual relationships and that children were created in laboratories for specific functions in their society. (...) He lost consciousness again and when he came to his senses he was lying in a bed in the hospital of Tatuape, a nearby town of Aricanduva. He learned that he had been missing for 24 hours and his father had finally found him lying in the garden behind his house in a very bad state. (...) The ballpoint pens he had in his pocket had become radioactive. (...)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Aricanduva", + "ref": [ + "Maurice CHATELAIN: \"The Messengers of the Cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, p. 178, 179", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2922" + }, + { + "date": "7/1/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A woman saw a humanoid creature close to 2.5 meters tall. The entity had a luminous skin under the moonlight. Then the witness saw a red-orange glowing object rise into the sky.", + "location": "INDIA, Madras", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 334, 335", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2923" + }, + { + "date": "7/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: February 12, 1976) With cosmos 843, in July, things become complicated, as it intercepts its target, Cosmos 839, on a very elliptical orbit, between 900 and 2100 km. It is immediately recovered. For Cosmos 886, on the other hand, there was an explosion after passing near Cosmos 880. The eyes and ears of NORAD counted 56 metallic debris in its place. (July 1976)", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"La Guerre des Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 153", + "continued May 1977", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2924" + }, + { + "date": "7/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Little Gaynor Sunderland, 9 years old, came home out of breath and too excited to be able to speak right away. After calming her down and comforting her, her mother listened to her story. She had seen an object land in a field near the house. Terrified but fascinated, looking through the hole in the hedge, she saw two people in silver clothes come out of the object and start arranging various equipment on the ground. These people were small and \"angular\" and had big pink eyes. Gaynor thinks it was a man and a woman. The craft they had come out of was a little over 10 meters long and less than 2 meters high. Around the craft there was a band of yellow windows, and on top of the object there was a flashing light in the shape of a box. When after a big half hour the object flew away, it made a high-pitched buzzing sound. Gaynor told her mom she was cold and very scared, because she was sure the two people had seen her.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Oakenholt (North Wales)", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p.30 which cite the FSR and Jenny Randles", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2925" + }, + { + "date": "8/6/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Freddy Chiasson recounts: \"I was crossing the Parc de la Gaspésie in a thick fog. It was then that something very strange happened. A very bright red beam, coming from the sky, pierced the fog and began to sweep the road in front of the car at the same speed we were driving (...) It had well-defined contours and its point of impact on the asphalt in front of us formed a perfect circle of about fifteen centimeters. (...) The light accompanied us for a few kilometers. (...) Then suddenly, in a curve, this beam began to rise towards the sky in sections. Large sections, however. (...) But just as the light of the beam was almost completely gone, my youngest son showed us on the side of a mountain to our left, a rather intense glow. (...) This glow had something really unnatural about it: there was thick fog, and this glow was of an unbearable whiteness. (...) It stopped above the road, far enough in front of us for me to have time to brake and stop. (...) We got out of the car. My wife complained of having a very bad headache. We had aspirin in the car and I went to get it for her. (...) We decided to go to this device to see what it was. We quickly covered the distance that separated us. As soon as we were close enough, we were very surprised to see an object resting on feet. It had the shape of a scallop shell and it took up more than the width of the road. (...) about twelve meters in diameter and five meters in height. The very solid hull seemed to me to be made of dull metal. The glow seemed to come from square windows like those of a boat and arranged around the object. (...) The silence was impressive, except for a dull noise at regular intervals as if two pieces of wood had been rubbed together. (...) We approached our faces to the openings which were large enough, a little less than a meter square and the more we approached the more the light seemed to diminish. We were able to look inside. My wife gave one of those screams! It was a scream of fear. I followed her finger, because she wanted to show me something. Through the window which seemed to me to be made of soft material, I saw a massive face with large, round, fixed eyes. (...) We ran towards the car. (...) I tried to start the car, but nothing moved. I felt feverish. (...) After a few minutes, my sons and I decided to go out again, my wife tried to hold us back, but we went out anyway. I followed my sons. (...) We were still ten steps away when two beams of low intensity and similar to the one that had preceded us on the road appeared. They were distinct and perfectly oval with the same diameter from beginning to end. The two beams came from behind the device. They were of a bluish-greenish hue. (...) The two beams of light approached and Morris shouted \"There are two!\" I wiped my eyes because I was crying. I saw my two sons standing stiff in front of me. That's when I \"saw\" them properly. They turned off their beams. They were not beautiful. They did not move, I looked at their eyes: terrible eyes, round, fixed. They wore a kind of policeman's outfit, but more fitted. No hat and a bald head. They must have been about 2.10 m tall because they were taller than Morris who is 1.80 m. (...) We were like frozen. All this time I wanted to vomit. (...) Then Rony turned on his heels and started running towards the car. I followed him. (...) In the car I vomited again, then I felt better. I wanted to back up, but the car wouldn't start. In front of us there was an unbearable light and all four of us had to bend down as low as possible because we felt a dying heat. My wife started to pray. The heat became unbearable. Then it gradually dissipated. I tried to start and to our great relief, the car left. I drove slowly. There was nothing on the road anymore. We felt unbearable itching that lasted about ten hours.\" (August 6, 1976)", + "location": "Canada, Parc de la Gaspésie", + "ref": [ + "Jean FERGUSON: \"Les Humanoïdes ...\" - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, pp. 225-230", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2926" + }, + { + "date": "8/21/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around midnight, a young couple in a car from Ernolsheim to Dossenheim saw a luminous ball 3 to 4 m in diameter with some sort of luminous antennas. Above this ball were many luminous points that twinkled forming a half circle. The phenomenon was observed at a low altitude. Then between Ernolsheim and Monswiller they observed a white-yellow ball emitting a bluish and reddish light 2 or 3 m above their car, the same phenomenon was observed above the passenger's house by two young people and by the parents. Around 1 o'clock, the gendarmes of Saverne, alerted, observed it as well. Adjudant Le Martret and gendarme Paichelier of the Bouxwiller brigade on patrol stopped at the intersection of the D 105 and saw in the direction of Mulhausen a triangle from which bursts of fire escaped from the base which lit up and took the shape of a ball, changes occurring every 3 to 4 seconds. Gendarme Paichelier, after 15 minutes of observation, took out a Dacora camera and took two photos (they will be completely black). (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet...\" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 628, 629) Around 01:00 an object surrounded by multicolored rings approached the car of the two witnesses, 4 or 5 m from the ground and followed them when they made a U-turn. It moved silently and changed shape: from the egg to the elongated cigar becoming dazzling. (1976, night of August 21st to 22nd)", + "location": "FRANCE, Ernolsheim/Dossenheim (Bas-Rhin)", + "ref": [ + "Robert ROUSSEL: \"Ovni, la fin du secret\" - Belfond 1978, p. 105", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2927" + }, + { + "date": "9/20/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A university researcher (in history) and his wife were abducted by two entities that emerged from a UFO that had just landed near their car. The entities resembled Egyptian mummies.", + "location": "IRAN, Lake Tabriz", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 335", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2928" + }, + { + "date": "9/22/1976 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two employees of the control tower, an employee of a hotel in Acoteias (Algarve), passengers of a Boeing 707 and people in the whole region, observed the strange maneuvers of a UFO. The object consisted of a main bright blue body surrounded by 5 to 7 horizontal red and white lights. These lights detached from the object and exploded in a huge flash of light. A TAP plane en route to South Africa saw the UFO cut its route and force it to change direction. This maneuver was observed with surprise by the two control tower employees. One of them took binoculars and estimated that the object disappeared at a speed 3 times higher than that of a jet. \"The National Enquirer\" of November 30, 1976, published about this incident: The 707 passenger plane almost collided with a crazy UFO. There were 101 passengers on board who all believed in an imminent collision. The co-pilot Armindo Pinto made a desperate maneuver and the captain Eloy Weigert saw the UFO so close that its silhouette filled 3/4 of the window. This encounter took place very shortly after the takeoff of the plane, flight 241, in Lisbon at 02:10. Two other planes of the same company had a less frightening experience with an identical UFO. (September 22 (19?) 1976)", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Portela Airport-Lisbon", + "ref": [ + "collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenço; \"Diario de Noticias\" 23.9.76; \"National Enquirer\" 30.9.76", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2929" + }, + { + "date": "9/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two women, one 63 years old and the other 18, were walking near their home when they saw a small oval object and felt like they were hypnotized and drawn to it. As they got closer, two entities \"the size of a large doll\" appeared. They had big round eyes and white hair. They seemed surprised and quickly disappeared.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Fencehouses (Tyne and Wear)", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 30", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2930" + }, + { + "date": "10/19/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) José Jorge Lavareda Pinto, 49 years old, and José Antonio da Silva Mascarenhas, 42 years old, were fishing at night, at the top of a rock, their backs turned to the Outao sanatorium. It was 02:10 and they had to go back, but suddenly they saw six clear orange lights of great intensity flying from west to east. At one point this group remained almost stationary. It was a dark brown-green oval shape, with six intense orange lights and topped with a small red light. It was approaching them at an altitude of about 45 to 50 m and at a distance of 200 m. The witnesses were taken by panic because the object made no noise. It was flying at about 10 km/h. When it reached Troia, the orange lights became red and this color spread in a halo around the object. Then it took an incredible speed and left towards Setenave.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Praia das Ratas (Setubal)", + "ref": [ + "\"Insolito\" #21 February 1977, p. 12-13", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2931" + }, + { + "date": "11/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Joyce Bowles, 42, was driving late at night in the countryside near Winchester, accompanied by her friend Ted Pratt, 58. Suddenly, she felt the car being lifted up in the air, before coming to a complete stop. The two people scanned the dark night of the deserted avenue. Then Mrs. Bowles started screaming in terror. An enormous creature with pink eyes was staring at them through the windshield. \"They were horrible eyes, bright like the sun,\" she remembers. \"They belonged to a well-built man dressed in a silver jumpsuit. Just before we saw him, there was a sound, like a rattling of chains. After examining us, he went back to a cigar-shaped craft hovering above a field just a few meters away from us. We could see that there were three other people inside. The one who had stared at us entered the craft, which promptly disappeared.\" Mr. Pratt, for his part, said \"I was scared when the car started shaking, but when the creature looked at me, I felt strangely calm. Maybe it gave me the strength to take care of Mrs. Bowles, who was in a lamentable state. It was a nerve-racking experience.\"", + "location": "ENGLAND, near Winchester", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 129", + "continued in February 1977 Winchester", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2932" + }, + { + "date": "12/12/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Julien Hermann began his shift as a guard at the \"Merlin-Gérin\" factory at 6 o'clock in the morning. \"A few moments later, in my office, turning my head to the left, I clearly saw through the window a human form of a size of 1.65m to 1.75m and of a fluorescent green color, surrounded by a multitude of small green twinkling lights on its profile. This form was about twenty meters away. I clearly distinguished its legs and arms which it held along its body. On the other hand, I could not see the face, nor even the head and shoulders, but it seemed to me to perceive in the night like a motorcyclist's or astronaut's helmet which formed an aureole towards the head. This human form remained motionless in the center of a luminous circle visible on the ground, of an orange-yellow hue, of a diameter of about two meters. I cannot say if the feet of this human form were in contact with the ground or not, as well as it seemed impossible to me to realize if it was facing me or presented its back. I felt a cold sweat and my radio which was functioning began to crackle and crack. I then rushed outside, going around the corner of the building. I saw the form again still motionless in the same place. Suddenly, it vanished on the spot.\" This scene lasted from 5 to 7 minutes.", + "location": "FRANCE, Meylan (Isère)", + "ref": [ + "Pierre DELVAL: \"Contacts of the 4th Type\" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 66, 67, he dates it September 12, but it was a Sunday morning, the other authors say \"December\" I opt for this date", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2933" + }, + { + "date": "12/28/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A submerged unidentified object was observed by about twenty Aborigines fishing on the beach. The craft measured approximately 30 m and had a white turret, a black line around the center and a red line around the waterline. Given the rocky marine ground at the location, it is excluded that it could be a submarine.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Coomlieyna Beach (Ceduna)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 168", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2934" + }, + { + "date": "12/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of China 7 satellite, with recovery. In this case a cabin of 2400 kilos which rotated in space for two days.", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 18, 19", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2935" + }, + { + "date": "12/1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Again at around 9pm, UFO sighting by hundreds of people. [note from vog: see previous \"satellite\"...]", + "location": "CHINA, Taining (Fujian)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 55 of 1981, p. 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2936" + }, + { + "date": "1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Hu Sui Sheng observed an engine in the shape of a spinning top \"spewing out a misty gas\".", + "location": "CHINA, Yichum", + "ref": [ + "Shi-Bo", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2937" + }, + { + "date": "1976", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Soviet research vessel \"Vladimir Vorobyev\" observed an intense, white, underwater point of light, spinning around the ship in a counter-clockwise direction, at a distance of 150 to 200 meters. It fragmented into 8 parts as if under the effect of the propeller blades. It was located by sonar at a depth of about 170 meters and it was revealed that there was an unidentified object under the keel, at a depth of about 29 meters.", + "location": "USSR - at sea", + "ref": [ + "Christian Dutheil: \"Ovni et Osni à l'Est\".", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2938" + }, + { + "date": "1976 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4 o'clock in the morning, Mr. Lina, 46 years old, was driving when he saw two entities of human-like appearance. They measured a little more than two meters in height, seemed to have a blue-green color and at the level of the ears the skull showed a bulge. He also saw an intense yellow light behind a wall and heard a compressor noise, while the leaves of the trees were shaken. The witness felt very uncomfortable when he noticed that the engine of his car was pulling less well and that the light of his headlights was declining, but he managed to pass this strange phenomenon. (1976, unspecified)", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Quebrantoes-Villa Nova de Gaia (Oporto)", + "ref": [ + "Cassiano Monteiro (CEAFI); collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenco", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2939" + }, + { + "date": "1976 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Véronique V., aged 4, was playing in the attic with her brother. Her mother called them to come eat and the brother went down. Suddenly the mother heard her daughter screaming and ran to her, seeing a white four-fingered hand holding the child's shoulder. She then took the girl in her arms and the hand disappeared (version told to Daniel BUKENS). This phenomenon lasted long enough for members of her family and the famous priest Gendebie, who had come running at the child's cry, to see it (1976, exact date unknown)", + "location": "BELGIUM, Leuze (Eghezée)", + "ref": [ + "SOBEPS: investigations", + "follow-up on January 4th, 1993", + "version told to Gérard GREDE", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2940" + }, + { + "date": "1/1/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7:45 PM, returning along the road where they had previously seen a \"star\" that seemed to be following their car, the Perez family stopped. On the left they observed an elliptical metallic object at 300 meters distance, about twenty meters above a sloping field. It was illuminating a foggy mist around it and towards the ground. Red and blue sparks were coming out from under its base. A dark mass like a rod was located above and to the left of the craft, which was stationary. After 8 to 10 minutes of observation, Mr. Perez decided to flash his headlights. At that moment, the craft slowly rose vertically, first without sound, then it started at an incredible speed towards the north, made a 180° loop heading south towards Châteaudouble.", + "location": "FRANCE, Chabeuil/Combovin", + "ref": [ + "M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: \"Ovni, Premier dossier complet... \" - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 636, 637", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2941" + }, + { + "date": "1/1/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A UFO, reappearing for 4 days starting on January 1st, always around 7 PM, was filmed by a team from a Portuguese television station. However, on the same days, around 5 AM in the Oporto region, witnesses reported hearing the sound of a \"large electric engine\". Each time, the sound lasted around 20 minutes and then stopped abruptly. The sound seemed to come from the sea. (1977, January 1st to 4th)", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Leca da Palmeira-Oporto", + "ref": [ + "collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenço; \"Diario Popular\" 5.1.77", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2942" + }, + { + "date": "1/3/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:30 PM, the 24-year-old witness heard a strange sound and saw near his house an object like a dark rectangular box about 2 meters high and 1 meter wide, above a tree. The 9-year-old sister, upon seeing the object, had a nervous breakdown. The next day a circular depression was found near the tree where the UFO had been, which suddenly disappeared. Later, no grass grew in the depression on the ground, while animals refused to pass through it.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Carrapito-Guarda", + "ref": [ + "collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNIICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenco", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2943" + }, + { + "date": "1/6/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Malboeuf, sitting in front of the window, saw at 1:15 a.m. an object in the shape of an ellipsoidal cap land on the flat roof of the third floor, 30 m away from her, on the other side of the street. A second later she saw two 2 m tall ufonauts, dressed in white and wearing helmets, arrive at the edge of the roof, examine the ground, the street, and the sky, and return to the craft which immediately took off. Traces on the snow-covered roof: an oval surface of 6 m where the melted snow had refrozen, two other oval traces, and four footprints from the center to the corner of the platform. (Inforespace No. 36 pp. 17, 18 and No. 53 p. 23) Time: 1:15 a.m. approximately. Duration: 45 seconds maximum. Place: At Montreal, on Casgrain Street, at the corner of Beaubien Street. Witnesses: Mrs. Malboeuf and three other people. The site, in the heart of Montreal and close to a major geological fault, is at the height of a three-story house, on Casgrain Street, south of Beaubien Street. Our main witness, Mrs. Malboeuf, is in her fifties and lives in an apartment on the ground floor, with her son André, aged twenty-five. It is customary for her to get up at night, unable to sleep due to bronchial coughing. That night, however, she saw a white and luminous shape slowly emerge against a sky not covered. The object was coming from the block of houses located immediately at the southeast corner of Casgrain and Beaubien Streets. The object was coming from the north at about 5 meters above the roofs. Her astonishment was immediate: she knew nothing similar to this kind of oyster with lights. The object, which seemed white at first sight, seemed to her to be made of silver metal. Its shape, oval, very flattened and bulging only on the top, had at its base a series of four or five white lights, not very strong in intensity, and which seemed to continue all around the \"oyster\". She very distinctly saw the object reach the alley and reach above the house which begins, in the alley, the continuous series of dwellings, on the other side of the street. Yet, the UFO stopped as soon as it reached this point and, without any transition, descended directly, she believes, on the roof. The object was quickly hidden by the edge of the facade of the apartment, on the third floor, by the effect of perspective. It only took a second for two characters to appear, obviously coming from the object stopped at the moment.

Mrs. Malboeuf did not see them come out of this object, however. Soon, the two men reached the facade of this house and reached, one behind the other, diagonally, the corner of the roof of the adjoining apartment. At this point, for the witness, they seemed to be side by side. They seemed to her to be very tall and very thin, two meters perhaps, with long arms, without their walk seeming abnormal. She could not distinguish their face. She says that their head was covered with a tight \"bathing cap\", reminding her of the frogmen. These two characters, with a lot of naturalness, looked towards the ground and towards the street, a little around them, longer towards the sky, and returned on their steps. As soon as their head was no longer in the field of vision of the witness, the object rose about 7 meters and headed towards Bellechasse Street at the same speed as on arrival. It was not until the next day around 6 p.m. that she spoke to her son about it, as he had not slept at home the previous night. André went around the block of houses, found a way to get on the roof, and went there. For this, it takes a man with a good dose of audacity and more than the strength of a child to achieve this goal. At that moment, his breath failed him, his nervous state increased, and he kept this tension for several days. André was in the presence of a large ice surface with a depression towards the center with an average diameter of 6 meters. Two other small oval ice surfaces were placed near the large one; he went down and told his mother of his discovery. Naively, he had a glaring proof that could convince everyone that a flying saucer had come... But André did not know that in the matter of UFOs nothing is more negligible than a proof for those who refuse to know the subject. Saturday, January 8, around noon, the photographer Gilles Lafrance of the Montreal newspaper came. The two men went up to photograph the large snow circle. The articles, accompanied by the photos of Gilles Lafrance, which were then published in this newspaper and also in the Sunday Express, support in a positive tone the story of Mrs. Malboeuf. These articles \"A UFO in the sky of Montreal\", and \"Say saucer landed on roof home\", January 9, 1977.", + "location": "CANADA, Montreal", + "ref": [ + "Investigation by Marc Leduc for UFO Quebec - Summary by Denis Boucher for Quebec Insolite", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2944" + }, + { + "date": "1/7/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. October 22, 72) Mercado is visiting friends. Suddenly a female voice is heard and she asks him to join her in the reception room of a hotel. This woman then leads him to a small port, where Auri is (note from vog: 1979 Cergy-Pontoise affair, cf. Jimmy Guieu, same name for the extraterrestrial). Conversation about the aura that surrounds people, animals and plants during a flight in a saucer. Then back to land, on the same dock. Mercado takes a taxi to return to the home of his friends. (January 7, 1977)", + "location": "MEXICO, Acapulco", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2945" + }, + { + "date": "1/18/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A.B. in a car around 8:00 PM, noticed 50 meters in front of him and about 500 meters in altitude, a quite powerful light that seemed to move at the same speed as him (60 km/h) and flying over the road. The UFO was very bright, had a rectangular shape, surrounded by a round luminous halo, of a raw slightly yellowish white. Losing sight of the thing due to the path followed, he then found it again and the witness arrived at his home from where he continued to observe the UFO on foot. It flew over the Tihange nuclear power plant, and then stopped abruptly and turned back. During this unexpected maneuver, the witness felt for the first time worried. The object stopped above the power plant, higher and to the left of the long chimney. The witness then called his wife and children, and all of them could see for about ten minutes the strange spectacle, however only seeing the UFO as a rounded shape and the size of a tenth of the lunar diameter.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Huy", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 44 of 1979, p. 17, 18", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2946" + }, + { + "date": "1/22/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 9:15 PM, Felizberto A. Martins, Acclino Disconzi, and Armindo B. Jacobsen, all from SOPAMA of Porto Alegre, saw a large, bright object at an elevation of 20°, three times the apparent size of the moon. It was oval, with its top part red and its bottom part displaying all the colors of the rainbow. After 30 seconds of immobility, the object moved west in a spiral motion and faded away after 5 minutes on the horizon. Five more minutes passed when an identical object appeared on the horizon and stopped vertically in the same place as the first phenomenon. This second (or the same) UFO was quite close to the witnesses, about a hundred meters away. It stayed still for a minute and then moved west. This UFO was observed for 7 minutes.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Itapua (Viamao)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 35, p. 32", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2947" + }, + { + "date": "1/23/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, some friends and I were driving on a winding road in the mountains. When we arrived in front of the hospital of our town, we saw people gathered in front of the entrance, shouting. (...) A woman told us to look at the sky to the north and we saw a big glowing plate with an apparent diameter of more than 40 cm. The object was 200 m away from us, it seemed to be skimming the crest of the mountain. It flew slowly in our direction (...) Emitting a yellow light, it followed a spiroidal line without any noise. It passed over us, followed by a trail of nearly 30 m long. At that moment, the whole valley was brightly lit and the hospital was bathed in a yellow glow, something nobody had ever seen. The most astonishing thing is that the flying object, having made a turn, came back and passed over the hospital again. Everyone was very scared. (...) We rushed inside the buildings and we didn't dare come out until the valley was back in darkness.", + "location": "CHINA, a small town in the province of Hubei", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\". Ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.127, 128", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2948" + }, + { + "date": "1/27/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Lee P., 19 years old, in a car at 01:05 was driving towards his home in Prospect. The ground was covered in snow. He suddenly saw a rectangular object of 12 m by 3 m in color red flying over a row of trees 100 m away from him, at an altitude of about 40 m. The object was dazzling. The witness observed while driving and suddenly saw the UFO quickly depart towards the N.O. He arrived at his home: it took him 45 minutes to make a journey that normally takes 7 minutes. The departure and arrival times were confirmed by his fiancée and his mother. Under hypnosis, Lee explained that he was taken aboard the UFO, in a round room of 6 m in diameter and was put in the presence of rectangular entities, resembling jerrycans, the smallest one being 2 m tall, the largest one 5 to 6 m. Kinds of arms were coming out of the rectangular \"bodies\" that were burning and stinging while being cold, as if covered with a rough skin. (International Ufo Reporter vol. 2 no. 4 - 1977 p. 6, 7 reported by Inforespace, Belgium) A 19 year old young man, returning from his fiancée's and on his way home, driving in a Jeep, said he encountered at low altitude, a luminous object of red color, hovering in the sky next to the road. His next memory is of arriving at his home, with burning and stinging eyes, and calling his mother. The mother confirms that her son suffered from inflammation of the eyes and skin of both legs. There were also electromagnetic disturbances at the level of the Jeep.", + "location": "USA, near Louisville (Kentucky)", + "ref": [ + "investigation by Leonard H. Stringfield - The Mufon Ufo Journal, January 1977", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2949" + }, + { + "date": "1/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A young student who had fallen into a marsh was helped by 4 scaly creatures, 90 cm tall, with 3 fingers on each hand. These small creatures extended branches towards the student, so he could climb out of the marsh.", + "location": "PERU, Huanaco Province", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 347", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2950" + }, + { + "date": "2/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The space station Salyout 4 is voluntarily plunged into the atmosphere.", + "location": "USSR - SPACE", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 217", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2951" + }, + { + "date": "2/4/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 14 pupils of the Broad Haven primary school saw on Friday afternoon, a silver disc land in a field 400 yards from the school. The school director, Mr. Ralph Llewhelin (called 'Richard' by the Daily Mirror) was interviewed by the local press the following Monday. He had gathered the 14 schoolchildren, in the same conditions as for a \"written exam\", asking them to draw what they had seen. The drawings were remarkably similar: a large inverted disc with a red light at the top. When questioned separately, each boy said that the thing had landed for a minute or two. When Mr. Llewhelin wanted to go to the field to examine any traces, it was impassable due to the mud and he gave up.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Broad Haven", + "ref": [ + "personal doc. of vog", + "continued on February 24, 1977", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2952" + }, + { + "date": "2/7/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. November 1966) Mrs. Bowles, still accompanied by Mr. Pratt, was in the car when they heard a sharp whistle and at the same time the car had engine stalling. Mrs. Bowles remembered: \"Suddenly we were both in this machine. One of the space men was the one who had examined us. Everywhere lights were blinking and flashing. The man told us that this was his domain, whatever that might mean. One of his colleagues took out a paper with all kinds of lines on it. In the center there was a circle surrounded by rings. All the men wore boots with the tip curved upwards. These boots were luminous, as were their silver suits. They wore a belt and in the middle of it a shiny stone, and the man closest to me pressed this stone or touched it. Ted thinks it had to do with exchanging messages. All this stopped quite suddenly. We found ourselves sitting in the car, which was stopped. It was near a river, we were completely lost. A large beam of light shone on the car, then diminished as it moved away into the sky. (February 7, 1977)", + "location": "ENGLAND, Winchester", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 129", + "continued on March 7, 1977", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2953" + }, + { + "date": "2/24/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. February 4, 1977) Mrs. Coombs, with three of her five children in the car, was returning home around 8 pm when one of her sons noticed a light in the sky that seemed to be heading towards them at great speed. As the children began to scream in fear, Mrs. Coombs put her foot down as she feared the \"thing\" was intending to pass through the windscreen. But the UFO passed over the vehicle, made a U-turn and began to accompany the car, while Mrs. Coombs reached 80 mph and maintained this breakneck speed for 10 minutes. The object was no bigger than a football, glowed with a yellow light and projected a vertical white beam. Finally the car arrived near the house, but the engine stalled. Becoming hysterical, Mrs. Coombs got the children sitting in the back out and with them ran to the house. As she was telling her husband about the event, the eldest of the children saw the UFO disappear. (February 24, 1977)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Broad Haven, St Ishmael", + "ref": [ + "following April 24, 1977", + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELL: \"The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p 141, 142", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2954" + }, + { + "date": "3/7/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: February 7, 1977) Mrs. Bowles was this time in a car with a friend Ann Strickland, very skeptical about Joyce Bowles' claims about space men. It was pitch black, they were driving on a deserted road, the car engine lost power and stopped. \"We both got out, and then we saw this oval, luminous shape, making a faint humming sound.\" said Mrs. Bowles. \"A man came out and came towards me, hands outstretched. He looked Ann up and down: she was terrified. So was I, but I didn't show it. The man started speaking in a foreign language, then changed to speaking a little English. I answered \"yes\" but I'm not sure it was the right answer, as I didn't understand him. Then he said something to me that I understood very well, but I can't tell anyone, I wouldn't dare. He looked like a space man like the ones I had already seen, but he had longer hair, it fell down his shoulders like a woman's hair. I saw like curls at the bottom of his legs, and he was wearing some kind of gaiters. His touch was warm like a human being's. As soon as he had said what he had to say to me, he turned around and went back to the Thing. We saw it take off into the air and go off with a high-pitched humming. Ann and I were on our way to visit friends, but we went straight back to Winchester, home. Mrs. Strickland, 65, said: \"I didn't hear what the man said to Joyce and she refuses to tell me, for a promise she made him. I had like a black out: too surprised and shocked to see him there, and scared too. These are no longer things for my age.\" After this encounter Joyce Bowles had health problems: respiratory infection, and her hands so swollen she couldn't take off her ring.", + "location": "ENGLAND, Winchester", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 130", + "continued in June 1977", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2955" + }, + { + "date": "4/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Antonio Delgado, owner of the bar \"El Paseillo\" on Sanchez Arjona Avenue No. 37 in Seville, aged about thirty, has just revealed that he is afflicted with an extraordinary anomaly: he has four phalanges in the middle of his hands instead of three. He claims that the four phalanges are a characteristic - for all those who show this peculiarity - of his extraterrestrial origin. Another example is Marcos Pinel from Seville who invented the magnetic energy system which earned him 320 million pesetas paid by the Swiss for the exploitation patent. He is therefore of extraterrestrial origin, but he is also human, with the peculiarity that he can always count on the help \"of the others\" to heal people, to predict lottery winning numbers, etc. At the age of 13, thanks to his extraterrestrial parents, he was able to make a trip to the United States where he stayed in Louisiana and where tall extraterrestrials with red hair and childlike faces taught him a lot of secrets. When he returned home a week later, he got the beating of his life from his biological father.", + "location": "Spain, Seville", + "ref": [ + "Article by Ignacio Darnaude Rojas-Marcos of April 14, 1982, and article in ABC - Spain \"En pocas palavras\" Tuesday 21.6.1982 page 31, article by Benigno Gonzalez", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2956" + }, + { + "date": "4/22/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: April 19, 1977) Pauline Coombes was in her bed trying to sleep when she saw a strange light that stopped above her. She then felt irresistibly drawn by a force and lost consciousness. When she came to, a few hours later, Pauline remembered being taken in a flying saucer and finding herself in a strange room with a dome-shaped ceiling, with two strange beings leaning over her. The rest of her memories are confused. [note from vog: in the Coombs story, Chatelain is the only one to mention this incident...]", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Broad Haven (Wales)", + "ref": [ + "Maurice CHATELAIN: \"Les messagers du cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, p. 185, 186", + "continued on April 24, 1977", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2957" + }, + { + "date": "4/24/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. February 24, 1977) Pauline Coombs and her husband Billy were watching television. Around midnight (around one in the morning) as they were about to turn off the TV, Billy saw through the window (Pauline Coombs suddenly looked towards the window) that the courtyard lamp was not working and that the neighboring farm was plunged into darkness, which was unusual. (these facts are not mentioned in the English report) At a hundred meters (in the frame of the window stood a monstrous being more than 2 meters tall) from the house appeared a strange bright shape: it was impossible to discern what it could be, and the young woman was frightened. The couple then clearly saw a large figure in a silver suit approaching the bay window as if he wanted to observe what was happening in the house. He wore a helmet with edges that fell over his shoulders. (He wore some kind of helmet with a luminous visor, a tube coming out of his mouth and going towards the back of his head) His hands were gloved, his feet shod in heavy boots, his face hidden behind an opaque window. He did not insist, turned around and disappeared into the night. (When the creature, with slightly luminous clothing, touched the window, it began to vibrate loudly) The giant had a very slow gait. The dog, during all this time, was crouching in the farthest corner of the house growling softly. (from this visit the Coombs couple kept two tangible memories: the rosebush near the house completely trampled, and a television completely burned. Six months later they had to euthanize their dog who had never recovered from his fear. They called the police right away.) (Jacques DEGAS - Nostra - 28.4.1982) (for the underlined precisions: Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p 140, 141) They saw outside a giant being who must have been nearly 3 meters tall, because his head, which could not be seen, was hidden by the top of the window which was still 2.50m from the ground. This stranger was knocking on the window and the two spouses were terrified, as was their dog Blackie who had gone to hide in a corner. Billy called the police, but when two policemen arrived the giant had disappeared. The next day they discovered giant footprints 60 cm long that led them to a place where the grass was flattened and half burned, forming an almost perfect circle. [note from vog: Chatelain embroidering freely on the story...]", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Milford (or Broad) Haven (Wales)", + "ref": [ + "Maurice CHATELAIN: \"The Messengers of the Cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, p. 185 - he gives the date of April 21, but in reality it was April 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2958" + }, + { + "date": "4/25/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A patrol of 6 men and a corporal were doing routine work when at 04:00 an intense light appeared at a short distance, attracting the attention of a sentinel. Corporal Armando Valdès then moved away in the direction of the light, when another (or the same) suddenly appeared much closer. Taking a few steps forward, Valdès gradually disappeared for a few minutes before the UFO also disappeared. A quarter of an hour later Valdès reappeared gradually and exclaimed \"Muchachos\" before collapsing unconscious. In this quarter of an hour his beard had grown as it would have done in several days, his watch had advanced fifteen minutes and indicated April 30!", + "location": "CHILE, Putre-Arica, Pampa Luscoma.", + "ref": [ + "J.C. BOURRET: \"La science face aux E.T.\" - France Empire 1977, pp. 228 and following and \"OVNI, l'armée parle, France Empire 1979, pp. 53 to 60", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2959" + }, + { + "date": "4/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On the federal highway from Cuernavaca to Mexico, Victor Gastorena Guerrero and Pablo Mujica Garcia, among other witnesses, suddenly saw a huge blue object in the sky. They lost sight of it for a moment but soon stopped to follow the trajectory of the craft. They saw a dark blue cylindrical beam of light coming out of the UFO. In an instant, the beam touched the ground, enveloping the vegetation and a rest area of about twenty square meters. The brightness was so strong that it seemed that this area had disappeared. The object rose and moved away quickly towards the northwest. A few moments later, the witnesses got out of the vehicles to see what had happened to this strange phenomenon. To their great surprise, the whole part of this environment, including the vegetation, was completely frozen. The plants, leaves, flowers, and grass were covered with frost as if each element was wrapped in a flexible glass. It was so aesthetically perfect that it was a visual enchantment. Witnesses tasted this ice without detecting any difference with the ice from a freezer. The area emitted an intense cold that extended to the witnesses.", + "location": "MEXICO, Topilejo", + "ref": [ + "report by Fernando J. Tellez - document \"OVNI\" of the UEC c/o Claude Chapeau", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2960" + }, + { + "date": "4/30/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (...) in all there were 9 witnesses spread over an area of about 15 km. (...) As she was returning, around 8:30 pm, from the match (or where her 19-year-old son had played) accompanied by this boy and the other children (18, 10 and 3 years old) the mother saw large circular lights above the coastal hills towards the southwest. As they pulsed and blinked, they rose one after the other and then seemed to approach the ground between the observers and the horizon. (the 10-year-old boy drew the configuration: a large cream-colored object surrounded by 6 smaller objects in green, red and blue).(...) When they reached the intersection with a road called Old Redwood Highway, one of the objects seemed to detach from the group and suddenly dive towards the pavement and approach within 12 meters. (...) the road was flooded with light, the intensity was painful. The mother drew the object which she estimated the diameter to be 15 meters. It had several portholes and two beams of light emanated from it.(...) The eldest daughter had also drawn an oval object with its red glow. She added an important detail: a face observing them through the windows. The silhouette resembled a frog head. (...) The mother, the 18-year-old daughter and the 10-year-old boy were taken with nausea and the boy vomited. The 19-year-old son and the 3-year-old girl had no physiological disturbances. (...) (April 30, 1977)", + "location": "USA, Healdsburg (Northern California)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Confrontations\" - Laffont 1991, pp. 91-101", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2961" + }, + { + "date": "5/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: July 1976) Cosmos 909, launched in May 1977, is a new target, which will, like Cosmos 248, 373, and 803, have two pursuers. Four days later, the first, Cosmos 910, makes a quick interception before returning to earth; the same program is executed after a three week pause by Cosmos 918. In both cases the target is reached in less than one orbit and the recovery of the chaser is immediately achieved, without explosion. Two other missions, in October and December, will complete this second test period. (May 1977)", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 153", + "continued October 1977", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2962" + }, + { + "date": "5/3/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the Hainault forest witnesses, including two police officers, make observations at different times. One of the sketches made shows a helicopter cabin without blades with a pointed top, with pink-red crossbars. (Flying Saucer Review vol. 23 n° 2 p. 8-10) Two police officers go to the Hainault forest early in the morning, after a call, and they saw an object shaped like a tent, with red glows, between the trees. They watched it \"pulse\" for three minutes, then the thing dissolved into the darkness.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Hainault Forest (Essex)", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p.123", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2963" + }, + { + "date": "5/18/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two 13-year-old boys, whose parents wish to remain anonymous. Investigators: Ron Schaffner and Betty Parks. \"We were walking the dog, and she got excited about something. She ran off and I followed her. When I caught up to her, we smelled this putrid smell, like rotten eggs. As my friend circled around, we suddenly saw this creature, 9 feet tall and weighing at least 500 pounds. It had brown, dirty hair and eyes that seemed to be white. Its arms were so long, they almost touched the ground. The creature chased us from under the bridge, across the soybean field, all the way near our house. It was standing behind us and taking very big strides. When we got to the main road, we no longer saw it.\" When they got home, having told their parents about the event, the police were immediately called. The police officers accompanied the boys to the sighting location, but the young witnesses did not want to get out of the car. For an entire week, one of the boys also refused to open the window of his bedroom. (May 18, 1977)", + "location": "USA, Pebble County SE of Eaton (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "Patricia Mason, 1996, NACOMM", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2964" + }, + { + "date": "6/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 7 March 1977) In broad daylight, the car of Joyce Bowles and her passenger Ted Pratt, was taken by an unknown force and deposited on a road far from the Petersfield Road, where it was driving. Two men emerged from a hovering machine less than 25 meters away and headed towards them. They were different from the men previously encountered by Ted Pratt. \"They had sandy-colored hair, and they were wearing solid and metallic suits\" he said. \"They said they were there to help humanity, something about war. They were scared of our mania to destroy ourselves and pollute the atmosphere. They stretched out their hands and took ours. I was very scared. They were making signs with their hands, but I didn't understand. They said goodbye and returned to their craft. It took off and disappeared into the sky. We were there completely shocked. I suppose we had met them for ten minutes. Mrs. Bowles adds: \"They pressed a small silver disc into my right hand. Later I had a special white mark there. They said they would come back, but I don't want that anymore. I feel like a marked person. It's not good to talk about it with people, nobody believes me\".", + "location": "ENGLAND, Westminster", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 130", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2965" + }, + { + "date": "6/6/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A peasant was resting at the foot of a tree when he heard the bellowing of a herd of cows. Wanting to get up, he was pinned to the ground by the powerful breath of a craft that landed in the lucerne. An entirely naked couple emerged from the device to get back in it immediately. The witness went to the gendarmerie (South West of 4.7.77; France-Soir of 5.7.77) IN REALITY: A helicopter from the National Geographic Institute landed in a field where a young girl was sunbathing. The father of the latter, who was working on his tractor not far away, was scared and rushed towards the intruder. He filed a complaint with the gendarmerie for the simple fact that the aircraft had landed on his land.", + "location": "FRANCE, Dolcourt (Meurthe et Moselle)", + "ref": [ + "Erich ZURCHER: \"The Appearances of Humanoids\" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 187, 188", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2966" + }, + { + "date": "6/22/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A prospector reportedly saw at 11pm, three slender cylinders descend from the sky, from which emerged several entities. The beings, of both sexes, were playing with luminous balls. They materialized and dematerialized alternately during the two days of their stay on Earth. They reportedly explained to the prospector that they were from \"Begua\" (note from vog: Vega, perhaps?) They had a completely human appearance, but their skin was slightly bluish.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Bulloo River, Queensland", + "ref": [ + "\"Psychic Australian\" 3/2/4. - Keith Baskerfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2967" + }, + { + "date": "7/1/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The NATO base at Aviano was closed for a parade in preparation. At 3 o'clock in the morning the USAF guard observed a strange flying object above the area known as 'Victor Alert', where, in a large hangar, there were two still secret jet fighters. The object appeared as a spinning top 45 m in diameter and very low above the hangar. The upper dome part had green and white lights illuminating the surface of the object. The guard sounded the alarm and a military team arrived on the scene. They encircled the area and launched a radar call, to see if the object could be targeted. But however, for some mysterious reason, there was no more electricity on the base and the radars could not come into action. As the incident was later reported to NATO headquarters in Brussels, UFO researchers were dismissed and told that it was actually a mistake in the observation of the Moon shining above the low clouds!", + "location": "ITALY, NATO base at Aviano (Ponderone)", + "ref": [ + "CISU", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2968" + }, + { + "date": "7/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) ...having finished our work, my colleagues and I were on our way to the restaurant where we were going to have dinner, when, having looked up and contemplated the sky, I saw two luminous saucers stuck together in the dark sky. Looking at them more closely, I found that they looked very much like two pancakes with a point of contact in common. They floated like two dead leaves above the valley. They went up, down, forward and stopped, all the while turning clockwise. Finally they began to go up following a spiral line and disappeared into the darkness of the night. (July 1977)", + "location": "CHINA, Caoyu (Nanxian)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\". Ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.129", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2969" + }, + { + "date": "7/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) As soon as we arrived on the second floor landing of the building housing our offices, we saw through the window overlooking the lock, a shining object above the one kilometer wide river. This object was as big as the largest existing bowls. It was turning slowly, silently, and it was surrounded by a grayish ring similar to Saturn's. The object was 40° above the water's surface and followed the course of the river. (...) When it arrived under the building overlooking the river, near the boats, we could clearly distinguish it. It was an elongated sphere and its ring was composed of ten small, equally sized, luminous balls. To be more precise, these balls were only thin, luminous saucers. (...) Shortly after, the formation began to turn faster and higher in the sky, and suddenly everything disappeared. (July 1977)", + "location": "CHINA, Caoyu (Nanxian)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\". Ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 129, 130", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2970" + }, + { + "date": "7/12/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A small entity wearing a helmet, dressed in green, with a tail. On its back it carried a box with red and blue lights. The box lifted and the entity flew away. The witnesses observed the lights of the box above the trees. There, they were joined by other identical lights, as if another entity was waiting for it. (Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 348) A father and his daughter were at home when they saw a small entity passing under the fence, approaching the house. The father thought it was a child and asked the daughter to turn on the outside lights. This alerted the entity, which turned around. It was about one to one and a half meters tall, dressed in green, including feet, and a helmet with a transparent part in front of the face. An antenna was fixed on it, on the back a box attached to its belt, and the entity had a tail. The stranger passed under the fence again, pressed something on the belt, and flew away like Superman, towards flashing lights further away. (July 12, 1977)", + "location": "PORTO RICO, Quebradillas", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 39", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2971" + }, + { + "date": "7/25/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 11 PM, Donald heard a noise coming from the door and as he headed towards it, he saw a humanoid about 1.2 meters tall about 1.5 meters away. It was dressed in light on top and dark on the bottom. Donald took a flashlight and a revolver and went outside to shine the light on the creature. Near a tree, not far away, his flashlight illuminated a UFO which quickly sent a beam of light towards Donald and his wife, who quickly returned to their home. He had a terrible headache, his ears were buzzing and he felt numb. This witness said he saw 6 or 7 UFOs and a lot of humanoids: he could even hear them walking on the roof of his house, and even an air vent was lifted. Between them, these beings were jabbering in a strange language. All this activity lasted nearly six hours and didn't end until 5 AM.", + "location": "USA, Lindley (New York)", + "ref": [ + "International Ufo Reporter vol. 2 n° 9 - 1977", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2972" + }, + { + "date": "Late 7/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) To early August. Children aged 8 to 10 playing at the Lido saw a huge fireball pass 30 meters above the ground, preceded by a fog. In a few seconds it disappeared, pouring onto the ground incandescent fragments resembling embers. (1977, late July)", + "location": "ITALY, Venice", + "ref": [ + "CISU, Notizie Ufo n° 48", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2973" + }, + { + "date": "8/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The spacestation Salyout 5 in turn voluntarily plunged into the atmosphere for disintegration.", + "location": "USSR- SPACE", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 217", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2974" + }, + { + "date": "8/12/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first model (of the space shuttle), named \"Enterprise\", was released from the factory in September 1976. To test its aeronautical capabilities, a test program foresaw a series of gliding flights over the Mojave Desert. The first one took place on August 12, 1977. (...) Two hundred thousand people converged to the site. (...) The show began simply with the takeoff of a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet, carrying on its back a very strange cargo, which at first glance resembled a stubby DC 9 aircraft with a delta wing. The cargo was simply the space shuttle. (...) Having reached a height of 8,000 meters, the carrier aircraft began a wide turn, descended to 6,700 meters and dropped its 68-ton cargo. This was the beginning of a five and a half minute gliding flight towards runway No. 15 of the Edwards base. (...) The shuttle stopped in less than 3 km. (August 12, 1977)", + "location": "USA, Mojave Desert, California", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 168", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2975" + }, + { + "date": "8/30/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Rocco Cirullo and Michele Giovanniello, both students and 24 years old, were driving towards 00:30 on the road connecting Sturgo to Frigento. In the bushes they saw red and green lights and, intrigued, they stopped and got out of the car. A modulated and continuous sound was perceptible. They then saw a silhouette with silver-white reflections, articulated like a humanoid, first motionless, take two steps in their direction. Frightened, the witnesses got back in the car and drove towards the village. They informed other people and returned to the site around 01:00. The glows, the strange sound and the silhouette were still there. The impression was so strong that the frightened witnesses hid back in the car. Curiosity got the better of them and they returned to the site. The humanoid took two steps and they fled again. As soon as the witnesses ran away, the being retreated. This back and forth happened two or three times in 15 minutes. The 5 witnesses returned to the village to get an electric torch. They were back on site between 01:30 and 01:40 where everything was still the same. A. Capobianco then slowly headed towards the bushes up to about twenty meters from the creature and shone a beam of light from the torch. The being seemed disoriented and two orange lights (in place of eyes) started to blink. This reaction scared the witnesses again who rushed back in the car to alert the carabinieri. On the way, fearing ridicule since they had no proof of their adventure, they decided one last time to return to the site. At the top of a hill they saw like a luminous cylinder divided into vertical stripes, the top resembling a dome. At 02:00 they were back on site: nothing had changed. Again a beam of flashlight was directed at the creature, whose eyes started to blink. It seemed to invite the witnesses to come closer and indicated with one hand the sky. Immediately after, an intense beam of white light came out of the top of its head, illuminating the surroundings and blinding the witnesses. This being about 2m tall never turned its back to the witnesses and did not bend its knees. Around 03:15 the witnesses returned to the village to look for other witnesses, but in vain. They returned to the site at 03:30 but there was nothing to see, darkness reigned on the hill.", + "location": "ITALY, between Sturgo and Frigento", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 48 of 1979, p. 16 to 19", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2976" + }, + { + "date": "9/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Salyut 6 station took over in September 1977 and was still running when Salyut 7 was put in place almost five years later. Regularly occupied until May 1981, it received no less than 32 space ships, inhabited and uninhabited, including 18 Soyuz ships with crews, two inhabited Soyuz and 12 Progress cargo ships for resupply. The Progress cargo ships usually stayed at the Salyut for three weeks, after which they detached to return and burn in the atmosphere, thus freeing the docking port for another ship. It was during the fourth occupation that Leonid Popov and Valeri Ryumin set a new record for a space flight, with 185 days from April to October 1980.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p 218, 219", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2977" + }, + { + "date": "9/15/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 2:00 AM Antonio Bogato La Rubia got up to go to work (he is a bus driver). On the way he saw in a field an oblong object, bigger than a bus and suddenly a blue light illuminated the place. Three silhouettes emerged and seized him, dragging him inside the ovoid object, into a circular room: they showed him images in which he was the main character, and they took some of his blood. Without transition La Rubia found himself in a deserted street of the city, saw the metallic cigar rise in the sky. He looked at his watch: it had stopped at 2:20. He asked a passerby what time it was: in reality it was 2:55. He had pain everywhere and blurred vision but he went to work. Two days later he fell ill with a high fever and a burning sensation all over his body. He was swollen, vomiting, and had a skin rash. (Bertrand MEHEUST: In Flying Saucers - Imago 1992, p. 33, 34) The beings, of small size, were as if covered with metallic scales, their arms were without hands and ended with a kind of finger. The body ended with a kind of single leg, and Antonio had the impression that they were sitting on a kind of stool. The end of this single leg was a foot that looked like a lid. They moved by sliding. (...) all around him were several beings, all rigorously identical, aligned in two rows on each side. In the room there was no ornament, nothing, no furniture, no machines. After a while he tried to free himself and began to shout \"Who are you? What do you want?\" At that precise moment the beings fell against each other like lead soldiers, without making any noise. A blue light lit up the ceiling and the beings were immediately standing up, but Antonio could no longer shout. Pressing one key after another on a \"piano\" the beings showed him images, in the following order: Antonio naked lying in an invisible bed for a medical examination, naked standing, standing dressed carrying a bag and nervously beating an arm, a horse pulling a cart and a ragged barefoot cart driver, an orange ball the size of a balloon next to him, a dog barking furiously trying to catch one of the beings who points a syringe at the dog which turns blue and is reduced to a pulp, a flying saucer factory with thousands of busy beings, a small train without windows in a tunnel, a wide avenue that looks like a known avenue to Antonio. After this last image he was expelled from the disk, falling in the middle of this street 4 km from his home, and found himself standing next to the railway not really knowing what he was doing there.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Paciença", + "ref": [ + "Pierre DELVAL: \"Contacts of the 4th Type\" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 117 to 124", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2978" + }, + { + "date": "9/16/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The USSR launches a new satellite of the Cosmos series, the 952nd of its name. It weighs a little more than 2 tons and is placed on an orbit at around 260 km of altitude under an inclination of 65°. It is a spy satellite, the fifteenth of this type since December 1967. (...) As usual, a rocket engine is fired a few weeks later, in order to send the satellite on an orbit evolving between 900 and 1000 km of altitude, its main mission is finished. It must be known that the radars are very greedy of energy, so much so that for the electric supply of this type of satellites, the Soviets have installed on board a mini nuclear power plant, powered by uranium 235. (...) The expedition on a higher altitude orbit is decided so that they do not fall back to Earth after a few months with their dangerous radioactive load. These satellites are launched in pairs, at a few days interval.", + "location": "USSR, Tiouratam", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 99, 100", + "continued September 18, 1977, but especially see January 24, 1978", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2979" + }, + { + "date": "9/18/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Western specialists can observe that the procedure is respected, since on September 18, Cosmos 954, twin brother of Cosmos 952, takes off from the Plesetsk base to reach an orbit at 257 km. Meanwhile, a Cosmos 953, a reconnaissance photographic spy satellite, was launched from the Plesetsk base. On December 1, 1977, Cosmos 954 will be transferred to the high orbit that will ensure it a life span of five to six centuries, which is necessary for the 49 kilos of uranium on board to have its radioactivity fall below one millionth of its initial value. An atmospheric entry can then take place without any danger.", + "location": "USSR, PLESETSK", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 101", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2980" + }, + { + "date": "9/20/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of Cosmos 955 satellite.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2981" + }, + { + "date": "9/20/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 4 o'clock in the morning, a huge star began to shine, sending beams towards the earth. Spread out like a jellyfish above Petrozavodsk, it stopped, covering the city with a multitude of light beams that looked like rain. Shortly after, the luminosity disappeared, the jellyfish transformed into a bright crescent and left in the direction of Lake Onega. In the grey cloud cover, a semi-circular hole formed, with a light red center and blue edges. Total duration: 10 to 12 minutes. (Boris CHOURINOV: \"The Two Faces of Ufology in Russia\" - May 1994, p. 16) At 4 o'clock, a gigantic disc-shaped object appeared, as big as a football field. The UFO would have directed 5 beams at the city, illuminating the city for 12 minutes. Paving stones and windows would have burst and been charred. Yuri Gromov also reported that a smaller object had detached itself from the first and that both had then moved away through the clouds. (September 20, 1977)", + "location": "USSR, Petrozavodsk", + "ref": [ + "Johannes von BUTLAR: \"UFO, We Are Not Alone\" - Presses de la Cité 1979, p. 187-188", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2982" + }, + { + "date": "10/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: May 1977) In October, with Cosmos 959 as target and Cosmos 961 as hunter, there was another quick interception followed by recovery.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 153, 154", + "continued December 1977", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2983" + }, + { + "date": "10/18/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Kurt Nilsson, 35 years old, on the spot to get better radio connections, declared: \"As I was parking behind the TV pylon, the connection with my colleague became so bad that we cut the contact. It was 8:00 PM. Suddenly I saw an object of pale blue color against a mound in a hollow: it was an object with a dome, about 2 m in diameter. In front of the object there were three figures in space suits: they were standing to my left, at 100 m. They were about 1 m tall and grayish, very visible in the light emitted by the object. I was so surprised that I turned on the headlights to see them better, but then everything became dark, I saw nothing. For a minute nothing happened, then the place lit up as before and I could see as before. I was so scared that I started the car to leave. After 50 m the car stopped and I saw on the road the 3 characters, or 3 others that looked like them. The one in the middle had something in his hand that looked like a shovel, when he turned this instrument towards me the headlights went off and the engine stopped. This character was holding the shovel with both hands, arms crossed and hands on the handle in a \"T\". Again it was complete darkness and I thought \"this is the end\". However I started the engine again, I backed up, waited 2 minutes and turned on the headlights: nothing. Nine years before, on March 12, 1969 (see that date), a similar adventure had been experienced by Kjell Näslund, director of the station, almost in the same place.", + "location": "SWEDEN, northeast of Angermanland.", + "ref": [ + "Skandinavsk UFO information n° 1/1978", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2984" + }, + { + "date": "10/23/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) … at dusk, the sun had just set and the sky to the west was still red. At 6:30, the fighters of our unit (…) sitting on the ground, were waiting for the start of a movie screening. Suddenly a comrade raised his arm towards the west and shouted \"What is that?\" At his cry everyone looked up into the sky and saw a shining object flying. It was huge, as big as a basketball. Its movement was that of an Archimedes screw. The object moved slowly, at a uniform speed, while turning in the opposite direction to that of the hands of a clock. (…) oval, topped with a dome or something similar. Its yellow color was somewhat reddish, its white, milky tail was composed of small sparks. At first, the tail wrapped around the shining object was quite wide, but as the object turned, it became thinner and thinner. What surprised us the most is that the object and its tail disappeared all at once, at the same time.", + "location": "CHINA (unspecified location)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\", ed. Mercure de France 1983, p. 132", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2985" + }, + { + "date": "12/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. October 1977) In December we return to Cosmos 970 with a slower interception of the target bearing the number 967, with, again, the explosion of the fighter in 47 pieces. (December 1977)", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 154", + "cf. May 19, 1978", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2986" + }, + { + "date": "12/2/1977", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A farmer saw a UFO land in his yard at night. It was a bright glowing blue and inside the craft the light was intense red. Two entities were busy kidnapping the farmer's dogs, who fired upon these creatures. They dropped the dogs and fled.", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Wiamata Valley (near Gisborne)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 345", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2987" + }, + { + "date": "1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The US Navy also needed communication satellites. For this purpose, the \"FLTSATCOM\" series of satellites were designed, built and launched starting in 1978. By 1982, the network included 5 satellites - one in reserve -", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 93", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2988" + }, + { + "date": "1/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) China 8 placed itself on a low inclination orbit. It is a photographic reconnaissance satellite, but it was not recovered. Likely it transmitted televised views, like China 3 and China 5.", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 19", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2989" + }, + { + "date": "1/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1961, September 19) Betty Hill narrowly escaped a fatal accident, thanks to the presence of a UFO in the sky. She was about to cross a railway line when she was frightened by a black flying shape, where a ruby red light pulsed. This thing flew quickly towards her, it stopped, reversed, and a few seconds later an express train passed on the tracks where she had ventured.", + "location": "USA, unspecified location", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p 61", + "continued August 1980", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2990" + }, + { + "date": "1/7/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A 30-year-old worker was riding a moped on the road connecting Vergaville to Guebling at 04:30. He saw at an unspecified distance three bright balls lower than the ground, bigger than car headlights. One of the balls detached from the group and approached the witness like a shooting star, illuminating like an enormous projector with a uniform white light so strong that he could barely distinguish the road from the roadside. He was scared and did not look in which direction the ball went. He cannot say if the craft made any noise, as he was wearing a helmet.", + "location": "FRANCE, Guebling (Moselle)", + "ref": [ + "J.C. BOURRET: \"OVNI, l'armée parle\" - France Empire 1979 - pp. 219 to 219", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2991" + }, + { + "date": "1/12/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Gary P. had been driving all through the early morning hours when he came to his senses around 5am, surprised to find himself parked on the side of the road. He was unable to remember the last 160 km. As he regained consciousness, he saw a bright stationary light some distance away. He tried to get closer to it, but to no avail. [note from vog: I call this having a power outage...]", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, BAKERS CREEK FALLS, New South Wales", + "ref": [ + "Keith Baskerfield - Australian Abduction Cases - 1989", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2992" + }, + { + "date": "1/20/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Six young boys were playing football in a small square in the city. Suddenly, an object with the shape of two plates stuck together landed near them. Frightened, they ran away, except for two of them, paralyzed on the spot. Beings descended from the craft and invited them to get on board. One of these two children was found 500 km away, two hours after his disappearance, wearing only a pair of trousers and shivering from the cold. The other boy was never found. The survivor, Manuel Roberto, said that they were taken to a room where there was only a chair or a bench, and once they sat on it, they couldn't get off. One of the creatures then showed them how to get out of it by passing their hand along one side of the chair. In this room there were eight small beings with human faces. During the UFO's landing, a power outage affected the whole town, and the company couldn't determine the cause.", + "location": "BRAZIL, Rondonopolis", + "ref": [ + "Pierre DELVAL: \"Contacts of the 4th Kind\" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 22, 109-110", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2993" + }, + { + "date": "1/24/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Cosmos 952, launched on September 16, 1977, had been transferred to high altitude on October 8. On October 11, 1977, fears began to manifest themselves Cosmos 954 would logically do the same. On December 17, the anxiety begins to really show. (...) The USA contacts the USSR, in parallel the French, English, Italian, Japanese and Canadian heads of state are warned of the danger.

Because, under an orbital inclination of 5° the undesirable satellite surveys all countries of the world. Only the extreme north of Scandinavia, the northern fringe of Siberia, Canada and Alaska and Antarctica, almost depopulated regions, are spared. (...) Yet it is still not known where Cosmos 954 will fall, in the meantime it accomplishes 16 tours of the earth per day.

On January 19, 1978, the USSR ambassador informs the American authorities that there is no risk of nuclear explosion, yet the news is still not publicly announced. NORAD headquarters informs Washington on the 19th that the fall will take place on January 24, 1978. That day, in the early morning, eastern time of the USA, (...) Cosmos 954 penetrates the atmosphere around 7 o'clock, which places the impact point on Canada!

Immediately the six large carriers C 141 of the nuclear intervention team of the \"NEST\" take off from Mc Carren International Airport, and from the American air bases of Andrews and Travis. Aircraft of the Canadian Armed Forces, based in Edmonton, also take off, to join the search team. The last quarter of an hour of Cosmos 954, its penetration into the dense layers of the atmosphere, at 120 km altitude, begins above the Pacific, almost vertical to the Hawaiian Islands.

Then, transformed into a ball of fire, the Soviet satellite approaches the coasts of North America, at the level of the Queen Charlotte Islands, almost at the American-Canadian border. After having surveyed British Columbia, the satellite and its dangerous load travels another 1700 km, to the district of Mackenzie. The NORAD surveillance stations, which have perfectly followed this descent, locate the impact point of the pieces that would have resisted the test of fire, in the region of the Great Slave Lake.

It is not known what became of the nuclear reactor. Did it completely burn during the entry or did it reach the ground? This last possibility seems the most plausible, in the measure that the uranium core was surrounded by a thick shield, whose weight is evaluated at half a ton by Western experts. The satellite touched the Canadian ground at 6:53 Ottawa time. (...) The next day, a U-2 aircraft tries to visually detect fragments. A Canadian Hercules follows it with a radioactivity detection equipment. In vain. (...) Yet the inhabitants of Yellowknife saw in the night the fall of a reddish ball. It came from the southwest followed by a long trail of incandescent fragments. (...) Beginning of February 1978, a silver rod 25 centimeters long by 8 in diameter was found near Mc Leod Bay, emitting the record radiation of 500 roentgens. (...) Finally this is all that was found of the Cosmos 954 reactor. (\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 101 to 114)

Of the 50 kilos of uranium a large part is supposed to have burned in the atmosphere. On the ground only remains the size of grains of salt were found. The cleaning of the region took long weeks. [Note from vog: in 1998, the date of the USSR towards Canada, for the research and storage of dangerous remains, amounting to half a billion dollars, was still not settled...]", + "location": "USSR, SPACE", + "ref": [ + "The Associated Press", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2994" + }, + { + "date": "Late 1/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 8:15 PM, Mrs. L. was looking out the window of her kitchen when she saw an undefined shape moving at an incredible speed and suddenly stopping, taking the shape of two bright discs. The two discs were two diameters apart. A dark band was tangent to the base of the discs, which had an apparent diameter of 20' arc. By their color, they reminded her of car headlights. From each disc, a ribbon of light was directed towards the ground. Very intrigued, Mrs. L. woke up her husband, who also observed the phenomenon. After 4 to 5 minutes, the witnesses stopped observing it, which was still there, motionless. (1978, late January)", + "location": "France, Vernouillet", + "ref": [ + "Christian DE ZAN: \"Guide du Chasseur de Phénomènes OVNI\" - ed. De Vecchi 1980, p. 126", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2995" + }, + { + "date": "2/5/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness, a Madrid merchant, went out to hunt partridge with his dog Mus. Strangely, while he was used to a determined hunting ground, the witness headed towards an unknown place. Some kind of impulse forced him to drive his car down a path. The engine stalled, the lights went out. He got out, lifted the hood, examined the engine, when the dog showed signs of fear. From behind some kind of mound two unknowns emerged, wearing green suits and yellow hoods on their heads, and seemed to be very interested in the dog. These individuals invited the witness to follow them, which he did. He found himself in front of a large metallic-looking object that was floating motionless a few meters off the ground. A cylinder descended from it, with a door that opened, and the witness entered it, escorted by the two individuals. He found himself in a circular corridor at the foot of an archaic ladder that led to the upper floor. He climbed it and reached a hemispherical dome room lit with white light. He had to show his gun to the unknowns and give them a cartridge. Then he was made to descend the ladder, get out, and saw his dog running ahead of him. When he turned his head, the craft was gone. Several hours had passed. Under hypnosis he revealed a space journey. (February 5, 1978)", + "location": "SPAIN, province of Soria", + "ref": [ + "Bertrand MEHEUST: \"In Flying Saucers\" - Imago 1992, p. 39, 40", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2996" + }, + { + "date": "2/15/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the night the 15-year-old girl was suddenly awakened and sat up in her bed. From the window of her room came a strong light and she felt unable to move. Very close to the ground in the garden, a strange luminous dome-shaped object was hovering above the snow, motionless. At the base and at its top pulsed colored lights. - You will get up and come join us... - No! This silent cry she shouted mentally and, an idea, a very surprising argument pushed her to formulate this thought: - No, I will not come because I am materialistic, very attached to the mundane joys of life. You, you are spiritually evolved and far removed from my concerns. Leave me, spirituality does not interest me. (...) After a time difficult to evaluate - more than an hour no doubt - the paralysis ceased and the craft, slowly, rose up. Frightened, the young girl ran to wake up her parents. They, through the window, could see without any mistake the ship which now at several meters from the ground, was moving away with its pulsating polychrome lights. (...) (February 15, 1978)", + "location": "CANADA, near Montreal", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Our Masters the Extraterrestrials\" - Presses de la Cité 1992, p. 35 to 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2997" + }, + { + "date": "2/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A woman who wishes to remain anonymous recounts that she was taken by a beam of light into a spaceship, while she was hanging wet laundry on the line in her garden. At first she saw a shape with blue glows coming in the sky from the north. \"The light hovered above the garden. I was petrified and the laundry fell from my hands. Suddenly I was completely engulfed in bubbles of light. I saw three entities resembling men. They did not speak. They were about 1.5 meters tall and were dressed in bluish metallic clothing. They grabbed me by the arms and we went up together in this beam of light into some kind of room. Other men were there. I then had the feeling that they did not mean me any harm. A little later I found myself in the entrance of my garden. At the back I had a painful bump. I was stunned, but not injured. When I looked up, the thing was disappearing into the sky at great speed.”", + "location": "ENGLAND, Ermington (Plymouth)", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 54", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2998" + }, + { + "date": "2/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Linda (pseudonym) nurse reports the observation of a flying UFO between two houses in February 1978. There was a deafening noise, and her mother was hiding under the covers, convinced it was an airplane about to crash. But Linda looked out the window and saw, just a few meters away, a silver object with a band of colored lights. She said \"the thing looked like a luxury box containing premium cigars\".", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Killingworth (Tyne and Wear)", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 31", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_2999" + }, + { + "date": "3/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three women, lying on a hillside to observe the sky in the evening, felt that a \"missing time\" had occurred. Shortly after this episode, a hypnotic regression was decided upon and an abduction scenario was then revealed. In 1989, a new regression took place at the instigation of investigators Keith Basterfield and Bill Chalker (note from vog: investigators like these should be regressed to their \"non conception\" in my opinion!) and there was then an additional information: such as a beam of light, or seeing one of the other women speaking to a male entity [note from vog: as all this is so interesting... was it really necessary to hypnotize this woman twice to get such meager results?]", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Gisbome", + "ref": [ + "UFORA89017. Original investigation by Bryan Dickeson. Retrospective investigation by Keith Baskerfield & Bill Chalker. See also Dykes, M. (1981). \"Strangers In Our Skies.\" INL Lower Hutt.pp46-49.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3000" + }, + { + "date": "4/18/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Stephan Gil) Around 8 o'clock in the evening, in Nepal, in a valley at the end of a lake, we had just taken a bath with my companion, when, towards the west, I saw some very grouped points resembling a bird migration. (...) but they had disappeared. A few minutes later, the famous birds were back in the sky. And suddenly, the points concentrated into a real flying saucer. Then the object moved slowly. (...) The object took a very vague shape; It looked like a small circle of smoke and lasted about 30 to 40 seconds. Suddenly, in the sky, in front of us, we saw an extraordinary phenomenon. Many groups of points were transforming into saucers, then into a circle of smoke. This phenomenon lasted nearly half an hour. These saucer-shaped objects were moving at an extraordinary speed. We felt that we were witnessing something incredible. (...)", + "location": "NEPAL", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - ed. Mercure de France 1983, p.172", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3001" + }, + { + "date": "4/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) According to the newspaper Paris - Normandie dated April 29, 1978, an employee of an electronic components factory in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur allegedly saw a headless ghost in her microscope. This employee was seized with spasms for two hours and thirty other employees were then victims of a collective hysteria. A few hours later, another employee observed the same ghost and fell into a trance. [vog: she is very good, isn't she?]", + "location": "MALAYSIA, Kuala Lumpur", + "ref": [ + "Christian DE ZAN: \"Guide du Chasseur de Phénomènes OVNI\", ed. De Vecchi 1980, p 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3002" + }, + { + "date": "5/8/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Soviets launch Cosmos 1009 in pursuit of Cosmos 1006.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The Satellite War\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 142", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3003" + }, + { + "date": "5/10/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jan Wolsky, an old 71-year-old peasant, was driving his cart harnessed to a mule through a forest near Emilcin (130 km southeast of Warsaw). \"Suddenly I saw two small men standing at the edge of the forest path. When my cart arrived at their height, I realized that they were not normal. They were not dwarves, as I had first thought. They were not even men, but creatures of nightmare. As I am a believer, I thought I had a diabolical vision. I pinched myself and forced myself to regain my senses, but nothing worked, what I had in front of me was real. These monsters had a greenish face with two large oblique eyes. They wore a one-piece suit and sleeves came out of their webbed fingers.” These androids jumped into the cart without taking off and without effort and ordered him to continue his journey. A few tens of meters further on, they pointed out a small perpendicular path in which he engaged his mule. Arrived in a clearing, Wolsky, who could not believe his eyes, saw a strange object, the size of a bus, floating in the air a few meters high and animated by a slow rocking motion, like a boat on the water of a lake barely stirred by the wind. \"The two dwarves seized me and took me under the engine. A platform came out and landed on the ground with a whistle. We took our place all three and were immediately drawn into the flanks of the ship. The room in which we emerged was dark despite many portholes. It was absolutely empty except for about twenty birds of the forest apparently alive but frozen in complete immobility. I was beginning to panic when two creatures entered the room carrying each in their hand a device emitting a rumble and clicks. One of them made me understand by gesture that I had to undress. When it was done, they moved their devices over my whole body. Then they put them away and I could dress again. Then I did not know what to do. They looked at me in silence without making a gesture. Timidly I headed for the airlock where I had entered. One of them slightly inclined his head and made a smile. As soon as I put my feet on the platform, it descended to the ground with the same whistle. I then took my cart and went home without asking for more. \"", + "location": "POLAND, Emilcin", + "ref": [ + "J.-L. B. - Nostra - 23.7.1980", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3004" + }, + { + "date": "5/15/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: September 15, 1975, Industrial City) Mrs. Victor (nurse) was in the house of one of her patients, an elderly lady, when suddenly she fell as if someone had violently thrown her to the ground; during the minutes that followed she was severely beaten by an invisible entity. The old lady reported that she saw Mrs. Victor spinning and whirling on the ground, hitting obstacles in her path. She suffered numerous bruises, a splinter of wood pierced a vein and she broke a leg. She had to spend 6 days in the hospital. (May 15, 1978)", + "location": "USA, Gilroy", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Confrontations\" - Laffont 1991, p. 120", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3005" + }, + { + "date": "5/19/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: December 1977) COSMOS 1009 HUNTER IS SENT TOWARDS THE SAME TARGET (COSMOS 967) FOR A SLOW APPROACH FOLLOWED BY RECOVERY.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 154", + "continued: April 1980", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3006" + }, + { + "date": "5/28/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Location: an expanse of meadows at the foot of a slag heap. Four horses were grazing there. Gabriel Stoquart had finished pouring the feed into the troughs and was going to check the fences, on the side of the brambles. The boy who was accompanying him stayed to stroke the horses on the nostrils and suddenly shouted \"Look there!\". The witness then saw, coming towards him, a grey shape, like that of a hot-air balloon whose fabric was deflating and which was floating, oscillating. Mentally he made the reflexion that they would have difficulty getting out of this marshy place. He changed position to get a better view of this thing which was descending, which was now resting in what he called the marsh. But it was not a hot-air balloon he realised, dumbfounded. This thing started to vibrate, its greyish colour became luminous, an electric blue like one can see on certain illuminated signs. It was magnificent. Then this thing glided slightly and rose straight up at a vertiginous speed. During the ascent it was of a luminous, matt white colour. The witness and the child did not linger on the spot and returned to their home. As the witness lives opposite the police station, he went in to tell them about the event. The policemen were ready to go home, as by then it must have been around 4 o'clock. But two of the men accompanied the witness back to the spot the same day: they discovered traces of the landing with footprints of the craft and a kind of white powder sticking to the vegetation. The next day it was a team of 6 men from the Quaregnon police who came to the spot. Plaster casts were taken of the indentations (footprints), powder - like talcum - was collected in bags. Powder had soiled one of the policemen's hands. Back at the office, even after washing his hands, this powder still stuck to his skin. From the top of the slag heap one of the policemen filmed the activities with a Super 8.", + "location": "BELGIUM, Quaregnon (Hainaut)", + "ref": [ + "Investigation reopened in 1995 by vog and Thierry WATHELET. Reasons: death of the policemen who had been in contact with the powder, accusations against SOBEPS, GEPAN, university professors, political authorities, the French gendarmerie… all of whom would have made the evidence disappear and some of whom allege that the case is a hoax. The hoax is formally contradicted by 4 inspectors of the municipal police still active in 1995. vog had the original file stolen from his home on 19 February 2000 by Claude Raffy, known in French ufology circles and since then untraceable, but fortunately there were copies in safety", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3007" + }, + { + "date": "5/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3:00 PM a Doctor of Science noticed a strange object in a clearing of the forest, behind his country house. He went there to get a better look. In the clearing there was an 8m long cigar-shaped object touching the ground at one end, the other being suspended at 45° relative to the horizon. Despite this inexplicable position the object did not move. When trying to approach it, the witness felt the presence of an invisible and impassable barrier (at the frequency of 7 Hz, according to the witness).", + "location": "USSR, Strokino", + "ref": [ + "Boris CHOURINOV: \"The Two Faces of Ufology in Russia\" - May 1994, p. 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3008" + }, + { + "date": "6/22/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time: 10:15 PM. Witnesses: Two (Mr. Alain Mainville and Louis Roger) Investigator: Monique Taillon. On the evening of June 22, 1978, Mr. Alain Mainville and Mr. Louis Roger were fishing at the Cabonga Reservoir, which is located in the Vérendrye Park. This reservoir covers an immense area of water, and is composed of many bays and islands, with different varieties of fish. The two witnesses were at the time of the observation about half an hour from their camp near the Brady Bay Campground, and were fishing in their boat. The sky was completely covered, and it was beginning to rain, the time indicating 10:15 PM when both considered raising the anchor, in order to return to their camp to avoid being completely soaked by the rain. They had just traveled a few hundred meters south of the reservoir when they suddenly saw in front of them, just above the water, an enormous disk of bright red color. Having not seen it coming, as it appeared all at once like turning on a light, one of the witnesses, Alain, taken by panic, stopped the outboard motor. His friend Louis, who was at the front of the boat, quickly lit his flashlight in order to signal their presence, as he thought that this intense light came from another boat that seemed to be rushing towards them. He then threw himself into the bottom of the boat. A few moments later, Alain shouted to him \"immediately turn off your light\". By doing so they realized that the object was already far enough in front of them, and they saw that it was clearly an object flying in the shape of a disk seen from the side that had a bright red color. This disk disappeared a few seconds later at full speed in a south-easterly direction. The observation had lasted about 30 seconds. The disk, as it moved away, seemed to shrink and become a little paler. It made no noise. Shortly afterwards, Louis, still at the front of the boat, distinguished glows like rays but could not say what their shape or color was. Alain, on the other hand, did not see anything like that. The two witnesses stated that they had no desire to experience such an event again.", + "location": "CANADA, Cabonga Reservoir, Vérendrye Park", + "ref": [ + "UFO Quebec no. 25 ed. Courtesy Q.I", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3009" + }, + { + "date": "6/24/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 12:45, the witness having finished her domestic work, observed a large light above the nearby hills. After a few seconds she saw the object, in the shape of a disk, pass 150 m from the ground behind the hill. Very excited, she called her son. In relation to their position, the object was moving to the right while projecting two beams of red light apparently directed towards them. They had a moment of panic. Meanwhile, Laura's husband returned home and continued the observation with them. The object measured nearly 200 meters long and was barely 3 to 3.50 meters high. It eventually disappeared behind the other hills.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Caxias-Lisbonne", + "ref": [ + "Collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenço; CEAFI, Lisbon", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3010" + }, + { + "date": "7/6/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the night, Francisco Nunez and his son, both mechanics, were travelling in an old 1933 Chrysler when, to their great surprise, the vehicle was diverted from its route, lifted into the air, while the engine stopped but the radio continued to work. They found themselves thus \"surrounded by pleasant sensations\". The father, who was deaf, was able to hear what his son was saying during the ascent. They then felt a great cold and were dazzled by reddish lights, which made them look down. The panorama that was revealed was the vision of an unknown city, with towers of buildings next to each other. There was a street 5 m wide, only one; no other streets, no trees, no people, no vehicles. The windows of the houses were coloured with a reddish glow and the buildings seemed brown. This vision only lasted a short moment, as the Chrysler seemed to be \"flying\" very quickly. Finally, the vehicle was back on the road, 9 km from the place where the ascent had taken place, as soon as it touched the ground, the engine started up again on its own.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Maipu region", + "ref": [ + "Pierre DELVAL: \"Contacts of the 4th type\" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 110, 111", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3011" + }, + { + "date": "7/8/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: Patricia Mason - Witnesses: Eugene Kline, Theresa Kline and Ken O'Neal Investigators: Ron Schaffner, Earl Jones) The Roger Kline family lived on the outskirts of Butler, their property extending to the railroad track and to the edge of the woods. On July 8th, around 11 pm, Eugene Kline and Ken O'Neal, both 17 years old, were walking in the fields when they heard a strange noise in the bushes. Turning around, they saw an unknown creature, over 2 meters tall, with an enormous head wider than the body and large red eyes. They immediately panicked and while Ken ran towards the house, Eugene was rooted to the spot for a long time before he could join his friend. Eugene's father called the police, who came to investigate the scene. On July 10th, the creature was observed by other residents of Mansfield. (names in the police report, but not disclosed to the public) It was around 10 pm when a group of young people were doing cross-country near the railroad track. They called the Bellville police to affirm that an apparition of a large black creature with red eyes had scared them. The authorities were impressed by these consistent testimonies, coming from separate people. In the evening of July 12th, Theresa Kline was helping her father spread hay in the barn, when they heard in the distance the slow arrival of a train. When the train began to sound its horn in short and long intervals. The father went back inside and Theresa, curious about the warning of the train, decided to go take a look. She had not gone far before she saw the silhouette with red eyes. The creature emitted a long, shrill cry of pain. It smelled terribly. Theresa turned on her flashlight and the creature started to run. The sheriff, alerted, could not find any physical evidence of the creature, and speculated, with ironic skepticism, that the Klines were seeing some wild animal come out of the woods. (...) (1978, July 8, 10 and 12)", + "location": "USA, Butler, Richland County (Ohio)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3012" + }, + { + "date": "8/15/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Roberto Rodriguez was sleeping in his sister's guest bedroom when he was awakened by a humming sound. He got out of bed and went to the window. There it was! Like the fuselage of an airplane, but without wings or tail. Silver in color and very polished, like a mirror. There was a row of portholes along the side, but the witness noticed no signs of life inside the craft. The object emitted a kind of pulsing green light, seeming to come from its base. It was there, hovering. Rodriguez was about to wake everyone up, but in a flash, the craft was gone.", + "location": "BOLIVIA, Chacez (La Paz)", + "ref": [ + "UFO Roundup vol 2 #35, September 14, 1997, Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3013" + }, + { + "date": "8/21/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: Patricia Mason - August 21 at 10:30 PM, August 22 at 9 PM, August 23 at 11 PM, September 8 at 6 PM, September 9 at an unspecified time, but in the evening. Witnesses: Evelyn Cayton, Howe Cayton, Herbert Cayton, Vicki Keck, Scott Patterson, Mary Ackerman, Becky Manley, Linda Jones and Henry Colt. Investigators: Ron Schaffner, Earl Jones, Jim Carnes Jim Rastetter, Iona Boyce, Barbara Mudrak (Akron Beacon-Journal) and James Shannon (Stark County Deputy Sheriff) Investigation conducted on September 9 and 30, 1978.) August 21: The major observation took place on August 21; Members of Evelyn Cayton's family and friends were on the doorstep when they heard unusual noises in the direction of the chicken coop, to the right of the house. Looking in that direction, they saw a pair of yellow eyes in the light of the outdoor lamp. Scott Patterson, whose car was just parked, turned on his headlights, and everyone saw a large furry bipedal creature walking towards the car. The whole company took refuge in the house to call the Stark County police. While waiting for the police, the creature appeared at the kitchen window. Patterson took out his .22 caliber pistol, Evelyn loaded a .22 long rifle. The creature stayed in front of the window for about ten minutes and was clearly seen in the light of the outdoor lamp. They decided not to shoot unless it moved. Suddenly it disappeared. The Sheriff arrived 15 minutes after the call, about 5 minutes after the creature disappeared. A strong smell still lingered in the area. Shonnan told reporters that it smelled like sulfur and ammonia. (August 21, 1978)", + "location": "USA, Paris, US Route 30 - East of Minerva (Ohio)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3014" + }, + { + "date": "8/30/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4:30 PM, during a break from work, a 26-year-old lumberjack saw a \"vehicle\" approach and stop where he was. A humanoid form emerged from it, whose face and lower extremities he could not see. This form came towards him, hands outstretched showing the palms. The being was entirely covered in a kind of bluish mesh. Panicked, the lumberjack tried to flee, but the being pressed a button on its chest which paralyzed the lumberjack. A few moments later he found himself inside the object, without knowing how it happened. There, small beings pricked his arms. After that they released him in a difficult-to-access place, about 40 km from where he was working.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Gobernador-Dupuy (Tichry-Talro, St Louis)", + "ref": [ + "Pierre DELVAL: \"Contacts of the 4th Type\" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 116-117", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3015" + }, + { + "date": "9/13/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Carvalho was peacefully travelling on the road to Blumenal in her white Chevette at about 100 km/h. Suddenly she felt the car lose speed, then she felt an incredible circular shadow that engulfed the car, which was then sucked up. When she came to her senses she was very, very high up. She had the feeling that the car was falling apart, the doors were banging as if it were old scrap. Then she remembers nothing. When she came to, she was in a semi-circular, matte yellow room, and in front of her stood a very tall man over two meters tall, who said his name was Dagon. He spoke without moving his lips and while he spoke Mrs. Carvalho felt \"diminished in volume\", as if her clothes were enlarged and her feet were floating in her boots. In front of this man there was no car, there was nothing. It was the federal police who found Mrs. Carvalho asleep on the road to Florianapolis, on the return journey. (note from vog: coincidence? Blumenal-Florianapolis: two names that mean \"city of the flower?\"", + "location": "BRAZIL, Blumenal", + "ref": [ + "Pierre DELVAL: \"Fourth Type Contacts\" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 112, 113", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3016" + }, + { + "date": "9/23/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the South American International Rally with a start on August 17, Carlos Acevedo was the driver of the Citroën and Miguel A. Moya Herrera the assistant, replacing Hugo Prambs, who suddenly abandoned the race on September 16 in Bariloche. On September 23 at dawn there were only 1000 km left to cover. They were driving at 140 km/h and saw behind them what they thought was a competitor, approaching at a dizzying speed with dazzling headlights. Suddenly the car began to rise and the whole interior was flooded with light. The engine stopped turning. Looking outside, they saw that they were about 4 m off the ground and the car was still rising. The steering wheel no longer responded. This did not last more than a minute and they were gently deposited back on the road, engine off. They then saw the light move away, it had the shape of a cone. In the shock they still drove the few kilometers that separated them from Pedro Luro and reported in a gas station what had happened: they feared not to be taken seriously, but they were told that this had already happened to other motorists in this place. But here are the elements to add to the puzzle: the odometer reset to zero in Viedma, indicated 50 km. However, the distance to Pedro Luro is 120 km. The fuel tank was filled in Viedma, and had a capacity to cover 400 km: however, this tank was now empty. (1978, September 23.)", + "location": "ARGENTINA, between Viedma and the Pedra salt flats", + "ref": [ + "Pierre DELVAL: \"Contacts of the 4th type\" - De Vecchi, 1979, p./ 114, 115", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3017" + }, + { + "date": "10/2/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Four boys aged 13 to 16 were resting under a tree after a tiring excursion when they saw a shiny metal saucer in the bush about 500 m away from them. They then saw two strange beings dressed in silver suits who, instead of walking, silently glided over the bushes and fences and much faster than when walking. A third figure then appeared, carrying a gray metal box at his waist. These humanoids seemed to have no face, arms, or legs that could be distinguished at that distance. One of the boys had a camera in his bag, but he was unable to use it, as if he were paralyzed. When the humanoids moved away in the direction of their saucer, the four terrified boys ran away and told their story to the local police who conducted an investigation the next day. Ovoid prints 20 cm long by 8 cm wide were found, as well as a large ovoid print 13 m long and 7 m wide with 8 deeply dug triangular holes in the ground. (...)", + "location": "SOUTH AFRICA, Despatch", + "ref": [ + "Maurice CHATELAIN: \"The Messengers of the Cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, p. 197, 198", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3018" + }, + { + "date": "10/3/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness, Jean-Pierre Masson, 19 years old, a worker, reported the following facts: \"It happened around 2 o'clock in the morning. I had just left my fiancée living in Mouzon, taking the departmental road CD 19, to return to my home in Beaumont, when I was at the place called \"Le Fond de Limon\" just before the exit of the wood, I saw with stupor on my right, a strange luminous thing. It looked like a kind of green cigar, but of a dazzling green, very dazzling. When I was close enough to the object, the engine and the lighting of my motorcycle suddenly stopped working and I was spontaneously plunged into darkness, except that I had the time to notice that the powerful light emitted by the object illuminated the ground and the landscape around. I tried in vain to engage several times taking advantage of my momentum, but the engine did not restart. The object was perfectly still and silent, suspended about 100 meters above the cornfield about 50 or 60 meters from the edge of the road. After moving slowly and parallel to the road, the craft suddenly launched into a turn and crossed the road barely 40 m in front of me, at a lightning speed, like a flash. When it had disappeared above the trees on my left, the engine and lighting of my motorcycle worked by themselves without any intervention on my part. I had not cut the contact during the observation. \"", + "location": "France, Mouzon", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Michel LIGERON: \"Ovni en Ardennes\" 1981, p 112", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3019" + }, + { + "date": "10/3/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Amateur radio operator Hideichi Amano had driven his car to the top of a mountain to make a radio transmission. The engine stalled and the vehicle was immobilized. There were strange lights in and out of his vehicle and at the windows he saw a humanoid creature. Some kind of chatter came out of a \"pipe\" he had in his mouth. After a few minutes this vision disappeared and the car was able to start again. (vog: this is the \"reasonable\" account) (Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 340, 341) Amamo had gone to the top of a hill to transmit radio messages without interference, leaving his two-year-old son asleep on the back seat. On returning to the car he found his little one surrounded by light with foam on his mouth. Getting into the driver's seat to look for help, he was unable to start. He then felt like a metal object being pressed against his forehead. And through the window he saw a strange creature with a round head, large pointed ears, big round blue eyes, the head resting on the neckless body. What was touching Amamo's forehead was a kind of tube coming out of the entity's mouth. For five minutes strange telepathic messages were passed through the tube directly into Amamo's memory. Later, under hypnosis, Amamo repeated them. Then the entity vanished on the spot, and everything returned to normal. [vog: is this the \"ufological\" account?]", + "location": "JAPAN, Sayama-Saitama", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 21", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3020" + }, + { + "date": "10/21/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Valentich Incident. Late in the afternoon, Frederick Valentich took off from Melbourne in his \"Cessna 182\". He was headed for King Island. He was 20 years old and relatively inexperienced for a night flight. At around 7:06 PM, Frederick Valentich called Melbourne Flight Service (M.F.S.). The radio contact lasted 6 minutes before being dramatically interrupted. The conversation was completely recorded and widely reproduced in the Australian press: Frederick Valentich: It seems to be a large aircraft below 5000 feet... M.F.S.: What type of aircraft is it? F.V.: I can't confirm. It has four bright lights, which seem to be landing lights. The aircraft is just passing over me now. M.F.S.: Can you confirm that it is a large aircraft? F.V.: Affirmative. Given the speed it is flying, could it be a R.A.A.F. aircraft? (Royal Austrian Air Force). M.F.S.: Negative. Can you confirm that you cannot identify the aircraft? F.V.: Affirmative... (then three minutes later)... The aircraft! It's not an aircraft, it's... (transmission cut off) M.F.S.: Can you describe the aircraft? F.V.: It just passed over me. It has an elongated shape. I can't make out any more...it's coming straight towards me now...it seems to be stationary now...I'm orbiting it and it's orbiting me...it has a green light and a sort of metallic light outside... Wow! It's vanished!... Do you know what kind of aircraft I've observed? Is it a military aircraft? M.F.S.: There is no military activity in this area. F.V.: (7:12 PM) My engine is starting to run rough and cough. M.F.S.: What are you going to do? F.V.: I'm going to continue towards King Island...the unknown aircraft is still hovering above me... M.F.S.: Identify it!... (Then a long metallic sound is heard, for 17 seconds, and contact with Frederick Valentich's plane is definitively lost.) No trace, no debris of the aircraft were found. (CSISOP report; Charles GARREAU: \"The Pilots Testify: UFOs are Among Us\" Article in Historia No. 421 - Dec. 81 p. 105) Frederick Valentich, at the controls of his Cessna, radioed the presence of an \"aircraft\" above him, which then approached and circled around him. Valentich was unable to identify the object. His own engine began to show signs of failure. All contact was then lost with the aircraft and its pilot, of whom no trace was found. Voluntary disappearance? Accident caused by the pilot's disorientation?", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, King Island, Bass Strait", + "ref": [ + "Science and Life, special edition: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, p. 60 to 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3021" + }, + { + "date": "10/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During the October 1978 UFO wave (note of vog: ???) fishermen saw columns of water 30 m high form in the calm sea and briefly saw a dark body, larger than their boat, emerge. The object immediately submerged again.", + "location": "ITALY, along the coast", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 167", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3022" + }, + { + "date": "11/10/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A UFO landed near the city and stayed on the ground for seven minutes in front of the eyes of employees of a petroleum station, then took off again. All telephone and radio communications were cut off during this time. (Pierre DELVAL: \"Contacts of the 4th type\" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 54) According to the newspapers \"Al Qabas\" and \"Al Watan\" it was a blinding luminous mass. The object landed near a satellite listening station located about 50 km east of the capital. Four employees of the petroleum company were able to see, at a distance of 250 meters, a disc-shaped object the size of a Jumbo Jet, with a retractable forerunner and topped with a kind of dome on the top of which shone a red light. (1978, night of November 10th to 11th)", + "location": "KUWAIT", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO Files\", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p.41", + "Guy TARADE: \"I have found the trail of the extra-terrestrials\". ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1980, p. 221. ..a cylindrical UFO with a dome and flashing red lights, landed but left no trace.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3023" + }, + { + "date": "11/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) ...7:30 pm, I was walking near the East Gate (...) and I saw in the sky a luminous flying object with three tails. It was quite cold that evening and there were few passers-by (...) I saw in the sky 400 m away from me an object bigger than a bowl. It was dragging three tails behind it, like a Chinese kite. It was flying slowly towards the west. In this huge object, I noticed something like a big electric bulb that was turning on and off alternately, throwing out a yellow light. The three tails were white and each measured about 3 m: they were waving in the air behind the main body in motion. At first I thought it was a real kite with a lantern, but in winter nobody practices this sport [note from vog: no exception to the rule, really?] (November 1978)", + "location": "CHINA, Zhangyixian (Gansu)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\", ed. Mercure de France 1983, p 134", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3024" + }, + { + "date": "12/6/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Fortunato Zanfretta, 26 years old, a security guard on board the Fiat 126 of the company, equipped with a radio in contact with the Genoa central, was making the rounds of the villas to be monitored. In front of one of them, he noticed white lights arranged in a triangle and, thinking he had to do with thieves, he stopped, turned off the engine and decided to alert the central. It was then that he noticed that the radio did not work, while the headlights and the dashboard lights went out. He took a flashlight to go inspect the villa. He saw no one, only these three lights, and the silence was absolute. He shone the flashlight on the gate, which was open, as well as the front door of the villa. He turned off his light and drew his revolver. Suddenly the lights approached him, passed in front of him, disappeared behind the corner of the house. Wanting to take the thieves by surprise, he headed for the other corner, and then suddenly felt a strong push caused by a hand. He stumbled and fell onto the lawn. As he fell, the flashlight lit up, he grabbed it and shone it at waist height, but he saw only large horizontal pipes, one on top of the other... at 3 meters high he found the head, dark green, 60 cm wide, huge and luminous yellow triangular eyes, inclined upwards. On the forehead something undefined, luminous yellow, with large irregular wrinkles, on the side some kind of algal edges and in front something like ears or straight, pointed horns, turned upwards. Hardly had this quick inspection finished when the terrifying figure disappeared and the night guard fled, trying to reach the car. As he ran he heard a modulated whistle, very loud, unbearable and a strong wave of heat. He turned around as if to ward off the nightmare he was living, but what he saw terrified him even more. Against the background of the sky stood out a large flattened triangle, the base of which was hidden by an immense brightness, so blinding that he had to cover his face with his arms. This light zigzagged towards the sky. Zanfretta reached the vehicle and he fainted, for 50 minutes only waking up when colleagues arrived and found him 80 m from the car, his body and clothes burning. Traces on the ground. Under hypnosis Zanfretta revealed the other part of his contact with these horrible beings. (1978, night of December 6th to 7th)", + "location": "ITALY, Torriglia (Genoa)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 46 of 1979, pp. 17-22", + "Continued: December 1978", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3025" + }, + { + "date": "12/12/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Adele Holzer (43) was driving the 15 km between these two towns to get to work. She saw a UFO and stopped her car to observe. The saucer came at a frightening speed, then stopped 70 m above the trees. A green beam came out of it and she felt paralyzed at the same time she had the sensation of a telepathic contact: she should not fear, they were friendly, they were from a binary system (two suns) and claimed that humans and them had the same origins on the planet Phaeton (5 planets) of which all the resident inhabitants perished in a chain atomic explosion. The survivors are on Mars. After this message, Mrs. Holzer's car key remained bent, as a souvenir.", + "location": "GERMANY, between Neuötting and Burghausen", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "in Greek mythology Phaeton is the son of the sun god Helios, travelling in a chariot so badly made that it set the Earth on fire...", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3026" + }, + { + "date": "Late 12/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One evening, around 9 o'clock, a worker came out of the tent, saw a phenomenon he had never seen before and shouted (...) Everyone rushed and indeed saw a huge crescent, several tens of meters long. It was silver from end to end and emitted a very intense light. Going up and down, it moved quickly in the sky like a boat in the current. At these two pointed ends, there were two particularly bright lights. We heard no noise, nor felt the breath caused by its movement. (1978, late December)", + "location": "TIBET, Qinghai Plateau", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\", ed. Mercure de France 1983, p 136", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3027" + }, + { + "date": "12/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. night of 6th to 7th December 1978) Fortunato Zanfretta was \"abducted\" for the second time - an undocumented case, but mentioned by GUIEU (following 30th July 1979) (Jimmy GUIEU: \"Our Masters the Extraterrestrials\" - Presses de la Cité 1992, p. 96) Three weeks after the first incident, he was driving in the same place at the same time when he saw the same suspicious lights again. As the first time, his engine stopped, he lost consciousness and remembered nothing of what had happened when he regained his senses around 1am. Hypnotised again, Fortunato told the same story, that he had been abducted again in a flying saucer and that this time a dozen humanoids had subjected him to a complete medical examination. These beings of around 3 metres tall had a greenish skin covered in hair, yellow eyes very slanted, big red veins on the forehead, a very narrow mouth and hands like ours. He understood what they were saying to him, thanks to a helmet they had put on his head which hurt him a lot. When they let him go, he was able to witness the take-off of the huge craft, triangular in shape and white in colour.", + "location": "ITALY, near Genoa", + "ref": [ + "Maurice CHATELAIN: \"The Messengers of the Cosmos\" - Laffont 1980 - p. 201", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3028" + }, + { + "date": "12/30/1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An Australian television crew was flying over the Cook Strait in the hope of filming flying saucers that had been appearing every day at the same time for ten days. They were not disappointed, they were able to film a magnificent one in front of them, without realizing that they had a similar one behind them, which was signaled to them by the ground radar operator. The photos of the film were so perfect that they were immediately declared false by the official scientists who examined them. (...) (Maurice CHATELAIN: \"Les messagers du cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, p. 203) Television journalists and the two pilots of their plane observe numerous unidentified lights in the Kaikoura region, between Wellington and Christchurch in the evening of the 30th. They are also detected by radar. The same night, during the return flight, a white light remains first fixed before accompanying the plane and then disappearing. It is filmed for several minutes and spotted by several radars. Other witnesses come forward in the region. (Science et Vie, special edition: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, p. 60 to 63) Microscopic examination of the film shows a humanoid resembling a human fetus leaving the craft. A more thorough examination shows two more around the craft.... (1978, December 30 or 31)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Cook Strait, Kaikoura", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 42 to 45", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3029" + }, + { + "date": "1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Veterinarian V.G. Paltsev, on his tour 500 miles from Moscow, found himself face to face with a ground vehicle. Three small humanoids with egg-shaped heads, with long fingers on their hands, were standing near the vehicle. As the veterinarian tried to approach it, he was knocked out by a strange force. When he woke up, he noticed that his watch had stopped. Above him the shape of a disc of fire was disappearing. Dr. Paltsev returned home, continued to work as if nothing had happened. But at night, very often, he dreamed that he had been taken aboard the vehicle while he was unconscious.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 36", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3030" + }, + { + "date": "1978", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Dr. A.I. Nicolaev, a respected professor of history, had to be hospitalized for three months to recover from his close encounter. With three of his colleagues he was on vacation, camping in southern Russia, when they discovered an object shaped like a disk, metallic, partially hidden in the tall grass. One of the four people threw some stones at the object: the pebbles seemed to disappear into the machine. All four then felt under the influence of a strange force. Nicolaev lost consciousness, the others, although they were staggering and weak, carried him as best they could. While two colleagues stayed with the unconscious man, the third went in search of help. The two friends left on guard fell asleep, as if by enchantment. When they woke up there were two small figures, less than a meter tall, in astronaut suits and helmets. Seeing that the earthlings were waking up, the two extraterrestrials hurried to their craft. The object shone like fire as it disappeared into the sky.", + "location": "USSR, Southern Russia", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3031" + }, + { + "date": "1/3/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening Filiberto Cardenas, a technician, was driving with his 13-year-old daughter and a couple of friends in the car. The engine and lighting failed. The men got out and opened the hood. Red and violent flashes of light reflected off the bodywork. A loud buzzing came from the sky and Cardenas felt himself becoming numb. He could no longer move. Soon his feet were no longer on the ground and his body began to lift into the air. He felt himself leaving the ground and screamed: \"Don't take me, don't take me!\" His friend, Fernando Marti, watched this incredible ascension. In the sky a large luminous craft passed and disappeared. Cardenas regained consciousness in the middle of a road where he almost got run over, 26 km away. Marti swore under oath that he had seen Cardenas rise into the air. Under hypnosis Cardenas recounted that an alien was trying to speak to him in German, English, and then Spanish. To change languages this ET turned a knob on his chest! He underwent a thorough physical examination which left 108 marks on his body. Afterwards the UFO plunged into the water at high speed and Cardenas was taken to an underwater base where humans were working with the aliens. The different alien races wore costumes from different eras with capes and large chains. He saw the \"throne\" of their leader. Afterwards, in other encounters, Cardenas established a friendly relationship with the UFO occupants. He voluntarily got into a UFO with his wife Iris. Today he refuses to talk about his experience and has become very religious.", + "location": "USA, on a road in Florida", + "ref": [ + "Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: \"Enquête sur les enlèvements E.T.\" - Plon 1995, p. 279, 280", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3032" + }, + { + "date": "1/3/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Meagan Quezet and her son Andre saw a UFO land; 5 or 6 entities exited, speaking to each other in an incomprehensible language. (Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 351) A UFO landed near her house and out came half a dozen small black men. It was around midnight, she had just taken her son Andre, 12, for a ride, as the boy could not sleep. They saw a red light coming from the sky. And suddenly, they were less than 40 meters away from the craft that had landed on the road and close to 5 or 6 small black-skinned men. One of them had a beard and seemed to be the leader. \"I said 'hello' to him,\" said Andre, \"but I didn't understand what he answered me. I ran to get my father.\" At that moment the entities jumped up, about 1.5 meters, and disappeared through a door in the craft. This door slid shut, and the landing feet, long metal tubes, extended. The craft disappeared into the air accompanied by a faint buzzing. On either side of the door the craft had bright pink lights. The entities wore white or slightly pink uniforms and white helmets.", + "location": "SOUTH AFRICA, Mindalore, Krugersdorp (Transvaal)", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p.46, 47", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3033" + }, + { + "date": "1/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Philip S. Callaban and R. W. Mankins, researchers from the Gainesville Biological Research Laboratory, observed that UFO sightings coincided with the passage of swarms of spruce budworm moths. Experiments conducted in the laboratory by the two researchers confirmed that these moths created an ionization of the air under the influence of variable electric fields (\"Science et Vie\" of January 1979, cited by", + "location": "USA, Gainesville (Florida)", + "ref": [ + "Christian DE ZAN: \"Guide du Chasseur de Phénomènes OVNI\", ed. De Vecchi 1980, p 28", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3034" + }, + { + "date": "3/4/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Alexander Podkopaev was bringing hay into the barn when he saw two bright domes at the top of a hill 500m away. Suddenly he put down his pitchfork and started running in their direction. He was still about a hundred meters away when he saw one of the domes covered in a violet light and rise vertically into the air, then quickly move away. Despite his fear, but driven by curiosity, using tools and crawling through the bushes, the student (on vacation at his parents' dacha) managed to get within a few tens of meters of the object, which was not on the ground, but floating about a meter off the ground. \"I couldn't believe my eyes. It was too crazy to be credible. In front of me, four dwarf creatures were standing in front of the saucer. They had arms and a torso of about normal size, but tiny legs. They were crouching near the machine and seemed to be spreading out shiny metal objects on the ground. They were wearing gray suits dotted with small black dots and a conical helmet of silver-blue color. A kind of breathing mask covered the bottom of their face and large glasses hid their eyes. Suddenly they turned in my direction. One of them raised an arm. It was so long that it almost doubled its size. They picked up the objects and I had the impression that they were entering the machine through the walls. I saw them for a few more moments in the dome through transparency. A green light covered the machine and it didn't take long to take off.\"", + "location": "USSR, Chernyakhov", + "ref": [ + "J.-L. B. - Nostra - 23.7.1980", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3035" + }, + { + "date": "3/5/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An amateur photographer took several slides of a ball of light rising from the sea on the coast of Gran Canaria. Juan José Benitez (note from vog: Spanish, ufologist, author of science fiction and ufological books) saw a UFO there, but General Emilio Garcia Conde confessed to him that it was a Polaris missile launched from a Soviet submarine diving in the Canaries and that it was to reach a target located in Siberia. On the slides one can clearly distinguish the ball of fire (exhaust gas), a kind of thin metal needle (missile) and even the luminous wake.", + "location": "SPAIN, Canary Islands, Tenerife", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 78 p. 24 and n° 89 p. 24", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3036" + }, + { + "date": "3/11/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 0:45, a restaurant (...) suddenly went dark. But at the same time, the inside and outside were illuminated as if it were broad daylight. Rushing outside, the owner discovered the entire agglomeration bathed in an intense light of an indeterminate color of blue, green, and mauve. The power outage was general. (...) His wife (of a fish farmer) noticed for her part the breakage of a wire of a high-tension line passing over the water, from which balls of fire escaped and disappeared into the water. The next day the fish farmer counted in his ponds nearly 1800 kg of dead fish. (...) The occupants of a car (...) describe the light in the form of a ball ... \"of an indefinite color green blue mauve. It was motionless 8 or 10 m from the ground.\" The light seemed to stop two meters from the vehicle. When the car moved forward, it preceded it while maintaining a constant distance of two meters. According to their estimates, this mass could have been between 10 and 15 m in diameter. (...) After an autopsy, the death of the fish is attributed to a double cause: the passage of current in the state coming from the line that overhung it, and to a poisoning caused by aluminum in fusion. (...) [note from vog: what absurdity! how can electrocuting poisons still poison themselves?] (1979, 11 March)", + "location": "France, Saint Marcel en Dombes", + "ref": [ + "Robert ROUSSEL: \"Ovni, the hidden truths of the official investigation\", ed. Albin Michel 1994, p 74 to 77", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3037" + }, + { + "date": "5/16/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 10:30, Arlindo dos Santos was hunting with two friends. As he was alone at the time, upon exiting a wood he suddenly saw a strange object landing 200 meters away from him. It was a vertical cylinder one meter high and 25 cm in diameter with a flashing light, alternately red and white, at the top end. Arlindo took out his camera from his bag and took a photo of the mysterious object which disappeared immediately. Arlindo then saw a second similar object, but a bit longer, which had the shape of a top with a propeller on top and a very thin point, 20 cm long, at its lower part. This object landed in the ground a few meters away from Arlindo, just long enough for him to take a photo, then it disappeared as suddenly as the first one. Arlindo then saw a third one a bit further away. This one had the shape of a narrow barrel, about 2 m long, with red and white vertical stripes, fins on the sides and it was topped with a large propeller. Arlindo also took a photo of this third object, which disappeared as quickly as the two others. It was then that he saw a fourth much bigger object, a classic flying saucer about 6 m in diameter and white in color, with portholes on the side, which landed a few meters away from Arlindo on four legs ending in flat discs. Arlindo then tried to take a 4th photo, but the craft directed a blinding light beam at him which terrified him so much that he dropped his camera and tried to run away, but he remained paralyzed in place. He remembers having seen then two humanoids equipped like astronauts, with a suit, gloves and a glass helmet from which a flexible tube connected to a cylindrical tank they were carrying on their back was coming out. They seemed to be talking with their mouth, but their voice was coming from behind them. The two humanoids brought Arlindo towards the saucer, each holding him under an arm (...) After climbing a 4-step staircase he was welcomed by a third humanoid who asked him if he was intelligent and educated. He answered no. The unknown one made him enter through a rectangular door. The inside of the craft was brown in color and smelled of dust and it was very cold; two humanoids equipped in the same way were sitting in armchairs. These beings had slanted eyes going to the side, straight nose, slit mouth as if they were laughing with thin lips and no beard. They looked like they were typing on a typewriter. At that moment Arlindo saw appear a very beautiful young woman, dressed in white, with gloves but without a helmet. She was quite small but very pretty, with a dark complexion, her dark hair plastered to the side and features absolutely similar to those of a young and pretty Terran. She brought him to the next room where there was a machine resembling a large refrigerator. (note from vog: let's recap: 2 men outside, 1 man at the top of the staircase, 2 men sitting in an armchair + Arlindo + 1 female humanoid + armchairs and computer keyboards + a large refrigerator: that's a lot of people and furniture for a saucer (not a sphere) 6 m in diameter!)(...) Astronomy lesson on screens, journey (?) and return to earth. (...)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Sobrado (Minas Gerais)", + "ref": [ + "Maurice CHATELAIN: \"Les messagers du Cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, p. 64 to 68", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3038" + }, + { + "date": "5/26/1979 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) During a training flight, the instructor and student pilot saw an unidentified object in the evening. The radar controllers had warned them of its presence. It was a kind of black triangle with two small tails. The UFO turned and moved away at a speed higher than the speed of sound. (Bob PRATT - USA who says the 29th). On May 26, instructor Danilo Catalan Farias, a pilot at the Cerro Moreno air base, made a training flight when he was warned by the control tower of the presence of an unidentified aircraft. Catalan was ordered, as was another pilot, to intercept and identify. The other pilot did not find the target. Danilo Catalan accelerated with the F-5 because he was about twenty miles from the unknown, whose echo was recorded on the on-board radar, suggesting that it was larger than a commercial aircraft. The object was then moving at a speed of 0.92 Mach and at an altitude of about 33,000 feet. Danilo Catalan managed to get close to within ten miles, which allowed him a visual contact while continuing the pursuit to be two miles from the UFO. At this distance, any aircraft in the air should be able to be identified. He described a black triangle with two small tails. At that moment the unknown accelerated and took a right-angle turn, which was confirmed on the ground. The speed of the unknown then reached at least Mach 3. The description of the object and its characteristics resembles the American SR-71 apparatus, better known as the \"Black Bird\", because it is a very intense dark blue antireflective color. It is a strategic reconnaissance, espionage aircraft, manufactured by Lockheed California Co., and is the substitute of the Famous U-2. It made its first flight on April 26, 1962, and construction for the American Army began in December, under the appellation SR-71A. Its flight qualities are exceptional, it is capable of reaching an altitude of 24,400 m. and developing a speed of 3,220 km/h. (1979, May 26 (29?))", + "location": "CHILE, Antofagasta", + "ref": [ + "STENDEK n° 40, June 80", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3039" + }, + { + "date": "Late Spring 1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) … a young worker who was guarding the reservoir noticed, before sunrise, an oval silver object resting on the Gobi Desert, to the east of the reservoir. This huge luminous object 'took off, landed, without any noise or dust cloud. (…) He immediately phoned the Petroleum Fields Headquarters, which in turn alerted the unit of the People's Army stationed in this locality. Armed with tanks and cannons, the soldiers of this unit immediately went east of the reservoir. When they arrived there, they saw the shining object land again on the desert (…) they immediately dispersed to encircle the unknown object. (…) People approached the object more and more, which had a shiny and smooth surface and made no noise. To everyone's great surprise, the strange object took off and, at a dizzying speed, rose like a lightning bolt into the sky, vertically (…) When it rose, there was no gust of air, the grass and sand on the ground did not move. (1979, Late Spring)", + "location": "CHINA, Klamayi (Gobi Desert)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\", ed. Mercure de France 1983, p 137, 138", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3040" + }, + { + "date": "6/28/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 3am Antonio Ferreira was on guard duty at a construction site when he saw a strange craft land about 50 meters away from him. Suddenly he found himself face to face with three dwarf humanoids, each of them smaller than a meter. One of them directed a red beam of light at him, paralyzing him. The humanoids were wearing white suits that covered their heads, with a badge on their chests depicting a cross inside a circle. Antonio lost consciousness and woke up inside a small, oval-shaped, red capsule with gray benches all around and a dashboard full of instruments. He was then taken to a large room where there were about twenty humanoids: some were brown, others green, they had huge heads, pointed ears, a big mouth, and large eyes. They spoke an incomprehensible language. He was made to sit down and lost consciousness again. When he woke up he was back at the construction site and it was 6am. Antonio's dog, who had been with him at the site, was also paralyzed and afterwards refused to enter the site. The police found a perfect circle where the grass was burned. It is worth noting that at 3am all the television sets in the area stopped working and witnesses saw a luminous ball descend onto the construction site. (...)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Mirassol", + "ref": [ + "Maurice CHATELAIN: \"Les messagers du cosmos\" - Laffont 1980, p. 206, 207", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3041" + }, + { + "date": "7/28/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) …at 5 o'clock in the morning I was doing physical exercises on the sports field. Suddenly a fireball rose into the sky above the mountain. It was three times bigger than a full moon, was at 500 m altitude, and moved slowly in a southward direction. When it reached the zenith, a second fireball shot out of the first one, which immediately became a crown of light and gradually faded away in the distance. The second fireball, as big as the first one, also spat out a third fireball, similar to the first two, and the second one repeated what had happened to the first one and also disappeared in the distance. I saw a total of seven fireballs that followed each other and after a few minutes, the phenomenon completely dissipated.", + "location": "CHINA, unspecified location", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\", ed. Mercure de France 1983, p 138", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3042" + }, + { + "date": "7/30/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: December 1978) Third abduction of Fortunato Zanfretta. Not documented but mentioned by GUIEU", + "location": "ITALY, near Genoa", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Our Masters the Extraterrestrials\" - Presses de la Cité 1992, p. 96", + "documented follow-up on December 2, 1979", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3043" + }, + { + "date": "8/11/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Beginning on August 11 and for several days, students saw at night three furry creatures, about 3 meters tall, with red eyes. The young witnesses said that these entities disappeared, as if \"becoming air\".", + "location": "MALAYSIA, Lumut", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 342", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3044" + }, + { + "date": "8/26/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) From 22:45 to 22:50 (...) an unknown flying object was seen in the sky. It was a giant shuttle, in flames, whose cylindrical head had an angular diameter of 1.5° and the tail 0.5°. The whole object was red like a bar of iron taken out of the fire. Only the lower part of this shuttle seemed a bit dark. The object flew at a slower speed than that of an airliner. At a glance it moved at a height of 200 m from the ground. (...) Silently, moving horizontally, the shuttle flew over the camp of an army unit temporarily stationed in this village, then cut the road to Daba and, having made a 180° turn, it went back in the direction from which it had come. (...) When it reached the side of the mountain it was seen to rise slowly into the sky, lighting up the mountain which became all red. Then it crossed the summit to disappear in a flash behind the mountain. (August 26, 1979)", + "location": "CHINA, Chengcun (Anhui)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\", ed. Mercure de France 1983, p 139, 140", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3045" + }, + { + "date": "9/8/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The gendarmes stopped on a road near Pamiers a couple who were wandering around completely naked..; The man was carrying a lit electric torch..; These Belgian tourists on holiday declared to the gendarmes that they were fleeing because the end of the world was near and that the extraterrestrials were going to come… (1979, 8 September)", + "location": "France, near Pamiers (Ariège)", + "ref": [ + "Guy TARADE: \"I have found the trail of the extraterrestrials\". Ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1980, p.184", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3046" + }, + { + "date": "9/20/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Launch of three Chinese satellites 9, 10 and 11. It is supposed that they are photographic reconnaissance satellites, but nothing more is known, the Chinese being generally more reserved about their satellites than the Soviet Union was.", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 19", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3047" + }, + { + "date": "9/22/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3:00 PM, a thousand kilometers off the coast of South Africa, not far from the Prince Edward Islands, two flashes of light burst out from above the ocean. From 110,000 km in altitude, a Vela satellite detected a very brief flash of light in a 1500 km diameter zone, which weakened for a fraction of a second before intensifying again. (...) This double flash is characteristic of a nuclear explosion. (...) Up to this date, double flashes had already been observed 41 times, and each time the culprits were either France or China, who were not signatories of the treaty banning such tests. (...) But this time the suspect is South Africa, who detonated a nuclear bomb in the atmosphere.", + "location": "OFF THE COAST OF SOUTH AFRICA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, pp. 71-76", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3048" + }, + { + "date": "9/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A 23-year-old woman, in bed, saw around 4 o'clock in the morning a shimmering bell-shaped disc enter the room. \"There was a buzzing sound everywhere,\" she told investigators, \"and I felt paralyzed. Then 12 creatures appeared, small, like dolls. They emitted noises resembling a clicking sound and seemed to be observing me. One of them touched me. Then they disappeared.\"", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Felling (Tyne and Wear)", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 31, citing Jenny Randles of FSR", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3049" + }, + { + "date": "11/5/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Robert Taylor, a forestry worker, encountered a UFO in the forest. The object was round, dark grey, 7 to 7.50m in diameter, next to which two smaller spheres with \"feet\" emerged, which ran after him, attaching themselves to his legs and taking him inside the UFO. He saw no entities, only these spheres, which seemed to keep him under control. (Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London, 1989, pp. 97 to 99 which dates from 5th November) Robert Tayler, 50 years old, forestry worker, father of 7 children, was with his setter dog on Dechmont Hill. He smelled a chemical odour and advanced towards a clearing to see what it was. There was a craft there resembling an extraterrestrial vessel. Suddenly two \"extraterrestrials\" emerged from it. They resembled \"mines\" or wheels with arms. They came slowly at first, then accelerated and grabbed him by the legs (or later there were marks). The forester tried to struggle but lost consciousness. When he woke up, the craft and the \"things\" had gone. Taylor reached his station wagon parked further away, but it was stuck in the mud and he abandoned it, walking back. When the police arrived at the scene, the car engine was still running, Taylor, in his panic, had not noticed. (1979, November 5th or 9th)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Livingston, Lothian (Scotland)", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p 73, which dates from Friday 9th November", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3050" + }, + { + "date": "11/11/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:47 PM, the TAE Supercaravelle took off from Palma de Mallorca to the Canary Islands (flight JK-297) with 109 Austrian and German tourists. At the controls were pilot Javier Lerdo de Tejada, mechanic Francisco Javier Rodriguez, and Luis de Luque Torre. At 11:05 PM, the Barcelona flight control center asked them to switch to the emergency frequency. (...) At 11:08 PM, the crew reported to the Barcelona flight control center the presence of an unidentified object on their left (...) A few seconds later, the UFO began to approach the Supercaravelle strongly: it was about twice the size of a Jumbo and had two powerful red lights at its ends. Between 11:08 PM and 11:16 PM, the gigantic object remained at the height of the plane (...) approaching to 100 or 200 meters (...) the commander considered these maneuvers so dangerous that he forced the passengers to fasten their seatbelts and informed them \"that he could not continue flying and was turning towards Valencia\". At 11:50 PM, the plane landed at Manises airport. During the next two hours, more than 40 witnesses attested to the presence of three very strange lights that remained motionless above the airport fuel area. At 2 AM, an alert Mirage F1 took off from the Los LLanos air base in Albacete, piloted by Captain Fernando Camara. It stayed in the air for 1 hour and 45 minutes (...) and attempted to intercept three unidentified flying objects (unconfirmed information says that the pilot heard voices of children telling him to turn back). The first UFO was spotted and pursued by the fighter aviation towards the south-southeast. The second towards Aragon and the third towards the Columbretes Islands until Mahon. Between 2:30 AM and 3 AM, a resident of Soller (Mallorca) managed to photograph a UFO in the area of the Mont de l'Ofre. The two photographs were seized by the Air Force. (November 11, 1979)", + "location": "SPAIN, Palma de Mallorca-Tenerife-Las Palmas (in flight)", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELLL: \"The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p.176", + "Inforespace n° 89 p. 25 and 26", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3051" + }, + { + "date": "11/25/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3:30 in the morning the witness left Lachute to return home, where he should have arrived at 4:15. \"Halfway through, an indescribable noise hit my mind and lasted for the rest of the journey. It was in a curve just a few kilometers from my residence that \"something\" happened. (...) I remember seeing a very bright object with red, green and blue lights arranged symmetrically on the flying craft. The UFO appeared on my right, preparing to cut me off at the exit of the curve. I then entered a kind of cloud blocking the road. I almost instantly came out of it and hit a road sign. I then got out of my vehicle to inspect the surroundings and check the damage. Nothing major prevented me from taking the road again. I quickly wanted to leave this cursed place that I did not like at all. I then drove for no more than 5 minutes and returned to my residence. My surprise was great when I saw the time: it was 5:45. (November 25, 1979)", + "location": "CANADA, near Montreal", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Our Masters the Extraterrestrials\" - Presses de la Cité 1992 - pp. 22-26", + "Under hypnosis, this witness reveals having been sucked into a saucer with his car and having undergone a physical examination", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3052" + }, + { + "date": "11/26/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Cergy-Pontoise Incident. At 4:30 in the morning a sphere of light envelops Franck Fontaine's car and he disappears from the eyes of his friends Jean-Pierre Prévost and Salomon N'Diaye. On Monday, December 3, 1979, at the same time, he reappears in the same place in a sphere of light. At the moment he has no notion that a week has passed, has no memory and does not know that he is in the headlines of all the media, nor that his friends are having trouble with the gendarmerie because of this. [in REALITY: the whole affair would be a CANULARD, skilfully mounted by the actors and brilliantly exploited by the author ...]", + "location": "FRANCE, Cergy-Pontoise", + "ref": [ + "COLLECTIVE: GUIEU / FONTAINE / PREVOST / N'DIAYE: \"Contacts ovni à Cergy-Pontoise\" ed. France Loisirs - ed. du Rocher 1980", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3053" + }, + { + "date": "12/2/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: July 30, 1979) Fortunato Zanfretta started at 9:30 PM from the center of Genoa to patrol the outskirts of the city. The first incident occurred when he filled up at the gas station. Coming out of the shadows, a voice ordered him to approach, which he did, to find himself face to face with a tall being with an ovoid head, bald, wearing a metallic-looking tight garment. The being ordered him to start. He obeyed, unable to oppose. On the hills overlooking Genoa he headed towards a small cloud descending from the sky and there his car was sucked into the cloud which turned out to be a giant spaceship. (...) Visit of the spaceship, cylinders with \"a bird\" and \"a caveman\" in a blue liquid. He was brought back to the ground. His colleagues, without news from him for five hours, had started looking for him. One of them suddenly saw a truncated cone-shaped craft take off and he drew his gun and fired several shots at the UFO. (...) With this fourth kidnapping, Fortunato Zanfretta's terrible experience came to an end.", + "location": "ITALY, near Genoa", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Our Masters the Extraterrestrials\" - Presses de la Cité 1992 - p. 97, 98", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3054" + }, + { + "date": "12/9/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 1. Observation of a saucer near the ground by a pilot (December 9, 1979) Investigation by GEPAN/SEPR4 and testimony before the Ancien committee Former Lieutenant-Colonel of the Air Force, Jean-Pierre Fartek (F) was, at the time of the facts, a Mirage III pilot within the 2nd fighter squadron of Dijon. Today F is a pilot in a private company. F lived, and still lives, in the same village near Dijon. His house is located at the end of a subdivision overlooking the fields. About 250 m away is a cluster of trees with an average height of 15 m at most. On December 9, 1979 around 9:15 am, F and his wife observed an unusual object (called M afterwards) in the field near their house; the weather and visibility were excellent. M, which they estimated to be 20 m in diameter and 7 m thick, was hovering at about 3 m in height in front of the tree cluster, partially obscuring it. In perfect agreement with his wife, the witness F described it as:

- having the shape of two overlapping saucers with very sharp contours, without windows or lights, being gray metallic in color on the upper part, and darker (bluish) on the lower part, with a perfectly defined separation between the top and bottom of the craft. This difference in color could not be due to a difference in lighting, given the position of the sun, constantly animated by very slight oscillations, whose frequency was not very fast, like something seeking balance, making no noise, causing no turbulence on the ground either during stationary flight or at the time of departure, leaving no trace on the ground. After a period of observation that he appreciates with difficulty, F sees M oscillating more strongly, he has the impression that M is leaning slightly forward (as a helicopter does after takeoff at the beginning of horizontal translation). F sees M leaving horizontally, at very low altitude, without noise, without leaving a trail, at very high speed and disappearing on the horizon in a few seconds. F testified to the Air Gendarmerie of the Dijon Air Base. He believes that other people have observed the phenomenon without daring to testify, including his neighbors and their children who would have made the same observation. This observation, by a professionally well-informed pilot of aeronautical phenomena, has never received an explanation.", + "location": "France, near Dijon", + "ref": [ + "COMETA Report, 1999", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3055" + }, + { + "date": "12/13/1979 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two truck drivers driving in convoy saw strange silhouettes on the road in two different places. They were entities measuring about 1m 40 tall, wearing helmets and space suits, carrying a packaged device with pipes on their backs. When one of the truck drivers got out to take a closer look, they disappeared. (1979, December 13 (October?))", + "location": "CHINA, Zhejiang Province, Lanxi", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO Files\", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p. 42, dated October 13, 1979", + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 322", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3056" + }, + { + "date": "12/30/1979", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Astronomer Zhang Zhouseng from the Yunnan Observatory noticed an unusual flying object at 7:40 in the morning. A few minutes later, dozens of witnesses gathered to observe it as well. The thing's speed was phenomenal and it was flying at an angle of 30° in the sky. Due to its speed, it was difficult to get an exact idea of the object's shape. The back part was divided into a kind of trident with yellow and red colors. The whole shape was roughly similar to that of an electric arc with an approximate angular length of ten degrees relative to the celestial vault. Its brightness contrasted with the purity of the morning sky (Gilles DANJOU - Nostra - 18.11.1982)...; we were observing the clear sky at the Yun'nan Observatory. Suddenly the astronomers discovered at 20° from the zenith, a strange object flying from west to east. Its speed was similar to that of a high-altitude plane. We could not distinguish the shape of its nose, as the object was very high in the sky. What struck us the most was that behind it, we observed three streams of material particles in flames, very bright, red-yellow in color. From a distance, this object looked like an electric arc, with an angular length of 10°. At that moment the sun had not yet risen, an object of such brightness, emerging in the deep azure sky, offered a truly magnificent spectacle. During our observation we did not hear any noise. Judging by its way of flying, one could have taken this object for an airplane. (Apart from the astronomers of the Observatory, there were other witnesses)...", + "location": "CHINA, Hun-Ming (Sichuan) or Yun'nan?", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\", ed. Mercure de France 1983, p 142, 143", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3057" + }, + { + "date": "1/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the beginning of 1980, the 30,000 residents of the city of Tres Coroas, south of Rio de Janeiro, experienced the strangest concentration of UFOs ever seen elsewhere. For 20 days, balls of fire followed cars, flames erupted unexpectedly anywhere without causing fires, and squadrons of strange-shaped flying objects flew over the city at varying speeds. A flaming object followed Joao Jose de Nascimento's car when he was returning home late at night. \"I had the feeling that it was trying to capture me,\" he said. \"I was very scared.\" When he got home, his son Vicente told him they had seen \"a flying onion\" in the sky, with green, orange, and blue lights. (...) Antonio das Gacas Santos, from the military police, hurried to see what was happening at the neighbor's house, whose garden was violently lit. \"I clearly saw a creature, resembling a human being, with its arms outstretched. I could not see any physical details, but I heard a faint cry, like that of a puppy. My neighbor touched the creature and fell back, shocked. I was scared, but it was an unnatural fear, I still get goosebumps when I think about it.\"", + "location": "Brazil, Tres Coroas", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELLL: \"The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 135", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3058" + }, + { + "date": "1/21/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness, an employee at the hospital in this city, observed a white light projected by a UFO towards the top of a tree. The crown of leaves seemed to be drawn towards this light. The UFO had the shape of the planet Saturn.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Matosinhos", + "ref": [ + "collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing by Victor Lourenço", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3059" + }, + { + "date": "2/6/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11 o'clock, the 55-year-old farmer Paveo, like every day, was with the sheep in the pasture when he heard a strange noise and his sheepdog was in a panic. Mr. Pavao then understood that something unusual was happening behind him. Turning back as quickly as possible, he was surprised to find two motionless entities, standing 2.4 meters tall, looking at him fixedly. They were completely dressed in gray, but their faces were uncovered and seemed close to human. Except for the eyes and skin color, which were different. They had huge hairy hands. The strange entities approached the witness, seeming friendly and touched his right shoulder and other parts of his body. They spoke a kind of language made of modulations resembling the human voice. At this moment the witness saw that they had teeth and that they moved their lips to speak. One of the entities pointed to the sheep and Mr. Pavao, thinking that he wanted to know the name of the animals, told them. The entities laughed and talked. (...) This event was the cause of nightmares for this witness.", + "location": "PORTUGAL, Montargil", + "ref": [ + "collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenço", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3060" + }, + { + "date": "3/8/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Edilcio Barbosa, an ufology enthusiast, received a message informing him of the landing of extraterrestrials in Casimiro de Abreu. These visitors had promised to bring back four Terrans abducted years earlier: a Brazilian, an Argentine, a Canadian and a Dutchman. (...) The Brazilian would have been one of the crew members of a military helicopter that disappeared without a trace in August 1976. (...) The rendezvous of March 15th attracted more than ten thousand people... to whom the ETs stood up. (1980, March 8th or 15th)", + "location": "BRAZIL, Casimiro de Abreu", + "ref": [ + "Guy TARADE: \"I Found the Trail of the Extraterrestrials\". Ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1980, p.180, which dates this to March 8th.", + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Our Masters the Extraterrestrials\" - Presses de la Cité 1992, pp. 54 to 56", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3061" + }, + { + "date": "4/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The series resumed in April 1980 with Cosmos 1176. No doubt the Soviet specialists completely revised the propulsion system of their nuclear-powered maritime surveillance satellites so that the transfer to a high orbit was assured.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"La Guerre des Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, Famot 1982, p. 115", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3062" + }, + { + "date": "4/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A third phase of satellite interception experiments began in April 1980 and appears to still be ongoing. In total, no less than 47 satellites have been used in this program, including radar calibration satellites launched in parallel. The Cosmos 1171 and 1241 targets, launched in April 1980 and January 1981, were thus approached at high altitude a few days later by the Cosmos 1174 and 1243 fighters.", + "location": "USSR", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, pp. 149 and 154", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3063" + }, + { + "date": "4/4/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. April 1st, 1978) Jane and Clint were examining the road that had been built through their property. They were turning around to head back west. \"There was a small being on the road and its egg (oval-shaped UFO). It was less than 8 meters away from us. It took 4 steps in our direction, I put my hand on my gun, it turned around and went back the other way. It was wearing a grey outfit. It left no trace, nor did the egg. Clint couldn't move either. The being vanished and the egg rose into the air and turned west. We observed its back, it opened like the door of a horse trailer. It was about 1 meter 20 tall and it was frail (...)", + "location": "USA, near Redding", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Confrontations\" - Laffont 1991, p. 246, 247", + "note: Clint died of a heart attack on June 10th, 1980", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3064" + }, + { + "date": "4/9/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around midnight, Patricia Dzimba was followed by a luminous object as she was driving home. Panicked, the young woman rushed to the nearest dwelling where Mr. and Mrs. Ludwizak, who welcomed her, saw the object approach even closer. \"It was a diamond, silent and motionless, as big as an airplane, with two white blinking lights\". After a long time, the object deigned to move away and disappear towards the south. (Jean-Marie DOUCHET - Nostra - 21.1.1982) (note from vog, read the story in full in:", + "location": "FRANCE, Kembs (Haut Rhin)", + "ref": [ + "Robert ROUSSEL: \"Ovni, the hidden truths of the official inquiry\", ed. Albin Michel 1994, p 107 to 112", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3065" + }, + { + "date": "4/9/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A woman named Ye saw this object. She saw it appear at 3:25 in the morning (...) to the southeast of the Dapu district. (...) She was sleeping alone with her daughter (...) and had left some of the windows of her apartment open. In the middle of the night, the wind picked up and she wanted to close the windows. At that moment she saw the object, as big as a large bowl, suspended in the sky. The object looked like two plates overturned on top of each other. It was spinning while staying in place. \"There were a lot of clouds, but one could still clearly distinguish the spinning of the object. It was emitting a very intense yellow light. On the edge of the object there was a black zone and a white one (...) Twenty minutes later, the yellow object crossed the clouds and disappeared into the distance, but through the clouds one could still make out its yellow light.", + "location": "HONG KONG", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\", ed. Mercure de France 1983, p 143, 144", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3066" + }, + { + "date": "4/18/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Above the USSR, the satellite Cosmos 1174 passed 8 km from Cosmos 1171, launched two weeks earlier. This near collision at a thousand km altitude was not the result of a mistake, but a deliberate act. Cosmos 1174 was a hunter and Cosmos 1171 was its target. However, a small error did not allow for full success, as the encounter was supposed to take place not 8 km away, but a few hundred meters. In any case, this was the seventeenth experiment of its kind credited to the Soviet Union since 1968.", + "location": "USSR, SPACE", + "ref": [ + "\"La Guerre des Satellites\" - tome 3 - Pierre Kohler, éd. Famot 1982, p. 141", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3067" + }, + { + "date": "5/5/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The observation had taken place from 9:05 PM, the time of the karate class ending, to 10:10 PM, the time they arrived at their friends' place. A woman driving in a street of Redding, accompanied by her two daughters (15 and 14 years old) and another girl of 13 years old, had been frightened by a sudden puff of smoke or fog that enveloped her van. All the noises seemed to have stopped around the 4 women while they \"floated\" inside this cloud. Worried, they went to their friends' place as soon as they left the cloud. They discovered they had \"lost\" 30 minutes, time during which they could not account for their activities. During the following hours they suffered from various physiological reactions and the next day marks, resembling strange bites, appeared on the skin of two of the girls. They had dreamt of men pointing various kinds of weapons towards their heads. The witnesses reported the case to the police who advised them to address a private organization for UFO research. [note from vog: the author links the observation and the troubles to causes such as an exacerbated religiosity and a form of hysteria, though..] (1980, May 5 or 7)", + "location": "USA, Redding (Northern California)", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Confrontations\" - Laffont 1991, p. 102 to 113", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3068" + }, + { + "date": "5/13/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Near the intersection of the borders with the Netherlands and Germany, close to the Albert Canal, the mushroom farm was located almost in a strategic military place and the galleries established in the caves of the rocks. Around 10 o'clock the owner of the place was coming out in the courtyard of the farm (about 20 m x 15 m), face to face with a circular object of a diameter of about 5.20m, hovering 50 cm from the ground. From the dome of the craft an staircase unfolded to the ground and a man came out from above, descended the staircase and remained motionless at the foot of the craft. Two other men did the same and the trio headed towards the witness. They had an absolutely human appearance, pale face, slightly slanted eyes and a stature of about 1.60m. They wore green suits. One of the characters said (or exclaimed) \"What are we doing here?\". The brave witness explained as if it was a question asked, that he cultivated mushrooms and asked if they wanted some. They wanted some. Flanked by the three visitors, the witness went to the cellar and took a crate of mushrooms that he wanted to offer them. But the leader of the trio only wanted one mushroom from the pile. As soon as the mushroom was placed in his hand he turned around and the three individuals rejoined their machine, climbed the staircase, and the machine took off very quickly in the direction of the Netherlands. Finally the gendarmerie of Bassenge was notified and the witness interrogated. In the afternoon he received a visit from two military men in navy blue uniforms, who made him understand \"it's better that he had seen nothing\". These military men spoke French with a Liège accent. [note from vog: The secret NATO base Cannerberg, the 2nd ATAF Joint Operation Center, is located in the municipality of Maastricht, on the Belgian border. It is an underground base, buried under a mountain that counts 85 km of galleries and which hosted between 1960 and 1992 more than 4000 military personnel from several countries. What is done in this base? It's top secret, but as it was said in the Dutch press in 1995 \"the military worked there in the field of communications\" - excerpt from the article \"Contaminated Soldiers, Cannerberg. There was asbestos in this secret NATO base installed two steps away from Eben Emael...\" by Jean Michel Crespin]", + "location": "Belgium, Eben-Emael", + "ref": [ + "investigation and counter-investigation by J.L. Vertongen, Frank Boitte and others", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3069" + }, + { + "date": "5/16/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) …very late at night (…) I went out into the courtyard to breathe the fresh air. Suddenly I noticed that the landscape became very clear all of a sudden. (…) I immediately saw an orange-red object floating above the roof of the house across from me. I felt scared by this unexpected foreign object. At first glance, this object seemed oval, resembling a heated electric iron. This red iron suspended in the sky of Beijing began to zigzag from southwest to northwest. It flew slowly, its big nose slightly raised and there was no trail behind it. We did not know at what altitude it was, it made no noise. (…) it was composed of several luminous bands of hemispherical shapes. Initially oval in appearance, it gradually revealed itself as a cone whose sharp outline was enveloped by a layer of yellowish mist. (…) it was as big as two full moons, but much less luminous. (…) between the dome and the main body, there was a belt of white light. In the blink of an eye it passed the agglomeration and the roof of the houses in front of me prevented me from continuing the observation. I saw it for three minutes, the clock marked 1:14 am on May 16.", + "location": "CHINA, Beijing", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\", ed. Mercure de France 1983, p 144, 145", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3070" + }, + { + "date": "6/14/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) From 23:50 to 00:30 (or 00:30 on June 15) a half-moon of red-orange color followed by a luminous trail appeared above Kalinin to the north of Moscow, flew over Klin, Moscow where it stayed for 5 minutes, Ryazan 180 km to the south, then Gorki to the east where it also stopped for 5 minutes before finally disappearing in the direction of Kazan. During its passage, cows mooed, dogs barked and the population was panicked. Migs took off to try, in vain, to contact it. Thousands of Russians watched for 40 minutes this huge vessel which was visible on a trajectory of 800 km traveled at a speed estimated at 1500 km/h. According to the calculations of astronomer Felix Zigel, the diameter of the central part of the craft was 120 meters and its average altitude 90 km. It often changed speed and altitude and from time to time expelled smaller objects which spread in the sky. Two of these small objects were seen in Moscow. Lieutenant Colonel Karyakin noticed a saucer of about 4 m in diameter which stayed suspended for 2 minutes buzzing at 30 m above his house, then directed 3 jets of blue-green light towards the ground and flew away in a few seconds. Another witness saw in the craft a small figure in a space suit. In Certanovo, a southern suburb of Moscow, a television director named Koeshov distinguished a dark and buzzing mass placed in the street, with a small man walking around it. A few moments later a blinding light passed in front of his window and his wife felt a burning sensation on her arms on which red patches appeared and then disappeared. [note from vog: the underlined part of the text is not found in any other author....]", + "location": "USSR, Moscow", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"The Enigma of the ETs\" - ed. Guy TREDANIEL 1995, p. 67, 68", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3071" + }, + { + "date": "6/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Carpenter Juan Gomez claimed to have traveled aboard a UFO after receiving a visit 12 days earlier from 4 extraterrestrials dressed in yellow and equipped with diving suits. These four creatures announced by a blinding light were about 50 cm tall and emitted unintelligible sounds. Juan Gomez explained that an intense light had \"absorbed\" him while he was walking in the outskirts of Rosario. He regained consciousness 15 hours later in a distant locality of that city. A black spot was printed on the index of his right hand, as if he had undergone a blood test. During this period several inhabitants of Rosario said they had observed several UFOs. (June 1980)", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Rosario", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Marie DOUCHET - Nostra - 28.1.1982", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3072" + }, + { + "date": "7/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 3am James Forber woke up with an intense thirst. To his dismay he was unable to get out of bed. He noticed a kind of blue mist forming in the room, then a center of blue light imploding without sound. Out of this light came a being, about 2.30m tall with blue and silver eyes - it was the face of the man seen at the window of the saucer 6 months ago. He was wearing a one-piece white garment with a golden insignia: a triangle with a 7-branched star. The apparition said: \"Kodois, Kodois, Adonai Tsabyote.\" and introduced himself as Karné. He came from the planet Aenstria (note from Vog: cf. Professor Hernandez in Mexico) James Forber then learned - what he had forgotten - that as a child he had taken a ride in a saucer with this entity. Today Karné had come to remind him that he had a mission to accomplish. Forber informed his friend Henry de Greef and two nights later, the entity appeared as before around 2:30am, but in the presence of the two young men, who were in their pajamas. It was in this attire that they accompanied Karné to the saucer where they were introduced to the female commander, Meyae. (...) The origin, the archetype of all men is Adam Kadmon. They are told about Andromeda, etc.... They are told about the good and the bad and the Van Allen belt. In 1981 the two young men will create the NUFORIC group and get close to another contactee, Elisabeth Klarer.", + "location": "SOUTH AFRICA, Johannesburg", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3073" + }, + { + "date": "7/28/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The most incredible case of contact with extraterrestrials is alleged by V.P.D. He says that the visitors put some kind of ring around his head, connected to a board with wires. The entities spoke to him and told him he would forget everything about the encounter. This was indeed the case. However, memories returned to him in bits and pieces during a period of great stress. He remembered a map, seen beyond the control board in the spaceship, which he drew and on which he saw 9 stars arranged in a horseshoe shape. This led investigators to assume that it was the constellation of Vela. (July 28, 1980)", + "location": "USSR, Polushino (Mozaisk-Moscow)", + "ref": [ + "Priroda I Chevolek - SPUTNIK, Oct. 1989", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3074" + }, + { + "date": "8/16/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: personal testimony of Frank Scott, dated 07 Jul 92 23:44:00) \"Twelve years ago I was in the military in Australia, I was a signal officer. That's where I \"believe\" I had a close encounter as well as other officers with two small creatures. (...) It had happened like this: on August 16 at 2 pm, there was a round-looking \"vessel\" in diathermic interference on SHF frequencies. Suddenly there was a great commotion and we (six of us) had to go in a jeep towards the area of the visual appearance. The thing was 170 meters long, 50 to 60 meters wide and cylindrical in shape. An intense light beam was coming down from the cylinder to the ground and it emitted a buzzing sound that seemed to vibrate the air. As we got closer we noticed there was a small humanoid in the light beam. There didn't seem to be any craft that had brought the humanoid to the ground: it was there, alone. We looked at each other in the jeep, we were all armed and considering we were in a defensive position, the order was to arm and be ready to shoot. However, we couldn't do it: the pieces of our weapons seemed welded together. Then suddenly there was a terrible noise, \"like a white noise\" and... I woke up in the infirmary. This whole affair is quite disturbing to me, because I can't figure out what happened. I would like to meet people who have experienced similar situations during their service in Melbourne. Frank Scott.", + "location": "Australia, near Melbourne", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3075" + }, + { + "date": "8/21/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The young woman is visiting her parents with her 18-month-old daughter. The baby is suffering from an ear infection and a skin rash. As her condition worsens, the mother decides at midnight to go home and drives the 100 km on deserted roads. Halfway there the car radio malfunctions and the headlights dim. The driver then has the impression of taking off. She sees the tops of the pines agitated as if by a strong wind at the level of her gaze, and just above her a disk surrounded by a double row of lights. The car is sucked into the flying object and ends up in a brightly lit room. She hears a voice ordering her to get out of the vehicle. Small humanoids with big heads then operate various samples on her body. She will have the impression of having stayed on board for several days. She regains consciousness in her car parked near her home, where she immediately returns carrying the little girl in her arms. She staggers, suffers from nausea and a violent headache. At 5 o'clock in the morning she remembers the essentials of her experience. The next day the baby is completely healed. The mother will lose 7 kilos in the following days, discovers a long scar on her leg and on her back a mark in the shape of a H. (Bertrand MEHEUST: \"In Flying Saucers - Imago 1992, p. 36, 37) (Jan Aldrich 10/97; Richard Hall, MUFON Journal 192, p14, originally 167-3) As for Meagan Elliott, captured on August 21, 1980 with her eighteen-month-old daughter (and the car they were in!) in East Texas, not only did she notice that the atmosphere of the craft was cold, but that a kind of smoke or fog was rolling at the level of the floor. Her abductors claimed to come from the same planet as her.", + "location": "USA, East Texas", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, the unmasked invaders\" - ed. Ramuel 1999, p. 147", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3076" + }, + { + "date": "8/22/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1980, no date) Press Conference at the Pentagon in Washington DC. Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense), William Perry (Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering) and Lt. Gen. Kelly Burke (Air Force's Deputy Chief of Staff for Research and Development) reported to the press members about a military program designed to produce a high-tech, pilot or non-pilot aircraft. The exchange of questions and answers was mainly focused on the funding of such a project. No details about the construction of the XST=F-117A were given.", + "location": "USA, Washington", + "ref": [ + "Gesag, Bulletin No. 96 September 97, p. 3", + "see 18.6.81", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3077" + }, + { + "date": "8/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1961 September 19, 1978 January: Betty Hill) Betty Hill saw a UFO land beside the road. Three silhouettes emerged from it. \"I turned around to look at it more closely, my arm hit the horn, she said. At the sound of the horn, the entities disappeared.\"", + "location": "USA, unspecified location", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELL: \"The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p61", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3078" + }, + { + "date": "9/6/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was in the night, around 11 pm, on September 6, 1980, while we were doing night military exercises in the countryside near our barracks. Suddenly, a fighter on the ground noticed that a shining flying object was hovering in our direction. At his cries, we all looked up and saw a round object like a crepe, glowing, slowly flying in the air. Big as a plate, it shone, all red, and was followed by a bright tail of one meter. A red and round thing with a luminous trail on the blue background of the sky, what a magnificent sight! This trail changed color continuously (...) the object was at 200 meters altitude and its speed was approximately the same as that of an airliner. Two minutes later, the object suddenly accelerated its speed, shone much brighter than at the beginning and its trail became dazzling. It disappeared in a blink of an eye, mysteriously.", + "location": "CHINA, Jiangsu Province.", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 62", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3079" + }, + { + "date": "9/30/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A farm boy, on night watch with the herd, saw a saucer-shaped UFO flying above the paddock. It had no wings or tail, but was adorned with orange and blue lights. It measured about 5 m in diameter. The object hovered above the water tank before landing in the paddock. The worker went there on a moped and as he got closer he heard a whistling sound while the air became icy, forcing him to stop. He remained about 15 m away from the object, which flew off with a shrill noise, sending him a gust of hot air. In the morning the landing area was clearly marked and the water tank was depleted of about 10,000 gallons (45,000 liters). (Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 311) (Source: Australian Post: August 5, 1989, Melbourne; Denise Dalgliesh) George Blackwell, 48 at the time, (...) I looked out the window to see what it was and I thought an airplane in distress was going to crash in the paddock. I jumped into my clothes and went out. It was a moonlit night and I clearly saw the craft. That's when I realized it had no wings. It was topped with a dome and was about 3.5 m high and 8.5 m long and had blue and orange lights. It was barely flying 2 meters above the ground over the paddock and descended even lower to the water tank, hovering there for a while before landing. I wondered what was going on and if it was a new way of stealing cattle. I took the moped and went to see it, right close. As I opened the paddock gate I got a terrible electric shock. I couldn't move, just stand there and look at the thing. It was bell-shaped with a small dome on top. I didn't see any door, any rivets, any screws, just lit portholes. (...) For months the cattle refused to enter that paddock.", + "location": "Australia, near Rosedale (Victoria)", + "ref": [ + "Source: Australian Post: August 5, 1989, Melbourne; Denise Dalgliesh", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3080" + }, + { + "date": "10/23/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An object as big as a football field, perceived as a triangle-shaped cord of light, stopped, moved, stopped again above a sports field where the young people were rehearsing in the evening. 110 members of the orchestra and 30 to 40 parents were witnesses. The thing disappeared when the rehearsal ended. Shortly before that, five workers from a copper foundry 1.6 km west of the school had seen it: with twelve red lights and a large headlight at the front. The object hovered at one point above a 180 m high exhaust chimney and seemed to direct its headlight inside. It moved away, shot south, stopped abruptly, turned around and came back hovering above the foundry and above a large open-pit mine.", + "location": "USA, Clifton (Arizona)", + "ref": [ + "Bob PRATT - USA", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3081" + }, + { + "date": "10/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Anton Rinheiro, accompanied by his wife and another person, was driving in a desert region about thirty kilometers from Toluca. Suddenly the engine of the vehicle stopped for no apparent reason. A streak of bluish light flashed through the air about 50 meters from the car. The three occupants saw an object of conical shape resting on the ground on four feet. \"Things\" of conical shape too, provided with some kind of shiny tentacles, came out of it. They were busy for about twenty minutes in front of the amazed eyes of the witnesses who saw them gather stones and vegetation. After that, these \"things\" re-entered the device which left as it had come.", + "location": "Mexico, Toluca region", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Marie DOUCHET - Nostra - 28.1.1982", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3082" + }, + { + "date": "11/11/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Harassment of seven commercial airplanes by a bright green UFO. The story took place over a large area stretching from a point in the Ebro Delta to another point in the sea near Gerona. The Iberia flight 350 from Barcelona to Athens spotted a UFO about 100 km east of Barcelona. The taxi plane registered as FBXAK had contact with it 200 km east-northeast of Barcelona. The Transeuropa plane from Palma de Mallorca to Bordeaux saw it about 100 km south of Reus from Barcelona. In all three cases, the UFO (or UFOs) were over the sea. The Iberia flight 810 from Barcelona to Asturias was 170 km west of Barcelona when it had contact, and an English plane from OM was 140 km west of Barcelona. At the same time, a UFO was seen from the Barcelona control tower near one of the runways, doing low passes, then rising and disappearing at a dizzying speed. These incidents, which forced the pilot of the Barcelona-Asturias line to make a 400-foot dive to avoid a collision, took place from 7 pm. (...) They were greenish balls moving at a very high speed. In some cases, the green balls transformed into five smaller objects, passing from the tail to the nose of the plane, where they seemed to \"explode\".", + "location": "Spain - in flight", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace No. 78 p. 26 and No. 89 p. 26, 27", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3083" + }, + { + "date": "11/12/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A kind of ball, with an intense luminosity tending towards emerald green and leaving a colored trail, flew over the agglomeration from north to south before disappearing on the horizon at a very high speed. At the regional air traffic control center, it was indicated that this light had also been reported by airline pilots above Marseille, Nice, Carcassonne and Bordeaux.", + "location": "FRANCE, Marseille", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Marie DOUCHET - Nostra - 21.1.1982", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3084" + }, + { + "date": "11/18/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Throughout the evening, hundreds of people saw a large triangular object moving slowly, coming and going multiple times over an area of 16 km wide for a period of 4 or 5 hours. It was observed visually and by radar. (Bob PRATT - USA) Among the hundreds of people, there were three police officers observing a bubble-shaped object crossing through the clouds for four hours. The object reversed in the sky. The object was huge, as some witnesses compared it to a football field, while another said that the B52 bomber would have been a Piper Cub compared to the object. This witness, Don Leslie, thought the object looked more like a large cigar, traveling high in the sky from east to west. When it passed overhead, a faint humming was perceptible. Just before disappearing, it ejected six other objects in the shape of fins, which each went their own way. Randy Hayes also saw the fall of the \"satellites\". \"They were round and shone with a blue light. The big object was so big that part of the stars was no longer visible\". Rick Hull took a photo and got a triangle made of lights on the shot, together forming a kind of boomerang. Buddy Hannaford and his wife observed it with binoculars and Karla (the wife) said that the object was delta or triangular shaped, with two white lights and a red bulb at the base. It passed over their house. The Federal Aviation radar in Kirksville detected the object passing through the area 4 or 5 times, at a speed of about 45 mph.", + "location": "USA, Trenton (Missouri)", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELLL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 125", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3085" + }, + { + "date": "Late Autumn 1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"Pékin Soir\" According to an unknown source, soldiers from a unit (...) of Tangxian, saw a luminous object like the moon. The flying object spewed out fog in all directions. It stayed suspended in the air for a few seconds, then, while emitting a dense vapor, it rose up again to remain motionless in the air for a certain time before rising again while ejecting vapor and so on until its definitive disappearance. Believing it to be something hostile, the commander ordered his men to pursue the strange object. The motorcyclists traveled about ten kilometers, and as the mountain paths were very difficult, they had to abandon their pursuit... (1980, Late Autumn)", + "location": "CHINA, Tangxian (Hebei)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.60", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3086" + }, + { + "date": "12/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 1976, Huntsville) In December 1980, tests began using a new chemical laser (hydrogen-fluoride) developing a power of 1 MW and small enough to be installed on board a modified Boeing KC-135 refueler plane. Initially, it seems that air-air missiles were able to be shot down in flight at a few hundred meters distance.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"La Guerre des Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 206", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3087" + }, + { + "date": "12/14/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 5:35 in the afternoon, Fu Lingsong, Yu Lian, Qiu Jianhua and I were walking... (...) We suddenly saw a white flying object rise above the crest of the hill. The object looked like a cone, the lower part was larger than the upper part. As it rose, its dome became clearer and clearer. It was round, surrounded by a bluish halo, but the cone was still silver. It stayed in our field of vision for 30 seconds and then disappeared. Then the cone reappeared thirty seconds later. It was bigger than a fist, it went up and down, up and down zigzagging in the sky, this lasted three or four minutes, and then it suddenly disappeared forever.", + "location": "CHINA, Beijing", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - ed. Mercure de France 1983, p. 154", + "Jing Xingxing", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3088" + }, + { + "date": "12/14/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the afternoon we were taking pictures in the garden of Yuanmingyuan. Suddenly we saw in the sky a red-yellow cloud with a shining nucleus which was barely bigger than a fist. This cloud was slowly heading north. After a while, the shining nucleus shot up a beam of red light, while advancing and descending (from time to time the shining nucleus shot up and down two beams of red lights). Then this shining point flew towards the northwest until it disappeared. We looked at our watches which marked respectively 5:33, 5:34 and 5:36.", + "location": "CHINA, Beijing", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - Ed. Mercure de France 1983, p. 155", + "Li Jianrong, Zhang Jianguo, Sun Lin", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3089" + }, + { + "date": "12/14/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Dong Hongbiao) Wang Yancheng and I saw a UFO on December 14, 1980 at 5:32 pm. (...) ...Around 5:35 pm, my brother and I were fishing at the edge of a reservoir of the Shijingshan steel mill. It was relatively clear then, there were no stars yet. My brother suddenly saw an object the size of a fist heading towards us. (...) I looked up and saw to the north an object shining above the mountain. As bright as a locomotive's headlight, this white-violet object was in the shape of a sphere. (...) Shortly after, this UFO took a vertical position and started to emit white steam from its base, but we didn't hear any noise. In two or three seconds it rose to more than 3000 meters, becoming as small as a nut. It stayed there motionless for three minutes. Then it started to move towards the north, horizontally, 5 km away, it descended vertically and disappeared behind the mountain to the west.", + "location": "CHINA, Beijing", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - Ed. Mercure de France 1983, p.156", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3090" + }, + { + "date": "12/27/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 3:00am, two USAF security police on patrol saw an unusual light at the back exit of RAF Woodbridge. They were given permission to go and investigate, as they believed it to be a plane crash. Three men were sent on foot. They reported seeing a luminous object, of metallic appearance and triangular shape, 2/3 of a mile from the base, and 2m in altitude. The object was illuminating the entire forest with a white light. The object itself had a pulsing red light at its top and one or more blue bands of light on the underside. The object hovered in a stationary position, or stood on legs. As the patrol approached, the object maneuvered between the trees and disappeared. Meanwhile, the animals at the nearby farm were in a \"frenzy\". The object was briefly seen again an hour later, again near the back exit of the camp. The next day, three depressions 1 1/2\" deep and 7\" in diameter were found at the spot where the object was seen. The next day (December 29, 1980) the area was scanned for radiation. Beta/Gamma readings of around 0.1 milliroentgens were recorded, with a maximum in the three depressions and at the center of them. A nearby tree showed a moderate reading (.05-.07) on the side facing the depressions.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Woodbridge (Suffolk)", + "ref": [ + "FOIA document", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3091" + }, + { + "date": "12/27/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: Did the Americans drop a satellite on Suffolk? Rendlesham Forest, 27/28 December 1980) During the night of 27th to 28th December, more than 50 people, both civilians and military, make their comments after the observation of a UFO. This ranges from an extraterrestrial vessel, to the dropping of hard drugs, to secret military experiments. But I propose the facts: Big Bird 16, a USAF low altitude spy satellite, is launched from Vandenberg base in California on June 18th, 1980 and is placed in a very wide polar orbit. This satellite carries six capsules, to be recovered. The 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron (ARRS), based in Woodbridge, is one of the units designated to collect the capsules when they enter the atmosphere. The satellite flies over the Arctic at 27,000 km/h, and north of Norway, in the night of 27/28 December 1980 and drops one of its capsules. While the mother satellite continues to orbit, the capsule enters the atmosphere above the North Sea, heading SSW. Some Lockheed HC-130 Hercules planes and a group of HH-53C helicopters from the 67th ARRS wait above the Dogger Bank, the planes at altitude, the helicopters near the water. But the parachutes of the capsule do not open. The capsule continues to descend without being braked, on its initial trajectory, flying too high and too fast for the planes that await it. This trajectory of the capsule leads it directly to the RAF base at Woodbridge. As soon as the alert was given about the failing parachutes, the capsule is seen on fire above Lowestoft, and the crash takes place in the woods of Rendlesham. The whole base participates in the search. (...) (1980, December 27-28)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Rendlesham (Suffolk)", + "ref": [ + "Richard Kidd and Michael Akeroyd, August 1996", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3092" + }, + { + "date": "11/28/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Police officer Alan Godfrey, driving on Ferney Lee Road, was blocked by an ovoid object 10 m in size, floating a few meters above the road. This witness experienced a jump in time (jumping time) of a few minutes, so that when he was able to gather his thoughts, the object had disappeared. Colleagues from the same police service who arrived at the observation site shortly after the incident noticed that at the place where Godfrey claimed to have seen the object, the road which had been soaked by heavy rain was perfectly dry. Submitted to a hypnosis session a few weeks later, the witness reported an incredible story. (...) was blocked by an ovoid object floating a few centimeters above the road. (...) Godfrey was submitted a few weeks later to a hypnotic regression, during which he remembered being on board the object, undergoing various examinations. His testimony also includes the description of small gray entities, busy examining him, under the control of large Nordic-type humanoids, very similar to humans.", + "location": "ENGLAND, Todmorden (Yorkshire)", + "ref": [ + "Jean Thomas: \"Synthèse Ovni\", Ed. Louise Couteau, Canada 1999, p. 27 and 221, 222", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3093" + }, + { + "date": "12/29/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Case: \"Cash-Landrum\". Two middle-aged women and one of their grandson were driving back to Dayton on a deserted secondary road at 7 pm. In front of them they saw a bright red object that suddenly started to descend and hovered in front of them: an enormous diamond-shaped object standing on its point and so bright they could barely look at it. They stopped and looked. Periodically the object would spit out flames that came towards the road; it would then lift up and travel a short distance. All three of them got out of the car but the grandson was so scared that the grandmother took him and locked themselves in the vehicle. The driver stayed outside for a short while and eventually got back in the car. After a quarter of an hour, the object which had been quite loud, also emitting a continuous \"beep-beep\", rose above the pine trees, turned on its side and slowly glided south. As it moved away it was surrounded by more than 20 military helicopters identified by the women as CH-47 Chinook. On their way back, all three of them had nausea, severe headaches, diarrhea, skin rashes, stomach ache and intense thirst. The driver had to be hospitalized, her face was swollen and covered in blisters and she stayed in the clinic for a month. Since then all three of them have become highly sensitive to heat, the women lost a lot of their hair, which grew back in 6 months. However, military authorities deny the presence of helicopters in the area that night. (Bob PRATT - USA) Bette Cash, Vicky Landrum and her grandson notice a bright light in the distance while in the car, then see in front of them a vertical diamond, extremely bright, hovering over the road. Helicopters apparently escort the object. A beep-beep is heard, and the temperature rises sharply. The witnesses subsequently suffer from various symptoms, possibly due to exposure to ultraviolet or ionizing rays. Secret craft? (Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, p. 60 to 63) • HUFFMAN, TEXAS (USA) on 12/29/80 Betty CASH (52 years old), Vicky LANDRUM and her son Colby LANDRUM (7 years old): swollen neck, ears and eyelids; blisters on the face; nausea, vomiting, diarrhea; significant hair loss; 15 days of hospitalization", + "location": "USA, Huffman, between Caney and Dayton (Texas)", + "ref": [ + "source UG, page 312", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3094" + }, + { + "date": "12/29/1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On December 27, 1980, a similar event occurred. This time there were more witnesses, including Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt of the USAF. As they entered the woods, their equipment malfunctioned. A kind of pulsating light was heading towards them. It seemed to be dripping large drops like molten metal. This light suddenly exploded into several pieces. Three fragments remained suspended in the air for two to three hours. The local population also saw them.", + "location": "USA, Woodbridge", + "ref": [ + "© 1997 Jeroen Slurf and Jeroen Kümeling. Ufo Nieuwsbrief jaargang 1 nr 1", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3095" + }, + { + "date": "Winter 1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the early morning hours, Mrs. A. woke up: flashing lights illuminated the window. She thought it was a helicopter, but the lights did not move. So she thought the helicopter was on fire, got up and went to the window. She was shocked by what she saw and went to wake up her 15-year-old son Billy. About 50 meters away there was an orange-red, triangular-shaped object \"on its side\" above the grassy area of the park behind their house, about 25 to 30 meters from the ground. The entire object was glowing and incandescent like coal in a stove. The object pulsed, becoming smaller and more orange, then larger and redder, with black spots appearing on the red glow. When they opened the window they saw it better, a series of portholes ran along the length of the object, and a strong yellow light was coming out of it. They could see inside the object, it was yellow and apparently empty. At first stationary, it began to move away slowly at about 20 km/h. On the back there were two panels that were so bright it looked like a furnace; The object went towards the buildings on the other side of the park, it was at 2/3 of their height and there it stopped, slowly turning on its axis and moving to the right to go around the buildings. Behind these buildings was a 125 meter high factory chimney. The object was heading towards the chimney, changing course without jerks. The object was observed until it was out of sight, for 10 to 15 minutes. (1980-1981, Winter)", + "location": "Great Britain, Hull", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Reality, issue 4, p. 52 - 1996", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3096" + }, + { + "date": "1980", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In 1980, a red glowing ball, the size of a house, descended from the sky to the level of the water in the coastal bay, then slowly circled above a dredger and brushed past fishing boats before suddenly shooting off into the distance. During the UFO's passage, the onboard radios were dead, and upon the UFO's sudden departure, there was a sudden explosion of noise. Full report established by the coast guard.", + "location": "USA, Louisiana, at sea", + "ref": [ + "Mufon, Mufonet BBS 11.3.1993, taken from the Internet", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3097" + }, + { + "date": "1/8/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 5 pm, Renato Nicolaï, who was working in his garden, saw an object that was round, about 2.50m in diameter and 1.70m in height, slightly curved and lead-colored. At its base there were 4 portholes. The craft was hovering 50 cm above the ground, motionless. After a minute, the witness approached and the object flew away vertically, very quickly, without making any noise or raising any dust. On the ground there was a circular trace 2.40m in diameter and 4 cm deep. On June 17, 1983, GEPAN, which works under the aegis of the National Center for Space Studies, published Report No. 16, bringing together the examinations of 5 laboratories and concluding \"that a major event occurred in this place.\" A line of fracture in the ground may have been due to the combined action of strong mechanical pressure linked to a heating estimated at 600 degrees, dried vegetation without any trace of carbonization, inexplicable chlorophyll mutations of wild clover plants taken from the site, with very significant alterations of their different pigments... which could have been caused by an electromagnetic phenomenon.

(Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"L'énigme des E.T.\" - éd. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 70, 71) Attracted by a whistling sound, Renato Nicolaï saw a disc-shaped object 2.50m in diameter land a few tens of meters away from him. He noted few details, and already the UFO was taking off and moving away at great speed. A circular, striated trace marked the landing site. Samples were taken. Wild clover had undergone biochemical disturbances, perhaps due to the action of microwaves. (Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, p. 60 to 63) and see also: (Robert ROUSSEL: \"Ovni, les vérités cachées de l'enquête officielle\", éd. Albin Michel 1994, p 154 and following) The story is told by calling the witness Renato Colini, in:", + "location": "FRANCE, Trans en Provence", + "ref": [ + "\"NIGHT SIEGE, The Hudson Valley Sightings\" by J.Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt, 2nd ed. 1995, ed. Llewellyn, St Paul USA, p. 66 to 68", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3098" + }, + { + "date": "1/23/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 7:08 PM. It had snowed that day. After dinner I went outside to shovel the snow in front of my house. As soon as I stepped outside I saw a huge round object, emitting red lights, above the roof of the house across from mine. This object had a diameter of 5 to 6 m, its upper part was conical and its lower part flat. It did not move and stayed 80 cm away from the roof. Its center emitted dark red lights. It had a yellow halo. (...) the luminous object slowly faded from the outside to the inside until its complete disappearance. My observation lasted a total of two minutes.", + "location": "CHINA, Fengcheng (Haiyang)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3099" + }, + { + "date": "1/26/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A motorist was flown over very closely by a cylindrical object of a few meters long, which disappeared after making a turn. The vehicle broke down and a mechanic had to intervene. Case not solved by Gepan, which makes the connection with a cruise missile.", + "location": "FRANCE, Toulouse region", + "ref": [ + "Science et Vie, Special Edition 1997: 50 Years of UFO, Atlas of Unexplained Cases, pp. 60-63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3100" + }, + { + "date": "1/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The workers of the copper foundry repair team in Morenci say that a massive UFO appeared above the two 220-meter-high chimneys and seemed to want to examine the inside of one of them by projecting a powerful beam of light. The 4 men of the team, busy repairing the other chimney, say that the UFO had the shape of a boomerang and was as big as four football fields. On its visible surface there were 12 small red lights and a huge white searchlight in the center. \"It seemed to stop halfway up, above the chimney, and projected its light inside,\" said worker Randell Rogers, 20. His colleague, Larry Mortenson, added: \"I've never seen an airplane hover like that. I had the feeling that it was not aggressive. Finally, it did nothing to scare us, although it did nothing friendly either.\" A third man on the team, Kent Davin, said that when the projector was examining the inside of the chimney, one of the small red lights detached itself from the boomerang at an incredible speed, but returned after a few moments. Without warning, the UFO then turned and shot off into the sky like a rocket. This UFO was also seen by a hundred members of a musical support club with animation, who were doing a practical exercise outdoors on the local football field, a mile from the foundry. \"I saw all these lights in the shape of a V in the sky,\" said director Bruce Smith, and there was not the slightest sound. It hovered for a few minutes, then disappeared high into the sky.", + "location": "USA, Morenci (Arizona)", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 16", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3101" + }, + { + "date": "1/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Farmer Domingos Monteiro Brito reported that he encountered two strange beings when a gray saucer landed on his land at dawn. The beings looked like humans and asked him a lot of questions in his own language: how many people lived in the village, were there any uninhabited areas in the region, but he was too scared and does not remember if he answered. The craft left, but the beings told him they would come back. [Note from vog: this looks a lot like a helicopter prospecting by the Moon sect, which eventually settled in the country in different regions, from the 1980s...]", + "location": "Brazil, Camaracu Island", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELLL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 135", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3102" + }, + { + "date": "2/6/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A large, massive creature 7 to 8 feet tall was seen behind a restaurant. It was rummaging through the garbage, which included very smelly catfish waste. The creature was observed at 2:30 in the morning by Michael Green on his way to work, who stopped and stayed in observation for about ten minutes. Eventually the creature left slowly. He did not see it eating or taking away any of the garbage.", + "location": "USA, Rock State Park (Maryland)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 32", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3103" + }, + { + "date": "2/28/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A Titan III B rocket launches a secret reconnaissance satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base. (...) Photo interpretation of the images obtained by satellites is carried out by the NPIC (National Photo Interpretation Center), an organization attached to the Pentagon, which does not officially exist and whose budget is included in that of the USAF. (...) It is located in a large 5-story building known as Building 213. (...) Almost all the windows are bricked up!", + "location": "USA, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California", + "ref": [ + "\"La Guerre des Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, pp. 39, 49 and 50", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3104" + }, + { + "date": "Late 2/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A young couple, in a stopped car, occupied with kissing, suddenly saw in the light of the headlights, at the distance of two telephone poles, a very large (8 to 9 feet) bipedal creature crossing the road from left to right, in 3 or 4 jumps. The width of its shoulders especially impressed the witnesses (about 75 cm wide), the fur was like that of a dirty collie dog and they estimated its weight at about 150 kilograms \"of muscles\". (1981, late February)", + "location": "USA, near Veedersburg (Indiana)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3105" + }, + { + "date": "3/16/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The large KH-11 satellite is the fifth generation of spy satellites and is launched this day in the early afternoon. The launch was not officially announced, only the Associated Press announced it, specifying that it was a new, ultra secret, heaviest satellite ever launched. The carrier rocket was a Titan III B.", + "location": "USA, Cape Canaveral", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3106" + }, + { + "date": "3/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The chief of police in Melo, Miguel Costa, was in a car with his wife and friends Armando and Maria Pena, on a gravel road near Tacuarembo, when a huge shape, with yellow and orange glows, emerged from the morning night in front of them. Costa stopped the car and, on an impulse, flashed the headlights. \"Suddenly the UFO seemed to hesitate, then zigzagged up and down, as if responding to our calls,\" he said. \"As soon as I started, it followed us. Again I stopped the car and flashed the headlights. The UFO replied in the same way as the first time. We continued our journey and the UFO followed us for about half a mile. I stopped again. Finally the UFO accompanied us for about thirty miles. That's when the strangest thing happened. We were all glued to the windows looking at the UFO, when suddenly it suddenly dropped as if it was going to crash to the ground. It stopped its descent at 75 or 150 m altitude. We then clearly saw its dome shape flat on the bottom. Around the dome there was like steam. The upper part was reddish, but the base was dazzling white. \"Feeling somewhat threatened by the UFO's new trajectory, Costa turned around and returned to Tacuarembo, the nearest town. The bright light of the UFO was constantly in view in the rearview mirror. At one point Costa stopped again and parked under the trees. They all got out and went to an open place. \"A second UFO was traveling a short distance behind the first. They did not touch each other but seemed to be traveling together. They went up and down and finally went up above the clouds that they lit up. Then they gradually decreased in intensity, became smaller and smaller, and it was over. We looked at each other without saying a word. It had lasted 90 minutes and we still couldn't believe our eyes. \" (March 1981)", + "location": "Uruguay, Tacuarembo", + "ref": [ + "Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: \"The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries\" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p 121, 122", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3107" + }, + { + "date": "4/12/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An army liberation fighter named Wang Tingye saw a large UFO (...) at 6:40 am. That morning, Wang had gotten up early; looking into the distance he saw above the crest of the Longwaizhai mountain a long cylinder 5 to 6 m long spitting out from its tail some yellow golden light beams. The body of the flying object was golden, shining. The thing was heading from west to east, without any noise. Wang watched it disappear behind the mountain. His observation lasted 30 seconds.", + "location": "CHINA, Huajia (Yun'nan)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\", ed. Mercure de France 1983, p140", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3108" + }, + { + "date": "4/13/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Yan Li) At around 6:50 in the evening of April 13, 1950, the sky was all blue and serene, dotted with a few rare clouds. Visibility 5 km, gentle wind, normal temperature. (...) I suddenly observed a luminous thing that shot out from the distance like a tracer bullet. Pointed at its head, the luminous object flew very quickly while spitting out flames behind it. Looking closely, it was seen to be very similar to a rocket on fire. (...) On the Shandong peninsula, everyone had seen this phenomenon. (...) My observation lasted twelve seconds. (April 13, 1981)", + "location": "CHINA, Qingdao", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - ed. Mercure de France 1983, p. 159", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3109" + }, + { + "date": "4/13/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Wang Xin) At around 6:50, five employees and teachers, standing in the school courtyard, saw an unknown flying object passing over the district town in the sky. It was heading from southwest to northeast. That night there were no clouds. The object flew without making any noise. It was spherical in shape and emitted white lights, with a flaming tail 5 meters long. The tail was yellow in color and its end was red. The object's speed was similar to that of a jet plane; it followed a straight line. Sometimes it floated like a dead leaf. It was between 1000 and 4000 meters in altitude. (April 13, 1981)", + "location": "CHINA, Lingqi", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - Ed. Mercure de France 1983, pp. 159, 160", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3110" + }, + { + "date": "4/13/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Ge Zhongmin) At 7:19 pm, the weather was very nice and there were no clouds in the sky. The television had just started to give the news (...) I noticed by chance, through the window, a bright, golden yellow thing flying at great speed without any noise. To the naked eye, I saw that its apparent diameter was 30 cm, its shape was that of a funnel. The front was brighter than the back. It was about 500 m in altitude. My observation lasted more than 30 seconds. My wife and I saw it through the window. My two children who were playing in the yard also saw it. (April 13, 1981)", + "location": "CHINA, Tianjing", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - Ed. Mercure de France 1983, p. 160", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3111" + }, + { + "date": "4/13/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Li Pinchun) I live in a mining hut (...) At 7:20 pm on the evening of April 13, 1981, my wife and I were preparing dinner in our kitchen. My two children were playing in the courtyard. Suddenly they ran into the house shouting, \"Mom, quickly, go quickly and see outside!\" We followed them into the courtyard and saw in the sky a luminous object, wider at the head than the tail, with an apparent diameter of 40 cm. It had a disk shape with a long tail of 3 m. This tail was actually a tongue of fire more than 10 cm wide. It flew from southwest to northeast, throwing behind it small bright stars. The luminous object moved at a constant speed, horizontally. It flew over our huts and disappeared in the direction of the city of Guye.", + "location": "CHINA, Tangshan (Hebei)", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - Ed. Mercure de France 1983, p. 161", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3112" + }, + { + "date": "4/13/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Zhang Fengguo) At around 7:20 in the evening (...) while I was having dinner, I noticed in the sky to the south a bright object. I immediately left my bowl on the table and hurried outside and climbed onto the roof of the house to get a better view. The object kept getting bigger and longer, it was heading from southwest to northeast. (...) This object had a length of 3.20m and a width of 0.15m. It seemed to me that a triangular thing was towing it. The whole thing was like a band of fire colored red, yellow, white and blue. Along this luminous band I also saw some small stars similar to the bulbs of flashlights. I didn't hear any noise. The unknown craft followed a parabolic line and flew faster than a satellite. I saw it cross a cloud and then disappear into some black clouds. ...", + "location": "CHINA, Tang-shan", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - Ed. Mercure de France 1983, p. 161", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3113" + }, + { + "date": "4/13/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Yang Jing) At 7:23 in the evening, I saw with my own eyes a group of flying saucers flying in formation. These five or eight flying objects left a luminous trail. The one in the lead shone brighter than the others. A large flying saucer was spitting out small saucers the size of a candy. The smallest luminous object looked like a lit cigarette. In my opinion, these objects were at 150 or 200 meters altitude, at an angular height of 40° above the horizon, and they were heading from southwest to northeast. They almost passed over me at an angular height of 75°. Suddenly they disappeared to my right (north). The lights had a transparent red color. (April 13, 1981)", + "location": "CHINA, Fushuen (Liaoning)", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - Ed. Mercure de France 1983, p. 165", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3114" + }, + { + "date": "4/13/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Kong Fanli) ... I went for a walk with my friend Tan Bing. On our way back, when we arrived at the village of Xiaopingshan (...) we suddenly discovered a flat fire sphere, as big as a football, flying, coming from the southwest. It was dragging a tail of flames behind it. Shortly after, many fire spheres were observed, ten in total, flying two by two, from southwest to northeast, at great speed. Each sphere left a dazzling luminous trail behind it. At one point, the first flat sphere became yellow-white and very bright in its center, surrounded by yellow. These objects were at an altitude of 4000 m (...) During the observation no sound was heard.", + "location": "CHINA, Fushuen (Liaoning)", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - Ed. Mercure de France 1983, p. 165, 166", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3115" + }, + { + "date": "4/13/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Zhang Jiguo) At 7:28 (...) my classmates and I were studying in our room when we heard cries coming from outside (...) and we saw, in the direction of the north, a group of red luminous flying objects moving in the sky, in perfect rows, from west to east. Their speed was much greater than that of an airliner (...) It looked like a plane on fire, but it was bigger. This group of objects emitted very bright lights, without any hazy halo or noise. It was noticed that each object (in the shape of a hat) left behind a reddish light trail. The objects were arranged in a triangular formation (...) The whole thing measured more than 20 m long. They flew in a straight line and made no movement of ascent or descent. The observation lasted two to three minutes.", + "location": "CHINA, Heishan (Liaoning)", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - ed. Mercure de France 1983, p. 164", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3116" + }, + { + "date": "4/13/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Lu Chuenhe) The object had the appearance of a silver rectangle. It had several bright points. Below it, at 2 m, there was something like a large tube from which balls of fire as bright as 200 watt bulbs were emitted. Once released, these balls lined up with the speed of the object that had emitted them. This beautiful spectacle lasted six minutes. The objects disappeared behind a mountain.", + "location": "CHINA, Qingyuan", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - ed. Mercure de France 1983, p.166", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3117" + }, + { + "date": "4/13/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Li Guiling) (...) I went out of my house and saw in the sky, in the south, a group of flying objects. At first sight there were seven or eight; they were bright balls flying in a single straight row, in the direction of the northeast. Among these balls, three larger and redder ones were moving relative to each other at fixed intervals; the smaller and whiter ones seemed to remain in formation. They all had a long red, white and yellow tail (it was actually a jet of flames) (...) Before disappearing, these flying objects reduced the length of the jet they were emitting, then the small balls began to go out and after a few minutes, everything disappeared and the sky returned to normal. I looked at my watch, it was 7:42.", + "location": "CHINA, Chutoulang (Inner Mongolia)", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - ed. Mercure de France 1983, p. 168", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3118" + }, + { + "date": "4/16/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, around 11pm, the witness went out to the outdoor toilet. There, he saw a creature 8 feet tall, standing on two legs, in the snow, less than 8 meters from the house. It was emitting a nauseating smell. So as not to be the only witness, the person rushed back inside to call the others. When they came out, the creature had gone.", + "location": "USA, Spraytown (Indiana)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3119" + }, + { + "date": "4/15/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 00:20, two policemen in a car saw a strong reddish light coming down from the sky. The engine and electrical circuit of their vehicle stopped while the saucer, about 3 m in diameter and 1 m in height, landed on the street 50 meters in front of them. From a small door that opened in the saucer, they saw two human forms gesticulating and jumping to the ground. At the place of the eyes they had like balls of light, around the head and hands, like sparks. The head, compared to the rest of the body, was big. This took a few seconds or minutes, during which the beings seemed to converse with each other. Then the entities turned around, jumped into their craft, the door closed. A few seconds later the saucer made four rotations on itself, accelerating, while a very sharp noise was heard, the object catapulted and disappeared. Shocked by this experience, the agents restarted the engine, which ran, and they arrived at their destination, 100 km further, at 3:15 only! (1981, between April 15th and 20th)", + "location": "ITALY, Catania", + "ref": [ + "CISU, Notizie Ufo n° 48", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3120" + }, + { + "date": "4/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around Jimmy Eagleman's house, thirty footprints were found. The prints had four toes, measured 14 inches long and 8 inches wide, and were two inches deep in the hard ground. Captain Larry Bernard of the police, weighing 100 kilograms, was unable to leave any footprints in the ground, even when he tried to jump and reproduce them.", + "location": "USA, Rocky Boy Reservation (Montana)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3121" + }, + { + "date": "5/14/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Note from Vog: I'm just transcribing, I'm not making up this story!) Salyut 6 is launched on March 12 with cosmonauts Vladimir Kovalyonok and Viktor Savinikh on board, for a mission in space that will last 75 days. Everything goes normally until May 14. Through the Salyut's porthole, Kovalyonok notices a round-oval object. It is a spaceship that follows the Salyut at the same speed. Its diameter is about 8 meters, it has three rows of 8 portholes each, three of these portholes, at the bottom of the craft, are very large. Kovalyonok films this UFO. On May 15, the cosmonauts notice that the UFO is now only 100 meters away from the Salyut. They can see humanoid silhouettes behind the portholes. They wear some kind of transparent visor caps, they have well-marked eyebrows, have a large straight nose like the Greeks. What is striking is the size of their eyes which are twice the normal size of human eyes. The cosmonauts look through binoculars and transmit what they see to the ground control at Baikonour. They are asked to keep the situation under control. The next day, May 16, the object is only 30 meters away. Kovalyonok asks if they should go out to make contact. The answer from the ground is \"Nyet\", a visual contact is enough. Kovalyonok then stands in front of the porthole and deploys a map of the solar system to the extraterrestrials. To his surprise, one of the extraterrestrials holds a map of the same kind in front of the UFO's porthole. In Morse code and with his thumbs, Kovayonok greets them \"the Russian cosmonauts greet the visitors\". He does it in Russian and English, without any result. So he repeats it with binary code 101101. There is a reaction. Soon after, the extraterrestrials come out of their craft and move in space. They are tall, measuring nearly 2 meters. They wear the same costume as they had inside the UFO. The cosmonauts film the demonstration. On May 17, the object leaves the Russians and moves away at a dizzying speed. (1981, May 14, 15, 16 and 17)", + "location": "USSR, IN SPACE", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\" Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3122" + }, + { + "date": "5/16/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man was fishing in the Thompson River. It was a beautiful sunny afternoon. A small boat had just passed when the witness heard a loud noise, like water boiling and overflowing from a pan. At 100 yards the water of the river began to boil, indeed. Slowly a disc-shaped object emerged from the river, rose up and flew away. A rain of \"flakes\" fell on the witness, probably produced by the UFO. He collected them to have them analyzed. Unfortunately we have no knowledge of the results.", + "location": "CANADA, Kamloops (British Columbia)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 176", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3123" + }, + { + "date": "6/6/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Wang Xinhua) I am an oil worker. On the night of June 6, 1981, I worked very late. At midnight I saw an unusual phenomenon. (...) I directed my gaze to the north and then observed in the sky an object that was all white, milky, and seemed to be suspended. Its nucleus seemed particularly white to me. It had the shape of a cigar. A moment later the object began to move towards the east. I called the workers of our night shift (eight people in total, including myself) (...) The object flew over the Gobi Desert, and ten minutes later it landed on the sand, very far from us. We wanted to go by car to the landing site to examine it, but work prevented us. We stayed outside for a quarter of an hour until the complete disappearance of the object, which finally faded away on the horizon.", + "location": "CHINA, Kelamayi (Xinjiang)", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - Ed. Mercure de France 1983, p. 175", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3124" + }, + { + "date": "6/7/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 23:17 - The night was pitch black and one could not see more than three feet. After returning from his tour inspecting telephone wires, fighter Zhang Ming suddenly noticed a luminous object moving from north to south. The object had a spherical shape and an apparent diameter of 50 cm '...) It emitted very powerful and dazzling blue lights like lightning snakes in the black sky. Its outline was well defined and the ball dragged behind it a beam of light measuring more than 50 cm long. This tail of light had several colors: yellow, green, white, red. It was as if flames were spewed from the rocket. During these maneuvers, the ball kept spinning on itself, but without any noise. At 1000 or 2000 m altitude, the flying object headed from northwest to south passing over our barracks, before finally disappearing into a black cloud. The observation lasted a total of three minutes. Before, during and after this phenomenon, the radio went silent, and although the voltage did not vary, the fluorescent lamps flickered without really lighting up and the incandescent lamps became all pale. Five minutes after the UFO disappeared, everything returned to normal.", + "location": "CHINA, Daju Island (Zhoushan)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.67", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3125" + }, + { + "date": "6/11/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Yao Zhian) On June 11, 1981, at around 1:10am, I left the factory on my bicycle to go home. My family lives in the suburbs and I had to take a deserted road at that time. Right after passing the stadium, an orange-red object appeared above me. I looked up to see it. It was as big as a truck wheel, topped with a shiny dome, and the bottom was flat. At first I thought it was motionless in the sky. I pedaled quickly and soon arrived at the level of the Xiaozhai primary school, far from the city. When I made a 20° turn and entered a path, I noticed that this orange-red object was already in front of me, above two trees. It was higher than before and its outline had become clearer. I didn't hear any noise. I was scared and accelerated my speed. When I looked up to see it again, it had mysteriously disappeared. Yet, when I arrived at the entrance of my village, to my great surprise, it was in front of me, on a roof. I then knew it was waiting for me there! I was terrified and could no longer stay on my bicycle. I got off and, pushing the bike, I timidly entered the village. At that moment the unknown object turned into an orange-red crepe, of a rather oval shape. It suddenly took off vertically and very quickly flew towards the north. Then it stopped moving again (...) and after two seconds it suddenly went out.", + "location": "CHINA, Xian (Shaansi)", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - ed. Mercure de France 1983, p. 180", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3126" + }, + { + "date": "6/12/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A luminous, disc-shaped object with black rings was seen hovering above a water tanker truck. During the observation, the engine emitted static electricity into the onboard radio. Afterwards, the tank was found to be empty, all the water having evaporated!", + "location": "USA, Alice, TX", + "ref": [ + "Jan Aldrich 10/97; Richard Hall, MUFON Journal 192, p14, originally 167-8", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3127" + }, + { + "date": "6/17/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Su Lai, and other witnesses: Su Jingsheng, Xiao Lu, Su Qinqzhang,) At around 8:30 pm, Xiao Liu and two other children who were catching insects in the fields suddenly saw a bright flying object in the northwest sky. The object looked like a plate. It flew at an incredible speed towards the south. Emitting a dazzling white light, the plate-shaped object left a long luminous trail behind it. The two children were scared and started to cry. (...) Su Qinqzhang was working in the fields (...) he saw a luminous object that looked like a very long dragon with a bright head and a tail that undulated irregularly. It flew at a very high speed. (...)", + "location": "CHINA, Jiangji (Anhui)", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - Ed. Mercure de France 1983, p. 185, 186", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3128" + }, + { + "date": "6/17/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Li Binli, Ren Jianmin, Yao Chunsheng, Jian Yong, Zhang Wei) We are soldiers from a unit of the People's Liberation Army. (...) At around 8:05 PM we were doing sports on the field. Ren Jianmin suddenly discovered a flying object emitting a white light in the northwest sky. This object was gaining more and more altitude and looked like two plates turned upside down on each other. It was surrounded by a red light. We observed it for two minutes. It finally disappeared into the clouds. (...)(...)", + "location": "CHINA, Lianyungang (Jiangsu)", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - Ed. Mercure de France 1983, p. 187", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3129" + }, + { + "date": "6/18/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. 22.8.80) FIRST FLIGHT OF AN F-117 AT TONOPAH AIRFIELD OF THE NELLIS BASE. LIKE THE XST, IT WAS BUILT IN THE LOCKHEED WORKSHOPS IN BURBANK AND ASSEMBLED AT NELLIS. THE TRANSPORT OF THE PROTOTYPES, WINGS FOLDED, IS ALSO MADE FROM BURBANK. THE GOVERNMENT ALLOCATES A BUDGET OF ONE BILLION DOLLARS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 59 F-117A AIRCRAFT UNDER THE CODE \"SENIOR TREND\"", + "location": "USA, Nellis AFB (Nevada)", + "ref": [ + "Gesag, Bulletin No. 96 Sept 97, p. 3", + "see Oct. 1983", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3130" + }, + { + "date": "6/27/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Shi Wenglu)… A group of round-shaped UFOs was seen.… At 3:30 in the afternoon, I turned on my television, but there was a strong interference. I went out to the courtyard to check the antenna and that's when I noticed three bright round objects arranged in a triangle, flying from northeast to southwest. A moment later I saw two other bright balls heading from north to south and finally heading west. I also noticed some other round objects that remained stationary in the sky. In total there were thirteen to fifteen UFOs, all as big as a bowl. They all disappeared suddenly at once. (...)(...)", + "location": "CHINA, Zibo (Shandong)", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - Ed. Mercure de France 1983, p. 188", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3131" + }, + { + "date": "7/1/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Cui Fengmin) I am a young soldier of the city guard of Urumqi. In the night of July 1st of this year, I witnessed a UFO phenomenon. (...) At 11:55 PM (Beijing time), lying on my bed, I was reading a magazine; two comrades sharing my room were getting ready to go to bed, when we heard outside, sentinels shouting (...) We rushed out and immediately saw a flying object in the shape of a crown. This object was spinning and throwing a bluish light, like that of an electric arc. It was actually an object in the shape of a hat, with the dome on top. The hat was flying from south to north, it was as big as a bowl. (...) From time to time the luminous hat stayed still and then advanced in jerks. What surprised us the most, is that this hat started to spew from underneath a stream of sparkling matter. This phenomenon lasted about a minute. Finally, this hat which was not far from us, suddenly disappeared. It was then 12:03 AM. (...)(...)", + "location": "CHINA, Urumqi (Xinjiang)", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - Ed. Mercure de France 1983, p. 190", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3132" + }, + { + "date": "7/4/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Gray, the pilot of the Lockheed L-1011 Tristar passenger plane, was flying on autopilot at 37,000 feet. The flight was from San Francisco to New York's Kennedy Airport, and was approaching the east shore of Lake Michigan. The lake was invisible due to low clouds, but the sky above the plane was clear. Suddenly, from the left front, a silver disc appeared in its full dimension. Its initial shape resembled a sombrero seen from above. The UFO approached the plane in an arc, then abruptly moved away. It then appeared 10 times wider than tall, with six dark openings around its perimeter. At the top left, a light shone like the sun. When the object disappeared in a vertical elevation apparently without difficulty, Gray noted that it was surrounded by dark vapors. The first officer confirmed the observation, but the flight engineer saw nothing.", + "location": "USA, in flight, above Lake Michigan", + "ref": [ + "Report from CSISOP", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3133" + }, + { + "date": "7/7/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Zheng Yurong) ... around 10 o'clock I was going to the free market to buy vegetables. I was walking north. Suddenly I heard an airplane buzzing. I searched the sky with my eyes and I saw an airplane flying from west to east. But at the same time I noticed in the sky to the west, a silver colored object that was moving in a straight line. Its shape was very strange: a big metal eggplant. It was flying from north to south. As the plane was making a lot of noise, I don't know if this object was making any noise too. (...) The eggplant-shaped object was made of metal because it strongly reflected the sunlight. It was flying at about 2000 m from me. It had the size of a man's shoe sole. Throughout the seven minutes of my observation, it did not change color or direction. (...)(...)", + "location": "CHINA, Chongqing", + "ref": [ + "Shi Bo: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" - ed. Mercure de France 1983, p. 192", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3134" + }, + { + "date": "7/26/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:45 in the night of July 26, 1981, the fighters of our troop discovered a luminous object in the sky. It had the shape of two inverted triangles. In the middle of the object, there were small holes from which bluish sparkling lights were shooting out. It was at 3500 m altitude and its speed was 1500 m/s. It was flying from east to west.", + "location": "CHINA, Tianzu (Heilongjiang)", + "ref": [ + "SHI BO: \"China and the Extraterrestrials\" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.72", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3135" + }, + { + "date": "8/8/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man saw two entities wearing green suits. The beings were partially surrounded by fog. The witness also saw a silver-colored UFO, enveloped in mist, shaped like a disk, hovering nearby.", + "location": "Poland, Chalupy", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 347", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3136" + }, + { + "date": "8/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Kim, 15 years old, was with two other young people in a cabin near Plainfield when they felt observed by a mysterious creature 7 feet tall, covered in thick white fur. \"Its eyes were deeply set in black orbits,\" he said, and neither nose nor mouth were visible. It was outside the cabin, looking through the windows, scratching and tapping on the walls of the cabin. No one dared to go out and the siege lasted all weekend. On Monday morning the creature was gone. When they returned home, the young people were not initially believed by their parents, but seeing the fear in their eyes they returned to the cabin to find in the mud almost human-sized footprints, 35 cm long.", + "location": "USA, Plainfield (Wisconsin)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 35", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3137" + }, + { + "date": "9/10/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Denise Bishop, 23 years old, was turning the corner of the bungalow to go home at 11:15 pm when she saw a gigantic object that looked like a dark gray metallic crab, hovering above other houses at the top of a hill. At the bottom there were 6 or 7 lamps that sent out wide beams of pink, purple and white light. She was terrified and rushed to the door. As she put her hand on the latch, a beam of lemon-green light hit the back of her hand. Although it was a magnificent sight, she was terrified. The green ray stayed lit for about 30 seconds without giving any clarity, then went out. All around her there was a special silence, which only stopped when the object took off. Rubbing her hand, she ran to tell her sister, but the UFO had disappeared. The dog started sniffing her hand, then she felt tingling and there were like little drops of blood: it was a burn. Her brother-in-law came back around 2:30 am after his work as a disc jockey and advised to call the police.", + "location": "Great Britain, Weston Mill Hill (Plymouth)", + "ref": [ + "F.S.R. 28 n° 3 - 1983, pp. 15-19", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3138" + }, + { + "date": "9/25/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9am Barbara Crabtree saw a creature 7 to 8 feet tall in the wheat field behind her house. It was covered in dirty white fur and had very large eyes, which she couldn't make out the details of due to the distance, and scared, quickly went back into her house. She assumes the creature took a dead chicken she had thrown in the trash that morning, as in the afternoon the chicken was no longer there. In the evening, coming back in the car with her husband, they saw the same creature come out of the woods on the side of the road. A few days later they heard growling outside and the dog started barking furiously.", + "location": "USA, Decker Chapel (Indiana)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 35", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3139" + }, + { + "date": "11/13/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the Barone farm, Roxanne, 12 years old, heard noises in the barn in the evening and, not daring to go and see alone, was accompanied by Tina, her 13 year old sister. Tina went in first and, feeling around, searched for the light switch. Instead of a switch, her hand encountered something furry. She thought it might be a goat or some other animal. But it was something else entirely. It was growling softly, standing up and very tall - 6 to 7 feet - and covered in black fur. Its eyes were red. So as not to provoke the creature, Tina slowly backed out of the barn. Little cousin David, who had come out of the house with a revolver, fired a shot in the air. Then the creature ran off, fleeing into the distance on two legs. Tina said the creature was something between a monkey and a bear, with very long arms. At the beginning of December, Tina's mother saw the creature again, sitting or crouching in front of the barn and looking at it. She supposes that the sacks of grain and apples that were ripped open were the work of this creature.", + "location": "USA, Michigan's Upper Peninsula", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 36", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3140" + }, + { + "date": "11/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Nina Hagen, a rock star, was on vacation in a house near the Malibu beach. She was sleeping on the upper floor, and her mother and two friends were sleeping on the floor below. She woke up in the night, went to the window, and suddenly saw a \"svelte\" round saucer of light. She wanted to call her friends, but she couldn't move. All she felt was a kind of great happiness, as she watched the colorful light displays produced by the apparition. The object was about ten meters above her, and it was quite transparent; she remembers seeing a desk with people inside. Suddenly it was all over. In the morning she had proof that she hadn't been dreaming: the curtains were still open. (Note from Vog: Huge proof, indeed!) She talked about it in her book \"Ich bin ein Berliner\" (Goldmann-Verlag).", + "location": "USA, Malibu, California", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3141" + }, + { + "date": "12/20/1981", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Hundreds of observations of curious phenomena, mainly yellow balls, powerful white-blue lights and groups of multicolored lights, and even non-luminous objects visible only during the day. The trajectories can be varied; the phenomena are recorded on various devices, sometimes on radar. Natural origin appears probable. (Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, pp. 60-63) On December 20, 1981, Nils Kare Nesvold and Per Holden, passing through Vongraven, saw a large star emerge from the sky and fly in a straight line over the mountain peaks. It was followed by a cluster of 19 other lights. It was all flickering, descending, accelerating, slowing down together. This was the first of a series of observations that would last for 5 years with hundreds of eyewitnesses. Most often the lights were observed in the evening, between 7:30 pm and 10:30 pm. (1981, December 20 (and for 5 years until 1985))", + "location": "Norway, Hessdalen", + "ref": [ + "La cura de CUN - Italy, Milan section", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3142" + }, + { + "date": "1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Officially, NASA is created. One of its missions concerns sounding rockets (for sounding) since this date, about thirty are launched each year. 14 different types are used. They vary in size from the Super Arcas of 3 meters high, to the 4-stage Black Brant XII, which measures 20 meters. These rockets can reach altitudes of 48 km to more than 1287 km. In most cases, they are recoverable and are reused. Launch sites are located: Wallops Island, White Sands Missile Range, Poker Flat Research Range Alaska, sites in Canada, Norway, Sweden. There are also launches from temporary locations and between 1982 and 1997 launches were made from bases in Peru, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Greenland, Australia, and aircraft carriers in the Pacific Ocean", + "location": "USA, Wallops", + "ref": [ + "NASA Website on the Internet in 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3143" + }, + { + "date": "1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) There exists an \"electron cannon\" in the USA, called \"Aurora\". It is installed at the Harry Diamond Laboratory and can emit a beam of 12 MeV under 1.6 amperes.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"La Guerre des Satellites\" - tome 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p 209", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3144" + }, + { + "date": "1/31/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 8:30 PM, farmer Morato was having trouble with his tractor, which had stopped running due to the frequent rains of the season. He went to seek help from a neighbor, who came right away with his own tractor. Suddenly the two men saw a dazzling light descending: it descended very close to the ground. Stunned, they saw on the Los Garabatos property, a hundred meters away from them, a well-defined cylindrical shape, about thirty meters long. They observed it for 5 minutes, which seemed like an eternity before fleeing, one tractor towing the other, towards another farm. These people had seen nothing, but there was static on the television for several minutes and the image was very disturbed. Instead of a landing, visited the next day, the ground was colored and seemed orange, which contrasted strongly with the surrounding land.", + "location": "Spain, Los Garabatos (Gerena)", + "ref": [ + "Excerpt from the newspaper \"El correo de Andalucia\" from Seville, of February 12, 1982, with map, photos, text, of which I received a copy from Ignacio Darnaude Rojas-Marcos, precisely the owner of the Los Garabatos estate, which he has his employees work on.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3145" + }, + { + "date": "3/12/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A regular airline plane was attacked by a UFO. It was an ovoid object, close to the traditional flying saucer, which started by circling the plane for a long time, at a speed that no human aircraft could reach in the atmosphere. Suddenly, it seemed to try to crash into it, trying to reach the cockpit. The pilot maneuvered to prevent the collision. The UFO then disappeared at very high speed towards the northwest. (L.D. - NOSTRA - 20.1.1983) A metallic object, like a missile, attacked a freight train (probably carrying nuclear material) that was rolling from Tomsk to Novosibirsk (Siberia) while at the same time an airline plane was caught in the circular flight of a UFO between Alma Ata and Taschkent.", + "location": "USSR, between Alma-Ata and Tashkent - in flight and from Tomsk to Novosibirsk", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3146" + }, + { + "date": "3/31/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A FEW DAYS AFTER THE BEGINNING OF THE FALKLANDS CONFLICT, THE USSR LAUNCHED THE COSMOS 1345, A RADAR RECONNAISSANCE SPY SATELLITE. OTHERS WOULD FOLLOW WITH THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONFLICT. BY MAY 15TH, IN A MONTH AND A HALF, NO LESS THAN 18 SOVIET MILITARY SATELLITES WERE SENT INTO SPACE: 9 NAVIGATION SATELLITES, 5 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESPIONAGE SATELLITES (images sent to a telecommunications satellite of the GORIZONT or RADUGA type, placed in geostationary orbit), 2 OCEANIC SURVEILLANCE SATELLITES, 2 ELECTRONIC LISTENING SATELLITES, 1 TELECOMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE AND 1 ALERT SATELLITE. (1982, from March 31st to May 15th)", + "location": "USSR, Baikonour", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, pp. 7 and 8, 13", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3147" + }, + { + "date": "4/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The United States themselves, of course, were not left out in this affair. They launched, for their part, two large photographic spy satellites on orbits that also allowed for good surveillance of the conflict zone. (April 1982)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 13", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3148" + }, + { + "date": "4/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) E.B., a young woman, and her friend A.J. leaving their bungalow at nightfall in the Mudumalai Reserve between Mysore and Otacamund in southern India, noticed a bright white light blinking from the other side of the river. After crossing the bridge, they followed the other bank and, as they got closer, the light became brighter with diffuse vibrations. They then saw, at a distance of 50 m, a kind of cigar 10 m long that moved to the left and rose into the sky with jets of fire, while three beings wearing white suits, about 1.7 m tall, were bent over the ground, seemingly picking something up with very slow movements. An intense and diffuse white light ball, 3 m in diameter, was hovering above them. The whole scene lasted about 4 minutes without any noise. Then the ball and the beings disappeared and for an hour a part of the sky resembling a large cloud was crossed in all directions by long white luminous rays, while the rest of the sky remained intact.", + "location": "India, Mudumalai Reserve", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"The Enigma of the ETs\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, pp. 88-89", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3149" + }, + { + "date": "5/1/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On May 1, 1982, after almost 25 years of space exploration, nearly 2300 rocket launches had put a total of almost unbelievable 13,168 different objects into orbit. Each launch is accompanied, in fact, by the satellization of several different bodies: the satellite itself (sometimes in a cluster of eight...), the last stage of the carrier rocket, the protective cone which sometimes splits into several parts, and different ancillary bodies: straps, bolts, etc... At the same date, there were still 4631 objects in orbit. [Note from Vog: which means, apart from the successful and publicly recognized recoveries, that about 8500 terrestrial objects have descended to Earth between 1957 and 1980, that is, about one per day!]", + "location": "SPACE", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, pp. 123, 124", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3150" + }, + { + "date": "5/2/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Hunters were following an electrified fence two meters high for kilometers. Between 6 and 9 pm, they suddenly saw a large disc topped with a dome. The edge seemed to be made of plexiglass, the base was rotating, and on the edge were groups of seven large entities wearing gray tights. They had blond hair cut in a \"pageboy\" style and tanned skin.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Ripley - Queensland", + "ref": [ + "UFO Research Sunshine Coast.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3151" + }, + { + "date": "5/29/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 6:15 pm school was over. Among the multitude of boys from the Marianist college, Geraclio Arana and Sebastian Izquierdo, both around ten years old, were returning home together as they lived in the same building. On this splendid day, they observed a very bright point in the sky descending towards the nearby Olàrizu fields. Near this hill where a large stone cross is erected, there was an object in the sky that clearly had the shape of a white egg and seemed to sway like a dead leaf. Excited, the two young schoolboys left their usual route to get closer to the place by a small path. Having walked about a hundred meters on the path, a glance at the UFO showed that it had descended even lower, circling around the hill. On what seemed to be the fuselage, the two boys then saw a red symbol: it had the shape of a cross with each end having a half circle. The sight of this strange \"letter\" scared the boys and almost running they went back up the path to go home.", + "location": "Spain, Vitoria (Alava)", + "ref": [ + "ENIGMAS, Madrid, November 1998: Chapter 24: 19/82 Pleiad on Andalusia, Iker Jimenez and Lorenzo Fernandez", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3152" + }, + { + "date": "6/3/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The Americans did not fail to highlight a space experience, which the Soviets apparently did not wish to make public. This was Cosmos 1374 launched at 21:30 UTC. After completing one and a quarter orbits, the satellite detached to return to Earth. Its mission was already complete. In fact, it was not a landing but a splashdown, which is surprising given that until then the USSR had always landed its recoverable satellites, for simple geographical reasons. Only two \"Zond\" automatic spacecraft returning from the Moon had splashed down in the Indian Ocean. Precisely, Cosmos 1374 landed in the Indian Ocean, 550 km south of the Cocos Islands, about 2000 km from the Australian coast. The satellite remained exactly 109 minutes in space, at an average altitude of 225 km, at an inclination of 50.7°. The Russians had just tested a small inhabited spacecraft. The recovery operations involving seven Russian ships were followed and photographed by an Australian Air Force Lockheed P-3 Orion. The story does not say if it was flying over this area by chance.", + "location": "USSR, Kapustin Yar (Volgograd)", + "ref": [ + "\"La Guerre des Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 179, 180", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3153" + }, + { + "date": "6/10/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Paul Freman, 39 years old, a patrolman for the Walla Walla area of the Blue Mountains, was alone in the forest that morning around 11:30. \"Suddenly I saw something 10 feet tall rise up from a bench by the side of the road and come in my direction. We saw each other at the same time. It looked like the pictures I had seen of prehistoric man. It was really hairy, reddish hair. It covered its legs, arms and shoulders. But the face and chest were less hairy and showed a skin that looked like brown leather. I was 65 yards away from it and we just stood there, looking at each other. I could hear it breathing hard, as if it had been running and I could see the muscles of its stomach moving. Out of caution I stepped back a few paces. It had the hair on its neck and shoulders standing up, like a dog when it's angry. When it saw that I wasn't coming any closer, it turned around and went away.\" The creature seemed very strong. Having a lot of experience with wild animals, Freeman says he had never seen anything like it. He then called his colleagues on the phone and they took photos and made imprints of the footprints left by the creature. They found 22 of them. Each one was 14 inches long, 7 inches wide and spaced 6 to 8 feet apart from the next one. Two days later, another witness, Robert France, saw an identical creature in the Chesnut area, beyond the Hillside village of Derry Township. (June 10, 1982)", + "location": "USA, Umatilla National Forest", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 37, 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3154" + }, + { + "date": "7/1/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In total, China had launched eleven satellites in nine launches by July 1, 1982, the last of which was a triple launch. The first of these satellites, \"China 1\", surprised experts with its weight: 173 kilograms.", + "location": "CHINA", + "ref": [ + "\"The War of the Satellites\" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 14", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3155" + }, + { + "date": "7/20/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3pm, in broad daylight, a young farmer A.M. was riding his motorcycle on the road between the villages of Medina Sidonia and Vejer de la Frotera. The road, all uphill, curves and very winding, allowed him to see below two sinister-looking beings. Both of them were wearing astronaut suits. The smaller one had a kind of backpack, his bald head was surrounded by a bubble-shaped helmet, in his gloved hands he held a large stone. He was wearing sandals leaving his toes uncovered. The larger one had only one frontal eye, but he had hair. His head was also in a transparent bubble. He was wearing long gloves covering the forearms, and boots reaching up to his knees. In his left hand he held a kind of rod about 50 cm long.", + "location": "Spain, Vejer de la Frontera (Cadiz)", + "ref": [ + "ENIGMAS, Madrid, November 1998: Chapter 24: 19/82 Pleiad over Andalusia, Iker Jimenez and Lorenzo Fernandez", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3156" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) J. W. and a relative were on vacation in Warminster and stopped at Cley Hill to enjoy the view. It was there that they had a strange experience. They felt as if they were under an invisible dome and all the familiar sounds of the countryside disappeared. When they got back into their car, both of them noticed that their wristwatch was 20 minutes behind the watch in the car. This time corresponded to their time spent looking around. (1982, Summer)", + "location": "England, Cley Hill (Warminster)", + "ref": [ + "BUFORA, England, 26.10.1996", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3157" + }, + { + "date": "8/26/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The base was overflown at 3000 m altitude by an object in the shape of a cigar. Six Mig's were sent to intercept it. If the unknown did not comply, they had orders to shoot. Finally, they shot, but the rockets remained blocked inside the planes and exploded there. Five aircraft were completely lost along with their crew, the sixth aircraft, piloted by Lt. Michail Anisimow, collided with the UFO but was able to land despite the significant damage. [vog: and to think that only Germans can tell us this story!]", + "location": "USSR, Ventspils Submarine Base (Lithuania, Baltic Sea)", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\" Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3158" + }, + { + "date": "9/9/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three peasants and a couple on a picnic reportedly saw around 3 PM a luminous ball hovering above the Pripet marshes. It was the size of a small plane. No apparent openings. The sphere was rotating slowly. It disappeared into the marsh.", + "location": "USSR, Vysotsk", + "ref": [ + "Olga Kilichine - Nostra - 11.11.1982", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3159" + }, + { + "date": "9/24/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A lumberjack observed an object while driving, which disappeared above the tree line. The witness found it again when he himself was at the top of the ridge. The object was hovering above the roof of a cabin. He described it as a kind of upside-down Christmas tree radiating strongly with a very bright white light and dancing up and down like a yo-yo.", + "location": "Norway, Hessdalen", + "ref": [ + "Bob PRATT - USA", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3160" + }, + { + "date": "10/18/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7:30 in the morning, Gary Fortenberry and Jimmy Bumgarner, employees at the McGuire nuclear base near Lake Norman, were driving along Highway 73 along the Catawba River when they observed, above a bank of fog, an enormous silver object with \"4 feet\" which they took to be a water tower. However, later in the day, when they took the same route again, they noticed that there was no construction in that area. Only high-tension lines crossed the area. (...)", + "location": "USA, Lake Norman, McGuire", + "ref": [ + "Mufon, Ufonet", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3161" + }, + { + "date": "10/20/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Due to bad weather conditions at the Magadan airport, the IL-62 flight, registration number 86457 (flight 206) from Moscow, had to land in Pietropavlovsk. During the approach maneuver, around 7:29 PM, they saw a luminous object parallel to their plane, which was moving at different altitudes and speeds. The radio conversation about this was recorded. The observation lasted half an hour. Once on the ground, Captain Vasilievikh made a report regarding the functioning of the instruments and the airport service. On the ground, a civilian and a military, both working at the control tower, had also observed the luminous object.", + "location": "USSR, region of Pietropavlovsk", + "ref": [ + "The CUN Sezione di Milano, which received copies of all the official statements of the witnesses", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3162" + }, + { + "date": "11/19/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Getting out of the car at around 5 pm to see what the light was on a field, the witness saw an object as big as his living room, 8 to 10 m wide, at 100 m altitude, making no sound. It shone with pulsations as if hundreds of small candles were lit at the same time. The color was metallic silver: in front it was oval and it became a triangle at the back. It seemed to have a rotary movement. The witnesses watched for about 15 minutes, then a beam came out of the right side and pointed towards the couple, then a second: they were scared and ran towards the car. The UFO followed the car for a short time before moving away. They saw something long at the back and the lower part was black in color.", + "location": "GERMANY, Neuss", + "ref": [ + "Bob PRATT - USA", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3163" + }, + { + "date": "10/21/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the suburbs of Nancy, a biologist researcher saw an oval object 1.5 m in diameter approach, station in his garden at 1 m from the ground, at very short distance, for twenty minutes, then leave very quickly. The blades of grass under the craft stood vertically during take-off, the amaranth plants were withered. Case not elucidated by Gepan.", + "location": "FRANCE, Nancy (Meurthe et Moselle)", + "ref": [ + "Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unexplained Cases, pp. 60 to 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3164" + }, + { + "date": "11/27/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A motorist stopped at around 10 pm to observe at 700 m and at an altitude of 150 to 200 m a shape more square than triangular, pointed forward, stationary, gray in color, with two bright headlights. This craft had no wings. The object passed over his head at a speed not exceeding 40 km/h and was visible for about 3 minutes.", + "location": "Great Britain, Derbyshire", + "ref": [ + "Bob PRATT - USA", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3165" + }, + { + "date": "1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A woman in her early forties remembered being in a spaceship during her sleep. The entities present, male and female, looked like humans. Other abducted people were present. She did not want the entities to examine her, as she was pregnant. The entities were confused, apparently not wanting to have pregnant women on board. She was still shown what her baby would look like once born, and then was given the honor of visiting the ship. She does not know how it ended, as she woke up somewhere in the countryside. [note from vog: what annoys me most in all these cases, is like here: madam takes a tour of the ship and tells nothing, absolutely nothing of how it was...]", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Queensland", + "ref": [ + "UFORA90047. Bill Chalker", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3166" + }, + { + "date": "1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. 1980, around July) James Forber and Henry De Greef accompany Karné to the planet Aenstria. They are accompanied by female extraterrestrial pilots Nua and Ulo. They arrive on the planet in a city called Amuris and it is under a dome. In 1985 James Forber gets married, he has two children which he will call \"Kassiopea\" and \"Pleiades\" [note from vog: poor kids!]", + "location": "South Africa, Johannesburg", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "etc. etc. until the 90s", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3167" + }, + { + "date": "12/31/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A few minutes before midnight, Vallor opened a bottle of champagne, then, as he had just moved into their new house, he took a second one to christen the house, as one christens a ship, by throwing it against the outer wall. His wife was not pleased with the initiative, saying that the bottle debris could hurt the children when they were playing outside, so Vallor went out to clean up. As he got up he saw a package of very bright lights in the sky to the south. Some lights were red, others green, others white. He thought they were the lights of a jet in trouble, but the object was moving much too slowly to be an airplane. He called his wife to give him the camcorder, and at the moment his wife came out, the lights were directly above the house. \"They seemed to be connected to some kind of structure,\" he said, \"in the shape of a V or a boomerang. I could hear a faint and deep humming, like the sound of a factory in the distance\" If the sound was barely audible, Vallor felt a strong vibration in his chest. He started filming, the object was perhaps 500 feet in altitude, right above the house. Instantly all the colored lights disappeared and in their place appeared a triangular formation of 3 white lights, so intense that everything was lit up like in broad daylight. Five seconds later these white lights disappeared and the package of colored lights replaced them.... The film showed faint lights barely visible, five seconds of very bright lights, and again very faint points of light. No structure appeared, the screen was all black for the rest of the image.", + "location": "USA, Kent, New York", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt: \"NIGHT SIEGE, The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings\", ed. Llewellyn, St Paul, USA, 2nd edition of 1995, p. 6 and 7", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3168" + }, + { + "date": "12/31/1982", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Just before midnight Edwin Hansen, a department store clerk, saw the phenomenon as he was driving home. \"I thought it was a helicopter that had turned on its headlights to land,\" he said. Then he saw several cars pull over to the side of the road and people looking at the phenomenon. As it got closer, the lights began to circle slowly in the air. \"It was projecting a beam of white light down to the ground. It wasn't a helicopter, because even though the craft was right above me, I couldn't hear any noise.\" As he was about to stop for a better view, the object descended and was right in front of his car. All lights off, it must have been about 100 yards above the road. \"It was shaped like a boomerang, with little lights running along its wings. There was a part that looked like a rudder, or a tail behind the boomerang part. It was so huge that it filled up the whole sky.\" The object then approached the car, and Edwin Hansen started honking frantically, at the same time he held a hand in front of his eyes, just in time to avoid being blinded by the beam of white light that he received full in the face. Hansen felt some kind of communication between him and the object and some kind of voice told him not to be afraid. Suddenly the object veered and disappeared.", + "location": "USA, Hudson Valley, Kent Cliffs", + "ref": [ + "J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt: \"NIGHT SIEGE, The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings\", ed. Llewellyn, St Paul, USA, 2nd edition of 1995, pp. 7-9", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3169" + }, + { + "date": "2/26/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Monique O'Driscoll and her 17-year-old daughter observed an object with several (about fifty) lights, shaped like a boomerang and silently passing vertically (at the level of the tree tops), which made her think of a bridge. There were heavy metal mesh parts with tubular parts here and there. (The object stopped above the frozen lake, and its red and blue lights were reflected on the ice ... (...) The two women finally stopped near the Nandick house, who were shocked to see the lights in the sky and did not dare to leave the house. (...) At the same moment Herbert Proudfoot and two friends in a car left the highway 84 in Danburry, when they saw the lights. Proudfoot stopped the vehicle to be able to observe better. The lower part was black and resembled the engine of the movie \"Close Encounter of the Third Kind\" and despite being only 1000 feet high, no sound from the object was heard ...) (VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 298) and for the parts between parentheses:", + "location": "USA, Hudson River", + "ref": [ + "\"NIGHT SIEGE, The hudson Valley Sightings\" by J.Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt, 2nd ed. 1995, ed. Llewellyn, St Paul USA, p. 10 to 13", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3170" + }, + { + "date": "2/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Pat Norriss was able to distinguish twenty to thirty beings who were looking at her from a glass bay on the upper deck of a huge vessel that was landed on the ground.", + "location": "USA, Mobile (Alabama)", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués\" - ed. Ramuel 1999, p 158", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3171" + }, + { + "date": "3/10/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:00 PM, at the end of her work, Brigitte returned home in her car. \"I saw, at the entrance of a wood, a light coming in the opposite direction that I identified as the headlight of a one-eyed car. I put my headlights in code and at the moment of crossing this light, it divided into many small, very bright but not dazzling balls. At that moment I had the impression of crossing a very bright zone. I had the reflex to brake, but my brakes did not respond. During this crossing (...) I had no sensation of rolling of my car. At that moment an obsession thought me: \"they must not take me without Georges (my husband) and the children.\" (...) It happened very quickly, in a few seconds at most. Then I saw in my rearview mirror the small bright balls gathering behind the car to form only one, larger, which moved away very quickly. Then, looking at the road, I noticed that I was parked on the right side, in the grass, just in front of the road sign of the entrance of the village of V... In a state of intense anxiety I then got out of the vehicle, I noticed that the body was hot, as well as the hood, as if I had parked for several hours under a scorching sun. (...)\"", + "location": "FRANCE, in Yonne", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Our Masters, the Extraterrestrials\" - Presses de la Cité 1992, pp. 29-31", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3172" + }, + { + "date": "3/17/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening of March 17, Dennis Sant, judge of Putnam County, was inside his home when he saw, along with his son and two daughters, an enormous triangular platform flying over his property. He would later compare this flying fortress to a city in the sky at 30 m from the ground and with a dimension greater than 100 m. The object flew close to his land in absolute silence and projected a powerful beam to the ground, which seemed to scan the surroundings. The observation time was estimated between ten and twenty minutes. Then slowly the object moved away without making any noise. (Jean THOMAS: \"Synthèse Ovni\", ed. Louise Couteau, 1999, p. 212) and for the account of other witnesses from the neighborhood:", + "location": "USA, Brewster (New York) (Hudson River)", + "ref": [ + "\"NIGHT SIEGE, The Hudson Valley Sightings\" by J.Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt, 2nd ed. 1995, ed. Llewellyn, St Paul USA, p. 17 to 25", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3173" + }, + { + "date": "3/24/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) For two and a half hours, hundreds of people saw objects in the shape of a boomerang. \"I saw a beam of very bright white light coming from the center of the object and inside there was a small reddish object that broke away from the beam and flew very quickly towards the north. Then the beam went out. \"The object was triangular and had lights all around it.\" \"The object lit up two spotlights that seemed to be looking for something on the surface of the pond; then I could hear a very faint noise\". \"It was bigger than a football field\". etc... (VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 298, 299) and for other details and other witnesses:", + "location": "USA, Westchester-Putnam (Hudson River)", + "ref": [ + "\"NIGHT SIEGE, The Hudson Valley Sightings\" by J.Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt, 2nd ed. 1995, ed. Llewellyn, St Paul USA, p.27 to 50", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3174" + }, + { + "date": "3/26/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Bill Pollard, 26 years old, saw in the sky something like an airplane about to fall; the object did not fall, and he distinguished white, green and red lights blinking in a rhythm. The object rose straight up in the sky and Pollard was able to make out a large, rounded triangular shape.", + "location": "USA, Danbury (Connecticut)", + "ref": [ + "\"NIGHT SIEGE, The Hudson Valley Sightings\" by J.Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt, 2nd ed. 1995, Llewellyn Publishing, St Paul USA, p. 52", + "continued in April 1983", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3175" + }, + { + "date": "3/26/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Albert Sylbert, a physics professor from White Plains (N.Y.), was driving home with his wife and two children after a bowling evening. It was around 10:30 pm. \"As we approached our street,\" said Sylbert, \"we all saw a V-shaped formation of lights. I stopped at a clear spot to get a better look at the phenomenon. I was the only one out of the car, and this thing was coming straight at us. It seemed to be about 25 feet above the trees, and it was still descending while flying at a speed of about 40 mph. As it got closer, it descended another ten feet while coming straight at me, about 300 feet away. I asked for silence in the car and I could hear a muffled engine sound, but the sound of an engine nonetheless. A bit scared by the approach of this craft, I went back into the car, and distracted for a moment from the object, it had made a very tight turn and was flying in the opposite direction. In the car everyone was screaming, and I drove like crazy to get home to get my binoculars.\" Sylbert is convinced that someone was playing a prank. He saw no mass behind the lights of the humming object. He supposes that the object was painted in a black night color to deceive the observers.", + "location": "USA, Mahopac (New York)", + "ref": [ + "\"NIGHT SIEGE, The Hudson Valley Sightings\" by J.Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt, 2nd ed. 1995, ed. Llewellyn, St Paul USA, p. 74, 75", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3176" + }, + { + "date": "5/24/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Case No.: 19830524 A) At 6 pm Jürgen R. observed in a completely cloud-covered sky an object of red color, which came above a high-tension line, stopped there, and emitted a pyramidal beam which started from the top and formed gradually towards the bottom. Shortly after this beam decomposed, strangely again from the top to the bottom. During the observation there were disturbances to the CB of the witness, who was in conversation. The diameter of the red object is estimated between 11 and 23 meters.", + "location": "GERMANY, Jüchen", + "ref": [ + "Hans-Werner Peiniger, GEP e.V., JUFOF - Germany", + "JUFOF Nr. 30, 6'1983:161ff", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3177" + }, + { + "date": "6/18/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Dr. Sally K. Ride, mission specialist for the launch of STS-7 on this day, she is the first American woman in space.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "NASA website", + "see 5.10.84", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3178" + }, + { + "date": "7/17/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Stefan Gasparovic was literally sucked into a luminous craft (which he had already seen a few days earlier) and lost consciousness. He regained consciousness six kilometers away, suffered from vision problems, memory loss, and his body was covered in bruises. He was hospitalized for several days and later admitted to seeing \"on board the ship, small ugly and fat beings, with pointed ears\".", + "location": "FRANCE, Sommerécourt", + "ref": [ + "Robert ROUSSEL: \"UFO, the Hidden Truths of the Official Investigation\", ed. Albin Michel 1994, p 125, 126", + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Our Masters the Extraterrestrials\" - Presses de la Cité 1992, p. 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3179" + }, + { + "date": "7/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Taxi driver Benoit went to pick up the fortune teller Edmonde-Isis Athéna in the suburbs and headed towards the city center. Around 8:30 pm he descended the Rue de la Grande Armée, grumbling a bit, as for a long time now a small Peugeot 104 had been following him too closely. At the bottom of the Rue de la Grande Armée he stopped at the red light, the following car stopped next to him. He turned his head to scold it, but stayed silent, petrified with fear: at the wheel was a woman appearing to be 30 to 35 years old, with an olive to dark green complexion, wild hair with dominant brown, white and yellow strands. She was hideous, her features as if misaligned, like a human caricature, her green eyes like luminous. He asked Edmonde if she saw what he saw? She confirmed, emphasizing the details of a frightening ugliness that had nothing to do with the clownish makeup of a punk. Both of them then became aware of an inexplicable anomaly: in this neighborhood at the top of the Canebière (...) a mineral silence reigned. It was deserted, with a muffled, oppressive silence. The light turned green (...) and Benoit's CX jumped forward but seemed not to touch the ground. (...) everything returned to normal on the Rue Alphonse-Thiers. (...)", + "location": "FRANCE, Marseille", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Nos maîtres les extraterrestres\" - Presses de la Cité 1992, p. 103, to 105", + "continued: October 1984", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3180" + }, + { + "date": "8/3/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 11pm, thousands of people were walking along the beach while concerts were playing. Suddenly, at least 60 bright lights descended from the sky to form a pyramid shape in the air, then a cigar shape, then a boomerang shape. The spectacle lasted 55 minutes, and then suddenly the lights disappeared, it was over. Among the spectators were musician Nickolai Schevtchenko (31 years old) and Riga Ballet dancer Normund Konrad Harris (26 years old). The latter already had contacts with extraterrestrials who answered his questions. Nickolai thus followed a few sessions with Normund and learned that the UFOs come from the Feta system, they are called \"the children of Janos\" and their spiritual leader is called Janos.", + "location": "LATVIA, Jurmala/Riga", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\" Berlin, January 1998", + "follow-up on June 22, 1985", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3181" + }, + { + "date": "8/12/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Alfred Burtoo (77 years old) accompanied by his dog, had settled by the side of the Bassingstoke Canal, not far from an army barracks; in order to fish there all night. He heard a nearby clock strike 1 o'clock and prepared to drink a cup of tea from his Thermos bottle. Burtoo saw a bright light descend from what he initially took to be an army helicopter. It landed on the towpath of the canal at some distance and the light went out.

Within a few minutes he was approached by two beings measuring 1.5 meters in height, wearing greenish suits and visors on their faces. His dog, on the defensive, growled at them. They gestured for him to follow them and he complied (“Having 77 years, I had little left to lose” Burtoo would explain later). The trio arrived at a rounded object protruding from the towpath overlooking the canal and Burtoo bent down to cross its threshold. Once inside the craft he was asked his age and was asked in a shaky English to stand under an amber light, which he did. After a few minutes one of the extraterrestrials said to him: “You can go now. You are too old and too infirm to serve our purpose”. When he returned to his fishing rod, his dog was behaving normally, but his tea was cold. Shortly afterwards he saw the light of the UFO rise into the sky and then speed away at a dizzying speed. It was about two in the morning.", + "location": "ENGLAND, Aldershot (Hampshire)", + "ref": [ + "“UFO Files”, ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p. 46", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3182" + }, + { + "date": "8/21/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Robin Laconte, 28 years old, and Grace Jausiak, 18 years old, saw an object near Laconte's home, a little before 11 pm. \"It was passing above us, and at that moment we could hear a faint buzzing sound,\" said Jausiak. \"It went to the right, then to the left, and we watched it for half a minute. Then all the lights went out, as if it knew we were watching. (note from vog: hm!) The two women were scared and went into the house to find Laconte's husband. When they came out again, the object was moving away in a zigzag, then went straight up into the sky. (...)", + "location": "USA, Bridgeport (Connecticut)", + "ref": [ + "\"NIGHT SIEGE, The Hudson Valley Sightings\" by J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt, 2nd ed. 1995, Llewellyn, St Paul USA, p. 73", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3183" + }, + { + "date": "Early 9/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First week of September. Around 7 o'clock in the morning, Mr. Puyrabaud, 53 years old, left for the woods next to the hamlet of Mareuil in search of mushrooms. (Note: In France, one must be careful when looking for mushrooms, these events often happen...) Upon arriving in a clearing, he was surprised to see an ovoid craft resting on three legs. The craft had the appearance of a smooth metal of silver color. Each end of the tripod was terminated by a sort of rotating ball. Approaching it, he saw an open panel with a staircase unfolded resting on the ground. The top of the apparatus was surmounted by a dome with windows. The witness did not have the opportunity to further study it in detail, as the panel began to close, folding the staircase with it. The junction was so perfect that it was no longer possible to distinguish the opening. A strange silence had reigned, but a faint humming like that of a small electrical appliance was heard while the craft rose at the same time. Some small lights surrounded the perimeter, somewhat like will-o'-the-wisps. Very quickly, radiations of an intense blue took hold of the ground, preceding the departure of the craft at Mach 5 or Mach 10 or more. Instantly, the place where the object had been placed was covered with frost. An intense cold penetrated Mr. Puyrabaud's body. Abandoning the picking, he returned home to warm up without succeeding. A doctor was called: nothing could give the witness a little internal heat for about ten days. In short, the witness never felt well again and he died in 1986. (1983, Early September)", + "location": "FRANCE, Champeaux (Dordogne)", + "ref": [ + "Document \"OVNI\", distributed by U.E.C. c/o Claude Chapeau", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3184" + }, + { + "date": "10/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 18.6.81) The 4450th Tactical Group was made operational with 18 Corsair IIs (A-7) and 12 Stealth F-117As at Nellis Air Force Base", + "location": "USA, Nellis Air Force Base (Nevada)", + "ref": [ + "Gesag, Bulletin No. 96 September 97, p. 3", + "see 8.5.1986", + "Toponah Airfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3185" + }, + { + "date": "10/15/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A bright, silver disc passed from right to left over a car, after the witnesses heard a loud buzzing sound. The car was lifted, the headlights blinked, and there were physiological effects on the witnesses afterwards.", + "location": "USA, near Altoona, PA", + "ref": [ + "Jan Aldrich 10/97; Richard Hall, MUFON Journal 192, p14, originally 189-3", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3186" + }, + { + "date": "10/28/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jim Crooke, a biological chemistry engineer specialized in laser optics for surgery, was returning home to Mahopac (New York). Around 2:15 he was near Croton Falls when he saw bright lights between the trees. These lights were approaching quickly and eventually descended above a small lake used as a water reservoir. The lights went out and the witness saw only a dark triangular shape, stationary about 5 meters above the water. \"Then nine red lights lit up on the sides of the triangle. They looked like LED diodes used for digital display. Something came out of the lower part of the object, a red beam of light that seemed to inspect the water, like a probe. Sometimes the object, still silent, projected a \"screen\" towards the water. And the luminous probe seemed to be behind the screen or inside. If you look through infrared waves, you can see the distortion of the background. It's exactly like that.\" (October 28, 1983)", + "location": "USA, Croton Falls (Hudson River)", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 298", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3187" + }, + { + "date": "10/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two police officers fishing in the Whiteshell River saw a Bigfoot 8 feet tall on the other side. The next morning they were woken up by their dogs barking at 5:30. They then saw the Bigfoot being attacked by two large wolves. The Bigfoot grabbed them and threw them aside.", + "location": "Canada, Lone Island, Whiteshell Provincial Park", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 317", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3188" + }, + { + "date": "11/2/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At an altitude of 12000 meters, a mysterious object fell from the sky, breaking off part of the tail of a Chinese military aircraft, which nevertheless was able to land safely.", + "location": "China, in flight, in the north", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 321", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3189" + }, + { + "date": "11/11/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3:30am, a farm employee who was riding a bicycle suddenly saw a very large, vaguely luminous figure with bright green reflections on the road in front of him. At that moment, his bicycle stopped. No matter what he did, he was unable to make it move. The being moved towards the witness. As it advanced, it became larger and thinner. It stopped and assumed a strange position, placing its right foot over its left knee, its right hand on its left shoulder and its right arm extended in the air. Having done this, it simply vanished and disappeared on the spot. The witness was so shaken that he refused to speak to anyone about the incident. It was only a year later that he agreed to be interviewed.", + "location": "Brazil, Parnarama-Cajneiro", + "ref": [ + "Jacques Vallee: \"Confrontations\" Laffont 1991, p. 255, 256", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3190" + }, + { + "date": "12/1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Marisol Espinoza Fica, 22 years old, was driving late at night 1500 km north of Santiago, on a mountain road. Suddenly, she declared, her vehicle was sucked up by a powerful force coming from a round object floating in the air and surrounded by violet lights. The car having been deposited by the craft a few meters away from a ravine and the engine refusing to start, the young woman was forced to make a long walk to get back home. With her father she went to the police station to make a deposition and when they left, both stunned, they observed the disk in the sky again. \"An enormous craft\" specified the father, overwhelmed.", + "location": "Chile, north of...", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Our Masters the Extraterrestrials\". - Presses de la Cité 1992, p. 33, 34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3191" + }, + { + "date": "1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A Chinese woman wakes up in the middle of the night due to a terrible heat and she hears the voices of three men. Later she remembers passing through a door into a saucer. There were 6 non-human but very \"male\" entities who undressed her. Then she finds herself back in her own bed. [Note from vog: What is she complaining about? It's always the same ones who have exotic encounters!]", + "location": "Australia, New Zealand.", + "ref": [ + "Keith Baskerfield - Australian Abduction Cases - 1989", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3192" + }, + { + "date": "1983", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One of the most famous hoaxes is that of the Hudson Valley observations. From 1983 to 1987, thousands of people in the valley observed a boomerang-shaped craft, between 200 and 1000 feet (80 to more than 300m) long. The ship was signaled by multicolored flashing lights. In 1984, \"Discover Magazine\" revealed the truth, revealing that it was a giant prank set up by the \"Stormville Flyers,\" associations of pilots of small single and two-seater planes. They had attached multicolored lights (like for New Year's Eve decorations) between their machines. On a signal, they turned off the lights, making the \"ship\" disappear.", + "location": "USA, Hudson Valley, New York", + "ref": [ + "Copyright Lee Krystek 1996.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3193" + }, + { + "date": "3/21/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Gordon Gebert (25 years old) was with his truck on the highway 87 near Woodbury around 8 pm. A flash of light in the rearview mirror made him blink several times. \"It was still very far away,\" he said. \"I watched it and the light became more and more intense\". Then he lost sight of it. There was little traffic on the highway at that time. \"Five minutes had passed when, looking to my left, I saw this huge thing that was on a collision course with my truck, at a distance of barely 100 yards and losing more and more altitude. It was an object shaped like a boomerang, dark in color, gray or black. The bulk of the mass was behind the lights, and some parts seemed to have depth. I slowed down to 15mph, rolled down the window, to better see this \"plane\" that I thought belonged to the US Air Force. There was no audible sound (note of vog: but the truck engine was running). It must not have been more than 100 feet in the air and was advancing in concert with the truck. It had the size of a Boeing 747. The lights seemed to rotate in a kind of prism, the purest colors I had ever seen.\" He wanted to stop to see better, but thinking that he was practically alone on the highway and that this thing could be hostile, he abstained. The object stayed above the truck for five minutes and Gebert had the feeling of being watched. For a fraction of a second of inattention, the object disappeared, as if it had evaporated in an instant.", + "location": "USA, near Woodbury (New York)", + "ref": [ + "\"NIGHT SIEGE, The Hudson Valley Sightings\" by J.Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt, 2nd ed. 1995, ed. Llewellyn, St Paul USA, p. 71 to 73", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3194" + }, + { + "date": "3/25/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Bobby Boulanger, a 33-year-old engineer, and his family, were driving on 84 near Newburgh around 8 pm. They saw ten stationary red and white lights above the highway. The lights were so intense that they cast shadows on the ground. The family watched the UFO for ten minutes. Then something incredible happened: the lights went out one by one, and when the last one was extinguished, there was nothing left, it had all vanished.", + "location": "USA, near Newburgh (N.Y.)", + "ref": [ + "\"NIGHT SIEGE, The Hudson Valley Sightings\" by J.Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt, 2nd ed. 1995, Llewellyn, St Paul USA, p. 81", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3195" + }, + { + "date": "5/15/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) There was the launch of Columbia with its recovery. None of the American authors mention it... (May 15, 1984)", + "location": "USA", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3196" + }, + { + "date": "3/25/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 8:30 PM Armand Favilla was driving on the expressway when all of a sudden we saw cars pull over and stop. I looked up and saw a series of lights arranged in a V or boomerang shape. I stopped the car, the object was hovering less than 600 feet above us. I rolled down the window but I didn't hear anything. Then the thing glided, not in a motor-driven motion, but floating. We saw the lights move off to the east.\"", + "location": "USA, Yorktown (N.Y.)", + "ref": [ + "\"NIGHT SIEGE, The Hudson Valley Sightings\" by J.Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt, 2nd ed. 1995, Llewellyn, St Paul USA, p. 79", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3197" + }, + { + "date": "3/25/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Michael Piazza of Bedford was among the witnesses. \"It had the shape of a delta with six white lights and two green lights in the center,\" he said. \"The object made a very tight turn and flew off to the north. I'm used to airplanes, but this thing was flying at less than 20 or 30 mph.\"", + "location": "USA, Bedford (N.Y.)", + "ref": [ + "\"NIGHT SIEGE, The Hudson Valley Sightings\" by J.Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt, 2nd ed. 1995, Llewellyn Publishing, St Paul USA, p. 79", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3198" + }, + { + "date": "3/25/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jack Grimsley, a 33 year old professional photographer, was driving on Route 6 around 8:45 pm when he saw the phenomenon coming from the south. \"I saw large, intense white lights, about ten of them, arranged in a boomerang shape. The intensity was so strong that I had to shield my eyes. When they passed over me I saw some kind of dark structure connecting the lights, which were about 500 feet in the air. It was huge. It was flying at the same speed as my car, which was going 30 mph, so I was able to stay directly underneath it for a while.

Then it turned, descended over the trees, and headed towards the Reservoir. I stopped the car and got out with my camcorder. The thing was hovering about 50 feet above the water, about 100 yards from the shore. At this point the lights were blinking different colors, and I could hear a very faint buzzing sound. I filmed for about ten minutes, and when I zoomed in I could make out the dark gray of the structure. The object was about 300 feet long. Then, all of a sudden, the lights went out and the object was gone. I stayed there looking around, but there was nothing to be seen, the object had vanished.\" This is when the strangest part happened. \"I was walking back to my car, after what had seemed to be a quarter of an hour observation, but when I looked at my watch I had been near the Reservoir for over an hour. I must have been so stunned that I lost track of time.\" At home he was able to watch the footage he had taken, and he could hear the sound he had heard during the observation. However, when he took the cassette to his physicist friend to have it edited, there was nothing recorded on the film. (...)", + "location": "USA, Croton Falls Reservoir (N.Y.)", + "ref": [ + "\"NIGHT SIEGE, The Hudson Valley Sightings\" by J.Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt, 2nd ed. 1995, Llewellyn, St Paul USA, pp. 81-83", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3199" + }, + { + "date": "6/4/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Fred Ranaudo was camping in the woods. On a small hill he had made a fire, his vehicle was to his right, and he wrapped himself in the sleeping bag to sleep. Around 3:30 he was awakened in the dark night, without a moon. After a while, his eyes having adapted, he was sitting and looking around and heard in the undergrowth the sound of very heavy footsteps. He heard these sounds for a long time before he saw the creature. It was white, walking at a good pace, breathing loudly as if asthmatic, or out of breath after a run. It was 50 to 75 yards away, vertical, close to 9 feet in height. The creature was approaching and had not yet spotted the witness, who was downwind and whose fire had gone out. Suddenly, seeing the human being, the creature jumped, one big and two small jumps. Taken aback, the witness stood up and jumped towards his vehicle. \"You know, this thing was very big, very wide, very white and covered in fur,\" he said. He saw it disappear into the night and then heard nothing else.", + "location": "USA, Lawrenceburg (New York)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 39, 40", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3200" + }, + { + "date": "6/11/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Marie Clark and her daughter had gone to their neighbors to watch a gymnastics program on TV. \"The program was over at 10 pm,\" she said, \"and my daughter, looking out the window, said 'Look at those lights!' We all looked and saw a greenish light in the sky to the northeast. There were two rows of lights and they formed a curved V. It was hovering. The neighbor asked, 'What kind of plane is that that doesn't move?' (...) We all went outside and watched for a few more minutes. Suddenly it moved, sliding along a horizontal line. Then it was behind the trees and we couldn't see it anymore.\" The color of the lights was a pale green.", + "location": "USA, Fishkill (N.Y.)", + "ref": [ + "\"NIGHT SIEGE, The Hudson Valley Sightings\" by J.Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt, 2nd ed. 1995, Llewellyn, St Paul USA, p. 94, 95", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3201" + }, + { + "date": "6/14/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 8:30 pm a man was checking the oil level of his engine when he saw an unusual object in the sky. It was triangular and open in the middle. (...) \"It wasn't a \"V\", it was a triangle, because it had three sides, and it was flying low. I saw lights all around it spaced two to three feet apart. There was a light at each point. The object itself seemed very thin, like a bridge, you could see through the sides of this thing. The only solid parts were the base and the tip, the center was hollow. There was nothing there. There were like crossbars around it.\" The object was slowly passing through the sky and disappeared behind the trees. (...)", + "location": "USA, Peekskill (N.Y.)", + "ref": [ + "\"NIGHT SIEGE, The Hudson Valley Sightings\" by J.Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt, 2nd ed. 1995, ed. Llewellyn, St Paul USA, p. 96", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3202" + }, + { + "date": "7/12/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening, around 10:30 PM, Don Duhart, a doctor of science, was with a couple when he saw the phenomenon. The arrangement of the lights gave him a feeling of déjà vu. He supposes that it was simply a large balloon carrying external lights. \"The weather was very calm that evening, and when the lights went out, I clearly saw the shape, that of a rugby ball, at 1500 to 2000 feet in the air,\" he said. \"You could see ropes or wires holding the lights. The object floated, and did not make any erratic movements at all.\" In his opinion, the object was made of plastic on a light structure, somewhat resembling a zeppelin, all inflated with helium, carrying a light electric motor that was remotely controlled from the ground.", + "location": "USA, Bethel", + "ref": [ + "\"NIGHT SIEGE, The Hudson Valley Sightings\" by J.Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt, 2nd ed. 1995, Llewellyn Publishing, St Paul USA, p. 115", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3203" + }, + { + "date": "7/19/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness was 32 years old and was a programmer in a scientific company that collaborated on sub-assemblies for the Hubble Space Telescope. We will call him Bill. Around 10:30 pm he was leaving the office and driving on I-84 highway. He saw a very bright, circular object suspended in the sky to the north. As soon as he saw the object, it started to move and then Bill noticed there was a large black mass behind the light. As he continued on his route, Bill lost sight of the object. He exited I-84 to take route 52 near Stormville. Meanwhile it was 11 pm and he suddenly saw a large dark object in the fields: he first thought it was a new housing construction and, intrigued, he stopped to look. It looked like a large barn, more tapered on the facades and very smooth. While he was looking at the object, it rose without a sound. This scared Bill, as he was alone on the road. When the object was twice the height of the trees, the car radio emitted noises like when you put a magnetic tape and it turns too slowly. Completely scared, he put his foot down. After several minutes he saw a glow above a hill... when he got closer... the object was there! It was standing 300 feet above the trees and was illuminated by yellow and white bands of light. He stopped, turned off the engine and the lights... in the hope that this \"thing\" wouldn't see him. The object also turned off its lights and he saw the large dark triangular shape come and pass over the car. He only saw its belly which looked just like a destroyer from the \"Star Wars\" movies. Under the object he saw dark round spots, like tunnel entrances. In these tunnels there was a kind of white stroboscopic light. He didn't hear any sound. It seemed to be about 300 feet long. Then something strange happened: Bill had seen the object come over the car, he didn't see it leave. All he knows is that afterwards he was 200 m from the place where he saw the object around 11:30 pm. It was now 12:15 am. When he got home his wife was angry at his delay. That night he woke up and heard himself screaming: \"Go away!\" His wife confirms that he has been having such nightmares at least twice a week. He was so scared of having to come home at night again that he asked his boss for a change of schedule. Under hypnosis he remembered seeing entities on the road, feeling paralyzed and that these entities told him: \"Don't be afraid, we have selected you. We need you.\" etc..", + "location": "USA, Taconic Parkway-Dutchess (New York)", + "ref": [ + "\"NIGHT SIEGE, The Hudson Valley Sightings\" by J.Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt, 2nd ed. 1995, ed. Llewellyn, St Paul USA, p. 119, and Phil Imbrogno, internet", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3204" + }, + { + "date": "8/26/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around three in the morning, three men in a fishing boat, two miles from Campo Marino, saw a white light in the water, 500 to 1000 meters away from their position. They thought a submarine was about to emerge. But suddenly a round, grey metallic object came out of the sea vertically, turned 60 or 70 degrees and flew away at a dizzying speed. No sound, no stronger wave, no turbulence.", + "location": "ITALY, Campo Marina (Taranto - Puglia)", + "ref": [ + "Investigation by Arcangelo Cassano of CISU, ITUFOR n° 10", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3205" + }, + { + "date": "9/7/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The crews of two Aeroflot planes encountered a UFO in the sky of Belarus. For the plane flying from Tbilissi to Tallinn, this encounter at 04:10 was only a curious event. For the one flying from Leningrad to Tbilissi, the whole affair took a bad turn. The observation was made at 04:50, and the Minsk controller, wanting confirmation, asked them to turn in the direction of the object. The object stopped and sent a very powerful light towards the plane's cabin. Y. Kabatchnikov received the light full in the face, and the captain on the stomach. Two weeks later the captain was in the hospital, where he would die 13 months later. Kabatchnikov was still able to work for two months, then he became completely disabled. (Note that this last witness is a personal friend of the author). (Boris Chourinov: \"The Two Faces of Ufology in Russia\" - May 1994 - p. 26) 70 km NE of Minsk (USSR) on 07/09/84 Vladimir Gotsiridze and Y. Kabatchnikov: serious malaise; deterioration of the health of the two men; G died in 11.85; K was dismissed on 01/07/85 for physical incapacity (source OR, page 165).", + "location": "USSR, Belarus", + "ref": [ + "Also in: Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\" Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3206" + }, + { + "date": "9/23/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On board the Piper LV Mee, piloted by Carlos Sorini, there were still 7 passengers. At 9 pm everyone noticed the interference of a UFO in the air with the instruments on board the plane. The compass oscillated between 0.05° and 270°. The UFO was also detected by flight 760 of Aerolíneas Argentinas as well as by flight 61 of Austral Airlines. The observation lasted 45 minutes.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Reconquista", + "ref": [ + "Forerunners to the incident of Bariloche, Carlos Ferguson, Samizdat 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3207" + }, + { + "date": "10/2/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time: 2345 – The witness was in her bedroom when three semitransparent humanoid figures appeared in front of her, one stood in front of the other two. They wore tight-fitting silvery jumpsuits and were about six-foot tall, and very human looking. Their leader approached the witness, telling her not to be afraid and touched her knee gently. The beings then disappeared. (1984, 2 October)", + "location": "NORVEGE, Moelv", + "ref": [ + "Brad Steiger, Sherry Hansen Steiger. “Starborn”", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3208" + }, + { + "date": "10/5/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 18.6.83) Dr. Sally K. Ride (mission specialist for the launch of STS-7, and the first American woman in space) was also on the Mission 41-G launched on October 5, 1984. She holds a PhD in Physics from Stanford University in 1978.", + "location": "USA", + "ref": [ + "NASA Website", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3209" + }, + { + "date": "10/8/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time: afternoon – A man and a woman described as a truck driving team, reportedly sighted a large bubble-shaped object emerge from a dark cloud and crash on the road near them. A peanut shaped cylinder fell out of the large bubble shaped object and several creatures, described as bird-like, about 8 inches tall with v-shaped heads and human legs came out of the peanut-shaped cylinder. These creatures proceeded to follow the pair of witnesses and fire what appeared to be metallic fillings at them. The couple drove to a nearby truck stop and claimed that the creatures were still nearby hovering above some telephone poles. No one else at the truck stop was able to see the creatures only the couple that seemed normal to those others present. (1984, 8 October)", + "location": "USA, Billings Montana", + "ref": [ + "UFONS # 183", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3210" + }, + { + "date": "10/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: July 1983, Marseille) Benoit took on a well-known client of his and dropped him off at La Joliette near the port. It was around 1:30 in the morning and Benoit returned to his home in the suburbs, or at least he took the path. What happened next? Mystery. He woke up at 7:30 with no memory of returning home.", + "location": "FRANCE, Marseille", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Our Masters the Extraterrestrials\" - Presses de la Cité 1992, p. 106", + "Continued May 1985", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3211" + }, + { + "date": "10/9/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time: 0330A – A light shining through his window suddenly awakened the witness ; he then saw a tall dark human-like figure standing on a nearby hill. From the being's forehead shone a bright torch like beam. The figure suddenly vanished. In its place remained a dark horizontal line and three flames beneath it descending towards the ground. After a few minutes this disappeared also and a bright white light appeared and began approaching the witness location. The witness had difficulty moving but finally was able to reach the window. The white light suddenly vanished and a flashing red sphere appeared. The witness eyes were apparently affected and remained irritated for a few days afterwards. Investigators found extensive ground trace (1984, 9 October)", + "location": "ITALIE, Polcanto", + "ref": [ + "Edoardo Russo, FSR Vol. 30 # 4", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3212" + }, + { + "date": "10/9/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time: 0730A – In an alfalfa field a peasant observed a short being wearing a brown suit and a helmet connected by two pipes to a rucksack on his back. This being was holding a forked stick in his hand and was hovering just above the ground, the being emitted some blue sparks and disappeared behind a bush. Suddenly from behind the bush a square-shaped metallic craft took off and left the area at high speed. Footprints and holes were found on the site. (1984, 9 October)", + "location": "ITALIE, Prata Principato", + "ref": [ + "Edoardo Russo, FSR Vol. 30 #", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3213" + }, + { + "date": "11/26/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Peter and Ana Hoel were on Shore Road around 6:15 PM when they saw a yellow glow on the ocean transform into two red lights blinking alternately. The object was approaching the land and when it got close to the coast the lights went out. It was a triangle with four white lights on the back, and like a window illuminated from the inside with a yellowish light on the underside. This triangle made a low, sustained buzzing sound. It made a right angle turn towards the center of Magnolia: it had a wingspan of about 50 meters. Suddenly it disappeared in place. A little later the witnesses saw four red lights and two white lights through the trees, moving towards Kettle Island.", + "location": "USA, Magnolia Bay", + "ref": [ + "Mufon Journal 214, February 1986, p. 11, 16", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3214" + }, + { + "date": "10/27/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time: night – In a rural farm area the two witnesses were looking at the stars when they saw two diamonds shaped object approach slowly from the east. The objects that emitted a bluish white light passed slowly above some trees. One of the witnesses suddenly decided to walk back to the house. The other witness then saw a 4-foot tall figure standing near the hog lot. It was generally human in shape with a large head and large eyes ; it then approached to within 25 feet of the witness. The witness now could see that it had a short neck and a short nose and appeared to be smiling at her. It wore a tight-fitting outfit and had slender arms that reached to its knees. After five minutes the being turned around and walked away disappearing into the darkness. (1984, 27 October)", + "location": "USA, Park Rapids Minnesota", + "ref": [ + "Bill McNeff, Mufon Journal # 220", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3215" + }, + { + "date": "10/31/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time: after 0600A : The witness had previously been experiencing different type of phenomena in his house, possibly of a poltergeist nature when he woke up feeling that something was not right in his bedroom. He then noticed a weird figure bending over a night table apparently examining a clock. The being was four-foot tall and almost insect like in nature. It had a domed head and a very prominent pointy chin. The entity wore an all black suit that covered its face completely. As the witness moved, the entity suddenly vanished in plain sight. (1984, 31 October)", + "location": "ANGLETERRE, Altrincham", + "ref": [ + "Peter Hough, Jenny Randles Mysteries of The Mersey Valley", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3216" + }, + { + "date": "1984 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Children reported seeing \"bulbous human-like\" beings coming out of a large spacecraft that had landed in Ormoc, in the west of Leyte Island. It was impossible not to give importance to the testimonies of these children who all gave an identical description. (1984, exact date unspecified)", + "location": "PHILIPPINES, Leyte Island, Ormoc", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Roundup vol. 5 no. 39, 2000", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3217" + }, + { + "date": "11/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time: late night – 12-year old Monica Ortega was sleeping in her bedroom when suddenly she saw two lights and felt a presence in the room. One light was red and the other green, both were spherical. A voice from the lights told her not to be afraid. She began to fall asleep, in spite of the luminous globes presence ; she then felt caresses and kisses all over her body as her nightclothes were removed. She felt something spread her legs and a sharp pain soon after. She woke up terrified to see a tall, blond, green-eyed being in a tight fitting outfit in bed with her. His eyes were so green that it made her dizzy to look straight at them. She felt very attracted to him. Apparently the tall blond humanoid had a silent and invisible companion that never manifested itself in human form. They told Monica that they traveled around the world and curiosity was the motivation for their sexual contacts.", + "location": "USA, New York City, New York", + "ref": [ + "Scott Corrales, Inexplicata – The Humanoid Contact Database 1984 by Alberto Rosales", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3218" + }, + { + "date": "11/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time: night – A woman was resting in bed when she noticed a strange being come into her bedroom. The being had a large elongated head, and stared at the witness who suddenly feels like she is leaving her body. She then finds herself with the being in a bright bell shaped room. The being has sexual intercourse with the witness who later becomes pregnant and eventually has an autistic child. No other information.", + "location": "PAYS BAS, Winschoten", + "ref": [ + "Hans Van Kampen – The Humanoid Contact Database 1984 by Alberto Rosales", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3219" + }, + { + "date": "11/4/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time : 2300 – The witness awoke feeling a sensation of heat and a strong desire to go out into the garden. As he went out he was enveloped in a red light that took him up into a small hovering object. Moments later the small object entered a larger craft. He was met by several brown skin red haired beings that took a blood sample and gave him a tour of the craft. He was then taken to an operations base at an unknown location. Later under hypnosis he was able to recall more details. He remembered being taken to a cold place with white pointed mountains filled with holes. Later he went to several different rooms and “shelters” where he was injected with a white liquid and where other procedures were undertaken. In one of the rooms he was visited by one of the tall blond beings that spoke to him by using telepathy. A blond woman then entered the room. She wore a blue jump suit with black designs on the cuffs and collar and a large black belt. Eventually the witness was returned back to his home. (1984, 4 November)", + "location": "BRESIL, Mirassol", + "ref": [ + "Buhler, Pereira, and Matiel Pires Abduction at Mirassol", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3220" + }, + { + "date": "11/10/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time : after midnight – Steven Hall was overcome with a feeling that something was watching him, when Steven and his wife looked out their kitchen window. Surprised they saw two of the most absurd creatures one could imagine. These creatures were no more than two feet away from the window. One of them made eye contact with Steven, and stood there, staring at him not moving at all. The witness said the eye contact was “frightening” and felt as if the humanoid was « looking into your soul. » It was difficult for Steven to break eye contact with the humanoid, but his wife quickly closed the curtains. He then woke up another occupant and the house that ran outside thinking someone was snooping around the house. He ran out the front door and around the corner to see one of the creatures from about 15 ft away for about 15 seconds. The creature seemed surprised, and then it slowly turned its head, ducked down, and made its way off into the thick evergreen. The witnesses described the creatures as about four-feet tall with an extremely thin body. Their hands extended to their knees, and they wore what the witnesses suspect was a skintight suit that shimmered in the light. The eyes were a soft diamond shape, there was a small rise for a nose, and the mouth was barely a slit with a very displeasing look on it. (1984, 10 November)", + "location": "USA, Inverness California", + "ref": [ + "World of The Strange, 10/2001", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3221" + }, + { + "date": "11/26/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time : late night – A motorist driving on a highway saw a star-like light descend overhead at high speed. As the light crossed the highway in front of her vehicle, she could see that it was part of a large metallic triangular shaped object apparently made out of white metal with gray rivets. Three beams of light shone down from the side of the object, which had rounded edges. The object then began hovering above some railroad power lines. The witness could see an opening in the center of the object. She then noticed movement inside and saw a large round sphere pass by it. A round object came into view, it resembled a large head with two very large eyes, and the rest of the facial features were flat. The object then followed the witness vehicle briefly before disappearing from view. (1984, 26 November)", + "location": "USA, Belle Meade, New Jersey", + "ref": [ + "Thomas A Benson, The Sixth Quark Journal # 4", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3222" + }, + { + "date": "Winter 1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time : 0230A – After seeing odd spinning lights floating around the house the day before, the witness again saw the football size lights in the house. The lights suddenly descended on the witness and he passed out. He then woke up hearing three very loud metallic bangs. He then saw a light fly from the house and into the sky. He then realized that six hours had passed. Later under hypnosis the witness was able to recall floating up at very high speed and entering an object. He then found himself inside a round white room lying on a table in the center of the room. A light shone on his face and several figures surrounded him. The beings were short, with bald pointy-heads and flat faces. They were poking the witness with several instruments. He was able to hear radio-like static in the background and mumble-like words apparently coming from the beings. At one point a large long needle was inserted in the witness navel, which did not hurt, a dark colored liquid was injected into him. The witness was later taken to another room where two white fog-like beings waited for him, these two then took the witness to a huge room with transparent floors. The witness was then escorted back to his house by the two beings, which apparently floated him through the air. (1984, Winter)", + "location": "USA, Reseda California", + "ref": [ + "D Scott Rogo, IUR Vol. 12 #4", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3223" + }, + { + "date": "Winter 1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time : night – The witness, who had already experienced many other mysterious incidents in his house, was sleeping in the living room when he heard the horses in the backyard corral whining restlessly, the dogs were also barking. The witness looked out and saw several sparking lights near the back of the property. When the lights approached the fence, which separated the corral area from the backyard, he realized the lights were really humanoid figures about 4-foot tall wearing helmets with visors on the face area, and dark « spacesuits. » The beings appeared to be stumbling as they tried to climb over the fence. At this point the witness called his sister but she refused to come, apparently frightened. One of the beings finally managed to climb over the fence and began running towards the house. The witness then locked the doors and woke up the rest of the family. When everyone was up the beings had already disappeared. (1984, Winter)", + "location": "USA, Reseda California", + "ref": [ + "D Scott Rogo, IUR Vol. 12 # 4", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3224" + }, + { + "date": "12/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time : 0230A – A couple had been camping on the Ponderosa Caravan Park located just east of the Pacific Highway when the husband woke up and went outside, he then called his wife and pointed out a large cigar shaped object with a brilliant white light at the front coming towards them very slowly. The front light seemed larger than the full moon and lit up the entire caravan park. The cigar-shaped object had windows along the side. These seemed to be closed and gray in color, same as the rest of the object. Five minutes later, three small disc shaped objects flew into view moving towards the object. They traveled very quickly, zigzagging to join the larger cigar. Each disc was gray, but showed an orange or rust colored area towards the rear of the disk body, before a tail fin. One of the discs stationed itself at the rear of the cigar and the other two on either side of the cigar. Shortly they switched formation and flew behind the large cigar. The wife reported what seemed to be an outline of a helmeted head in one of the smaller discs. The cigar shaped object was emitting a low, fluctuating humming noise, which rose and fell in pitch. The objects eventually moved away from sight. The witnesses then went straight to sleep.", + "location": "AUSTRALIE, Hexam, NSW", + "ref": [ + "Australian UFO Reporter Vol. 1 # 2", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3225" + }, + { + "date": "12/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time : night – Whilst working in a field a man tripped over one evening. In his horizontal position he saw the cause of his predicament. A small picket fence formed a compound. Within this area were tiny people and a fleet of miniature buses going about their business. (!) For several years afterwards a series of five vertical lines like a bar code remained on the witness's forehead until they finally faded away.", + "location": "AUSTRALIE, North West", + "ref": [ + "Western Australia UFO Sightings", + "Shades of Gulliver's travels", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3226" + }, + { + "date": "12/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time : 2300 – The witness was walking home after working and had reached a street corner when three small spheres of red light suddenly appeared and began rapidly circling around her. The lights vanished and the witness remembered going to a nearby deli counter and seeing a very tall being, yellowish in color, with tight kinky hair, a broad mouth and very large golden almond shaped eyes. He wore a white uniform. His hands were very smooth and his fingers very long. The being smiled at her and there was some small talk. The witness then hailed a cab and went home.", + "location": "USA, New York City New York", + "ref": [ + "The Communion Letter 1990", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3227" + }, + { + "date": "12/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time : late night – In an apparent dream-like state the witness saw a small humanoid dressed in a gold colored outfit come to the door of the apartment building and attempt to enter. The frightened witness ran to her room. The small creature then somehow entered the bedroom picked up the witness infant daughter and struck her hard on the bottom. The witness began struggling with the creature over the child. Suddenly she found herself on the roof of the building with her daughter, the creature and two other persons, this two were in a trance-like state and did not respond to her questions. The short creature was holding a wand-like instrument, which it dipped into a gold colored solution. The creature continued to hold the wand apparently making a loud “whooshing” sound and gradually a large saucer-shaped object began forming overhead. A blue beam of light came from the saucer down to the roof like a « stairway. » At this point the witness is unable to recall anything further. The being was described as a typical “gray” type entity.", + "location": "USA, Los Angeles California", + "ref": [ + "Duane Bedell, Heartland UFO Journal # 3, December 1994", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3228" + }, + { + "date": "12/6/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time : 2100 – As the main witness and a friend observed a luminous green sphere flying over the area leaving behind a trail of blue sparks, his wife was at home waiting for him and watching television when suddenly the TV image faded and became dark. She was unable to move as she saw the door opened. A tall blond longhaired man with large blue eyes then entered. He wore a white jumpsuit with a belt with a long black buckle that had blinking red and green lights. Hanging from the belt was a weapon-like apparatus. The being carried a jar and a small cup. He poured a liquid into the cup and offered it to the witness ; she drank it and then was given a small white pill to swallow. It was the last thing she was able to remember. (1984, 6 December)", + "location": "BRESIL, Mirassol", + "ref": [ + "Buhler, Pereira, and Matiel Pires Abduction at Mirassol", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3229" + }, + { + "date": "12/14/1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time : 2300 – The witness had stepped out to check on the weather and was suddenly enveloped in a red light ; he was then transported inside a small hovering object. There he was confronted by three short robot-like beings. The small object then entered a larger « mother ship » type craft. There he was taken to a compartment where a green skin humanoid was preparing a serum like liquid. He was ordered to lie down on a bed and the being injected the liquid into one of his veins. His body began to shiver and then he apparently blacked out. He was eventually returned to his home where he woke up. (1984, 14 December)", + "location": "BRESIL, Mirassol", + "ref": [ + "Buhler, Pereira, and Matiel Pires Abduction at Mirassol", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3230" + }, + { + "date": "1984", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Time : 0400A – A 70-year old man driving back from his plantation suddenly felt a presence in the passenger side of his vehicle and at the same time he smelled a sweet perfume like fragrance. He looked at the seat and was astonished to see the seat being pressed down as if someone, unseen, was sitting there. Soon an image of a beautiful woman became visible. She wore a beautiful translucent dress and had long black hair. In apparent telepathic communication the woman apparently tried to seduce the elderly man. At this point the elderly witness looked down at the woman's feet and was stunned to see one normal leg and another leg with goat like hoofs. At this time the terrified witness began screaming at the bizarre entity and ran the vehicle off the road. Glancing to the passenger set he found that the strange entity had vanished.", + "location": "Icacos Trinidad and Tobago", + "ref": [ + "Personal Communication – The Humanoid Contact Database 1984 by Alberto Rosales", + "It seems that this type of report is a worldwide phenomena, and cannot be dismissed.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3231" + }, + { + "date": "2/14/1985", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mechanic Sergei Orlov of a freight train noticed a ball flying towards the train and eventually positioning itself in front of the locomotive. The train arrived at a slope and the brakes no longer responded. The speed increased and the locomotive became uncontrollable, the mechanic asked for the track to be reserved for him to pass at full speed. The station master went out to see what was happening and saw a red light in the shape of a disk or cigar, flying in front of the locomotive almost touching the rails. At the height of the station, the light jumped to the side and immediately disappeared. Immediately after the station, the ball returned in front of the train. The mechanics had the impression of hitting a wall, the speed dropped to 20 km/h to regain its speed shortly after. Finally the light disappeared. The train stopped, the mechanic got out to examine the wheels: then a bluish light appeared behind him and an unknown force pressed him against the locomotive. When the \"embrace\" loosened, the mechanic panicked and returned to his post, closing all the doors. Final result: saving 300 kg of diesel on the journey.", + "location": "USSR, Petrozavodsk region", + "ref": [ + "Boris CHOURINOV: \"The two faces of ufology in Russia\" - May 1994 - p. 25, 26", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3232" + }, + { + "date": "3/15/1985", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11:30 PM, two young people in a car noticed a large object flying above the trees and descending to the ground. The inside of the car was illuminated by the light from the thing. Then creatures with long arms walked and came towards them. The young people took the wheel and fled.", + "location": "Australia, Cherrybrook, New South Wales", + "ref": [ + "1. UFORNSW NA85002. 2. \"Daily Telegraph\" Mar 20 1985. - Keith Basterfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3233" + }, + { + "date": "5/23/1985", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Russian bombers were on a mission in this border region with China, when the control tower reported a UFO at 22:35. It was of an elliptical shape and pale yellow in color. The object flew silently at an altitude of 2000-3000 meters and at a speed of about 600 Km/h from west to east. The phenomenon was surrounded by a luminous halo. The radar screens had no trace of the thing observed with the naked eye. Duration of the observation: 13 minutes. The object stopped for a long stay. Two hours later an identical object was again observed for 10 minutes. The bombers approached it at 800-1200 meters. The object emitted light from the bottom and from the top, but the ventral light was more intense.", + "location": "USSR, Khabarovsk region", + "ref": [ + "statement of Colonel Alifanov, V., documents in possession of CISU, Italy", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3234" + }, + { + "date": "5/1985", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: October 1984, Marseille) With unknown customers Benoit perceives the amount of the taxi fare and leaves for his suburb. He wakes up at home, anxious: what time did he really come back after the memory gap following the departure of his customers? Around July 20th 1985 his white hair had become light brown, he was very afraid that it would take on the colors of the hideous creature he had met in July 1983! Another more joyful observation, he had the sensation of beginning to rejuvenate.", + "location": "FRANCE, Marseille", + "ref": [ + "Jimmy GUIEU: \"Our Masters the Extraterrestrials\" - Presses de la Cité 1992, p. 106", + "blessed Jimmy Guieu... this is indeed the kind of ufological literature he calls \"food\"", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3235" + }, + { + "date": "6/21/1985", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At one o'clock in the morning, a member of the watch crew on a boat, suddenly saw, clearly visible under the water, at a hundred meters distance, at least six lights each 75 to 80 cm in diameter, emitting a bright green light. After about ten minutes of observation, the watchman changed course to go around these lights as they were straight ahead. Shortly afterwards they were no longer visible.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, at sea, northeast of Flinders Island", + "ref": [ + "UFORA93043 TA93032 TUFOIC. - Keith Basterfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3236" + }, + { + "date": "6/22/1985", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. August 3, 1983, Jurmala/Riga) They predicted their return to the sky for June 22, 1985 at 2am, at the Baltic Sea. (...) They went there, the UFO arrived, it was bigger than the Moon, it was in the shape of a saucer, it had two lights on the top, one on the belly and a small dome. Nickolai brought his camera and took three shots. Three minutes later, the UFO disappeared at great speed. The photo shows some kind of light, nothing else. (June 22, 1985)", + "location": "LATVIA, Jurmala/Riga", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\" Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3237" + }, + { + "date": "7/22/1985", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Residents of six nearby towns said they had seen a UFO above Bulawayo. At 5:45 pm two Hawk interceptor planes of the Zimbabwe Air Force took off from the Thornhill base to go and see what was happening. The Bulawayo airport was picking up the UFO on its radar which was being observed by spectators on the ground. Round in shape, topped with a small cone, it shone so brightly in the afternoon light that other details were indistinct. The ZAF Hawks approached the UFO while it hovered at an altitude of 2000 meters, but then it rose to 210000 meters. The Hawks pursued it up to 9500 meters.", + "location": "ZIMBABWE, Bulawayo", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO Files\", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p.46", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3238" + }, + { + "date": "8/18/1985", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The crew and passengers of a Boeing 747 flying at about 10,000 meters altitude were able to observe a large stationary craft, then a second one making disordered movements at vertiginous speeds. Duration of the phenomenon: about twenty minutes. (Jimmy GUIEU: \"Our Masters the Extraterrestrials\" - Presses de la Cité 1992, p. 254, 255) Journalists on board a Boeing 737 observed two UFOs. One of them, Roberto Ruiz, from Buenos Aires' Clarin, was able to take a sequence of 36 shots. The observation took place around 9 pm.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Ceres", + "ref": [ + "Forerunners to the incident of Bariloche, Carlos Ferguson, Samizdat 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3239" + }, + { + "date": "8/20/1985", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 7 in the morning and 4 in the afternoon, several communities reported the observation of a UFO. Hugo Weschbilling (Air Traffic Controller in Resistencia) saw the object. At 7:55, the pilot of an Aerolíneas Argentinas 747 reported the object at 90° from his aircraft, and the object made descent and ascent maneuvers. Other aviators also observed this strange phenomenon.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Charata (Chaco)", + "ref": [ + "Forerunners to the incident of Bariloche, Carlos Ferguson, Samizdat, 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3240" + }, + { + "date": "7/1985", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (\"Australian UFO Bulletin\" - Dec. 1994 Victoria) In winter 1985 (July, as it was an Australian country) Mr. G. lived on his farm 55 km north of Hobart, with his wife, three sons and two daughters. The eldest was then 16 to 17 years old, the youngest 7 years old. The eldest boy had accompanied his father to hunt on a neighboring property 2.5 km away to the northeast at the foot of the hill. It was quite cold, but the weather was nice. When wanting to return, the boy called his father, saying to turn on the spotlight, as there was a visitor. So Mr. G. put his harness containing a 12 V battery on his back to power a powerful lamp. In the north, he saw a blue luminous object in the sky about 5 km away. In the following minutes, the object was only 200 meters away and was really flying close to the ground. He then saw that lights (more than 7 - less than 11) were suspended in a row 6 or 7 m above the object: these lights were also blue. The object landed vertically, without any noise. It was so surrounded by luminosity that the whole area was bathed in an intense blue light. The object seemed to be in the shape of a huge bubble, with the upper part rounded. At mid-height there was a ring or a rim, the base was flat. The object must have measured 20 to 25 m long and 6 to 7 m thick. As soon as the UFO was on the ground, Mr. G. felt something burning on his back: it was the battery that was boiling and bubbling. The 17-year-old boy had moved away from the thing when suddenly they heard a strange noise, like something singing, it seemed to come out of the object, it could be a kind of unknown language to them. That was too much for the witnesses, they moved away from the place as quickly as they could, jumping into the car, to return to their farm, without looking back. The product of their hunt had remained at the foot of the hill. At home Mr. G. made a strange discovery: while his shirt and sweater were fine, his singlet showed a burned hole of 15 cm. As they had left the battery and the gun on the property, the father went to get them but then never returned to the place.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Hobart (Tasmania)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3241" + }, + { + "date": "Early 10/1985", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First week of October. At 5:15 the witness saw an object pass over his house, covering the surface of the 5 adjacent houses. The object was enormous, completely white, without any lights, although brighter than anything the witness had ever seen without being dazzling, in the shape of a disk and rotating. The witness went out of the house and, finding himself under the object, felt paralyzed. The object moved away, made a turn and at that moment the witness's son, aged 12, was also able to see it (1985, Early October)", + "location": "USA, Harrisburg (PA)", + "ref": [ + "National Uforeporting Center", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3242" + }, + { + "date": "10/10/1985", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 00:15, the airport's radar had the echo of several UFO groups and followed them for an hour and a half. The crew of a police helicopter, and civilian witnesses saw up to 60 objects in the night! The radar echoes showed 15 groups of 4 objects flying at about 288 miles/h. The control tower informed the police pilot that they had echoes but no \"transponder\" which automatically identifies airplanes and helicopters. The helicopter went up to 4000 feet, but the objects flew at 7000 feet. On the military side, it was affirmed that the jets had all returned at 10:30 PM.", + "location": "USA, Tucson (Arizona)", + "ref": [ + "National Uforeporting Center", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3243" + }, + { + "date": "10/30/1985", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An incident reported this day in Darwin reported the presence of a large object, in the shape of a lozenge, with two \"headlights\" and, on the underside, small round protrusions arranged in the shape of a cross. This object approached the witness in complete silence, coming from Winter.", + "location": "Great Britain, Darwin (Lancashire)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 85 p. 20", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3244" + }, + { + "date": "11/3/1985", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Statement of a fisherman: Around 8:30 PM, after a fishing trip \"by lights\" on the Razdolnaya River, when the \"Vikhr\" engine of my boat \"Dniepr\" stopped. It immediately started again and I was then navigating slowly. That's when a luminous object was coming, much faster than an airplane, from the north to the south. It had the aspect of a star, but bigger, and it was projecting a beam towards the ground. The beam had a great length, yet it didn't reach the ground, it stopped in mid-air. When the object was getting closer, the engine of the boat stopped again. I pulled the starter cord after checking the fuel level. The engine started again, but then there was a glow at the base of the coil that lasted about 7 seconds, before the engine suddenly stopped, all at once, without slowing down. At that moment the UFO was above us. It was moving away towards the south and my companion A. Khripunov and I thought it was an artificial satellite. Above Vladivostok, the beam coming out of it went out and our observation ended there. The engine of the boat wouldn't start again, so we rowed towards the shore, but the wind and the current pushed us to the opposite shore. We had spare candles, but we couldn't get the engine to turn. We rowed in the hope of meeting other boats. It was 9 AM before that happened. Those people gave us candles, but there was still nothing to do. It was 3:45 PM when we arrived, after rowing, in Vladivostok.", + "location": "USSR, Vladivostok", + "ref": [ + "copy of Russian documents at CISU, Italy", + "V.Alexandrov", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3245" + }, + { + "date": "11/1985", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. 2 August 75) Oscar Magocsi re-enters the UFO and flies to Stonehenge in England. He meets participants in the course on the planet Argona, namely the American Buzz Andrews; the Englishman Charlie, the Chinese Chang and the Russian Pavel Ivanovich [note from vog: all extremely interesting characters...]", + "location": "CANADA: Toronto", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse\", Berlin, January 1998", + "continued on 20 October 86", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3246" + }, + { + "date": "12/27/1985", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Whitley Strieber (author of horror, science fiction, and ufology novels) had set off a sophisticated alarm system around 11 PM before going to bed. He was awoken in the early morning by a strange noise, as if several people were in the ground floor room. The alarm had not gone off. A silhouette then rushed into the bedroom. The other conscious memory he had was of being sat in the woods outside his house. By piecing together conscious memories with those collected under hypnosis, it was learned that Strieber had floated in a \"dark little iron bed\" from his house to aboard a UFO. There, in a disordered room, he encountered four different species, a small robot-like one, a short one wearing workman's blue, and two others about 5 feet tall and very thin, one with slanted, black eyes and the other with black eyes like buttons.... [note from vog: hmm? Wasn't it specified that he is an author of horror and fiction novels?]", + "location": "USA, New York State", + "ref": [ + "Dossiers OVNI, ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p. 46, 47", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3247" + }, + { + "date": "1985", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Chet Snow, on vacation with a friend, took the opportunity to go by car at 2 pm to see the \"Integraton\", a building in the shape of a flying saucer, near Giant Rock (cf. von Tassel). Without understanding how he had veered off, he found himself on a track and got lost in the desert. By chance he discovered the small hill of milky quartz, about 20 m high, on which the contacted Van Tassel was visited by the ETs. He climbed it and lay down on the top to meditate. Just before closing his eyes he saw a big bright spot the size of a walnut and he thought: \"It's funny, a walnut flying.\"

A plane engine noise brought him back to consciousness, he felt full of energy, happy with his meditation. He heard a voice \"Call it a meditation if you want. We, we are done.\" The plane was a small Cessna. It had just taken off. It passed so close that Snow saw the pilot's astonished face. He heard another noise: a car starting. He then saw a big American car. The voice, the plane and the car: it was simultaneous. He took his own car and checked the time: 5:20 pm! Three years later, after a seminar on altered states of consciousness, he returned to the place and then knew that he had been abducted aboard the UFO and examined by tall blond beings. [vog: ah? if he says so, isn't it?- ]", + "location": "USA, Yucca Valley (California)", + "ref": [ + "Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: \"Investigation of ET Abductions\" - Plon 1995, p. 242, 243", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3248" + }, + { + "date": "1/18/1986", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Approximately 200 people were able to see two triangular objects pass slowly and silently. \"There was like a main cluster of lights at the front having a bit of a zeppelin shape, followed by a group of lights in a triangle\". Another witness said \"We stopped playing (football) to look at it, we couldn't understand why the lights were so far apart. The object was maybe at a height of 200 or 300 m and must have had a wingspan of 90 m. And it made no noise\".", + "location": "Great Britain, Cardiff (Wales)", + "ref": [ + "Bob PRATT - USA", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3249" + }, + { + "date": "1/26/1986 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8pm the inhabitants noticed a red ball flying without sound coming from the northwest. Above hill 611 the UFO made an unexpected maneuver and according to witnesses, hit the rocky hill. A large beam similar to the light of an electric arc was seen. On the spot there were traces of destruction of vegetation and small lead and steel balls as well as nets that heated to 900° evaporated without trace in the air. Under vacuum, at 2800° it did not melt. After the incident, the blood of the researchers contained less than normal leukocytes and thrombocytes. The photos taken from the site were all overexposed. (1986, January 26 (or 29?))", + "location": "USSR, Dalniegorsk", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 78, p. 31,32", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3250" + }, + { + "date": "3/12/1986", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: journal \"La tercera de la Hora\" from Santiago, Chile of 13.3.1986; transmitted by: Jorge Anfruns to Cufon) In the early hours of the morning, the spectacular event of the landing of a squadron of UFOs in front of several witnesses, was broadcast live by a local radio station. Four huge UFOs, with one side a huge white light and the other side a red light, these lights coming out of sort of windows, descended from the sky to land on the side of a hill. The radio reporter spoke live from the observation site, while the Cordoba radio station had just interrupted its normal broadcast at 03:10 GMT to broadcast the news. A few minutes later, the radio station from La Cruz, 5 km from Uritorco, did the same. The reporter said that one of the objects, already on the ground, rose and flew over the spectators, to the point that people were scared. The UFOs remained on the ground for several hours and until 11:15 GMT there were news live from reporters who remained at a reasonable distance for observation.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Cordoba, Uritorco", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3251" + }, + { + "date": "3/12/1986", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: journal \"La Tercera de la Hora\" of Santiago de Chile on 14.3.86, transmitted by Jorge Anfrus to CUFON) \"It was flying over the field at less than 30 meters altitude: a UFO paraded in front of the 200 people who were attending a football match\". The evening match, at the \"Petroperu\" stadium, was immediately interrupted. \"We saw the wide beams of green light coming from the front part. The object itself was irradiated with yellow light, it was as bright as in broad daylight\" said Donaldo Duque, the referee between the local teams Alamo and Casa Gin. It was around 8:05 pm when the phenomenon appeared, but its appearance lasted only 10 seconds.", + "location": "PERU, Talara", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3252" + }, + { + "date": "3/24/1986", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: newspaper \"La tercera de la Hora\" of 25.3.86) In the border region of Corrientes Province with Chile, more than a dozen farmers saw a saucer land. They spoke with the \"occupants\". One of the witnesses, Rito Melgarejo, explained to the Telam agency how the UFO landed, blinding him with its powerful lights. Two occupants came out, they looked like small Martians (note of vog???) and spoke to him in a language he did not understand, making signs with their hands. \"I replied that I did not understand anything, and by the time I turned around, they were already gone\". This sudden departure is confirmed by the other witnesses. Rito Melgarejo says he has had terrible headaches since these entities spoke to him, four days earlier. The Telam agency reports that there is a trace of 6 m in diameter of burned grass.", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Corrientes Province", + "ref": [ + "Cufon report", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3253" + }, + { + "date": "5/8/1986", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 18.6.1981) ARRIVAL OF SIX F-117 AIRCRAFT AT WOODBRIDGE. THEY COME FROM THE 4450th TEST GROUP USAF (NELLIS). SEVERAL AIRCRAFT ARE ASSEMBLED AT SCULTHORPE AIRFIELD. THE LV BADGES ARE THOSE OF THE CORSAIRS II TYPES STATIONED AT NELLIS (USA). THEY WILL FLY DAILY IN THE EVENING AND AT NIGHT. THE USAF WILL NOT GIVE ANY CONFIRMATION FOR THIS", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Woodbridge", + "ref": [ + "Gesag, bulletin no. 96 Sept 97, p. 3", + "see: 11.7.1986", + "SCRAMBLE 11/11 SEPT. 1990", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3254" + }, + { + "date": "5/19/1986", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening, balls the size of ping-pong balls, multicolored, were observed by people in the street. Their echo was picked up by the radars and jets were sent to intercept them. (Associated Press, 1986) Suddenly the radar picked up two bright objects at about 2000 m altitude and 15 km from the airport. Observed through binoculars, the objects appeared surrounded by a well-defined round halo of orange-red color and the lower part emitted flashing lights. At 7 pm the control towers of Sao Paulo and Brasilia confirmed the presence of the flying objects. At 8 pm, according to Cindacta (Integrated Defense and Air Traffic Control Center), there were already eight. At 9 pm a twin-engine plane piloted by Commander Alcir Pereira, with Colonel Ozires Silva, president of Petrobras (Brazilian national oil company), on board, detected a visual object (confirmed by the base radar), forcing the pilot to pursue it for about ten minutes. When landing, Pereira discovered three other reddish objects near the Petrobras plant, flying at low altitude. They disappeared towards the Sierre del Mar. (...) At 10:23 pm the Santa Cruz air base in Rio de Janeiro ordered the takeoff of an F-5E fighter. 22 minutes later a second fighter of the same type took off. From this moment on, the Annapolis base in the center of Brazil discovered several objects on the radar screens. At 11 pm a Mirage F-103 took off and 15 minutes later Lieutenant Kleber Caldas Marinho, on board one of the two F-5Es, approached one of the objects 11 km away. The color of the object varied between green, red and white, the latter being predominant. Kleber pursued it until about 300 km off the Atlantic Ocean, but had to return to base due to lack of fuel. The pilot of the other F-5E, Lieutenant Marcio Brisola Jordao, was followed for a few minutes by 13 UFOs that moved from left to right. One of them stopped in the air and accelerated to 1500 km/h in a few tenths of a second. The radar detected 13 points at 30 km distance. The sky was clear, the controller saw nothing with the naked eye. Captain Armindo Souza Viriato, pilot of the Mirage (...) accelerated to 1350 km/h. \"I picked it up on the on-board radar while it was flying in zigzag. Suddenly, the point disappeared from the screen\". (Incredible and Scientific, date?? p. 71 and 72) After the observation of luminous points by an airplane, confirmed by radar, several military aircraft unsuccessfully attempted to pursue the small multicolored balls for several hours. Some of the pilots saw the UFOs, others only picked them up on their radar screen.", + "location": "Brazil, Sao José dos Campos, SaoPaulo", + "ref": [ + "Science and Life, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, p. 60 to 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3255" + }, + { + "date": "7/8/1986", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Cufon Report n° 0302 - Ufo Info Service) Subject: ONEIDA, KY) Roosevelt Spurlock was sitting on the threshold of his house in Oneida. Mary Helton was in her Countryside restaurant where Margy Turner was finishing dinner. Vernon Stidham was at his home in Red Bird. All, however, saw the same thing: a large square object with red lights and windows, hovering just above the large Bullskin hills. Roosevelt Spurlock, a forest guard at the Peabody base, says it was not an airplane, he knows airplanes. Mary Helton said: \"what I saw was really very, very big, all square, with windows.\" \"It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen,\" said Spurlock. I was in front of my house and this thing was flying to touch the tops of the hills. At the front it had two red lights, and at the back too. Mrs. Helton said it made a piercing noise. \"The thing was circling and came back on its path at a really slow speed,\" said Spurlock. No plane can stay in the air flying so slowly. (July 8, 1986)", + "location": "USA, Oneida (KY)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3256" + }, + { + "date": "7/9/1986", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The National Guard investigated the landing of a UFO, observed by Mr. Silva, who had come to report his testimony in a great state of excitement. The witness was sheltering under a tree when he saw a large round object with two intense lights raising a lot of dust, producing a terrible wind, making an explosion sound before landing. The investigation revealed a small hole in the field, several burned potato plants, while the witness's shirt was also burned.", + "location": "Portugal, Quinta da Quebrada-Catanhede", + "ref": [ + "\"Diario Popular\" 10.7.86 collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenço", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3257" + }, + { + "date": "7/10/1986", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Cufon Report No. 0304 \"Citizen Register\" Ossining) Ray Nethercott saw a \"big hot dog\" flying near his house in Valhalla. \"It was a big thing,\" said the 18-year-old, \"it was going very slowly and had a lot of lights.\" Alison Yuri, 20, from Fishkill, was driving between Ossining and Route 9 when she saw something hovering above the car. \"My fiancé saw it first,\" she said. \"It was rounder than a hot dog and had about 20 white lights and two red lights.\" There were dozens of other witnesses reporting this strange sighting in Westchester County and New Jersey, in the Hudson area.", + "location": "USA, Ossining (N.Y.)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3258" + }, + { + "date": "7/11/1986", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 8.5.1986) F-117 CRASH NEAR KERN RIVER FOLLOWING ENGINE EXPLOSION. THE AIRCRAFT'S PILOT, MAJ. ROSS MULHARE OF THE 4450TH TACTICAL GROUP FROM NELLIS AFB, WAS KILLED. IT SHOULD BE NOTED HERE THAT XSTS LIKE THE F-117 ONLY FLEW AT NIGHT, IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES AS CORSAIR II TYPE FIGHTERS. IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE CRASH, LOCAL AUTHORITIES, ASSISTED BY THE USAF, SEALED OFF THE AREA WHERE THE PROTOTYPE WRECKAGE WAS BURNING. CIVILIAN PILOTS RECEIVED ORDERS NOT TO OVERFLY THE SITE. (see 14.10.1987) (Gesag, Bulletin No. 96 September 97, p. 4)

There are three visual witnesses, but no further evidence of an unusual aircraft crash. The witnesses are Andy Hoyt, his sister Lisa and Lisa's son Joey (16 years old). The aircraft crashed in the Sequoia forest near Bakersfield. The description of the aircraft seen by Hoyt, according to experts, matches the very latest secret military aircraft type F-19, which the authorities do not even admit exists. The witnesses were camping and initially they thought it was a UFO passing by. In any case, this aircraft, triangular and able to vertically position itself, pointing up, for unknown reasons, nosedived and there was a crash, with a tremendous illumination of the whole area. Just before the aircraft fell, Hoyt had taken some pictures. On Sunday evening, on his way home, Hoyt called Edwards Base to tell them what he had seen and the photos he had taken. He was just getting into his truck when he saw this black triangle, with a light in each corner. The camera was on the dashboard and he used it immediately. At the Air Force they started, with the press, to deny an aircraft accident, then to admit it, a crash with the death of the pilot. An hour after Hoyt's call to Edwards Base, someone was already at his house. \"He didn't force me, but he would have liked to have the film that was in my camera.\" The next day, other Air Force officers invited Hoyt, his sister Lisa and nephew Joey to fly to the airport, to fly over the crash site. The place was quickly spotted and the three witnesses were invited to dinner at a restaurant, before going with them to the place where they had made the observation, to calculate the angles, said Hoyt. The military had certain measuring devices. They were then asked to speak as little as possible about what they had seen, but of course they could not be forced to be silent. Hoyt gave back his camera with the film inside. Some time later, he received the camera back, with the photos developed, of the three witnesses in their camping activities, but without any photos of the secret aircraft.", + "location": "USA, Kern River, Bakersfield (California)", + "ref": [ + "MUFON dossier 1353, No. 198, source \"Mercury News\" from San Jose", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3259" + }, + { + "date": "8/7/1986", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (UFO Info Service - Cufon, source \"Western Times\" Exeter, 14.8.86) Seventeen witnesses observed for 10 minutes a UFO resembling a Zeppelin with a light. The witnesses were gathered around a barbecue in North Devon. Mr John Garnsey, local magistrate, said: \"It was quite big, I thought it might be an airplane, but it made no noise. We watched it slowly move across the sky for about ten minutes. Suddenly it seemed to shoot off a rocket, because there was another big burst of light, and then it disappeared on the horizon.\"", + "location": "Great Britain, North Devon", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3260" + }, + { + "date": "8/24/1986", + "desc": "(Translated from French) David A. Brown saw a Bigfoot looking for ginseng. (Quite the connoisseur!) He heard noises and, looking out on the horizon, thinking he had visitors, he initially saw nothing. Then he heard a noise behind him and, turning around, he saw a Bigfoot less than 10 m away. It was breathing heavily, as if it had just run a race. Brown was rooted to the spot, fearing the creature would attack him. He described it as being 7 1/2 feet tall, weighing 350 to 400 pounds, and giving off a horrible smell. It was covered in black fur that hung in large curls. Its face was simian, with large eyes, a flat nose, and large lips. It seemed to be old and had no teeth. It seemed to have injured its left arm, which ended in claws like curved nails. On the right side, the hand seemed normal with short nails. They stayed facing each other for about 4 minutes and the encounter ended with the creature growling and then leaving for the bushes.", + "location": "USA, Taylors Ridge (Georgia)", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London, 1989, p. 42, 43", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3261" + }, + { + "date": "9/1986", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 7:30 pm, two hunters saw a low-flying light with red, orange, and yellow hues, about 2 km away. (...) They estimated the size of the light to be about 100 m. The behavior of the object (note from vog: so the light suddenly becomes an object?) seemed to suggest that it was looking for a place to land. This maneuvering continued for an estimated ten minutes, then the two witnesses lost sight of the light when it descended behind a mountain, apparently to land. Throughout the maneuvers of the craft (note from vog: now the light becomes a craft), the witnesses heard no sound. In fact, an unusual, heavy silence persisted in the forest for a few days!", + "location": "Canada, west of the Manic 5 hydroelectric plant", + "ref": [ + "Jean THOMAS: \"Synthèse Ovni\", ed. Louise Couteau, 1999, p. 126", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3262" + }, + { + "date": "10/20/1986", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. Nov. 85) On board the crystal saucer \"Peace on Earth\", Oscar Magocsi takes a journey into the future. (Note from Vog: Here I abbreviate the elucubrations, because too much is too much...) (...) In February 1987 Oscar will visit the New Age Sedona colony in Arizona, with Quentin. On July 3, 1988 he will be in a \"Rainbow\" saucer", + "location": "CANADA, Toronto", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse, Berlin, January 1998", + "etc... etc..", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3263" + }, + { + "date": "11/15/1986", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Cufon Report No. 0315) At 12:05 AM, seven people (colleagues teachers) were leaving the house and saw a strange light at a very high altitude flying at an incredible speed. They saw an aerial triangular-shaped vessel and they say that this thing was flying in a crab-like manner. They were able to observe this when the object was getting closer. It was flying in a very smooth way, like a balloon low on the horizon. It crossed the entire horizon in 10 seconds from NE to SW towards South Mountain. There was no wind. At arm's length and at the closest, the object measured more than 5 cm. The lights were not headlights, but seemed to be windows arranged around the perimeter of the object. (November 15, 1986)", + "location": "USA, Phoenix (Arizona)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3264" + }, + { + "date": "11/17/1986", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Japanese pilot Kenja Terauchi and officer Takanori Tamefuji of flight JAL 1628, carrying French wine, observed in the late afternoon, around 6 pm, to the right of their plane, two white and yellow lights while they were flying at 35,000 feet. They first asked Anchorage if any other planes were on their trajectory. The radar of Anchorage and that of a nearby military base responded that they were getting weak echoes around the Boeing 747. Suddenly the lights began to move erratically \"playing like two cubs\" said the pilot. Suddenly the lights faced the plane sending beams of light heating the inside of the cockpit. When the plane flew over the Eielson Air Force Base, near Fairbanks, the pilot noted behind his plane the presence of a \"mothership\" gigantic, bigger than two jets put together. He asked by radio for permission to make a complete tour of the UFO. For this purpose he then descended to 31,000 feet. The huge UFO followed the plane like its shadow. Anchorage then asked two planes navigating in the area to modify their course to intercept the Japanese 747 and confirm the observation. When they were close enough to confirm, Terauchi had just announced that the 3 UFOs had just disappeared. Finally, it was for about 50 minutes that the JAL 1628 was accompanied by UFOs. They flew at dizzying speeds, sometimes stopping abruptly. The pilot turned off all the lights of his plane to be sure that it was not reflections of light from his own plane. The radars therefore had the echo on the screen but later, when the investigators wanted confirmation, they were told that these echoes were due to a computer error! Independently on the ground, other witnesses confirmed the presence of the luminous objects. (report of the CBS network and EATHERIUS.] Three UFOs emitting green and yellow lights follow for half an hour a Japanese cargo plane. Two seem to have the size of a plane. The third, a sphere surrounded by a ring, is even bigger. The observation is partially confirmed by the radars.", + "location": "Between Alaska, Yukon and Iceland, in flight", + "ref": [ + "Science and Life, special edition: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, p. 60 to 63", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3265" + }, + { + "date": "1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the end of the 1980s and in the 1990s, a number of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) existed of both American and international types. Civilian access to data concerning UAVs was still in its embryonic stage (note from vog: written in 1997) and only just beginning to become available. They were essentially of three types: close range or local (up to a radius of 50 km), short range or regional (200 km) and endurance (1987 and after)", + "location": "USA, Wallops", + "ref": [ + "NASA website in 1997; examples and photos, and results", + "beyond 200 km with no limit", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3266" + }, + { + "date": "1/11/1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Cufon Report No. 0329, source FAA Alaska District, Paul Steucke) Second sighting in a few days in Anchorage. Three witnesses, again from a Japanese plane of Japan Airlines, observed at 7:35 a UFO above Alaska. Capt. Kinju Teryaki, piloting the JAL 747 cargo from Europe to Anchorage, reported to the FAA Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) that he saw irregular lights resembling a spaceship. The lights were amber and white, flying in front of him and below him and disappearing behind his plane. The observation was in two phases, the first lasting about 20 minutes and the second occurring 10 minutes later. The object was not detected on radar, visual observation by the crew only.", + "location": "ALASKA, Anchorage", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3267" + }, + { + "date": "3/11/1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Lavonne Freidig thought she saw a flock of geese in broad daylight, tightly packed. As she got closer and observed more carefully, she saw that it was an object shaped like an airplane fuselage without wings. After watching it, motionless, for several minutes, the object began to move, silently, followed by a kind of white smoke trail and several other small objects. Other witnesses from Paoli also observed the object. Held at arm's length, the object was the size of a pen.", + "location": "USA, Belleville, Wisconsin.", + "ref": [ + "Associated Press 1987", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3268" + }, + { + "date": "4/22/1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The five witnesses were British airmen aboard a British Airways jumbo jet flying from London to Bangkok. First Officer Anthony Colin reported: Suddenly we saw what appeared to be another aircraft to our right. It showed two white lights, just like an aircraft. We watched it and saw that there was a green light where there should have been a red navigation light. It was coming towards us at the same level, and we banked to make sure we passed safely behind it. In front of our nose it began to accelerate, emitting a long line of small, vaguely phosphorescent lights which faded away to our left at great speed. At what distance? Impossible to say, but I estimate about one mile. It was not an aircraft, none of us had ever seen such a craft and we are all hard-bitten, cynical airmen, always with a scientific explanation for any event. But this left us speechless. (...) The director of the British Astronomical Association's \"Artificial Satellites\" section has an explanation: This is a standard description of re-entry into the atmosphere, with a greenish luminous colouring when the object disintegrates. I cannot say which satellite it was, but I am certain it was one. The rest was an optical illusion.", + "location": "USSR, Kazakhstan", + "ref": [ + "Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London, 1989, p. 53, 54", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3269" + }, + { + "date": "5/26/1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) More than 900 people reported the observation of a large, grey, cigar-shaped object surrounded by 6 small rockets above Kiev. It was a beautiful day and people were on the banks of the Dniepr. Radar had echoes and a pilot flying at 5000 meters reported that it was something huge, several times the size of a football field, and made of a fluorescent metal. The controls of the plane locked up when approaching, and the pilot only survived due to the ejection of his seat. [vog: who is the only one to tell us about this event...] (May 26, 1987)", + "location": "USSR, Kiev", + "ref": [ + "Mitarbeiter, \"Ufo Geheimnisse'\", Berlin, January 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3270" + }, + { + "date": "6/19/1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Case No.: 19870619 A) Witness Giuseppe L., who usually lives in Solingen (Germany), was visiting his native country on the construction site of his future house, whose main construction was finished. He decided to take some photos, it was 2:30 PM. During the photo session he suddenly noticed a UFO that was approaching. During the observation of a few minutes, he was only able to take six Polaroid photos. Despite all the means used by JUFOF, this UFO could not be identified.", + "location": "ITALY, Sicily, Comiso", + "ref": [ + "Hans-Werner Peiniger, GEP e.V., JUFOF - Germany", + "JUFOF Nr. 74, 2'1991:33ff", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3271" + }, + { + "date": "Late 6/1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On July 2, 1987 I was called by a woman named Gail, 36 years old, who a few days earlier, while she was in bed around 10 pm, heard a voice say to her (vog: what I'm interested in is to know if she heard this voice coming from the room, or if it was only in her head...): \"We have come for you, do not be afraid.\" She then realized that her entire body seemed paralyzed and she could only move her eyes. Lying on her back Gail saw three entities in the entrance of her bedroom. That night she was alone at home, usually she was with her 17 year old daughter, who had gone to visit her father in Croton Falls (New York). Gail is divorced. The three entities were wearing a tight-fitting suit and were in line, one behind the other. She did not see the features of their faces in the darkness. About 5 feet tall, they had very long arms. What seemed to be their leader seemed to have difficulty entering the room, as if he was pushing against an invisible wall. From a side pocket he took out a kind of wand and turned a button that was there. The wand then shone with a green light (vog: that was his magic wand, huh..) and at that moment the entity easily passed through the entrance into the room, followed by the other two, still in line. They had big heads and big eyes. She did not hear them speak, but there were dull noises in her head when the creatures communicated with each other. (vog: so it was still IN her head then!) She wanted to scream, but could not. The leader stood to the right of the bed, the other two took their place, one to the left, the other at the foot of the bed. Those who were to the right and left placed their hands under Gail's head. The one to her left took out something like a completely white cotton swab and pushed it into her left nostril. This hurt her so much that she lost consciousness. It was as if she was falling from very high and then she does not remember anything. She woke up the next day around 8 am with a terrible headache. When she got up she started to bleed from her nose. In the bathroom mirror she saw that her nose was swollen, there was a rash on her neck, legs and arms. She had hoped that the experience of the night was only a nightmare. I learned that the same night, Gail's daughter and her father were followed by a UFO along Route 116 near Croton Falls. It was a large dark triangle hovering above the car for 5 minutes at the height of the tree tops. Examining their schedule I noticed that they too had about half an hour of \"missing time\". A few weeks later Gail called me again: it had happened again, with an identical scenario, at the time when her daughter had gone to visit her father again. (1987, late June)", + "location": "USA, Toms River (New Jersey)", + "ref": [ + "Phil Imbrogno", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3272" + }, + { + "date": "6/1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Michel and Lena Desmarquet lived near Babinda. One night in June, Michel woke up, and as if driven by an external force, he wrote a note for his wife, telling her he was leaving for about ten days. Then he went outside and saw the lawn and the ground undulating. He thought he was sick. Suddenly he felt himself levitating: he saw his house and the garden from above. There was an entity there, 3 meters tall and resembling a blond human, who began to speak to him in French. Michel thought he was having a nightmare. The entity told him his name was Thao, and explained a lot of things to him. It was a hermaphrodite. There was also a blue-gray saucer 70 m in diameter, with no windows or doors. Michel felt himself transported from the ground to the saucer. The light intensity was so great that he was given a mask to protect himself. During the experience he visited the planet Thiacouba - he would tell all this in a book published in March 1993. Then he returned home, where he found his wife in distress and had to convince her of what had happened to him.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Babinda", + "ref": [ + "UFORA92201- Vlad Godic - Keith Basterfield.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3273" + }, + { + "date": "8/27/1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A UFO flew over the city for 40 minutes. It was described \"as an oval disc\" or \"like a comet with an umbrella-shaped tail\" or \"like a flying orange\". Military planes took off to observe it more closely; later this phenomenon was identified as the excess fuel ejected from the rocket that was used to put a Japanese satellite into orbit. This fuel would have burned in the atmosphere for all this time. (Janet and Colin BORD: \"Modern Mysteries of the World\" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 322) In the evening several people observed an object in the sky. The object changed shape and some said it looked like a spiral beam surrounded by sparks, others saw it as a luminous oval shape, others still that it had the shape of a comet but whose tail looked like an umbrella. The color of the object was orange, and it was spinning clockwise, it was moving very quickly from west to east and the duration of the observation was only a few seconds. According to another report, during the flight of this object, there was a general power outage in the Shengsi region, Zhejiang province. The whole island was suddenly plunged into darkness. (Chapter 7 - \"UFOs in China 1987-88\" by Paul Dong, pages 140-142. source: China News Agency of 28.8.87) Mao Xuecheng, military pilot, pursued the UFO for about three minutes. He had orders to take off at 7:35 pm and return to base after attempting an interception. \"Above the Yangtze River it was in front of me, to my right, extremely bright and flying at a dizzying speed. (...) I followed it at an angle of 110° and at a speed of 900 kmh. It was then 7:57 pm. The object was in a slight descent, it had an orange light and its spiral-shaped trail was also orange. At 7:59 pm it went up, accelerated again and I was unable to continue the pursuit for more than 45 seconds at this speed. So I was allowed to return to base\" The spokesman for the Chinese government assumes that UFOs are terrestrial devices on the one hand and on the other hand aerial phenomena produced by our earth and air, phenomena not yet studied in depth. (note from vog: that's also my opinion...) James Oberg of NASA says that the observations coincide with the release of excess fuel by a Japanese missile. Three hours before the incident, Japan launched an H-1A 600 miles east of Shanghai which flew over the region twice. (cf. August 27, 1987) On January 22, 1988 at 11:30 pm, a similar object was observed again above Shanghai for 30 seconds. The first time an object in the form of a spiral light of this kind was observed was on July 26, 1977, the second on July 24, 1981.", + "location": "CHINA, Shanghai", + "ref": [ + "source: \"Liberation Daily\" of 30.8.87", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3274" + }, + { + "date": "8/31/1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 11 PM: UFO 15 m in diameter, with two occupants, observed at 15 to 20 meters altitude near the submarine base \"The Trident\". The object came from the east, hovering above the house and playground, disappearing towards the NW. The 3 witnesses are aged 8 (Randy), 10 (Dennis) and 26 (Mrs. Springsteen) years old. The fathers of the two boys are part of the security staff of the base. In the saucer, a standing creature had very large pointed ears, resembling those of a cat. It was emitting a beam from the saucer which was scanning the ground. On the other side of the ventral dome they saw a similar being. Mrs. Springsteeen called the Bremerton police. The object had a circular bottom lined with several blue and red lights around the edge which shone alternately in sequence around the circumference. The children saw above the object a kind of rigid antenna. The rest of the object was not visible and remained hidden from their view. Dennis and Randy drew five square windows lit up in the upper third of the ventral dome. Two \"doors\" or \"openings\" were at the lower part and through each one a large entity (approx. 1.8 m, taller than Randy's father) was visible, and according to the children they were manipulating the projector to direct it towards them. Their arms were very long and fusiform. Their head was huge and their body very thin (barely the size of Dennis's thigh). The creatures were covered with a greenish fur. The children did not notice any clothing. The eyes were green-blue with abnormally long eyelashes, pointed ears like a cat and an oval head. The mouth resembled that of an \"old grandmother\". The fingers and toes were equipped with suckers, according to Dennis. He did not call them by this name but said \"like the things at the end of darts\". Randy did not seem to agree. Dennis's description is more explicit than Randy's. \"Frog feet\" webbed like the hands. When entering the house after the departure of the craft, Mrs. Springsteen increasingly felt a presence and became increasingly frightened. A close neighbor saw to the east a large stationary light from the bedroom window around 10:30 PM, but according to the calculations it would seem that she saw the planet Jupiter.", + "location": "USA, Bangor (Washington)", + "ref": [ + "MUFON: Chronology of Washington State UFO Reports late Summer 1987", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3275" + }, + { + "date": "Late 8/1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Claude C. and his companion Marylène B. were on the terrace of their apartment, taking in the air. It was between dusk and dark on this evening. They noticed that lights (white-red-yellow) \"like airplanes, but without noise\" were coming from the west (Atomium) and heading east (Zaventem). They surrounded rounded red shapes. These light groups would pass by in groups for 30 to 40 minutes and at certain moments they would be stationary. \"When it started to move, the whole thing moved\". The altitude of the aerial ballet was a bit higher than the tallest building (16 stories) but lower than the usual altitude where many airplanes pass. The witnesses also observed the phenomenon with binoculars, but without seeing more details. To the great astonishment of the witnesses, they noticed the lack of interest of the hundreds of other tenants of the buildings who, inevitably, could have been potential spectators. Before the passage of the UFOs there was the usual coming and going of commercial airplanes. During the passage of the UFOs, no plane flew! After the passage of the UFOs, again there was the usual movement of airplanes in the sky. (1987, late August)", + "location": "BELGIUM, Brussels, Laeken", + "ref": [ + "investigation by Mr. Gérard GREDE of SOBEPS", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3276" + }, + { + "date": "Summer 1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A 4-year-old boy was visited in his bed by \"ghosts\" with big almond-shaped eyes and large smooth heads. When he started to bleed from his nose, one of the ghosts put a liquid in his nostrils, which it drew from a silver pot. When the child began to be scared, the ETs changed into his best friend, a little girl he knew wearing a pink dress. (1987, Summer)", + "location": "CANADA, Toronto", + "ref": [ + "\"Toronto Star\" January 31, 1988, article by John Picton.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3277" + }, + { + "date": "9/7/1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) He was ten years old. He was suddenly woken up on Monday, September 7, 1987, around 5 o'clock by a mysterious, piercing sound. When he opened the shutters, he discovered a surprising orange-colored object in the garden, resembling two stacked plates. The thing was flashing and emitting a beam of white light downwards. He states that with the help of his radio cassette, he recorded the sound: a piercing \"beep-beep\" like the alarm of a motorcycle. (...) On the day of the observation, as soon as he heard the noise, he activated his recorder and placed it in front of the window. Little Laurent remembered that the morning before, as he explained (...) he had heard a strange sound when he glimpsed light through the shutters. He reported it to his parents the same day and thought it could be thieves. But they paid little attention to the story. The next day, believing he was reliving the same event, (...) he decided to record it to provide proof.", + "location": "France, Nord sur Erdre", + "ref": [ + "Robert ROUSSEL: \"Ovni, les vérités cachées de l'enquête officielle\", ed. Albin Michel 1994, p 199 and following", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3278" + }, + { + "date": "9/22/1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Four witnesses, including 3 from the Goodwin family of Uttoxeter. \"My family and I were driving back from Walsall and had just crossed Baggots Wood in Abbots Bromley when my father shouted out: \"Good God, what's that?\" When I looked up I saw the underside of what appeared to be a triangular shaped craft. It was moving very slowly, almost stationary. I wound down my window and there was no sound. The craft gently tilted to one side and I got a quick glimpse of the top part. The underside of the craft had (around the periphery) lights that lit up in sequence and in the middle of the underside was a (large) dim red light in the shape of a cross. At each corner there were some kind of large spotlights. The craft moved away towards Abbots Bromsley. Then it stopped above the wood and all I could see then was a thin red line in the sky.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Abbots Bromley (Staffordshire)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 85 p. 20", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3279" + }, + { + "date": "9/28/1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:25 mechanic Amiel (Ami) Achrai was driving on the coastal road. He saw, on the beach, what he took to be a crashed helicopter, less than 30 meters to his left, on the sand of Shikmona Beach. He stopped the car in the middle of the road and got out. Now he sees what this \"helicopter\" is. It measures a bit more than 8 m in diameter, is round, with a banana profile and it is rotating counterclockwise. Flying, the object emits sparks and occasionally flashes of light. Underneath the object there was a round and red light. It made a loud noise of compressed air and it caused a whirlwind of wind described by the witness as a \"typhon\". Ami watched the object on the ground for 15 seconds, before it discharged \"a charge of burning coals\" and disappeared into the air. Hoping to meet other witnesses of the scene, Ami was dismayed to see that the busy road was empty of people. Ami started running towards a nearby gas station, looking for the comfort of human contact. He had only taken a few steps, when the object was again there, 20 meters above the beach, and a red beam of light descended to the ground. In a fraction of a second, the thing had disappeared to the west above the Mediterranean and became a tiny orange point of light. All this happened in less than a minute, from the sight of the \"helicopter\", to the total disappearance. Yet, this was going to change Ami's life.

At home, Ami did not sleep two nights in a row. He decided to call the police, but they didn't care and suggested he contact the fortune teller Arbel. (vog: strange advice from the police, no?) Which he did. During the two other days, Ami suffered from migraine, chills and general weakness. His eyes itched and he couldn't watch television without screaming in pain. His lips were dry and no liquid could help. On the evening of Yom Kippur, five days after his observation, he decided to return to Shikmona beach. Which he did the next day, finding the exact place, where the plastic bottles were melted into perfect little circles. He saw a strange red stone, took it in his hand: it immediately changed color, became white and crumbled into powder. The next day he returned to the site accompanied by Arbel, who set about collecting samples in a plastic bag and told him that a voice was telling him that \"the affair was not over\". A little further they discovered the imprint of the UFO: its exact profile in the burned sand of a dune, ten meters long, four high. (...) and the imprint of an astronaut sitting facing two rectangles. Everything was measured (vog: me, I would have made this discovery, I would have called everyone to come and see, before measuring the size of the astronaut etc...) (...) The extraterrestrial measures 1 m 05, but Arbel fills bags with sand samples... Finally, the police were warned and very strangely, it is not Ami who is summoned, but Arbel who must go to the Technion Institute, Israeli version of MIT. (...) Meanwhile Ami becomes a media star, while life is not easy for him: he constantly feels electric shocks in his body when he wants to sleep, two black spots appear under his eyes, and a kind of hard ball grows on his chest. This ball, he excises himself and gives it to his father, who puts it on the balcony, and everyone watches it bounce by itself. (note from vog: ? really... that's cotton strong!) Then he manages to fold metal just by looking at it (Uri Geller style) but the most annoying thing is the appearance of letters and shapes in front of his eyes, at the least opportune moments. (...) Strangers recognize the signs: an ancient writing from Sinai.... Then, his whole family was affected by the appearance of signs in front of their eyes: his wife, his father, his daughter.... A friend advised him to read Ezekiel, he did, found his UFO there, and became very religious. And even the fortune teller Arbel became religious, and quoted the Bible at every turn.", + "location": "Israel, Elija's Gate (near Haifa)", + "ref": [ + "\"The Return of the Angels\" - UFO in Israel, Past and Present - Barry Chamisch", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3280" + }, + { + "date": "10/13/1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Soviet troops in Siberia fired at 8:35 during their routine maneuvers at a low-altitude flying saucer. The surviving aliens retaliated by killing 23 Russian soldiers. (...) The UFO report contains 250 pages of testimony from two soldiers who mysteriously survived the extraterrestrial attack. A dramatic photo of the accident site, with sketches of aliens, was called by CIA sources \"the most chilling portrait of extraterrestrial revenge on record.\" (KGB files in the hands of the CIA, according to the information). \"They possess weapons and technologies that are superior to anything on Earth\". This incident shows that when cornered, extraterrestrials use whatever is at their disposal to protect themselves. For unexplained reasons, these soldiers disabled the UFO with surface-to-air missile weapons, causing the crash of a 23-meter dimension to the east of the patrol position. The UFO crashed to the ground with a terrible impact, which literally cracked and opened the hull. And although the troops kept their distance, they were unable to move when five small humanoids with large heads and large black eyes emerged from the wreckage. The unnamed soldiers who survived the alien attack said that the creatures coming out of the wreckage huddled briefly and then merged into a single entity resembling a balloon! It is difficult to understand what happened then, but the soldiers said that the entity had begun to emit piercing cries and make a dull noise before it turned white and bright. A fraction of a second later, the balloon doubled in size and exploded in a dazzling flash of light. (...) The KGB report says that the wreckage of the UFO and the killed soldiers were recovered by Moscow for analysis. [note from vog: if you don't believe this one... we'll tell you another one!]", + "location": "USSR, Siberia", + "ref": [ + "document released in February 1997 by the UECDDS to its members", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3281" + }, + { + "date": "10/14/1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. 11.7.1986) F-117 falls near the Nellis Base. The pilot, Maj. Michael Stewart is killed.", + "location": "USA, Nellis Air Force Base (Nevada)", + "ref": [ + "Gesag, Bulletin No. 96 Sept 97, p. 4", + "see 16.11.1987", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3282" + }, + { + "date": "11/11/1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 5 pm, Ed Walters saw through the branches a gray-blue radiance. The light was coming from a large object that was silently flying over the houses and stood out, dazzling, against the red of the twilight. Ed Walters took out his Polaroid and managed to take some photos of the 15 m diameter cylindrical vessel, but a blue ray emitted by the craft paralyzed him. After a dull pain in his head, he felt like he was lifting off the ground and screamed in terror. An artificial voice reassured him, \"We will not harm you\". As he continued to rise, he smelled a scent of ammonia and cinnamon and fainted. He regained consciousness as he fell back to the ground. He had only vague memories: buzzing in his ears, a female voice, images of a dog. When he got home, he told his wife and children about his adventure: they had smelled the strange odor he was giving off. The few photos he had time to take were good.", + "location": "USA, Gulf Breeze (Florida)", + "ref": [ + "Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: \"Enquête sur les enlèvement E.T.\" - Plon 1995, p. 264, 265", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3283" + }, + { + "date": "11/12/1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 1:30 in the morning many people were woken up by a terrible noise, like an explosion. One person saw a fireball in the sky doing loops and double loops, looking on in terror. In some streets the windows imploded and exploded, alternating from one house to the next. Other residents saw a bright object zigzagging in the sky making a strange noise, as if it had a motor failure. The object lost speed, descended and touched the ground in a wood near Blidworth, bounced and crashed in a place called Warren in Annesley Hall, with a deafening noise creating a terrible shockwave. Reports (vog: which ones? I would have liked to read them...) say there were three objects in the sky: one UFO (???) while the other two could have been missiles. There were huge damages to the houses, wires and electrical lines were torn off. The weather that night was very calm: clear sky, no clouds, no wind, no storm. At 2:15, seven military helicopters appeared, scanning the terrain with powerful spotlights. They flew over Normanton, Sutton-In-Ashfield and Kirby-In-Ashfield. Then the police arrived at the site of the first impact. The place was carefully delimited and the police stayed there for several days. Trees were burning and the fire brigade was called. There were fir trees burning from the inside of the trunk to the outside... (???) At the second impact site, it was the army that came to occupy the site for 3 to 4 days. Judging from the damage created, the UFO must have had a diameter of about twenty meters. The next day military trucks were on site. The earth and everything was removed, the place covered with new earth and replanted in record time. The owner of a nearby house (completely demolished) found a metal debris in a tree on his property three weeks later. As soon as he reported his find, he was visited by two people from the DScI (Department of Scientific Intelligence) taking the debris and enjoining him to stay out of the affair. Then this poor witness was harassed by phone calls. Unable to take it anymore, he drove around his property, parked there, was arrested by 4 policemen and taken to the station. He was ordered not to come back to the place (his own property!) or else he would be arrested for \"obscene phone calls\".", + "location": "Great Britain, Mansfield (England)", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Reality - issue 4, p. 8 to 11 - 1996", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3284" + }, + { + "date": "11/16/1987", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 14.10.1987) F-117 CRASHES NEAR Nellis AFB FIRING RANGES. PILOT KILLED", + "location": "USA, Nellis Air Force Base", + "ref": [ + "Gesag, Bulletin No. 96 Sept 97, p. 4", + "see 10.11.1988", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3285" + }, + { + "date": "1/5/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) After finishing his night shift at the mine, the witness was following Huddersfield Road between 6 and 6:15. When he arrived at the intersection of Cockerham Lane he saw two bright red lights above the trees to the east. He stopped his moped and watched the lights for a long time - during this observation phase two cars passed in the direction of Barnsley. After this the lights moved closer to the witness, maneuvering at 90° to stop near him at an altitude of about 170m. The witness then saw the body of the object: in the shape of a cross, with 8 to 10 red-lit windows at its top, two red lights at the end of each wing, and on the bottom a kind of protruding circle with a red light inside blinking once per second. The bottom was metallic, gray-silver, covered with denticles, boxes and mechanisms just like the spaceships in Star Wars... The witness observed this for two minutes, engaged the speed of his moped and at that moment the object tilted in the direction that the witness was going, turning off all its lights and accelerating. There was a kind of supernatural silence that was frightening. The witness \"felt\" that he would see this thing again one day and was terrified at the thought.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Barnsley (Yorkshire)", + "ref": [ + "David CLARKE - IUN - GB", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3286" + }, + { + "date": "1/6/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Martin Morgan observed at 10:30 PM an object in the shape of a cross, black in color, making no sound. At the front the object had lights arranged in a circle, they seemed to be square or rectangular in shape. On the ends of the lateral wings two small lights and in the center of the cross a brightness and a fixed red point. Already around 8:20 PM a black and silent cruciform object was seen in the Eastwood region.", + "location": "Great Britain, Rotherham", + "ref": [ + "David Clarke - IUN - GB", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3287" + }, + { + "date": "1/20/1988 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, the witnesses' car (a whole family) was lifted off the road by an extremely bright ovoid UFO. They said their car was violently thrown and then dropped back onto the road. The car was damaged and investigators found it covered in a substance resembling green ashes. This substance was analyzed. Other testimonies from motorists and fishing boats reported similar events, which the police took seriously. (Reported by CBS Radio, 21.1.1988) (vog: the analysis showed it was potassium chloride, cfr Bob Fletcher of Para Net Information) During the night, a white light approached the Knowless family's car. The vehicle was shaken and lifted above the road. A shrill sound was heard. An unpleasant smell was perceived and voices were distorted. The car was covered in a deposit similar to soot. (Science et Vie, special edition: 50 years of UFOs, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, pp. 60-63) ... The car was lifted, shaken, and fell onto its right side. On impact, one of the tires burst. The family quickly got out of the vehicle and hid in the bushes until the UFO left. When it finally departed, they changed the tire and were able to leave. (1988, January 20 (21?))", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Nullarbor Plain, Adelaide", + "ref": [ + "UFO Universe, Winter 1998 issue, \"In Australia, Strange Things Are Happening\" by Tim Swartz, page 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3288" + }, + { + "date": "1/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two young students were returning home around 2:00 in the morning. They were filled with anxiety: they did not recognize the road they usually take and felt lost in a dead city. In the middle of the street, six cars were entangled in a pile-up, but the scene was unreal. There was nobody around the accident, no passengers, no drivers, no injured, no ambulance. They returned home late, impressed by this surreal incident which one of them reported to her mother. Hypnosis (vog: always hypnosis...) revealed that the accident was a screen memory hiding a UFO, only one of the two young women was abducted, while the other was \"disconnected\".", + "location": "USA, Washington", + "ref": [ + "Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: \"Enquête sur les enlèvements E.T.\" - Plon 1995, p. 152", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3289" + }, + { + "date": "2/5/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Martin Vernon and Paul Leach saw around 7 pm an object like a huge flying saucer. They were in a car and stopped to observe the phenomenon. They said it was in the shape of a cross, with an elongated fuselage and 3 or 4 windows lit up on top with a bright red light. They estimated that each window was the size of a house! The main part was covered like large white tiles. It was 20 to 30 times bigger than a conventional plane and flew between 300 and 600 meters in altitude. The object stayed in view for 20 minutes and no sound was heard. For 5 minutes, during this observation time, it hovered in place. After the car flew over, the object suddenly moved away at an incredible speed, making erratic movements from side to side. (February 5, 1988)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Rotherham, Carr Hill", + "ref": [ + "IUN - David Clarke - GREAT BRITAIN", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3290" + }, + { + "date": "2/10/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:30 PM Caroline Glossop saw the silhouette of a UFO in the shape of a marrowbone with lights at the ends and underneath, giving the impression of spinning, on two-thirds of the windshield of the car. It was visible for 4 minutes. The drawing made by the witness was rather different from a bone: straight front part, pointed back part, 5-sided object.", + "location": "England, Stannington", + "ref": [ + "IUN- David CLARKE - GB", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3291" + }, + { + "date": "2/10/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:40 PM, Stephen Millard of Carlton Green looked west and had the impression of seeing a communication satellite with its solar panels. But the altitude of this thing was far too low to be a satellite. At first the object had the shape of a cross, then it inclined and he saw a small dome on the upper part. The portholes were dimly lit and blinking. He estimated the size of this object to be three times that of a jumbo jet, the central part was aluminum in color and the luminosity was that of an electric welding arc. He observed it for 20 minutes. In the indicated direction there were at that moment not only Jupiter and Venus, but a very dense star cluster.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Carlton", + "ref": [ + "IUN- David CLARKE - GB", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3292" + }, + { + "date": "2/10/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7:20 PM Margaret Gamble walked down the street, a cul-de-sac where she lives alone. She had arrived near the gate of her home when she heard a buzzing. Looking for the \"plane\" that made the noise, she saw in the cul-de-sac, at the crest of the roofs a large black mass, with below it many very bright lights, red and silver. Although she was not scared she felt her hair stand on end; she went inside, with her husband watched for two more minutes as the phenomenon disappeared but at no point did she see its exact shape.", + "location": "Great Britain, Wombwell", + "ref": [ + "IUN- David CLARKE - GB", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3293" + }, + { + "date": "2/10/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7:30 PM Mr. Hoyle was sitting in his car parked in the center of Wombwell. He saw the object come in at about 60 meters altitude, over the rooftops, while it was going slowly eastward. The object had the shape of a diamond or pyramid, seeming to have a five-sided central part surrounded by many lights of different colors, but mostly green, white and pink-red. The witness saw it for about a minute and when it was closest, about 300 meters away, he seemed to perceive a buzzing sound; The witness described the UFO spectacle as \"fantastic\". (February 10, 1988)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Wombwell", + "ref": [ + "IUN- David CLARKE - GB", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3294" + }, + { + "date": "2/10/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A witness and her 24-year-old daughter saw, at around 7:30 PM, a large black rectangular triangle suspended in the sky in front of them. They stopped the car and other people parked behind them to observe the UFO. It was in a downward pointing position and there were a lot of red and green lights in its center. The triangle remained stationary for 5 minutes. As the daughter couldn't see very well, the witnesses went home to get glasses and to come back they took another route to see the object from behind. It had moved around 400 m to the southwest and was momentarily motionless above an electricity pylon. It was huge, the witnesses think 50 to 60 m in side and flying under 100 m in altitude, its entire perimeter was lined with bright green lights and those in the center lit up in pulses. The witnesses approached the UFO up to 30 or 50 m. Later, when they returned home, they saw the UFO again at around 9:15 PM, but high in the sky and it seemed to be moving at great speed to the west.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Hoyland", + "ref": [ + "IUN- David CLARKE - GB", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3295" + }, + { + "date": "2/10/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three witnesses in a car around 10:15 pm saw powerful spotlights in the sky to the northeast. They stopped to watch. The thing kept stopping and then continuing on its trajectory, making no noise and was visible for 5 minutes, moving in jerks. The object seemed to them to be diamond-shaped, of a dull metal color and very massive with a row of portholes at the front, the back part was harder to make out.", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Penistone", + "ref": [ + "IUN- David CLARKE - GB", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3296" + }, + { + "date": "3/18/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: the newspaper \"Chine Nouvelle\" of 20.3.88) At 21.35, on March 18, a Xinjiang 2606 flight from Beijing to Urumqi was above Qijiaojiing, Hami Province, at 11,000 meters altitude, when suddenly the passengers saw a light ball the size of a basketball, from which intense flashes of light were coming out, on the right side of the plane. The crew alerted the Urumqi control tower, which replied that no other flight was in the vicinity. In the cockpit they activated lights to make signals, but there was no response from the phenomenon. Three minutes later the phenomenon changed course and headed north, changing its appearance a bit: on top a small round light and below a kind of torch. These two lights were rotating quickly and the whole thing was surrounded by a green halo. At 21.48 the phenomenon was so far away that it was no longer visible. Half an hour later, while the plane was flying between Guangzhou and Urumqi, people on the ground in Hami Province saw a similar UFO. Among the people were television personnel, including Wu Wanjun, Shmed Jiang (Uigur), Mi Xiuchun (Hui), presenter Ming Aijun, a security guard Xu Yongchang, technical engineer Cheng Jingchun, technician Ju Huang and at least a dozen students of all ages.", + "location": "CHINA, Xinjiang", + "ref": [ + "Ufo in China 1987-88, Paul Dong", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3297" + }, + { + "date": "3/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Witness: mrogers923 at aol.com) I had taken off from Phoenix AZ and was turning towards Las Vegas, when I saw a circular object whose surface could have covered several city blocks, hovering above a residential area, illuminating the roofs of the houses with a very powerful beam of light. This object was flying slowly and deliberately above the houses. I couldn't believe my eyes and I turned to the passenger sitting behind me and asked: \"Do you see what I see out the window?\" She asked me: \"What is it?\" I didn't know. She continued \"Could it be a UFO?\" At that moment all the passengers on that side were commenting on the sighting with excitement. The flight attendants were not available for a while and when they came back they said they hadn't noticed anything at all. However, that night on the 10 o'clock news they mentioned the observation of a UFO above Phoenix. It was amazing, it changed my way of thinking. (March 1988)", + "location": "USA, Las Vegas", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3298" + }, + { + "date": "3/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One of the greatest mysteries of space and of all time was the discovery, by a Russian satellite which photographed, an American warplane on the Moon. (!!!???) This image shows a bomber from the Second World War, but no one can answer this question, including scientists: \"How can such a primitive plane fly in space and without a breath of wind on the Moon?\" \"We have absolutely no explanation and serious doubt\" said Dr. Stanislav Makeyev. The Russian scientist who published the photos of the plane enlarged by computer was. \"We can speculate that the plane was stolen by extraterrestrials and placed on the moon, but we have no evidence to support this theory\". American officials did not want to comment on these photos. Dr. Makeyev insists and says that the photographs are authentic. Unfortunately, four months after it was found, the plane disappears from the Moon, leaving no trace. (...) [vog: could Dr. Makeyev continue his research and tell me if he has not seen on the Moon, my little Fia 600t car, red in color, stolen in 1965 in Leopoldville?...]", + "location": "USSR - Space", + "ref": [ + "document broadcast by the UECDDS on 11-2-1997, to its members", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3299" + }, + { + "date": "4/20/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A group of 6 or 7 employees of Redfearn Glass, Monk Bretton, were leaving the afternoon shift at 10pm and had clocked out. They stopped to look with amazement at something in the sky that was absolutely still, with red, green and white lights flashing in alternation. Then two large yellow searchlights appeared, almost directed towards the ground. There was no way to make out the body, but the witnesses had the impression that it was oval and all along there was a row of \"street lamps\". The strangest thing was the great silence that reigned. Then it began to move, in a straight line with a series of propulsion movements, a bit like a dragonfly and disappeared in a shooting motion, still without any noise. Total duration of the observation: about 3 minutes. (April 20, 1988)", + "location": "GREAT BRITAIN, Monk Bretton - Barnsley", + "ref": [ + "IUN - David Clarke - GREAT BRITAIN", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3300" + }, + { + "date": "5/23/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An adolescent saw a UFO hovering above the Mediterranean Sea. She ran to the nearest police station to tell them her observation. The police officers did not believe her. Just like Amoi Achrai the year before, she returned to the beach of Shikmona. At 100 yards from the footprint of Ami's UFO, she found the footprint of her own UFO. It measured 15 meters long and six meters high. The base had the same structure as Ami's. The adolescent, Naveh, went to find the fortune teller Arbel, who began the investigation. Fortunately this time the young girl did not have to suffer the physical consequences that Ami had experienced. (...)", + "location": "ISRAEL, Haifa", + "ref": [ + "\"The Return of the Angels\" - UFOs in Israel, Past and Present - Barry Chamisch, based on a newspaper article from June 6, 1988", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3301" + }, + { + "date": "6/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Above Balmoral a man and his son saw an object shaped like a lozenge, yellow-orange in color, with a large light suspended beneath it. The object was visible for a quarter of an hour during which the father took photos. When developed, the photos were not impressed. (June 1988)", + "location": "NEW ZEALAND, Auckland", + "ref": [ + "Bob PRATT - USA", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3302" + }, + { + "date": "7/15/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Manuel Duarte Pinheiro was outside with companions at 4 o'clock. They were preparing to go to work when they saw a light coming from the north in a zigzag pattern, inspecting the ground and making a bright spot. The eight witnesses saw the spot light up in one place, go out, and then light up in another place. When it was off, the witnesses saw nothing unusual in the sky. It was as if only the light was real. They rushed to take cover, but the beam seemed to be playing with them, chasing them. At one point Pinheiro himself was caught in the light and looked at it face to face. \"It hurts the eyes,\" he said, \"it makes the eyes water. It's very hot to the eyes. It's of constant color and intensity with very sharp edges.\"", + "location": "Brazil, Parnarama", + "ref": [ + "Jacques VALLEE: \"Confrontations\" - Laffont 1991, p. 270, 271", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3303" + }, + { + "date": "8/30/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Dozens of people, including those from the state meteorological service, reported the observation of a UFO in the sky. \"I see a source of light,\" said Eliezer Danziger, from the weather service. \"The object changes its brightness from time to time, but remains stationary. It is not an airplane, just a source of light that does not move. A helicopter?\" The army radio also reported that dozens of people had called to report the UFO.", + "location": "ISRAEL, Tel-Aviv", + "ref": [ + "1988. The Associated Press.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3304" + }, + { + "date": "9/25/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 10:30 pm, five cars simultaneously broke down on Route 113. The 5 drivers began to talk, not finding an explanation for this phenomenon. During their conversation, they saw near the nearby woods lights carried by an object in the shape of a triangle with a metallic appearance: a big red light on the belly, red and yellow lights on the sides. It was moving the tops of the trees even though there was no wind and it was very close: Stanley R. Decker saw structures like \"L\" beams on the periphery and said that the ventral face was rounded. The observation lasted at least 15 minutes. The object vibrated and swayed from time to time and flew over the witnesses, who then saw that it was wider than the road. The red ventral light then appeared like a kind of opening filled with white fluorescent light.", + "location": "USA, Lorraine (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "Flying Saucer Review, vol. 34 n° 2, p.11-12", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3305" + }, + { + "date": "10/23/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mufon, Case 0749. Location: observed 5 miles NW of Dulce. The phenomenon was on a south-north trajectory observed over a course of about 2 miles, it stopped very close to the summit of Mt Archuleta. Closest distance of witnesses: 480 yards; distance of witnesses from the object's stop: 540 yards. Local time: 7:51 PM. Duration of observation: 5-6 seconds. Witnesses: Eliane Allegre, RN, Gabe Valdez, Edmund, Valdez's friend, \"Jack\" (pseudonym) PhD, Manuel, a local boy, Greg and Jeff, Valdez's sons, John Gille, PhD. John Gille is interested in the Dulce area due to rumors of an underground base jointly managed by the CIA and extraterrestrials, and because there are many UFO sightings in the area. A night of observation is decided, under Valdez's leadership. Since 7:30 PM, to pass the time, all present people are playing a game called OUIJA, when at 7:51 PM: the UFO is on cue! The object arrives from the north, flying south, at very high speed, on a horizontal and straight trajectory and presents itself in the form of a yellow light. It stops abruptly near the top of the mountain, becoming so bright at the same time that it illuminates half the sky. It emits rays of light of all colors: yellow, pink, green, and a shower of sparks. The light implodes on itself and disappears. [vog: example of a strangely \"objective\" ufology report!]", + "location": "USA, Mt Archuleta, near Dulce, N.M.", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3306" + }, + { + "date": "11/10/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. 16.11.1987) Press conference at the Pentagon in Washington DC, during which the US Defense Secretary, Daniel Howard, presented a retouched photo of the F-117A. The existence of the stealth plane is made official.", + "location": "USA, Washington", + "ref": [ + "Gesag, Bulletin No. 96 Sept 97, p. 4", + "see: 16.12.1989", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3307" + }, + { + "date": "11/11/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) From a letter from the witness published in the Gulf Breezes Sentinel Volume 28, Number 49 of November 19, 1988, accompanied by two photos showing an object with lights in the shape of portholes around its perimeter. The witness had just finished dinner when he saw the object through the window. He grabbed his Polaroid and took 4 shots (5 to 8). At that moment he had to change film. He was still able to take one shot (number 1) before the object moved away. The object was the size of a small house, hovered for a few minutes over the area, then left. No audible noise. It made slight movements up and down. Its belly emitted light. The markings (windows?) were visible on its very illuminated upper part. It was neither multicolored, nor did it emit any beam. It was just a \"gray thing\". The witness asked the newspaper to tell him if other people had observed a UFO that same evening.", + "location": "USA, Gulf Breeze", + "ref": [ + "Gulf Breezes Sentinel Volume 28, Number 49 November 19, 1988", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3308" + }, + { + "date": "11/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witnesses saw a gigantic triangular UFO above the Soignes Forest, to their right, at dusk. They stopped their vehicle in a small parking area. According to Claude B., the craft \"had visible bolts like in the drawings illustrating Jules Verne's novels\" and was moving \"at a walking pace\" and seemed to be \"at the level of the tree tops\" at a distance of about 100m. For Marylène B., it was \"both modern and archaic\" and was \"enormous like a football stadium\". After a few tens of seconds of observation, the greenish-colored craft (according to Claude B.) left very quickly, in a fraction of a second, in the direction of Waterloo, parallel to the highway. Here too, what most surprised the witnesses was the lack of interest of the hundreds of motorists who could have also slowed down or stopped to see the phenomenon. (1988, November (or February 1989))", + "location": "Belgium, Tervuren (Brabant)", + "ref": [ + "Investigation by Mr. Gérard GREDE for SOBEPS", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3309" + }, + { + "date": "12/15/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mufon, Case 1324, #890912 - Investigator: James Clarkson. From their isolated house by the lake, a family was drawn outside by a bright light approaching and illuminating the trees beneath it. They then observed three boomerangs, of different sizes, the smallest measuring about 25 meters, the largest having the dimension of a football field. The two smaller ones were identical in shape, but not in size. All three hovered and passed overhead at the height of the tree tops. The wife went to get her camera and took some photos with the flash. Curiously, when the film was developed in a specialized firm, she received neither the prints nor the negatives back: they were lost!", + "location": "USA, near Shelton (Washington)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3310" + }, + { + "date": "12/28/1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7:45 pm almost all the inhabitants saw a large UFO. They all saw the same thing: a gigantic UFO and the disappearance of two USAF fighters after their encounter with the object. On its front it had an elongated appendage with flashing lights. At its rear it was curved, the whole of gray metallic structure, with a large yellow protuberant light in the center. In the right corner it had yellow lights and on the left red lights. Two fighters were trying to intercept it, passing in front of the UFO which at the same time made a left turn, making a U-turn and slowing down. It stopped, so to speak, in the air. A fighter positioned itself to its right, another to its left. Suddenly, the fighter on the left disappeared into or on the object and was never seen again. The object then suddenly turned right and the second fighter disappeared in the same way, the sound of its engine stopped. The UFO then descended very close to the ground above an expanse of water called Saman Lake. It stayed there motionless for a short moment, straightened its \"corners\", sent a huge yellow flash from its central lamp, and split into two triangular sections that moved away at great speed, one to the southeast, the other to the northwest. During its division the witnesses saw red sparks. Around 8:20 pm helicopters with all lights off flew over the Sierra Bermeja and the Cartagena Lagoon until midnight. When questioned, government and military services claimed to know nothing of these incidents.", + "location": "PORTO RICO, Sierra Bermeja", + "ref": [ + "Bob PRATT - USA", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3311" + }, + { + "date": "1988 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A man reported that he was twice in contact with extraterrestrials, through an implant he had in his ear. During the investigation he reported having two experiences of \"astral projection\", during which he was taken aboard a saucer. (1988 (??))", + "location": "Australia, Adelaide", + "ref": [ + "Keith Baskerfield - Australian Abduction Cases - 1989", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3312" + }, + { + "date": "1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"Jan\", a married woman, had a very vivid experience one night, so much so that she thinks it was not a dream. She found herself in a completely white space with three entities. They measured about 210 cm and were wearing robes. She had no fear because the entities gave her a pleasant sensation (note from vog: which one???) She was talking to them. When she woke up in the morning she had a very vivid memory of the night's events, except for the content of the conversation. Since this event her personality has changed: she suffers from sleep paralysis and other unusual activities.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Adelaide", + "ref": [ + "UFORA91037. Keith Basterfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3313" + }, + { + "date": "1988", + "desc": "(Translated from French) For a number of years a woman experienced interactive experiences with extraterrestrials, all of which took place in her bedroom at the time between waking and sleeping. In some episodes this also included sexual experiences.", + "location": "Australia, Mid North South Australia", + "ref": [ + "UFORA91038. Keith Basterfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3314" + }, + { + "date": "Early 1/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) First half of January. At around 8:30 pm, a mother and her son suddenly saw through the living room window a bright ball. It disappeared and suddenly came back after 5 minutes. The son ran to the kitchen to get a better view and at his cries the mother joined him. There was an object, as big as an airplane, with several lights, which silently moved towards the house. The witnesses were in panic and thought the object was going to hit the house. They had no idea how the thing disappeared. They saw the object from 10 meters away, with a width of 7 meters, with two big lights, two smaller ones, some kind of windows, and a lot of details that were hard to define. The bottom was described by the mother as \"full of folds and edges, like a walnut\". Duration of the observation: 1 minute. (1989, Early January)", + "location": "Norway, Sande", + "ref": [ + "Menz Kaarbo - Ufo Norway News", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3315" + }, + { + "date": "1/18/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mufon, Case 1309, # 890603. Duration: 2 hours. Investigator: Dick Seifreid. At 3:57 am a man was woken up by his dog's barking. Looking outside, he saw three oval discs above the trees bordering his property, less than 100 m away. He woke up his wife and two teenage children. The whole family watched for two hours as the objects hovered slowly over the neighboring farms, before landing. (???) They emitted bright colored lights (amber, red, green, blue and white) that covered their own surface like a bubble of light. At one point, the father and son left in a car to pursue them. Two of the objects came back and hovered over a field before rejoining the third, which was already further away.", + "location": "USA, Somerville (Ohio)", + "ref": [ + "Note: the family made a second observation early in the morning of January 27, 1989", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3316" + }, + { + "date": "1/21/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mufon, Case 1336, #9008222, Time: 10:58 PM; Investigator Fran Ridge. Four women in a car accompanied by a teenager, saw a large amber light at the back of their car. They stopped for a moment, then drove off. The object, the size of a house, passed overhead, seeming slightly tilted on its side, so that no distinct shape was observed. What they took to be the ventral part had nine bright white lights arranged in an \"X\" shape. Several photos were taken, and as the object seemed to be about 80 m away, the film only showed small lights arranged in a circle.", + "location": "USA, near Corydon (Indiana)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3317" + }, + { + "date": "1/23/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Synnove Isaksen in a car with her children Linda (12 years) and Jan (9 years) around 8 pm suddenly saw a large bright star approach and become a ball the size of a child's balloon. It made a half turn to follow a direction parallel to the car for about 3 km before disappearing behind the trees. A little further on, having passed the Andebu power station, they saw something fall from the sky. Isaksen stopped the car and they then saw, at 500 m distance and 30 m altitude, an angular mass silently of about ten meters in wingspan. This thing was seen on the ventral side which bore a large white light in the center, surrounded by several smaller red, green and yellow ones. They were strong but did not light up. This phase of the observation lasted about 2 minutes, when suddenly the thing rose at great speed and disappeared, still in silence. About 500 m further on their route, the sphere reappeared and again accompanied the car for 3 km. It was just above the trees. Once they arrived home, the witness wanted to film this sphere with the camera, but it disappeared at great speed.", + "location": "Norway, Andebu", + "ref": [ + "Menz Kaarbo - Ufo Norway News", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3318" + }, + { + "date": "1/30/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At dawn a fishing boat had just rounded Shawong Point when the captain observed a strange light on the water, which seemed to come from an even stranger craft in the sky. It was like a searchlight and the captain set a course for this light. But the radar stopped working and the captain, fearful, turned off all the lights and stopped the engine. The beam seemed to have a square shape and was about 1500 m away. It began to move towards the boat, dancing on the water. The craft emitting it was itself a kind of triangular or diamond-shaped light about 45 m long. There was only a faint humming sound. Then the object rotated and sped away to the west. Once this thing was gone, the boat's radar worked normally again. (January 30, 1989)", + "location": "USA, Long Island (New York)", + "ref": [ + "Bob PRATT - USA", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3319" + }, + { + "date": "2/11/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The small town in the northeast corner of Alabama became the site of UFO sightings. On February 11th the police received at least fifty calls and the next day more than two thousand. The first witness to see the strange lights for nearly an hour was Donna Saylor. She called the police saying the object looked like a banana and was at the top of the trees. It hovered at a fairly wide angle (15° to 195°) with intense lights at the top and bottom and a very large light in the center. The banana-shaped curve was outlined in green light. Police Chief Junior Garmany and another policeman drove to the other sighting locations on Route 43. They got out of the vehicle when they saw a UFO coming in their direction. The object passed over them. It was large, wide and apparently triangular in shape. They heard no sound coming from the craft. (1989, February 11th and 12th)", + "location": "USA, Fyffe (Alabama)", + "ref": [ + "Ron Bonds - UFONET II - 15.2.1989", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3320" + }, + { + "date": "2/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was a Sunday afternoon. I was looking out the kitchen window, which overlooks the garden, and above the garden of a neighbor two houses away (to the west) I saw a black box, the size of a microwave oven, with something sticking out of it, like a stick. This box seemed to be making hops very close to the ground, at such a speed that I couldn't see any details, while going from left to right over a distance of three to four meters. After 30 seconds it began to rise, moving away. The higher it got, the less it seemed to be swaying. Half a minute later, I lost sight of it in the sky. I have no idea what it was. (February 1989)", + "location": "USA, somewhere in Ohio", + "ref": [ + "No. 169; 1997 MidOhio Research Associates, Inc", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3321" + }, + { + "date": "3/1989 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A 45-year-old teacher was heading to the bank at around 2 pm in the Brederodestraat (south, but right in the city center) and had to pick up her son from daycare on the same route (note from vog: cfr Tin Vankerkom: her daughter at the nursery school). For some unknown reason, she left in a hurry, without her jacket even though it was cold, and took a shortcut behind the Museum of Fine Arts. There, she saw a UFO above the museum, which flew towards her three times, emitting a blue light and a certain warmth, which filled the witness with a kind of happiness. Suddenly, she found herself on board. She was forced to undress and lie down on a gynecological table, where small beings 1.2 m tall examined her. The leader presented himself, and the witness called him \"Blue\". With him, she made a journey through the universe, she saw an image of America cut into two parts, across the continent. She was taken to a sacred being whose age she estimated to be around 300 years. He lay in a coffin, but while she watched, he became younger. Later, she found herself back in town, about a hundred meters from the place where she was abducted: the abduction had lasted, because now the bank was closed. (Note from vog: Tin Vankerkom's investigation says it was 3:45 pm... banks don't close that early in Antwerp, do they?) She felt unhappy, her eyes were inflamed and tearful, and later her hair became fragile and brittle. She also had gynecological problems. At the time, she remembered nothing. It was only in 1993 that her memory gradually returned to her. [See next case, same witness, the next morning.] (1989, March?)", + "location": "Belgium, Antwerpen", + "ref": [ + "cfr Bulletin du GESAG N° 95 of June 1997 cfr investigations of Tin Vankerkom, Julien Weverbergh and others", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3322" + }, + { + "date": "3/1989 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: see previous case) Woken up by the brightness of the day and a warm temperature for the time of year, it must have been between 5 and 6 o'clock (note from vog: so it certainly wasn't in March..., especially if daylight savings time is in effect, it's not that bright at 6 in the morning). Looking out the window she noticed that the floor of the building was bathed in a brightness similar to that of an afternoon. Examining the sky, she saw the saucer from the night before, but it was bigger. The witness again felt the heat and noticed the silence that had descended around her. The disc was approaching the ground, behind the house. Surrounded by buildings there was a long garden, a garage and a small shed. Modifying its size according to the available space, the disc approached the garage and stopped for a short moment at 50 or 60 cm from the roof, three small landing feet came out and the craft landed. The witness had plenty of time to make out the details: three series of three portholes, a landing gear that appeared and disappeared successively. In the blink of an eye the disc rose vertically, the air under it heated up and took on a white color with orange and blue tints. The phenomenon shrank with the distance and then appeared as three points: white, blue and yellow, arranged in a triangle. In one way or another the witness was back in bed to get up at the normal time and then mention to her husband that she had seen a UFO (note from vog: in a dream?) Later the witness claimed that there were burn marks on the roof of the garage and said that the owner had the bitumen covering replaced.... which the owner firmly denied: he did not make any repairs to the garage at that time! (1989, March?)", + "location": "Belgium, Antwerp", + "ref": [ + "cf GESAG Bulletin No. 95 of June 1997 cf investigations by Tin Vankerkom, Julien Weverbergh and others", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3323" + }, + { + "date": "4/24/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11:00 PM A.D. Golowackaja and her daughter saw a golden flame in the sky that became crimson and a silver object preceding the light became visible. It was rectangular, about 12 m long. The UFO emitted a powerful beam that enveloped the witness: she saw 4 creatures on board the craft. They were tall humanoids wearing space suits. Two of them headed towards the back of the craft, shortly after the other two did the same. Panicked, the witness went back into the house.", + "location": "USSR, Charowsk", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 78, p. 32", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3324" + }, + { + "date": "Late 4/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At Shikmona Beach at 2:30 AM on a warm Sunday morning, two teenagers, Ida Biderman and Alon Eilat, were looking for a quiet place to make love. Suddenly, a huge luminous object, described as a pillar of fire, silently descended from the sky, onto the sand, nearby. They watched it descend for 6 seconds, estimating its size to be 20 meters high and six meters wide. The object burned in vertical flames 15 meters long. They headed towards the crash site, but only made it ten meters, as the heat was scorching. The flames died out after ten minutes and there were elliptical things of an indeterminable material that kept burning. They tried to put out the fire by throwing sand on the things, but this caused the flames to flare up again. Soon after, a police car arrived, with the seer Hadassah Arbel on board. She reported that everything was vitrified, sand, stones..(...) [vog: how strange, why doesn't the police currently call on this seer in the tragic events in Israel and Palestine from 2000 to 2002?] (1989, late April)", + "location": "Israel, Haifa", + "ref": [ + "\"The Return of the Angels\" - UFOs in Israel, Past, Present - Barry Chamish", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3325" + }, + { + "date": "5/7/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A fighter plane fired a laser cannon at a UFO above the Kalahari Desert. It was shot down and left a crater 150 m in diameter and 12 m deep in the sand. Two injured extraterrestrials were extracted and transferred to the American base at Wright Patterson", + "location": "South Africa, Kalahari", + "ref": [ + "IMPORTANT NOTE: IN REALITY: from the complete file I copied, it turns out that this case is a famous HOAX... put together by a certain Van Greunen, who repeated it with a landing-crash of a saucer see 1995, September 15 in Leribe, Lesotho according to Cynthia Hind. The author CROLARD does not seem to verify the sources, he is for example still in 1995 one of the few to cite the \"disks\" of Ulan Batar, another smokey hoax..", + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"L'énigme des E.T.\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 112", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3326" + }, + { + "date": "5/13/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around midnight, Tom Arne Kristensen was riding his motorbike back home. Suddenly behind him, a very bright light appeared, like that of dozens of headlights lighting up next to each other in a long-range road code. This light came very close to him, then moved away: everything was lit up behind Kristensen, but nothing in front of him. When he reached the top of the Gullibrekka hill, he saw the light below, which suddenly disappeared. Shortly after arriving at Risegardene, the light suddenly appeared again, coming from nowhere. It disappeared when a vehicle came in the opposite direction. Very worried, Kristensen pushed the motorbike to the limit and returned home around 12:30, in a state of shock. Normally, this journey takes him 15 minutes: that night, even though he did everything to get back as quickly as possible, it took him half an hour on this route. (May 13, 1989)", + "location": "Norway, Kodal", + "ref": [ + "Menz Kaarbo - Ufo-Norway News", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3327" + }, + { + "date": "6/4/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At dusk, Viera Prokofievna and Alexandra Stiepanova with her 6-year-old daughter were heading to the city park. They approached the bank of the Dniepr when they saw three people in silver suits. Their faces were pale and identical like twins, their hair long and blond-red. They had a conversation with these \"tourists\" who told them they were from a distant planet and that every day they brought one man and one woman from Earth with them. They showed their ship which had the shape of a silver barrel with a rotating antenna on top. The witnesses did not want to accompany them and the \"tourists\" replied that they would take someone else. They went back into the barrel which took off.", + "location": "USSR, Kiev", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 78, p. 31,32", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3328" + }, + { + "date": "6/6/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Schoolchildren observed a star in the sky which quickly became a large ball that came over the pastures, headed towards the river and landed. The children were about 500 m away from the scene. The ball split into two parts and in the meadow a humanoid appeared: it had long arms, but no head. The UFO vanished and the being headed towards the village. The being approached a woman with a red scarf on her head and both of them suddenly disappeared. A few minutes later they saw the woman leaving the meadow running. (Inforespace n° 78, p. 33,34) The children observed a luminous spot in the sky. When it descended they clearly noticed that it was a sphere. The sphere landed in a meadow. Observed from a quarter of a mile away, the children saw an occupant next to the craft. The creature, according to what they said, had long arms that went down to its knees.", + "location": "USSR, Konancewo", + "ref": [ + "\"Ufo's: a Century of Sightings\" by Michael David HALL, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 330", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3329" + }, + { + "date": "6/26/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A panic swept through the town caused by a creature wandering the streets. It moved strangely as if it was floating and emitted strange sounds. The being left a silver trace on the ground that gradually disappeared. When the being approached people, they were either paralyzed or felt heat. It had some kind of aura around it. A motorist was unable to brake in time and stopped only 15 m after the impact site: he and the car were covered in a silver substance that gradually disappeared, meanwhile the being moved, without moving its legs, towards a bridge where it disappeared.", + "location": "USSR, Lesozavodsk", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 78, p. 34", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3330" + }, + { + "date": "6/28/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 20:50, two witnesses. (...) very low, about 100 m from the ground, a curious object made of a rusty-looking, brown sphere passed quickly. Four vertical appendages made the whole thing look like the first Sputnik. It seemed that the object was slowly rotating counter-clockwise. It moved in total silence, at a constant and fast speed, maintaining the same altitude. Distance from the witness: about 200 m.", + "location": "Belgium, Bernissart", + "ref": [ + "VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, p. 209", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3331" + }, + { + "date": "Early 7/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 11:45 PM and midnight, two people were stopped in their car at a rest area called \"La Combe Fusil\" and were listening to the radio. As a loud buzzing, similar to a tractor sound but deeper and without resonance, came from the north. They then saw two lights connected by a kind of bar appear. The spheres of light were about 2m in diameter and the rectangular bar was 150 cm long. The light did not radiate more than a meter in front of its source and did not illuminate anything. They had the impression that this phenomenon was skimming the ground, close to the road, but was actually flying 15 m above the ground and advancing at the speed of a walker. The phenomenon disappeared on a constant trajectory towards the south, hidden by a hill. Duration of the observation: 2 minutes. (1989, Early July)", + "location": "France, between Vaugneray and Yzeron (Lyon)", + "ref": [ + "Phénoména -SOS OVNI, Nov-Dec 1995, pp. 7-9", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3332" + }, + { + "date": "7/16/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Enormous, black, headless creatures, moving like motorbikes, were observed by people from a farm. Children from a holiday camp had an unusual encounter with humanoid beings with glowing eyes. One of the beings had an offensive reaction, using a weapon that set the grass on fire.", + "location": "USSR, Perm", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace No. 78, p. 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3333" + }, + { + "date": "7/18/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mufon, Case 1315, No. 890803 - Investigators: Carol and Rex Salisberry. Due to the rain, a couple stayed inside their home. They received a strange phone call (psychic ability?) saying they could look outside to see UFOs. When they went outside, the sky was clear. Shortly after, they observed an oval light passing slowly in the distance. Ten minutes later, they had to go back inside due to a violent storm in the area. (Note: the woman would later experience an intrusion by an undefined being in the bedroom. She would experience many experiences, alone or with a triangular object, related to the observations of Fyffe...) (...) There were many observations throughout Alabama to Colorado: (..) IN REALITY: it was the second stage of a Soviet missile which was then observed in South Carolina, and whose trajectory was supposed to take it to fall into the ocean a hundred miles from Georgia. Expert Marsha White explained to the viewers that, in principle, anything launched should either come back to Earth or move away, but that generally, things fell back... over time.", + "location": "USA, Dutton (Alabama)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3334" + }, + { + "date": "7/25/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The painter Malachev was set up in front of his easel in the middle of a field. He had the impression that someone was tapping his shoulder, he turned around and found himself facing a flying saucer in front of which two men and a woman were standing. They telepathically offered him to follow them and he got into a craft that took off. He claims to have seen a planet with three moons, a face on board the saucer looking at him through a huge screen and even a recently deceased friend. Then the humanoids brought him back to Earth and dematerialized. Landing traces were found in the field. Examined by psychiatrists, Malachev was found to be perfectly normal. The adventure would have lasted 40 minutes. (July 25, 1989)", + "location": "USSR, Solechnogorsk (70 km from Moscow)", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"The Enigma of the E.T.\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 80, 81", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3335" + }, + { + "date": "7/28/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Various military witnesses for the observation between 10:12 PM on July 28th until 1:30 AM on the 29th reporting unidentified objects. The testimonies come from military personnel sometimes 45 km away. The three objects were seen at distances ranging from 3 to 5 km up to 300 meters. The objects were shaped like discs 4 to 5 meters in diameter with a luminous hemisphere on the top. The objects flew silently, descended, ascended, hovered, coming to hover over a terrain at only 20 to 60 meters from the ground. The weather conditions were excellent for good visibility. The commander (name censored) of the military unit (name censored) of the BVS polygon, (city of Akhtubinsk) conducted the investigation. (The care of CISU, Milan section, which received photocopies of the Russian declarations)

A multiple witness case in a Russian missile base (July 28th-29th 1989) At the head of the UFO reports declassified by the KGB in 1991, is a file relating to an army missile base near Kapustin Yar, in the Astrakhan region, which is mentioned in the work of Marie Galbraith (see chapter 9.1). The English-speaking public became aware of it through the Moscow magazine AURA-Z in March 1993. Military personnel belonging to two centers of the base made handwritten statements about their visual observations, made under good visibility conditions. The incomplete file does not deal with any possible radar detections. It begins with a brief summary of the case, written by an anonymous KGB officer, followed by the report of seven handwritten testimonies (...) In a report, consistent with that of his superior, the soldier Tichaev insisted on the absence of noise caused by the object, even at short distance, which prevented it from being confused with a helicopter. The two witnesses, joined after a while by the guard team, had witnessed the object's maneuvers over the center and its surroundings for two hours. (1989, night of July 28th to 29th)", + "location": "USSR, Kapustin Yar (Astrakhan)", + "ref": [ + "COMETA report, 1999", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3336" + }, + { + "date": "7/30/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The journalist Moukhourtov claims to have encountered extraterrestrials in the mountains of the Ural near Perm. The beings were luminous and of great size. The witness would have had a telepathic conversation with the humanoids who told him they came from the planet \"RED STAR\"!!", + "location": "USSR, Perm", + "ref": [ + "Reuter, October 1989", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3337" + }, + { + "date": "7/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 3pm, Aristides Medina was sailing along the mangroves when he first thought he saw a group of children: \"Their size varied between 90 cm and 1.10 m, like that of 5 or 6 year old children. I got closer to get a better look. They all looked alike. They were slender, of the same build, and wearing very tight, silver-gray suits. These clothes seemed to be fluorescent - they had a kind of inner luminescence. Two of these creatures were standing there in front of me, staring at me, and the others were half-hidden by the mangroves. Their heads were bigger than ours, but not much, and a bit more elongated, egg-shaped - and without a single hair! These things were pale!...with grayish reflections on their skin. Their eyes were extremely almond-shaped and pitch black, and their nose was rather small; the mouth was practically nonexistent. When I tried to approach them, they ran away at full speed and disappeared into a valley of the Sierra Bermeja. Since then, I have seen them two more times...\". (July 1989)", + "location": "USA, Pitahaya (Puerto Rico)", + "ref": [ + "Timothy GOOD: \"E.T. Connection\" 1993 Trad. Presses de la Cité 1994 p. 248-249", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3338" + }, + { + "date": "8/2/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mufon, UFO1303 File, #890405) Time: 03:40. Duration 12 minutes. Investigator: Charles Flannigan. Awoken by his dogs barking outside, a man discovered a small object descending onto a nearby plot. The object resembled two connected discs, the bottom one larger than the top one, with a total width of less than one meter. At the top part a white light shone, numerous other small lights blinked red to orange and two were green. When the man went out, intending to take this small thing and bring it into his house, the object departed in a flash of light.", + "location": "USA, Gulf Breeze, Florida", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3339" + }, + { + "date": "9/9/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9pm (WST), the driver and other members of the Kalgoorlie railways saw a UFO the size of a fighter plane come over the train. This UFO emitted a very dense white smoke from the back so that the passengers could not see anything in the express train for several minutes. The Traffic Information Management System (TIMS) reports that similar incidents occurred affecting three other trains during the same evening and that the reports were received at the Port Augusta Rail Control Centre. This happened within a radius of 600 km. The driver of the Transline, Lou Beccarelli, said: \"In my 25 years of service I have never seen anything like it. I was the first to see the thing, 14 km east of Zanthus, it was a light in the shape of a pencil, standing vertically in the sky. In the 20 seconds it was above the machine at a phenomenal speed. The thing was surrounded by six white lights, each emitting white smoke. Despite its colossal size, it was completely silent (note from vog: and the train? also to affirm such a thing?) To Greg Bourne, I put the train on the sidetrack and stopped it. The guard also saw the UFO, as well as the co-driver; But as soon as I stopped the train, the object disappeared, in a kind of light mist that remained hovering along the tracks to Zanthus.\" The other reports come from Hesso, Watson and Manguri - all hundreds of kilometres away. The passengers and crew of the trains all describe large objects with white lights and emitting a very dense white smoke. (1989, 9 September)", + "location": "Australia, Zanthus", + "ref": [ + "OZTRAIN.AUS", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3340" + }, + { + "date": "9/27/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:30 PM, on a warm day, many people were in the street. In Jenia Blinov Park, Vassia Sourine and Youla Cholokhova were playing football. On the edge of the park, people were waiting for the bus. In the sky, a pink light appeared, then a bordeaux ball about 10m in diameter - some sources say the object had the shape of a banana.

This thing circled the park several times, disappeared, came back a few minutes later, and stopped. On the lower part, a hatch opened. The many witnesses (about forty according to REUTER) saw a 3m tall creature appear, with three eyes, wearing a silver suit with a disc on its chest, and bronze boots. The hatch closed and the object landed on the ground. A large humanoid came out shortly afterwards, accompanied by a small robot-like entity. The large humanoid said something and a triangular light of 50cm by 30cm appeared on the ground. At this moment, the large humanoid touched the chest of the small robot, which started to move. Frightened by this spectacle, a child in the crowd screamed in fear, the humanoid looked at him with glowing eyes and the child was paralyzed. The crowd started to scream, and the sphere disappeared along with its occupants. It was visible again 5 minutes later. The large creature was armed with a rod which it pointed at a 16 year old teenager in the crowd: he disappeared on the spot. He would only reappear when the humanoid was back on board the craft, which then took off. (Patrick VIDAL, Belgium - REUTER) This event was reported on October 9, 1989 by (Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"L'énigme des E.T.\" - ed. Guy TREDANIEL 1995, p. 70) (vog: those interested in the Ummo case, say that the symbol \")+( \" was visible on the ventral side of the saucer) September 29, 1989 Belgium, Chênée-Liège. At 6 pm, Dr. Christian B. was on his way to visit a patient on Rue de Chenée. Above the Cointe hill, he noticed a bright light. This surprised him so much that he stopped and got out of the car to observe it. The sky was still clear but slightly foggy. The object passed directly overhead. It had a strange, very wide, very flat construction with two projectors at the front pointing downwards, a flashing red light at the back, and white fixed lights at the wings' ends. Between the front and back lights was a kind of hatch for a possible landing gear. As his stop on the road was disrupting traffic, the doctor went to turn off the headlights of his car that had been left on. At that moment, the object disappeared from his field of vision.", + "location": "USSR, Voronej", + "ref": [ + "VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, p. 250", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3341" + }, + { + "date": "9/29/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At night, two pensioners saw in Southend a large diamond-shaped object, larger than an airplane. It had two strongly lit windows. In Stanford-Hope, the same night a man observed a triangular object spinning above his house. In Basildon, above the telephone exchange, a set of red, green and white lights remained stationary.", + "location": "Great Britain, Southend, Stanford Hope and Basildon", + "ref": [ + "Bob PRATT - USA", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3342" + }, + { + "date": "9/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) several spectacular UFO landings had been reported. This news spread around the world; Igor Yadigin, 29 years old, an aviation technician, was heading to the base located on the airport grounds. Igor started his work at 8 pm and, to take a shortcut between his home and the airport, he had to cross a ravine. As he left the bottom of the ravine and started to climb the other side, he saw something bright and emerald-colored a little further to his left. The light was actually a spherical object with a diameter of no more than 70 cm; it was standing still above the ground level. Quickly glancing at his watch, Igor noted that it was 7:40 pm. He kept walking towards the floating object and was about 6 m away when he suddenly heard cracking branches to his right. He turned his head in that direction and saw a very tall and well-proportioned man wearing a silver outfit. He must have been at least 2.50 m tall and had his head covered, up to his shoulders, with some kind of helmet, with a rectangular visor that seemed to contain a liquid, preventing him from distinguishing the man's features. (...) At the same time, there was a faint flash at the level of the man's visor and something made Igor turn back towards the sphere. He was greatly surprised to see a \"living\" and perfect image on its screen: that of the Chernobyl power plant (which he knew well). (etc... explosions etc...) Then the image was replaced by that of the Novovoronezh power plant (about 45 km from Voronezh), where Igor had been several times. (...) (note from vog: re-projection catastrophe). Igor lost consciousness. When he came to, there was nobody around and the sphere had disappeared. A month after the incident, Igor made an interesting discovery. He noticed that when he placed his hand at about 40 or 50 cm from the screen of his television, he reversed the image. [note from vog: what interest? yet I ask to see, and if it works with my television] (September 1989,)", + "location": "USSR, Voronezh", + "ref": [ + "Timothy GOOD: \"E.T. Connection\" 1993 Trad. Presses de la Cité 1994 p. 170-173", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3343" + }, + { + "date": "10/12/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:15 PM the witness decided to take a walk. In front of an electronic equipment store there was a crowd and fire trucks: a fire had just broken out. Shortly after, the witness noticed that people were no longer looking at the fire fighters' intervention, but were looking up and moving towards Rue Masson. And there, at the end of the street, he saw in the sky like a circle formed by 6 to 8 large white lights that slowly crossed the street in absolute silence. There was nothing else but these lights. Another witness who was about sixty meters away on a cliff path said he had seen at that moment a large object resembling a saucer.", + "location": "Belgium, Verviers", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 53, 54", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3344" + }, + { + "date": "10/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two ladies in a car saw a pillar of light in one of the fields along the road. This pillar rose up to a circular object that pulsed continuously changing its brightness and color. They observed this phenomenon for a few minutes. Then the phenomenon rose slowly, disappearing as the distance increased. No physical evidence was found in the field.", + "location": "Malta, at the limits of Zebug", + "ref": [ + "John Joseph Mercieca, Maltese ufologist - Internet November 1996", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3345" + }, + { + "date": "11/22/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Dark, cloudy and rainy night. At 8:15 PM, Mr. and Mrs. Dupuis in a car, observed at the exit of the village of Forest a luminosity coming from behind a bakery and a group of houses. They then saw above a house located 20 meters away, a device with headlights arranged in an equilateral triangle. The building, of large dimensions, was bathed in intense light. Mr. Dupuis stopped the car, turned off the engine and then saw a large dark triangular mass with lights at its base. The object had a wingspan of about ten meters. Between the spots he noticed a fairly wide dome, similar to a cheese bell while he perceived a movement through the dome. At the back an outgrowth in the shape of a tube is visible. Mr. Dupuis got out of the car and cautiously approached the place where the device was going to cross the road. Suddenly, directly above the road, the device descended one or two meters and emitted a red flame tinged with blue, coming out of the rear tube. Simultaneously, Mr. Dupuis heard a slight whistle. The object was less than 10 m from the witness and flew over the road at 5 m altitude, the beams strongly illuminating the ground. The device continued on its west-east route and headed towards a high voltage power line located 300 m away. Suddenly, Mr. Dupuis perceived a movement through the dome and saw a white shape. He made big signs with his hands and suddenly the object became invisible. The observation lasted a good 5 minutes in total. Follow-up: sleep disturbances for Mr. Dupuis, nervous depression two months later for his wife.", + "location": "Belgium, Forest (Hainaut)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace No. 79 pp. 4 and 5 and VOB 2 SOBEPS 1994, p. 169", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3346" + }, + { + "date": "11/22/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ivar Spilde, a college professor, saw at around 11 pm, at an altitude of about 100 m and 150 m away from him, a strange object. His attention had been drawn by a deep and dull sound and he first looked out the window, then went outside. On the bottom there was a row of lights, topped by a barely visible structure. The underside was roughly rectangular, but with the long sides of unequal length between 15 and 20 m long, one of the widths was greater than the length. The surface had 5 or 6 rows of small white-yellowish lights that were reflected on it. On one of the corners of the back, a large white light seemed to not be part of the \"fuselage\". This object left towards the southeast at the speed of an airplane. Duration of the observation: 30 seconds.", + "location": "Norway, Sandefjord", + "ref": [ + "Menz Maarup - Ufo-Norway News", + "see December 15, 1989", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3347" + }, + { + "date": "11/25/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 23:50: 3 witnesses. \"A deep sound, similar to that of a large transport helicopter with double rotors or a diesel locomotive at idle, drew our attention. The three of us went out onto the illuminated terrace behind the house and, almost vertically, at an altitude that I estimate to be 150 meters, there was an immobile object. According to the triangular position of the white headlights, it seemed to me that the object was triangular in shape, but I could not make out the exact shape. The headlights emitted a strong white-yellowish light of fixed intensity. In the center of this triangle there was a red light of fixed intensity as well. We observed this phenomenon for 3 or 4 minutes, then it began to move with the same sound, in the direction of Andrimont (SO). The dog spent most of the time from November 26 to December 1, 1990 hiding under the furniture.", + "location": "Belgium, Bilstain", + "ref": [ + "VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, p. 194", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3348" + }, + { + "date": "11/28/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In a village near Butgenbach, Mrs. D. accompanied by her daughter Evelyne, 16 years old, was at the cemetery in front of the tomb of her eldest daughter who had died in an accident at the beginning of the year at 7:15 pm. A large light approached from the west and stopped at 30 or 40 meters in height, just above the pines that border the cemetery, about 150 meters from the witnesses. The light had a certain volume but the contours were blurred. Sometimes a shape could be distinguished: a diamond. One point was directed upwards, but the diamond seemed to take different inclinations and it was drowned in a strong light of changing colors. It was usually white but a part could be more red or orange or even green-blue. The daughter found this quite worrying while the mother found it really beautiful. When they left the cemetery after 10 minutes at the insistence of the daughter, the mother walked as far back as possible so as not to lose sight of the light.", + "location": "Belgium, Butgenbach", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 32, 33", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3349" + }, + { + "date": "11/29/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Beginning of the Belgian wave. Those interested in all observations will find them in \"UFO Wave over Belgium 1\" and likewise 2 at SOBEPS. I only take up a few cases from the beginning, middle and end here. Around 10:30 a.m. an army major participating in a march from Walhorn to the Gileppe Dam saw a large object moving above Eynatten at an estimated altitude of 2000m. The appearance was zinc-aluminium, a kind of large plate without wings and moving without noise.", + "location": "Belgium, Verviers region", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - Sobeps 1991", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3350" + }, + { + "date": "11/29/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4:40 pm an schoolboy saw an equilateral flat triangle coming from Jalhay \"as if it had been cut out of a board\". The object passed above him and he saw three lights in the corners, of different colors: white, red and blue.", + "location": "Belgium, Jalhay", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - Sobeps 1991", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3351" + }, + { + "date": "11/29/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 5:10 PM, André R. was driving towards Liège when he saw a large, apparently stationary, luminous object in the sky. The object struck the witness with its unusual shape and exceptional size. It had two far-apart headlights, and the dark triangular body with rounded corners stood out clearly against the sky \"like a ray fish without a tail\". The witness then saw a second object, further away than the first, flying quickly on a horizontal, undulating trajectory, describing roughly reversed S-shapes from NW to SE. Duration of the observation: between 8 and 10 seconds.", + "location": "Belgium, Remouchamps-Sprimont", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 84, p. 16", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3352" + }, + { + "date": "11/29/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Gendarmes Von Montigny and Nichols in a van on the N 68, arrived at 17:20 at the height of \"Grosse Weide\". They observed a large dark triangle with two cut corners (dimensions 30m base, 25m height, cut part 6m, thickness 2m) with three huge circular headlights pointing downwards, diffusing cones of light. This object was at an altitude of approximately 120m. A small red flashing light - or a small rotating beacon - was located at the center of the object. The object was motionless, then moved forward, flew over the gendarmes, stopped, turned in place and left in the opposite direction, towards Eupen. It was the silence of this machine that most surprised the gendarmes.", + "location": "Belgium, between Kettenis and Merols", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - Sobeps 1991, p. 16 to 19", + ".. .", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3353" + }, + { + "date": "11/29/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two witnesses arrive in the street where they live and then see an enormous dark mass motionless at about 500 m from the ground. It has the shape of a triangle with 3 big white headlights near the corners. A red light is blinking in the center of the triangle. The witnesses are convinced that this blinking corresponds to a ball placed under the flat underside. This ball is spinning like a beacon. When they get out of their car they are surprised to see the object hovering above them. The car engine is stopped, but they don't hear any noise coming from the craft, not even when it slowly starts to move, base forward.", + "location": "Belgium, between Verviers and Andrimont", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 28", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3354" + }, + { + "date": "11/29/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 6 pm, an electrical technician happened to look in the direction of Ans and Bierset. He then noticed the presence of an enormous triangle with a wide base and rounded corners. It had three very bright white lights near the corners and a red flashing light in the center. It was perfectly still. For Mr. K., the witness, it could not be the Awacs. He knew them well since he lived near the Bierset base.", + "location": "Belgium, Roccourt", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 42", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3355" + }, + { + "date": "11/29/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:30 pm, a shopkeeper and another witness observed a triangle stationary in the middle of a meadow, 100 m away from them, at the end of a 12 m high electric pole, emitting a cone of white light towards the ground similar to an elephant's trunk; then in motion as the van approached while a large red light began to blink in its lateral thickness. It was a dark, rounded shape at the back. At the back, two rows of red lights could be seen, like eight rectangular windows. As it moved away, it emitted a buzzing sound, audible despite the noise of the van's engine.", + "location": "Belgium, Mortroux", + "ref": [ + "Franck Boitte, Inforespace n° 85 p. 36 and VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, p. 209", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3356" + }, + { + "date": "11/29/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two gendarmes, Nicholls and von Montigny, stopped the van around 6:45 pm on a hill called Kortenbach. The object had stopped above the Gileppe lake a bit to the left of the lit tower. The stationary UFO was repeatedly and simultaneously emitting two thin beams of reddish light in opposite directions. These beams were straight, very thin, and of constant section. They left the object at great speed and remained visible for a certain time. When they disappeared, a red ball persisted at the ends of the beams. These fireballs returned to the object by turning around the white ball for a few moments. Then the process started again identically. The UFO stayed there stationary until 7:23 pm. They suddenly saw a second triangle emerge from behind the pines, rising into the sky as if catapulted. It slowed down, inclined slightly and turned. It exposed its superstructure where the gendarmes clearly discerned a dome placed like a spherical cap in the center of a thin plate. This dome had rectangular windows lit from the inside. This object headed north. (VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, pp. 23, 24) Paul Van Brabant, an independent Belgian researcher, tried in December 1996 to almost prove that the light observed to the left of the tower corresponded exactly to the location of Venus that evening with a magnitude of -4.6, almost the maximum. (Bulletin du GESAG No. 94, March 1997, pp. 5-11) Professor Meessen proved in February 1997 during a meeting with the skeptics that if Venus was in the sky, for the gendarmes Venus was to the right of the tower at the indicated time and not to the left. [vog: by hearsay, but I don't have the proof]", + "location": "Belgium, Membach", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3357" + }, + { + "date": "11/29/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7 pm, Mrs. B. observed a triangle with points of light on its underside. Through the window of her kitchen, she first saw two bright headlights. They were so close to the ground that she initially thought it was a truck, but there was no road in that area. Gradually, she made out a large dark mass and realized, along with her son, that it was a flying object. It made a turn that brought it in their direction. She switched off the light in the kitchen and saw that it was a triangular object with rounded corners. It flew very low, slowly, and without a sound. When it flew over the house, its size was such that it would cover two attached houses. They then noticed many small yellow lights on the underside of the craft \"like little stars\". Around the object there were small red lights that moved independently \"like fireflies\".", + "location": "Belgium, Battice", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 32", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3358" + }, + { + "date": "11/30/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Linda Cortile Case. Two policemen, whose car had broken down near the Brooklyn Bridge, saw a large, luminous craft hovering at the height of the top floor of a nearby building. They saw a woman in a white nightgown and three strange little creatures being carried into the craft by a beam of light. The woman had come out of the window and had floated in the air, just like the other three. The object flew away, flew over the FDR Drive where their car was broken down, and plunged into the East River. They were sure that the woman was dead and were going to investigate. However, this person, whom we will call Linda, revealed these facts under hypnosis to Budd Hopkins. In April 1991, Linda was kidnapped by the \"policemen\" who were actually security agents attached to the person of Javier Pérez de Cuellar, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, who was also a witness to the incredible scene that night. Another independent witness, a woman in her sixties, also saw the phenomenon. In total, no less than 18 people were witnesses to the event.", + "location": "USA, New York", + "ref": [ + "Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: \"Enquête sur les enlèvements E.T.\" - Plon 1995, pp. 91-95", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3359" + }, + { + "date": "12/1/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:45 pm, a nurse and 4 other witnesses observed an object triangular in shape at 75 m that was heading towards the Gileppe Dam while emitting a faint humming sound. (Franck Boitte, Inforespace n° 85 p. 37) The witnesses noticed a geometric figure made up of 3 lights: one white, one blue, one red. This object moved in a straight and uniform manner, a bit faster than a tourist plane. The phenomenon passed at an estimated altitude between 50 and 100 meters above the witnesses. The children claimed to have heard a sound of an electric motor. Only the lights were visible, no structure was observed.", + "location": "Belgium, Jalhay", + "ref": [ + "VOB 2 -SOBEPS 1994, p. 196", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3360" + }, + { + "date": "12/3/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the shape of a boomerang, emitting a sound like a lawnmower, at 15:45, while 7 investigators from Sobeps were searching the city for previous testimonies, without any of them noticing anything unusual. One of the rare Belgian cases where the word \"boomerang\" appears, which is very frequently used in similar American testimonies.", + "location": "Belgium, Plombières-Eupen", + "ref": [ + "Franck Boitte - Inforespace n° 85, p. 30, 31", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3361" + }, + { + "date": "12/4/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Miss Nicole B. and her mother Hannelore were taking the Frankendelle at 8:05 PM when suddenly in the middle of the ascent they saw a series of bright lights above the roofs of a school boarding house 150 m to the right of the Frankendelle. After about ten seconds the witnesses stopped the car and got out. \"There were three white lights and in the center a larger red light that pulsed. It made no noise. It seemed to belong to a relatively flat object. (VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 73, 74)\"", + "location": "Belgium, Eupen", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3362" + }, + { + "date": "12/4/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11pm, a housewife saw in the middle of the city, a kind of small single-seater plane, 6m long with the same wingspan, zigzagging between buildings at 50m altitude. Fuselage made of juxtaposed cubes, short and very wide wings, two strong white lights at each end of the wings, and a strong yellow light at the front. The witness was 70 years old. Resembling a remote-controlled plane. (1989, 4th December)", + "location": "Belgium, Liège", + "ref": [ + "Franck Boitte, Inforespace n° 85, p. 37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3363" + }, + { + "date": "12/11/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) From 18:15 to 18:50 two witnesses, one of them a public servant, observed a grey matte triangular object surrounded by several red glows; this object ejected twice clusters of 6 to 10 orange luminous balls in the direction of the stopped car of the witnesses: distance of these balls relative to them: 10 meters. (Franck Boitte, Inforespace n° 85, p. 37) This cluster passed under a high tension line and was immediately returned towards the luminous structure; a new cluster of these small red lights made the same journey, under the high tension line. The red elements remained grouped. They came out of the lower part of the object and the cluster they formed had the size of a car. There must have been 10 to 20 of them, without forming a precise shape. Dimension of the craft: the size of a football field.", + "location": "Belgium, Jemeppe sur Sambre", + "ref": [ + "VOB 2, SOBEPS 1994, p. 165", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3364" + }, + { + "date": "12/12/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 2:15 in the morning, a close encounter at Jupille sur Meuse. The witness was woken up by an unusual noise and thought that the circulator of the boiler was not working properly. He got up (...) Object in the shape of an egg, more rounded at the front where the witness distinguished a window or a dark windshield that had the aspect of plexiglas. The object was gray-matte, dull, without any shiny effect. A kind of horizontal band resembling a throat in which several small lamps of a bluish and reddish brilliance encircled the object. At the back, an orifice in which was planted a kind of fin or oar of the same gray-matte aspect. The underside had three protuberances where spotlights were housed, turned off at the beginning of the observation. At the back of the large window, a kind of logo, three intertwined ellipses that made one think of the trajectories of electrons around a nucleus. The size: about twenty meters. The witness had the impression of contemplating a material but \"blurry\" object, although it was only 80 m away. When leaving, the object lit up the three spotlights under its body. Suddenly, no more sound or light: it was over. (...)", + "location": "Belgium, Jupille sur Meuse.", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 80 p. 32 to 42", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3365" + }, + { + "date": "12/16/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 11 10.1988) The aeronautical specialist of the Flemish daily newspaper \"Het Laatste Nieuws\", Herman De Wulf, stated that the description of the phenomena observed above the eastern cantons was close to that of the F-117A. Lt. Col. Billen of the Belgian Air Force compared it to \"a kind of delta wing with a rotating beacon\". In the US, the aeronautical press assumed that the F-117A had carried out test flights over the European area to see how it operated in wartime. Herman De Wulf mentioned that the aircraft would have come from Gellenkirchen or Bittburg (Germany) and that it was operating in the north of the Belgian Ardennes in the TR 13 zone, where NATO flights are authorized at an altitude of 250 to 500 feet [note from vog: this was confirmed to me by the military themselves, with the restriction \"from September to the end of January\"]", + "location": "Belgium, north of the Ardennes", + "ref": [ + "Gesag, bulletin n° 96 September 97, p. 4", + "ABSOLUTELY SEE: 30.3.1990", + "see 1912.1989", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3366" + }, + { + "date": "12/19/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 16.12.1989) Panama Conflict. Operation \"Just Cause\". Six F-117A were planned to carry out bombings on military sites at Rio Hato. Only two of these stealths would carry out such operations", + "location": "Panama", + "ref": [ + "Gesag, Bulletin No. 96 Sept 97, p. 4", + "see 30.3.1990", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3367" + }, + { + "date": "12/21/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 23:30, two witnesses. It was something immense that took up more than the entire width of the slag heap directly below it at less than 100 meters altitude. The color was matte zinc, very luminous. The appearance was solid but the contours were blurry. There were 4 projectors or large headlights in a line that shone their light forward (towards the witness). But the object, although matte, illuminated the slag heap with its brightness. The shape of the object was oval for the upper half and almost flat, but still curved for the lower part. It made no noise. At one point the object tilted 30 to 45 degrees and began to move, first slowly (10 km/h) then suddenly faster than lightning.", + "location": "Belgium, Strépy-Bracquenies (Hainaut)", + "ref": [ + "VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, p. 210 with illustration", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3368" + }, + { + "date": "12/22/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:45 in the morning, awakened by the noise of his two children, who were screaming about a flying saucer, the witness opened the curtains and saw in a nearby field an circular object that was moving away while spinning. It was a dark blue-gray mass, with blue, yellow, and red lights, animated by a swaying motion.", + "location": "Belgium, Kain (Tournai - Hainaut)", + "ref": [ + "Franck Boitte, Inforespace n° 85 p. 38; VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 130, 131", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3369" + }, + { + "date": "12/26/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) According to the \"Weekly World News\" of December 26, 3 UFOs engaged in a mock battle in the sky north of Mount Kenya. They were picked up on radar screens at distances as far away as Cairo in Egypt. The \"brawl\" lasted for more than an hour and was observed by at least 300 ground witnesses. (1989, December 26,)", + "location": "Kenya, northern part of the country", + "ref": [ + "Source: Ken Willoughby, Box 317 Fairacres NM 88033", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3370" + }, + { + "date": "12/26/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11:05 PM, the witness, an engineer, saw through the double-glazed window an unusual phenomenon slowly approaching, eventually taking the form of an \"H\" with the median line longer than the rising branches, all of an orange color. The branches had at each end a brighter cylinder, directed downwards. The whole seemed to be of a metallic structure in relief. Distance at the furthest: 500 to 600 m. At the closest, directly above, uncertainty as to the altitude. The witness went out to continue the observation but saw nothing more.", + "location": "Belgium, Genval (Brabant)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 83 pp. 17 to 20", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3371" + }, + { + "date": "12/27/1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. F. was occupied in the sheepfold, his wife and Beatrice, 21 years old, and Alain 14 years old, were in the living room. It was 5:20 pm. Suddenly Alain called his mother and sister because a \"big star\" was approaching. They looked with the naked eye and binoculars before going outside to call the father and continue the observation. The thing was still getting closer. Strangely, the brightness decreased and they could distinguish with the naked eye a strange dark shape, with three lights arranged in a triangle and directed downwards. In the center a much smaller flashing red light. Simultaneously they saw a second identical object, much further away to the west, which was apparently following the same trajectory. It looked like a flying wing with a kind of protrusion at the back, and on the front edge three reddish portholes. A bit like a Boeing without the whole fuselage, said Mr. F. Suddenly, with a brutal acceleration, the object flew at lightning speed. A few moments later the second object did the same. At no time did they hear the slightest noise. (...)", + "location": "Belgium, Jehanster/Polleur (Verviers)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 79 p. 11, 12; VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, P. 136, 137 and sketch", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3372" + }, + { + "date": "1989", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 6:00 PM, on a rainy afternoon, Rolf Kaster, a chemistry student, was riding his bicycle along the Ruhr when, without knowing how, he found himself in a meadow. It was 10 PM, night had fallen. He thought he had had an accident and had fainted. He went home in a state of incomprehensible fatigue. Soon after, flashes of memory assailed him. He had met giants, he had been on board a spaceship. As he pedaled through the woods, an animal or what he took for an animal, leapt out of a thicket 10 m away from him. He got off his bicycle and saw a female silhouette appear that grew and grew until it reached 3.50 to 4 m high. The giant was slim and rather beautiful, wearing a metallic suit that only revealed her fingers and face. Kaster asked her if she came from the future and the giant, after telling him that she was from the Wolf (note from vog: Wolf = Wolf? Would this be a Ummite?), invited him to follow her. They arrived in a clearing above which a cloud floated at a hundred meters altitude. The cloud suddenly burst into three columns of rain that flooded three small circular portions of the ground. A large chain with a bar at the end descended into one of these columns. The giant dragged the student, who she had placed on her shoulder, grabbed the chain and both were sucked through the column of rain up to a disc a hundred meters in diameter. Inside were other naked giants, male and female, with whom Kaster could not communicate. However, he discovered that he could make telepathic exchanges with a funnel-shaped creature with multiple gray-green eyes that floated at the bottom of a large aquarium. For the student, this monster was undoubtedly the \"captain\" of the UFO. He was given a helmet and connected to a computer to take a series of mental tests. The computer answered all his questions, and he thought it gave him access to all current and future knowledge. He took advantage of this to obtain revolutionary pharmaceutical formulas, new solutions for producing energy. The only questions left unanswered were about the \"giants\". Kaster thought they were only biological robots with a quasi-human form meant to reassure. When he wanted to take off the helmet he felt such pain that he could no longer breathe and... found himself in the grass of the meadow.", + "location": "Germany, Schwerte-Ergste", + "ref": [ + "Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: \"Enquête sur les enlèvements E.T.\" - Plon 1995, p. 130, 131", + "The student himself said he was embarrassed by the absurdity of his testimony and specified that if he had wanted to invent a story he would have imagined a more intelligent one. - He remains convinced that the information given by the computer is applicable and tries to obtain patents to prove the reality of his testimony.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3373" + }, + { + "date": "1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) NASA uses the Airborne Oceanographic Lidar (AOL) to map the phytoplankton of the waters. The AOL combines the use of lasers and solar to collect the measurements. It is mounted on the Wallops P-3B and its laser sends a green ray into the water where the phytoplankton absorbs it. A telescopic receiver mounted on the plane takes care of the measurements. (1990 and after)", + "location": "The Seas and Oceans", + "ref": [ + "NASA website in 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3374" + }, + { + "date": "1/15/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) As the witness, a carpenter, was on his way to work at 7:50, he saw a bright light among the trees, then three white lamps forming a triangle and seeming to be in relief, and a fixed red light on one side of the object. There was also a dome on the ventral side, which seemed to be connected to the summits by tubes. Distance from the witness: 150 (400?) meters approximately.", + "location": "Belgium, Herdersem (East Flanders)", + "ref": [ + "Franck Boitte, Inforespace n° 85 p. 38; VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994 p. 174", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3375" + }, + { + "date": "1/19/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:45 PM the witness was driving when he saw a multicolored object that seemed about to crash to the ground. He stopped and alerted three other people who were there. Together they saw two distinct luminous masses, yellow and red, connected by a gray rectangular shape passing over the electrical wires, then making a turn and going up, while a sound similar to that of a turbine was heard. One of the witnesses said that for her the object resembled the shape of a \"dog bone\". Another witness specified: I saw two rounded parts connected to each other by a more rectangular part. The rounded parts were respectively red and yellow, the part that connected them was dark, gray mouse or black. This object crossed the road very low, skimming the electrical wires. There was no noise or breath. However, one of the witnesses heard a sound similar to that of an ULM or a remote-controlled plane, when the object went up turning, the buzzing increased producing an acceleration sound. (January 19, 1990)", + "location": "Belgium, Templeuve", + "ref": [ + "Franck Boitte- Inforespace n° 85 p. 38; VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p.148, 149 and sketch", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3376" + }, + { + "date": "2/2/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Wolfgang Gutschke of Bergendorfer Heirweg, an amateur astronomer, got up around 1am and wondered if he would be able to observe stars. The sky was clear and a low horizontal mist was dimming the city lights. The moon had already set, and looking for Sirius, he located it as well as several other stars, even of lesser magnitude. He was suddenly interrupted in his search by the arrival on his right of a large flying object, flying quite low and very quickly, passing overhead. It was milky gray and faintly lit, a triangular shape with rounded corners moving point forward. In each corner there was a downward-directed ring of light, rather pink in color. As it moved away, these rings had an oval shape and seemed to be tubes directed towards the back. Completely silent flight. Apparent size of about 10.5. Calculations made in three different ways: this object measured at least between 58 and 73 m on each side. (February 2, 1990)", + "location": "Germany, Hamburg", + "ref": [ + "personal doc. of vog", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3377" + }, + { + "date": "2/14/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11:45, a nurse was returning home after finishing her shift at the hospital. On the road, near a shopping center, a strange incident occurred. She was alone in the car, and strangely, there was nobody else on the road. She had to stop at a red traffic light. 150m further, suddenly, she was driving in the opposite direction and 5km away from the place. This change happened abruptly in a fraction of a second. She immediately stopped and got out of the car. She felt nauseous, had difficulty breathing and a terrible headache. Shortly after, she noticed a \"missing time\" of 25 to 35 minutes. Some time later, she had gynecological problems. (February 14, 1990)", + "location": "Australia, Kalangur", + "ref": [ + "UFORA90074 QA90014 - Keith Basterfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3378" + }, + { + "date": "2/16/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jay Stallings was driving on the highway 117 ramp at 6:10 PM when he saw a UFO bigger than a standard car. The UFO looked like an Eastern Airline plane but without wings. It had a series of blinking lights in the middle of its cigar-shaped body. It hovered for a moment above the Georgia Pacific Smokeworks facilities. (February 16, 1990)", + "location": "USA, Dudley (North Carolina)", + "ref": [ + "George D. Fawcett III, Mutual UFO Network of North Carolina, 1990", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3379" + }, + { + "date": "2/21/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:07 PM the three witnesses were in a car in Karthause in a residential area where the speed limit was 30 km/h. The mother was the first to see two lights descending in a straight line towards them. The driver, fearing that the object carrying the lights would fall to the ground, steered the car to the right side of the road and stopped. Meanwhile, the object had stopped above the road, almost vertically above the car. The driver turned off the engine and lowered the window. She saw a large triangular object absolutely still, without any noise, at the height of the roofs of the houses, which corresponds to about 25 meters. The sides of the triangle measured about 20 meters. Three milky yellowish white lights were distributed on the corners of the triangle. In the center was a much larger light, its color changed but the dominant color remained gray-blue. They only saw the underside of the object, of metallic appearance, dark gray, without color, solid and sharp contours, faintly lit by the lights. They saw some kind of lines and rivets. The object remained still for 2 to 3 minutes. It suddenly left in the direction of the houses and the driver then felt a strong current of air. The object accelerated and in less than a second disappeared behind the houses. It had arrived from the west to the east, it left towards the southwest. (February 21, 1990)", + "location": "Germany, Coblence-Karthause", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 79, p. 40", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3380" + }, + { + "date": "2/23/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On a Friday in February, likely the 23rd, around 2pm, teacher F.B. was driving on the E25 towards Visé. He saw a dark point moving at a low altitude. He accelerated up to 140 km/h to get closer. After a few seconds he saw the flying object at 140 km/h above the Meuse, parallel to the highway, at an altitude of 50m and 250m away from him. The ovoid object was made up of two parts placed side by side. The lower part looked like a black or dark shield. The upper part had a rough appearance, dotted with dark or black spots and light brown spots reflecting the sunlight. In the front, the witness believes there was a flashing light and at the back there was a fixed blue light that was clearly visible. It was moving with a wavy motion. Suddenly it accelerated, then turned left towards the Lixhe sand pits and disappeared from the witness's field of vision. (February 23rd, 1990)", + "location": "Belgium, Argenteau", + "ref": [ + "VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, p. 261", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3381" + }, + { + "date": "2/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Thomas Agyekum, a student at the Jumyani Forestry School and his younger sister suddenly saw in broad daylight, in the sky, an object like a fighter plane that was diving towards a target on the ground. It came so close to the ground that it was clearly visible: it was silver in color and seemed to be piloted, given the intelligent maneuvers it was performing. During their observation, the object hovered at the bottom of the hill, as if it were going to land. When the young witnesses approached it, it shot off at lightning speed into the sky and disappeared. When they arrived at the landing site, the witnesses saw a kind of large \"+\" sign marked in the ground with some kind of very black substance, like powder. They did not touch it, still frightened by the sudden disappearance of the object. The next day, it had rained during the night, and in that area a 5 m diameter zone showed the grass as if it had been treated with insecticide and the black substance had disappeared. (...) (February 1990)", + "location": "GHANA, village in the Afram Plain (east)", + "ref": [ + "UFO Afrinews, July 1996, No. 14 pp. 18, 19", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3382" + }, + { + "date": "3/2/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6:40 in the morning, the witness was driving to work in the snow showers. Suddenly he heard a sound like one of his tires was beginning to puncture. He slowed down, turned around, and saw through the rear window a magnificent triangular craft with three huge white lights (2 m in diameter) and a red light that seemed to be at the end of a thin antenna. This light did not seem to be connected to the antenna. The edges and corners of the craft were rounded, made of a black metal so polished that it was shiny. There were no bumps or distinguishing marks. It was moving more slowly than the car (40 km/h), without making any noise and at a low altitude. According to the witness, the cloud ceiling was about 250 m and the object was absorbed by the clouds. The nervous tension caused by the observation gave the witness a migraine for 48 hours.", + "location": "Belgium, Mellet (Hainaut)", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, pp. 161, 162 and sketch", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3383" + }, + { + "date": "3/4/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10:10 PM two motorists, former military personnel, saw above the trees a strange orange glow approaching them. They stopped to observe better: it was an object in the shape of a flying wing, passing at an altitude of 300 to 450 m, as big as a Boeing 747, wider than long. At the front it had a pink light, on the left an amber one and on the right a blue one. It emitted a strange \"oscillating\" sound, said the witnesses. Duration of the observation 4 minutes. Speed of the object's movement: approx. 200 km/h. The underside was like tiled with rectangular elements in rows, alternating somewhat like a brick wall.", + "location": "USA, Floyd Knops (Indiana)", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Intelligence Newsletter 21, April 1990", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3384" + }, + { + "date": "3/16/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Observation starting at 11:30 PM of an immense triangular object, with a spearhead at the front, or like a small triangle planted at the top of a larger one, which arrives in a \"crab\" motion, equipped at the front with a lamp of the apparent size of half a moon diameter. The four witnesses are flown over very closely by the object, at about 35 meters altitude and the main witness, equipped with a flashlight, illuminates it: they see that the material is of a black graphite aspect on which are drawn sorts of rectangular plates of all different sizes assembled in an anarchic way in a sort of unicolor mosaic. All around each rectangle are darker protuberances which make one think of rivets embedded in the material. The whole is stocky with rounded shapes, and sorts of nozzles at the back, its width is at least that of a Concorde. The object continues to pass and after long minutes they can see the back where there are two large yellow egg-colored headlights of 2.50m diameter each. When it passes at the zenith of the witnesses they hear a sound similar to that of a small electric motor. Speed of displacement: from 3 to 5 km/h. Duration of the observation: 10 minutes [note from vog: the sketch of this phenomenon looks exactly like the SAAB 35 VIGGEN aircraft, which can take off even from a 500 meter stretch of highway. In 1971 it is considered as the most advanced and sophisticated combat aircraft in Europe, cfr Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, Bill Gunston, Elsevier-Séquoia 1979, p. 192-193; in 1990 there are still several dozen Viggen in service] (1990, March 16th or 17th)", + "location": "FRANCE, Feignies (Nord)", + "ref": [ + "investigation by Jean-Marie Bigorne presented by Franck Boitte for the Sobeps", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3385" + }, + { + "date": "3/19/1990 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Y.B. was watching television between 10 pm and 10:30 pm when her eldest son complained that he couldn't sleep due to an unusual brightness. It was as bright as day in his room. She parted the curtains and saw three powerful beams of light arranged in a triangle with a smaller, flashing orange light. The whole thing was about 400 m away and the beams were directed towards her house. The lights belonged to a dark structure that was moving slowly from right to left, covering 400 m in 10 minutes. Then the object stopped and the witnesses could make out structures underneath that looked like scaffolding. A cylinder of metallic appearance detached itself from it and headed vertically towards them, stopping at 200 m before rejoining the main object. This process repeated shortly afterwards. Taking fright, the witness and the two children (11 and 6 years old) left the house to go to relatives 2 km away. When Mrs. B. returned home around 11 pm, everything had disappeared. She made a statement to the police. (1990, March 19 (17?))", + "location": "Belgium, Xhoris (Liège)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 90 p. 41; VOB2 - SOBEPS 1994, p. 199", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3386" + }, + { + "date": "3/24/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:30 PM, in Schriek on the road from Tremelo to Heyst op den Berg, a family (father, mother, 7-year-old boy - and two 4-year-old twins who were sleeping) observed a UFO. It was the 7-year-old boy who exclaimed first \"God the Father\"! while the father thought it was a helicopter. In any case, the driver stopped his car without really knowing how or why and the 3 awake witnesses observed the luminous phenomenon each in a different way and at very different distances: for the father it was next to him, near the road, for the mother it was at the top of the trees, for the boy it was quite high in the sky. Back at home they didn't talk about it anymore, they didn't even talk at all. However, was it that day or later that they realized they had a \"missing time\" of 20 minutes? [note from vog: 3 deviations on the road and a stop to observe the UFO, aren't those the 20 minutes? Case highlighted by the person (T. V.) whom I charged with the investigation in 1993, after providing me with only part of the report. First elements of this much more credible case: audio cassette no. 107 of 12.4.1990 at the Sobeps and notes taken during the telephone interview that followed, by Mrs. Claire Hauzeur, psychologist and investigator]", + "location": "Belgium, Schriek", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3387" + }, + { + "date": "3/30/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 16 and 19.12.1989) In a classified message at 12:51 GMT, the Joint Staff of the Pentagon in Washington made known via SHAPE in Brussels \"The USAF confirms to the Belgian Air Force as well as to the Minister of National Defense that no Stealth aircraft of the USAF operated over the Ardennes during the incriminated periods from November 1989 to March 1990.\" [note from Vog: none from the USAF, okay, none from NATO?]", + "location": "USA, Washington", + "ref": [ + "Gesag, Bulletin No. 96 Sept 97, p. 4", + "follow-up on 21.4.1990", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3388" + }, + { + "date": "3/31/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Shortly after takeoff we had it clearly on the radar, the screen showing the altitude, speed and direction of the target. When we got it, it was at 5000 feet (1600 meters) and its speed was very low, not more than 50 miles (90 km/h). In aviation terms it was almost like hovering, the thing \"was just there, at ease\". When the radar locked on, it was 48 km away from us. When we set course for it, it didn't react at first. But when I was halfway there we saw on the screen its speed accelerating fantastically. And it was like that for all the pilots. A sudden acceleration to mach 8, mach 9 or mach 10 (= 9000, 10000 or 11000 km/h). Incredible. The radar only indicates mach 2 (1800 km/h) and the indicator estimates the speed based on the rapid elevation it saw. It's as if the thing said: OK guys, that's enough. And those altitude levels: from 10000 feet all of a sudden to 60000-70000 feet! In a fraction of a second. (a pilot in a technologically advanced plane would simply not survive such altitude changes). At that moment there was no more radar contact. There was no more lock-on but we still had a bit more information on the recording band. (article by Jan Hertoghs in the magazine HUMO of 24.9.1996). Several gendarmes from the Wavre region, unidentified echoes on the Glons radar, and two F 16s taking off from Beauvechain, staying in the air for an hour. Hundreds of civilian witnesses. (VOB 1, pp. 173 to 188 + pp. 225 to 235). [Note from vog: Explanation by L. Clerebaut (Sobeps) in August 1996: \"the gendarmes confused the stars of the Orion constellation... \"... Poor Belgians, whose Army would send two F 16s to conquer... stars! According to other sources it was only plasmoids... and the Doppler effect, but as Professor Souriau said \"it's like measuring the Doppler effect on macaroni boiling in a saucepan. You will never find as a result that the saucepan is fleeing\" To the detriment of Sobeps. It is therefore surprising that the NATO bases of Belgium, Germany and England were on red alert that night... they were expecting a \"massive invasion (by hundreds) of UFOs.. So? What kind of a foolish Earth is it that can't tell the difference between the Orion constellation and hundreds of UFOs... Did someone say disinformation?]", + "location": "Belgium, night of the F 16s...", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3389" + }, + { + "date": "4/4/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) April 4th: Spectacular slide of a triangular object, reproduced on the cover of both books of the Sobeps. (1990, April 4th and 7th)", + "location": "Belgium, Petit Rechain - Amay", + "ref": [ + "Franck Boitte, Inforespace n° 85, p. 31", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3390" + }, + { + "date": "4/7/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A few days later (April 7), the gendarmerie informed the Sobeps of a presumed landing in the area. Regarding the origin of the traces on the ground, it was assumed that it was a process of desiccation of the terrain, as indicated by botanist Jean-Pierre Auquière, but without the final results being disclosed. [Note from vog: I really doubt the reality of this last information... nowhere taken up by the Sobeps] (April 7, 1990)", + "location": "Belgium, Amay", + "ref": [ + "UEC, Information Bulletin Autumn 1996", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3391" + }, + { + "date": "4/16/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night of the 15th to the 16th of April, Carine P. was woken up because the inside of her room was lit up like it was in broad daylight. Having gotten up, she saw three very intense white lights arranged vertically, which disappeared in an instant after about ten minutes.", + "location": "Belgium, outskirts of Liège", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 203, 204", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3392" + }, + { + "date": "4/17/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 8 and 12 PM - one witness. (...see also September 14, 1993 in Raeren) Three large, very powerful lights or globes (one in front and two on the sides)... I could see that it cut its lateral lights three times. Two very large rectangles were on either side of the two lateral lights; between these two lights was an alignment of two rows of small, parallel \"tile\" rectangles divided by a fairly deep groove where countless small, sparkling points of light like sparks shone along the entire length.... The structure of the back was made of rectangles of all sizes, separated by wide, very dark joints. At the back of the craft I could distinguish two long rods (like antennas) or tail fins that curved outward. (April 17, 1990)", + "location": "Belgium, Hamoir", + "ref": [ + "VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, pp. 156, 175, 177; VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, pp. 205 and sketch", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3393" + }, + { + "date": "4/21/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 30.3.1990) Nellis AFB. Official presentation of two F-117A in flight and on the ground. Colonel Tom Tolin, commander of the USAF F-117A, would have mentioned to Bernard Thouanel that the F-117s fly in Europe at night. They are piloted by pilots from the RAF (UK). Col. Tolin refused to mention which country it was. During this same press conference (flight logs of May 1990). A member of the press raised the question of whether the F-117A had been used operationally outside the US: \"We are not allowed to answer this kind of question\" was the response. Another question was about the participation of foreign pilots on board the F-117A. The response: \"As in any other unit, we have visiting pilots. A pilot from the RAF participates in our missions\" (follow-up summer 1990). (April 21, 1990)", + "location": "USA, Nellis (Nevada)", + "ref": [ + "Gesag, Bulletin No. 96 September 97, p. 4", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3394" + }, + { + "date": "4/22/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Romano T. and his wife Silvana C., both in their sixties, observed a triangular mass with rounded corners, metallic gray in color, moving vertically point down, rotating on itself, at 8:20 in the morning. The headlights in the corners emitted colors like a rainbow, with a predominance of red-orange. One of the faces of the object showed a square in its center and when this face was seen the object looked like a pepper. The object was at an altitude of about 700m and moved without noise.", + "location": "Belgium, Pont de Loup", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, pp. 206-208 with sketch; Inforespace n° 80 pp. 7-8", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3395" + }, + { + "date": "4/22/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) From her living room on the 6th floor of Parc Peterbosch in Anderlecht, an elderly lady saw a flying object arriving around 8:50 PM: first 4 lights, two white ones on the right, two white ones on the left, and a small red light that seemed to oscillate, the object passing by showed its triangular shape, and only made a very light noise. Around 9 PM another witness saw a perfectly triangular shape with white lights in the corners and a small red light in the center passing by the Porte de Namur in the center. Around 9:10 PM some young people observed a flying object above the cemetery of Ellezelles (near Renaix), without noise, at the level of the clouds. Around 10 PM in La Hulpe two witnesses saw a metallic gray triangular shape under the clouds heading towards Wavre. This object had white lamps in the corners and one or two blinking red lights forming a blinking band in its center. Passing under the clouds it illuminated them, so it must have had lights on its upper face as well. They observed this object with binoculars and a telescope, passing in silence.", + "location": "Belgium, Brussels, La Hulpe, Renaix", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 208, 209; Inforespace n° 79, p. 17", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3396" + }, + { + "date": "4/22/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 11:45 PM and midnight, the first witness of the night shift of Engrais Bataille first saw two huge headlights coming from the direction of Mons. He realized that these headlights were on a trapezoidal platform (width 100m, large base 50m, small base 30m) metallic gray in color, flying at 45m high and at 30 to 40 km/h. He ran to warn his colleague. The base of the object continued to pass over the entire surface of the courtyard. Structures (six or seven) in the shape of rectangular plates seemed to be attached to the platform. The large side of these plates was about 20m, the small side between 10 and 15m. Towards the end of the platform appeared a circular plate occupying the entire width. Two circular areas of orange light flanked it. The object slowly moved away in the direction of Tournai, without noise, without turbulence in the air, nothing. The structure resembled an \"upside-down aircraft carrier\". [Note from vog: less than a year later the Bataille factories were ravaged by a fire] (1990, night of April 22nd to 23rd)", + "location": "Belgium, Basècles (Hainaut)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace No. 79 pp. 17-20, VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, pp. 209, 210 and sketches middle pages; VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, pp. 200, 201, 205", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3397" + }, + { + "date": "4/27/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 11pm an oval-shaped craft with a bell of light directed downwards. This object passed in front of the witness with a sound like crumpled paper and made a slow turn towards the center of the town. At the end of the loop made above a quarry, the UFO stopped and immediately took off at full speed. At this moment there was like a glowing dust falling. (April 27, 1990)", + "location": "Belgium, Bastogne (Luxembourg)", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 211", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3398" + }, + { + "date": "5/2/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Four witnesses on the terrace in Ellezelles were enjoying the nice weather. It was 10:30 PM. Suddenly, Mr. H. saw a dark mass coming from the south-southwest and they all could follow the triangular-shaped object with two blinking red lights on the bottom and a fixed white light in the front. Mrs. L. thought that the light in the front was produced by the rotation of several lights. The wingspan of the triangle was 20 to 30 meters and gave the impression of a three-story structure, that is, the lights seemed to be arranged at different levels. The object was traveling at about 40 km/h and emitted a modulated sound \"as if in a whisper\". Suddenly, on its trajectory, the object pivoted at a right angle, then again, to resume its initial trajectory but slightly displaced. It seemed to be swaying in a kind of undulating movement. Later, in the night, coming from the northeast, the witnesses saw groups of objects reappearing: they counted about twenty. The whole observation lasted about an hour and a half. (May 2, 1990)", + "location": "Belgium, Ellezelles (Hainaut)", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, pp. 214, 215; Inforespace No. 79 pp. 21, 22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3399" + }, + { + "date": "5/4/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11:15 PM, Joseph D. went out to close the door of a small greenhouse in the garden. He heard the strange-toned barking of several dogs. He then saw at about a hundred meters away a kind of pale, bright but dull light, not illuminating the surroundings, total height about ten meters. Joseph's wife had come out at that moment and together they watched this apparition which had a \"religious character\" (sic). Suffering from leg pain, the woman went back inside after five minutes, but Joseph went back out and noticed that the phenomenon was still there. He crossed the fields to get closer and called out when he was 50 meters away. The light came from a conical structure whose surface was like corrugated sheet metal and seemed to hover one meter above the ground. It was topped with a darker dome with the look of a \"turned-off television\". The dome was framed by four one-meter-long square-section pillars pointing upwards. There was a great silence, Joseph became very nervous and scared, so he went back inside. The next day he would find traces on the ground, a fine yellow dust. In the two months that followed, the dwarf goats that were in an enclosure 30 meters from the dome would die one after the other. (...)", + "location": "Belgium, St Georges sur Meuse", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 217 and sketch p. 218; Inforespace n° 83, p. 15, 16", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3400" + }, + { + "date": "5/25/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In broad daylight, a gigantic disc-shaped object flew over the city of Mary at an altitude of about 1000 meters. It was of a yellow-orange color, with what could be interpreted as portholes all around; its diameter was estimated at 300 meters. Military personnel were able to observe it from a distance of no more than 3000 meters. The Mary sector was under the command of the famous 12th Army; this division of the Air Defense had Colonel Anatoli Kurkchy at its head. When he learned that a UFO was reported in his sector, he ordered the launch of air-to-ground missiles. Colonel Kurkchy then authorized the takeoff of two interceptor planes. But at a point about 1000 meters from the strange disc, these planes dived towards the ground and crashed. The crews, that is, four pilots, were killed. Colonel Kurkchy was immediately relieved of his duties by the army commander and brought before the court martial of the 12th Army (...) The article appeared in \"The Evening News of St. Petersburg\" in November 1991. Curiously, the editor deleted some relevant details about this case. (...)", + "location": "CEI (formerly USSR) - Turkmenistan - Mary", + "ref": [ + "Timothy GOOD: \"E.T. Connection\" 1993 Trad. Presses de la Cité 1994 p. 182-185", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3401" + }, + { + "date": "5/25/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 11 PM, 3 witnesses. The two headlights revealed an object of rectangular shape with a very curious structure at the back. This originality made it look like a real \"flying bed\". It was also equipped with two flashing red lights. When it reached the height of the houses, the craft suddenly emitted a powerful roar of a jet engine, but without any progression, like a turbine running at various speeds.", + "location": "Belgium, Brussels", + "ref": [ + "VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, p. 206", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3402" + }, + { + "date": "6/17/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In \"The UFO Report\" 1992, I recounted how a 42-year-old bus driver, Aleksandr Pavlovitch Dolotov, had apparently been abducted by UFO occupants in Leningrad on June 17, 1990. During the interview he gave me, I was totally convinced of his sincerity. Later, I suggested to him the idea that his nocturnal encounter might not be the last, and that another similar experience might well befall him. \"If possible,\" I asked him, please try, I beg you, not to resist the extra-terrestrials physically, but mentally, make all your efforts to preserve your independence and your personality as a human being.(...) (June 17, 1990)", + "location": "Russia, Leningrad", + "ref": [ + "Timothy GOOD: \"E.T. Connection\" 1993 Trad. Presses de la Cité 1994 p. 164-166", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3403" + }, + { + "date": "7/11/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Police and scientists went to a wheat field where an unusual conical-shaped trace appeared and they assumed it was caused by a UFO. The widest part of the trace measured about 10.50 m and appeared after the farmers of the area heard a loud thud. There is no trace of burning, but this part of the field seems to have been leveled by an explosion [note from vog: isn't this contradictory?]", + "location": "France, west of the...", + "ref": [ + "Reuters Agency", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3404" + }, + { + "date": "8/31/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) As reported in \"The UFO Report 1992\" and \"Alien Liaison\", many witnesses in Cabo Rojo saw five small creatures apparently from outer space. One of the witnesses, Miguel Figueroa, approached them and reported that they were gray in color, with extremely thin bodies, large heads, pointed ears, a slit for a mouth, a tiny nose, and immense white almond-shaped eyes. As he approached in his car, Figueroa remembers that the creatures' eyes emitted blinding light beams, forcing him to stop. The small beings turned around and continued on their way, then jumped over a bridge and followed the course of a river that emptied into Laguna Cartagena, leaving behind three-toed footprints. A little later that same day, an anonymous phone call warned Figueroa to stay quiet about what he had seen, and the direction the creatures had taken, or else he could be in serious trouble; Figueroa was scared, especially because his phone number was listed under a different name than his own. (Martin Jorge: \"US Jets Abducted by UFO's in Puerto Rico\" in The UFO Report 1991, (August 31, 1990)", + "location": "Porto Rico, Cabo Rojo", + "ref": [ + "Timothy GOOD: \"E.T. Connection\" 1993 Trad. Presses de la Cité 1994 p. 248", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3405" + }, + { + "date": "11/5/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) NORAD said it was unable to specify what phenomenon was observed above Europe (source Jean SIDER, who holds the letter from NORAD). [vog: SOBEPS however recounts: \"7 pm: atmospheric re-entry of the third stage of the Soviet Proton SL 12 rocket. Penetration above Spain and trajectory above France, the Gulf of Gascony, to Germany (Nuremberg) in one or two minutes. (VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, pp. 252-255)\" but SOBEPS does not cite its sources.] An \"armada\" of at least 70 triangles was observed in France. These objects seemed to fall from the sky and then, once they reached 300 m from the ground, take a horizontal trajectory. (Jan Hertoghs: Humo du 24.9.1996) At the same time \"400 UFOs flew over 74 French departments at the same time\". 500 testimonies, including from military personnel and gendarmes, were collected. What did they see? Black masses, sometimes as long as 1 km, triangular objects 100 m in size. 75% of the witnesses affirm that these flying objects moved without noise at less than 500 m from the ground. All these testimonies were recorded in the survey \"Ovni Contact\" published by Franck Marie. [vog: since the observations were very numerous, I only cite the main ones] (November 5, 1990)", + "location": "Space above Europe", + "ref": [ + "Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"L'énigme des E.T.\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 74", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3406" + }, + { + "date": "11/5/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Let's start with the case of Mr. Jean Pierre Sandoux: between 18:55 and 19:02, Mr. Jean-Pierre Sandoux was on the 11th floor of a building, and he immediately went out onto the balcony to observe the phenomenon. First phase: a set of three large green points visible in the direction of south-southeast, the two lower points being below the horizon line. The witness then estimated the distance to be 50 or 100 meters, and the altitude of the phenomenon relative to the ground to be about thirty meters. This first phase lasted about 5 seconds. The set of three green lights began to rotate around its center. The witness then stood up, pulled the curtain, opened the window door, and rushed onto the balcony. Second phase: this phase lasted between 3 and a half minutes and 4 minutes. Arriving on the balcony, the witness discovered a set of 4 lights (three red and one, larger, orange). The whole was absolutely motionless; no vibration, no noise. If a structure connected the lights, the witness could not distinguish it in the darkness. Yet, it seemed to him that the phenomenon was only about thirty meters away from him, roughly at the other end of the building. To see the two red points located in the lower left corner of the triangle, he had to lean slightly on the balcony railing: these two points were roughly in the extension of the building facade, barely above the witness's eye level. Each side of the triangle was visible at an angle of 25 to 30º. The witness had time to observe the end of the truncated \"beam\" coming out of the orange \"nozzle\", downwards and to the right. Its end had the shape of a line of crenellations whose minima and maxima alternated as indicated by the arrows on the drawing, as if the beam was a juxtaposition of tubes sliding on each other, animated by a sinusoidal movement. Third phase: the whole slowly moved away towards the east, that is to say parallel to the facade of the building, in a straight line and at a constant altitude. After about thirty seconds, it disappeared in the distance, in the mist.", + "location": "France, Neuilly sur Marne", + "ref": [ + "Joël Mesnard: LDLN 303-305-306-309-310-313-318", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3407" + }, + { + "date": "11/5/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 7 PM. Air Base 123 is located northwest of Orléans. It is, along with Evreux, one of the two main bases of the CoTAM (Military Air Transport Command). The planes based there are Transall and, more recently, C-130. We owe this investigation to Mr. Joël Sauvette. It was 7 PM when the technical standby team, busy closing the doors of an east-west oriented hangar, had their attention drawn to a strange phenomenon, which they all regarded with amazement. Indeed, an enormous mass, whose contours could be determined by the presence of lights on its periphery, was flying from southwest to northeast without emitting any sound. The particular shape, linked to the placement of these lights, made many of the observers believe that it was a formation of transport planes returning to their base. Only the total absence of the characteristic sound of turboprop engines made them change their minds. The observation lasted about a minute, during which the witnesses were able to detail the phenomenon: in addition to the peripheral lights, delimiting a chevron at the front and a quarter moon at the back, the inside of the silhouette was filled with small lights of lower brightness, both in the front and in the back. As for the central part, the witnesses are imprecise, and cannot say with certainty if it was the light of other small lights, or that of the stars that were lighting up in the sky. At the front and at the base of it appeared two beams of light. One of them (1 on the diagram) was somewhat reminiscent of a helicopter searchlight, as one often sees in American TV series, and the other (2) was a bit bigger than a motorcycle headlight. If the most powerful of the two beams was directed parallel to the object, the other, slightly lower and forming an angle of about 30º with the first, was directed towards the ground, as if it wanted to illuminate something very far behind its position. It should be noted that no spot of light appeared on the approach radar of the Local Airfield Control. Only the inter-base telephone conversations allowed the lookout to observe the phenomenon. The two beams of light strangely resemble those drawn by other witnesses, in particular in Brétigny-sur-Orge, where the two ladies of the rue de l'Orge specified that the thing was coming from Orléans! On the other hand, there is no very striking resemblance between the description made on Air Base 123 and the following one, although very close.", + "location": "FRANCE, Air Base 123, Orléans-Bricy (Loiret)", + "ref": [ + "Joël Mesnard: LDLN 303-305-306-309-310-313-318", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3408" + }, + { + "date": "11/5/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7:05 PM. The drawing of the witnesses from Olivet presents a remarkable axial symmetry. This characteristic is also found in the description provided by Mr. Jean Jacques Prévault: \"It was extremely clear, perfectly symmetrical. As it made no noise, I imagined it was a glider decorated with Christmas garlands! But it had a triangular shape, it looked like the Concorde. I only saw this thing for about ten seconds, because I live in the forest, and very quickly, it was hidden by the trees. I don't even remember if all the lights were fixed or blinking. There could have been about twenty or thirty of them. As for the colors, I'm sure I saw yellow and white, but there may have also been red and green. In any case, if it wasn't a craft with lights everywhere, it was really well imitated!\" The direction of movement was \"south-north, or southwest-northeast\". The trajectory passed to the east of the witness's position. (November 5, 1990)", + "location": "France, Boismorand (Loiret)", + "ref": [ + "Joël Mesnard: LDLN 303-305-306-309-310-313-318", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3409" + }, + { + "date": "11/5/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7 pm, a retired couple saw an enormous celestial phenomenon: a triangle shaped like a delta wing. The supposed object passed between the witnesses and Mont Valérien in the background. This mass, which was 40 cm between the hands with arms outstretched, blocked out Mont Valérien at one point. When the husband called his wife, the triangle was between Mont Valérien and the towers of La Défense (Paris) and it was only 13 cm at arm's length. This corresponds to a craft of around 500 meters in wingspan! Yet, these witnesses seem to have been the only ones to see this aerial phenomenon, even though Nanterre is the close suburb of Paris with a very high population density. (November 5, 1990)", + "location": "France, Nanterre", + "ref": [ + "Jean SIDER: \"Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués\" - ed. Ramuel 1999, p 151", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3410" + }, + { + "date": "11/5/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7:05 PM, Mrs. Carmen Bosserelle wrote, for the readers of LDLN, the account of the observation she made with her children: \"I was about to park my car in the basement, around 7 PM or 7:10 PM, when my eldest son (14 years old) called me: \"Mom! Mom! Look! What is that?\" I looked up. At that moment, I seemed to hear a dull humming, but I cannot affirm it. What a surprise! An enormous \"device\" (obviously bigger than the house) was there, just above the tops of the acacias. It was \"sliding\", at a very moderate speed, from southwest to northeast. It had the shape of a perfect equilateral triangle, with at each vertex a fixed light surrounded itself by other small blinking lights of light colors (white and yellowish), except for the light of the upper vertex, which was red, that's for sure. It was flying with one of the vertices in front, and from the back three or four white, distinct and fixed light beams were coming out. They were not moving, they were not blinking. It looked like the tail of a comet.

Inside the \"empty triangle\", nothing could be seen. One of my children affirmed to have seen the sides of the \"triangle\", as bordered by a white halo. Me, I didn't see the sides. They were invisible. The fact of thinking of a \"triangle\" came only from the position of the lights. We followed it with our eyes for about one minute thirty or two minutes, maybe more. The time seemed relatively long, because it kept going on... what slowness! It seemed like it wanted us to observe it well, and from all angles... It was magnificent, with all these lights, and so impressive! It was advancing at the pace of a pedestrian, then suddenly, when it reached the height of some bushes, it turned off everything! Finished! Nothing more! Complete darkness... My children say that it made no noise. Indeed, if it was accompanied by any noise, it was a very dull noise... I don't dare to affirm it. I was dazzled by this beauty and this symphony of colors... I draw no conclusion as to the impressions we felt when this thing passed. One of the children was terrified and worried, the two others, amazed. As for me, I was in an incredible state of excitement. I didn't sleep all night... \" (November 5, 1990)", + "location": "France, Chézy-sur-Marne (Aisne)", + "ref": [ + "Joël Mesnard: LDLN 303-305-306-309-310-313-318", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3411" + }, + { + "date": "11/5/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 7 pm. Now a bit further south, there is a double testimony, which is quite extraordinary. It was Mr. Pierre Bosc who conducted the investigation. The witnesses, who wish to remain anonymous, and whom we will call Mr. A and Mr. B., were in a locality in the Dordogne department, located about twenty kilometers from Villefranche-de-Périgord. The sky was clear, the stars visible. There was no wind, but it was cold. Testimony of Mr. A.: \"I was talking with Mr. B., in front of his house, sitting in my car with the engine running. Suddenly, Mr. B. draws my attention to a luminous formation coming from the 266º West direction. It is first a line of white lights. Some yellow ones, whose luminous intensity fluctuates. This formation progresses in silence, at low altitude, it seems, without it being possible for me to provide more precision. The appearance of this formation takes, as it advances, the shape of a triangle with rounded corners, whose sides bear white and yellow lights of variable intensity. The inside of this triangle is opaque, since it hides the stars, which remain visible all around the luminous formation. Wanting to make sure of a possible noise, I cut the contact of my car: silence! The thing is evolving at such a low altitude that, convinced that it will crash not far away, in the 80º East direction, I take the wheel again, not without having noticed, at the back of the craft, a luminous beam slightly to the right of the middle of the side. This luminous beam has the remarkable character that its light does not diffuse on the sides. It is clear, as if cut off at its end, where it has the same diameter as at its source. (...) The evolution of \"the thing\" was accompanied by a noise comparable to that of a flight of doves: a rustling, a light displacement of air. (November 5, 1990)", + "location": "France, between Bereac and Cahors (Dordogne)", + "ref": [ + "Joël Mesnard: LDLN 303-305-306-309-310-313-318", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3412" + }, + { + "date": "11/8/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening around 8:30 pm, the mother (main witness) and her three children decided to go for a walk. They were 300 m from their home when they saw a small red point seeming stationary in the sky at 40°. This point became bigger and bigger, turned orange, and stopped for a few seconds, causing one of the children (14 years old) to be afraid. The fireball moved towards the north, first slowly, then so quickly that it disappeared instantly. \"The light in the ball was stationary and decreased in intensity to reveal another, smaller and more distant ball, which increased in intensity\"... (...) It was at this moment that they felt a powerful but short breath, one to two seconds, and the 14-year-old child lost his balance, while the other two were also afraid now. ... (...) a central yellow and round light surrounded by a diffuse halo, a slightly curved dark structure at the back, with luminosities around the edge, three lights in the corners. In front white-yellow, in the back blue-green. A very short trail. The phenomenon made no noise.", + "location": "Belgium, St Géry (Brabant wallon)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 88 p. 38 and 39", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3413" + }, + { + "date": "11/22/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 1:15am, a farmer observed a dirty gray parallelepiped 20 x 10 x 4 meters in size, with two 2-meter diameter white headlights resembling large tops at the front, spaced apart from the structure; two headlights at the back. The object moved at 5 km/h at a low altitude (thirty meters) and all the lights were blinking. (Franck Boitte, Inforespace n° 85 p. 40) 1:15am, single witness. The object passed over him and over the house at about 30 m. altitude. It took up the entire width. The shape was rectangular, 20 m. long, 10 m. wide and 4 m. high. The front headlights were at mid-height of the object and each measured 2 meters in diameter. The outer blue lights were not part of the mass but protruded. The appearance of the object itself was gray and dirty. The witness was very impressed by the absence of noise and the lightness of the movement for such an imposing mass. The witness also described the top of the object as a cap held to the lower part by large rivets. At the back two white headlights were seen, identical to those observed at the front. During the entire observation, the witness noted that the lights were pulsing. Then the object turned 90° to the right, turned off all its lights, then started at a lightning speed to disappear into the night.", + "location": "Belgium, Orgéo", + "ref": [ + "VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, p. 206; VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 251 and sketch", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3414" + }, + { + "date": "11/22/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 17:50, 2 witnesses. \"At the front of the craft, as if coming from inside, two beams of very intense light, comparable in intensity to the light of an electronic flash or a strobe light. This light did not disperse but remained concentrated, as if channeled by two imaginary tubes. At the back, a third yellowish light, less intense, was directed towards the ground and at times seemed to move around an axis. Below the craft, towards the center of this imposing triangular surface, small red lights arranged like on the surface of a disk, blinked in a disordered way. They did not seem to be firmly attached to the craft, but rather seemed to be suspended under it.\" Dimensions of the craft: approximately 25 m x 10 m.", + "location": "Belgium, Courcelles", + "ref": [ + "VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, p. 166, 167; VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 250 and sketch", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3415" + }, + { + "date": "12/13/1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 0:07, the controllers of the long-range radar station in Kuybyshev saw a spot appear on their screens, estimated to be about 100 km away. They later described the spot as being comparable to that of a strategic bomber. The automatic and electronic identification system stopped working. Two and a half minutes after its first appearance, the large spot scattered into a multitude of small returns. They were then less than 40 km from the station and the largest one had begun to take the shape of a triangular object and was now heading straight for the radar post. As it approached, a team of soldiers wanted to go out and see what it was: the thing flew past them, less than 9 meters away, as they stepped outside. Then it stopped and began hovering about 90 meters away, behind a barbed wire fence less than 45 meters away from a mobile row of short-range radars, known as post number 12. There was a flash and the twin antennas caught fire. Soon after, the upper antenna collapsed. All the metal parts of the antennas of post 12 had melted. The mysterious triangle seen was described as black and smooth, not like a mirror, but like a thick layer of soot. The sides of the object were about 14 m long and it was nearly 3 m thick. There were no openings or portholes. It continued to hover for about 90 minutes after destroying the radar. Then it set off and completely disappeared into the night.", + "location": "Russia, near Samara (Kuybyshev)", + "ref": [ + "“Dossiers Ovni” - ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Hors série, page 52, 53", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3416" + }, + { + "date": "End of 1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: summer 1990) Twenty two F-117A fighters, originating from Tonopah-Nellis, were stationed at Langley AFB (Virginia). Twenty of these fighters left the USA for Saudi Arabia. They were accompanied by KC-10 refuelers. During the journey, two aircrafts made a brief landing at the RAF base in Alconbury (1990, end of year)", + "location": "USA, U.K. Saudi Arabia", + "ref": [ + "Gesag, Bulletin No. 96, September 97, p. 4", + "continued: 16.1.1991", + "England", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3417" + }, + { + "date": "End of 1990", + "desc": "(Translated from French) End of 1990 or beginning of 1991. (source: conference of Dr Johannes Fiebag, Germany) Hans-Joerg was a merchant. At the end of 1990 or beginning of 1991, he was living with his partner, something was happening to him that made him panic in fear of the darkness, in his own apartment. One night, he woke up and saw a small man pass by him. \"He was about one meter tall and was wearing something like a hat. He wasn't looking at me, but kept going to the corner of the room, where there was no door. There, he disappeared. I didn't dare wake up my partner and almost didn't dare breathe. However, in the morning, she found me curled up in the bed. My fear paralyzed me so much that I stayed like that, curled up, unable to even speak, for hours.\" (1990 end of)", + "location": "Germany, Dortmund", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3418" + }, + { + "date": "1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) NASA (USA) used the Airborne Topographic Mapper to measure the elevation of the ice. It was placed at Wallops (USA) on the P-3B aircraft which flew 152 meters above the ice and gave measurements with an accuracy of 10 centimeters. From 1991 to 1995, five flights of this kind took place. (1991 and after)", + "location": "Greenland", + "ref": [ + "NASA website in 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3419" + }, + { + "date": "1/16/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: end of 1990) At 00:30, the F-117A attacks on Iraq began (Gulf War). 20 aircraft were stationed at Khamis Mushait (Saudi Arabia) and were reinforced by 20 more F-117A (following in April 1991).", + "location": "Iraq", + "ref": [ + "Gesag, Bulletin No. 96, September 97, p. 4", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3420" + }, + { + "date": "1/21/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 7:50 PM, two witnesses. (...) The craft seemed almost motionless. The object was round, imposing, the size and shape of the top of the RTB communication tower. Two large, very powerful blue headlights were directed towards the ground. The object seemed to have portholes. The entire structure was clearly visible, it had a raw metal look. The witness spoke of bolted construction and a gray-blue color, like Tefal. Three white lights were visible at the back. All the lights were fixed. Other neon-like lamps were visible on the edge, sometimes long, sometimes short. The movement was stable and regular. A sound of a small muffled engine could be clearly heard. Distance 100 meters, size of 30 to 50 meters in diameter. At 7:55 PM two independent testimonies", + "location": "Belgium, Overijse", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 257, 258 and sketch, 259; VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, p. 212", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3421" + }, + { + "date": "2/6/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Shortly after 11 pm, Vidar Gjosund and his wife saw through the living room window a gigantic thing, with 4 bright yellow and green lights, seeming to fly very slowly. They rushed into the veranda and saw the phenomenon better as it approached, in complete silence. The lights were square-shaped and each one had 4 distinct lights. They were fixed on a very dark circular surface which seemed to be part of an undefinable structure. They estimated that this thing flew over the house at an altitude of 500 to 700m, and they ran to another window on the opposite side to see the phenomenon move away towards Romslo. It was then 11:07 pm.", + "location": "Norway, Trengereid", + "ref": [ + "Menz Kaarbo - Ufo-Norway News", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3422" + }, + { + "date": "3/12/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 8:20 and 8:25 PM, a driver accompanied by his wife and two children stopped their car to better observe what the youngest had just exclaimed: \"Mom, look, it looks like a UFO!\". The object was at a low altitude, about 50 m, and seemed to be motionless above a farm no more than 150 m away. It was a triangular structure with well-defined contours and a light at each angle. The only relief was a flat glass dome attached to the underside which was then inclined towards the witnesses. Wingspan of 15 to 20 m. The object began to move and turned towards Tongres. The witnesses had no difficulty following it for a few kilometers until the Momalle crossroads, where they took the highway towards Liège. (March 12, 1991)", + "location": "Belgium, Donceel", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 260, 261", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3423" + }, + { + "date": "3/12/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 8:00 and 8:30 PM, Mrs. S was watching television when she saw a strong light moving in her direction. This light was in the lower part of the bay window. It seemed to come from the east and was soon directly above the house at an altitude of less than 300 m. Mrs. S called her son and husband. The object had the shape of a dark gray triangle, large like a Boeing. At each apex was a blinking red light. The object tilted, made a sharp turn and disappeared towards Huy. For a few seconds, the three witnesses saw the profile of the craft. They counted between 7 and 12 lit rectangles, like lit windows of an airplane. Towards the front, above the object, Mrs. S saw for a brief moment a white lamp. The son noted the silhouette of a second thickness on the bottom, forming like a longer slice than the first, which suggested to him that it might be two superimposed triangles. A faint monotonous sound similar to that of a turbine was heard when Mr. S went out to follow the craft with his eyes.", + "location": "Belgium, between Grand-Marcin and Fourneau", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, pp. 261, 262 and sketch", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3424" + }, + { + "date": "3/12/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:40 PM, Mr. R. G. noticed three stationary lights quite low in the sky in the direction of the ONO. He climbed the stairs, grabbed the camera and filmed the phenomenon. It was 8:45 PM. The \"phenomenon\" was perfectly still... [vog: still and for a reason! IN REALITY: Jean-Luc Vertongen wanted to be sure and the following year he returned to the same spot to investigate under identical night conditions. The \"UFO\" was still there, clearly visible.... It emerged from this investigation that it was the lights of three street lamps located about 2 km away... The population was able to see these images on a television channel broadcast in good faith as being \"those of a UFO\"... ]", + "location": "Belgium, Braine le Comte (Hainaut)", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 272 and 409-410", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3425" + }, + { + "date": "3/12/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Paula H. observed a strange, stationary, luminous phenomenon in the sky at a low altitude and 300 m from her home. The phenomenon had an unusual shape, with an apparent width of 5 meters, topped with two white lights at the ends of the upper part. The lower part looked like three large fingers with multiple small windows. Stopping a little further away to look again, Mrs. H. noticed that the phenomenon had disappeared.", + "location": "Belgium, Olen (Antwerp)", + "ref": [ + "VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 278 and sketch", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3426" + }, + { + "date": "3/14/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 9:45 PM, single witness. (...) a slight rubbing or scraping noise, not a whistle, a sound comparable to that of an iron being passed over a nail board. The sound seemed louder when the object moved. A large white light, but also a more or less oval shape. The contours were clear. The light produced by the craft was dazzling. It sometimes swayed from left to right. I was able to distinguish a bump on the upper part, like a dome, but not lit. The large white light illuminated the ground. It moved away slowly, leaned and then flew away at a faster speed. The craft was 10 to 15 meters wide. (March 14, 1991)", + "location": "Belgium, Chercq", + "ref": [ + "VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, p. 213", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3427" + }, + { + "date": "3/17/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A UFO made an appearance above a sensitive site in Leningrad: an unidentified target remained on the radar screens between 4 pm and 4:20 pm. The object was making chaotic movements just above the atomic research reactor in the vicinity of Gatchina. It is interesting to note that a potentially catastrophic incident occurred at this site in 1991. Kotochigov (the radar operator from the Pulkovo control tower) told me that the UFO left the area at a speed of approximately 2,243 km/h", + "location": "Russia, Leningrad", + "ref": [ + "Timothy GOOD: \"E.T. Connection\" 1993 Trad. Presses de la Cité 1994 p. 176", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3428" + }, + { + "date": "3/22/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, between 2:45 and 2:50 the witness was awoken by a feeling of presence, although he is not usually subject to insomnia. Glancing out the window, he was surprised to not see any stars. He got up, opened the curtains of the closed window: very low, at the level of the roofs he saw a generally rectangular shape whose front was hidden by the ridge of the house opposite (13 m high this house). This shape moved slowly, seeming to follow a downward inclined trajectory towards the Woluwe valley. On the underside the witness thought he could make out added pieces, sort of plates or cubic casemates, of a lighter color than the rest of the surface, a grayish anthracite. This object had a thickness (30 m long, 15 to 22 m wide, elevation 25 m, speed less than 20 km/h), but nowhere was there any light or halo. However he heard a continuous whistling \"like ultrasound close to ultra-auditory frequencies or hyperfrequencies beyond 12 KHz\" (he is an electronics engineer). Wanting to wake his wife he noticed she was deeply asleep and he was unable to move: he attributed this to the whistling. To convince himself he wasn't dreaming he did some simple mental calculations and pinched himself. When the whistling was no longer audible he was again free to move. (...) He climbed into a small attic and still saw the object moving away to the ESE, presenting a 3/4 profile. The witness diverted his attention to the right, then back to the craft, which had suddenly disappeared without a trace.", + "location": "Belgium, Brussels-Auderghem", + "ref": [ + "investigation by Franck Boitte for SOBEPS", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3429" + }, + { + "date": "3/24/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 20:20 - Single witness: a compact and quadrangular section mass, stationary above the tree tops. The object had a massive, dark gray and matte look, and had small red lights on the side. No noise. Estimated altitude of 40 meters and dimensions of 6 to 7 m wide, 15 m high and 90 m long. The car passed under the UFO which loomed over the road; The witness observed on the ventral face three large circles arranged in a triangle and illuminated in white but not emitting any light beam. A fourth, smaller, blue light blinked intermittently in front of the two white lights. The object moved and disappeared at great speed.", + "location": "Belgium, Biesme (Hainaut)", + "ref": [ + "VOB 2, SOBEPS 1994, p. 207; VOB 1, SOBEPS 1991, p. 283", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3430" + }, + { + "date": "3/26/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) 21:40, one witness... on the ventral side in the center, a kind of weakly luminous dome protected by a kind of mesh with square holes, the dome was even more weakly luminous than the two headlights at the front of the triangle. At the back of the object, a light in the center of the base, of a blue-turquoise color, pulsed slowly. Distance approximately 300 m; dimension: size of a Boeing 727.", + "location": "Belgium, Rebecq", + "ref": [ + "VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, p 157, 175; VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 284", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3431" + }, + { + "date": "3/29/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4:30, having gone to the restroom, the witness heard a noise which he attributed to a malfunctioning of the heating or the freezer. He then saw outside a large mass at the height of the trees: the noise was coming from there. He went outside to stand under this object which was about ten meters high \"to see if he would feel a gust of wind\". There was none. The object looked like \"a car body top that had been covered with dark gray rubber, giving it a granular appearance\". The thing slowly started to move and the witness then noticed a square or elliptical shape. A second independent auditory witness was found.", + "location": "Belgium, Froyennes (Tournai)", + "ref": [ + "Franck Boitte, Inforespace n° 85 p. 41; VOB 1 - SOBEPS 1991, p. 286, 287", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3432" + }, + { + "date": "4/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: 16.1.1991) Bill Sweetman in the \"Jane's Defence Weekly\" of April 20, 1991 mentioned that the RAF is now interested in acquiring F-117A, but that production of this aircraft was closed at the end of 1990. Lockheed proposed to the USAF 40 new aircraft which could be added to the 56 existing F-117s. During the course of these last years, Sweetman added, the RAF maintained close relations in the realization of the project: several British pilots flew on F-117As) (note from vog: the British probably reviewed their position, especially during the summer of 1997, where in less than a week, ten F-117As crashed in the USA! These aircraft would be extremely sensitive to problems of humidity and others... [continued: June 1992] (April 1991)", + "location": "Great Britain", + "ref": [ + "Gesag, bulletin no. 96 Sept 97, p. 5", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3433" + }, + { + "date": "5/17/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ms. Heck, a nurse at a psychiatric institute, observed at 1:30am at 100m from her, a matte triangular object with flashing lights on the sides, one central red non-flashing light, one rear beam inclined at 45°, which moved at 10km/h at 10m from the ground, while the light beam drew \"8\"s. Suddenly, it had disappeared. [Note from vog: the same witness, from the same place, in the same night conditions she devoted to reading or writing, made another observation on December 12, 1991] (May 17, 1991)", + "location": "Belgium, Braine l'Alleud", + "ref": [ + "Franck Boitte, Inforespace n° 85 p. 41", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3434" + }, + { + "date": "6/16/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Investigation by Doug Pickford of the \"Green Dragon\" ufology group of Staffordshire) The testimony comes from a well-known entrepreneur in the region and he insists on the strictest anonymity. In the evening this witness was returning from Chester from a business dinner where he had only drunk coffee. He was returning home by quiet secondary roads from Congleton to Leek, near Rushton, north of Rudyard Lake, when the effects of so much coffee drunk during the evening forced him to stop to relieve himself. It was 1:30 in the morning and he was near Bridestones - with its standing stones. He had no interest in archaeology and had never visited these places, although he knew they existed. The sky was still quite clear and he could clearly see the silhouettes of the standing stones from his stopping place. However, above them shone a light, like a giant torch, which illuminated the whole area. For a moment he wondered if he should go and take a closer look, but then a shower of golden sparks like those of a firework appeared, so he thought there were probably drugged people there and it was better to withdraw. He returned to his car, but it would not start: the engine seemed dead. He tried again and again, nothing worked. So he got out with the intention of lifting the hood, but at that moment he saw that the light above the menhirs, in the form of a golden ball, came towards him. He watched this ball with a certain surprise mixed with fear. The light passed over him with such intensity that it hurt his eyes. He lost all consciousness. He came to himself, lying on the ground, under a group of trees, about 600 meters from the road and the place where the car was. He was extremely disoriented and was aware of only two things: when the light was closest, he started running in a panic of fear. Through the brambles, hurting himself cruelly on the thorns, and hitting a tree full on. When he had the courage to look up, the luminous object had disappeared and the region was calm. It was then that he realized his state: he was still wearing his trousers, but no shirt or shoes. Automatically he rubbed the trousers, full of dust, and golden sparks fell from them, like static electricity. The return journey to the car, less precipitous, was still as painful through the bushes and brambles. He found the car, door open, key in the ignition, and on the ground, a small bundle: his shirt and shoes. He put them on and had a feeling as if they were very hot. He desperately hoped the engine would start: it did, on the first try. The dashboard clock showed that it was now 03:05... When he arrived home, he explained his delay to his wife as being caused by a road accident. He did not want to talk to her about the event. Knowing Doug for fifteen years, and knowing he was involved in ufology, he finally confided in him, making him swear not to divulge anything that could lead to his identification.", + "location": "Great Britain, Rushton, Staffs.", + "ref": [ + "Northern UFO News, No. 168, Christmas 1994. The Dangers of Taking a Leek - pp.15-16 Case No. 9127", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3435" + }, + { + "date": "7/8/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Truck driver Steve Hallett was driving on the A7 National Road in the Selkirk region, not far from a television antenna, when he was surprised to see a huge, disc-shaped, illuminated object in the sky right in front of him. Its diameter was estimated to be about 13 m. The object had colored lights and apparently a dome at its top. The needles on the gauges inside the truck went wild. Steve stopped the engine and, fascinated, watched the UFO for about fifteen seconds before it disappeared into the night at an astonishing speed. This report was sent to me by John Hay of St Mary's Loch, Selkirk, who had noted the interview of Steve Hallett by Jill McPherson on Radio Borders the day after the incident. (July 8, 1991)", + "location": "Great Britain, Selkirk region, Borders", + "ref": [ + "Timothy GOOD: \"E.T. Connection\" 1993 Trad. Presses de la Cité 1994 p. 263", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3436" + }, + { + "date": "7/11/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ytturia Garza: It was the day of the last total solar eclipse of the century. Mexico was one of the countries where this natural phenomenon could be observed very clearly. Scientists, television stations and all ordinary Mexicans were ready to film it. A few minutes before the eclipse appeared, at a good distance under the sun and to the right, an object of metallic and disc-like appearance. The device made no noise and moved hardly. Most scientists and cameramen had all their attention on the sun and did not see anything. But those from the Televisa television station had noticed it and published the photo in the evening newspaper. Then other video images appeared, some of Mexicans who, while waiting for the eclipse, filmed a little at random. These images were taken in the municipalities around Mexico City, which consolidated the testimony. When the computer analyses showed that it was a solid object, we knew that it was a real UFO in the Mexican sky. Since then the media have not let go of the subject.", + "location": "Mexico, Mexico City", + "ref": [ + "Jan Hertoghs in the magazine HUMO of 24.9.1996", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3437" + }, + { + "date": "8/13/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At night, Mrs. Marisol Camacho, a young woman, received an unexpected visit, to say the least, from two strange creatures at her home: \"I was sleeping when around 2 o'clock in the morning, I heard strange noises outside, near the balcony. I got up and went to the window. Someone was mumbling in an incomprehensible gibberish. I opened the blinds very quietly and - Oh! Lord! - there were two of the strangest creatures you could imagine standing there, on my balcony! They were examining my flower pots, and more particularly my Quezo Suizo (Swiss cheese whose scientific name is Monsterosa deliciosa, a tropical vine that can take gigantic dimensions and whose alveolate leaves are pierced with holes like so many portholes) They were cutting leaves and exchanging comments. They seemed literally fascinated by this plant. On my side, I was just as surprised and - curiously - I could no longer move. I was paralyzed, and, too, fascinated. These creatures had a size of about 1.20 m, with large skulls, egg-shaped, rounded at the top and more pointed at the chin. They were very emaciated and all gray, and also completely naked. The eyes were black and very elongated on each side of the head, without pupil and without white part like us. The faces were flat, with a small slit for the mouth, without lips, and two small holes for the nose. Not for a single moment did I feel fear - I was simply amazed by what I saw; It was like children... Their arms were longer than ours, and their long bony hands had only four slender fingers. These creatures did not seem to notice me at the window. They took two leaves from my plant and left, still chattering in this kind of senseless gibberish. They walked slowly towards the Laguna Cartagena, sank into the thicket at the end of the street and disappeared. I couldn't believe my eyes. (...) After their departure, I could move again. I went back to bed and later I told this scene to my husband.", + "location": "USA, Laguna Cartagena (Puerto Rico)", + "ref": [ + "Timothy GOOD: \"E.T. Connection\" 1993 Trad. Presses de la Cité 1994 p. 250", + "see continuation on 28/8/91", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3438" + }, + { + "date": "8/18/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around the same time, in the \"Esuela Hogar General San Martin\" boarding school across the road, night watchmen and students saw a bright object land 200 meters from the refectory. They went out and approached it to within 40 meters. There the children and watchmen saw three humanoids come out of the craft. These beings seemed to float a few centimeters off the ground, while staying very close to their ship. There were no other details: the object dazzled the sight of all the witnesses, so much so that they thought they were seeing \"spirits\" while feeling great anguish. The sound of a truck on the road made the object and entities disappear. The next morning they found no trace of the landing and the management thought it was a case of collective hallucination. However, a week later the trace appeared, but 200 meters further! It had the shape of an elongated horseshoe 25m long and 15m wide, compacting the ground in depth as if a huge weight had weighed on it, with three deeper imprints still.", + "location": "Argentina, La Matanza (Victoria)", + "ref": [ + "\"Mass Alla de la Ciencia,\" Buenos Aires, Argentina - Nov. 1991", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3439" + }, + { + "date": "8/23/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around midnight, four young people aged 19 to 24 were on the Place du Jeu de Balle when suddenly two, then three strong white lights illuminated the place as if it were broad daylight. The three sources of bright light each measured between 1 m and 1.50 m in diameter, spaced 6 to 15 m apart in a triangular arrangement. The altitude was estimated to be 20 meters and the distance 60 meters. No breath, no sound, no smell, no smoke. In the center of the configuration a fixed blue light. The white lights sparkled like the mirror balls you see in dance halls.", + "location": "Belgium, Soignies", + "ref": [ + "VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, p. 20, 21", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3440" + }, + { + "date": "8/28/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two weeks later, the extraterrestrials returned to Marisol's (cf. 13/8/91). \"Just like last time, it was late,\" she told us. \"First, I recognized the same strange noises; I jumped out of bed and ran to the window, which was only half-closed; it was indeed the same little creatures again! (...) they were still examining my plants in every detail, mumbling among themselves. This time, I could move and I tried to say something to them. I started to pull the curtains, but the creatures heard the noise; they turned towards me, gave me a quick look and ran away at full speed towards the lagoon where, just like last time, they disappeared.", + "location": "USA, Laguna Cartagena (Puerto Rico)", + "ref": [ + "Timothy GOOD: \"E.T. Connection\" 1993 Trad. Presses de la Cité 1994 p. 250-251", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3441" + }, + { + "date": "Late 8/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ulises Perez was riding his motorcycle on the dirt road that crossed a large farm in the Cuesta Blanca area, between Parguera and Laguna Cartagena. It was 11:30 PM and it was in the last days of August 1991: \"...I was riding, and all of a sudden my motorcycle nose-dived into a puddle. The engine stalled and died. I was trying to see what I could do and after, supposedly, solving my problem, I revved the engine. At least I tried...that's when my gaze fell on the irrigation canal - and that's where I saw the thing. I saw something that was sitting or crouching on a log, next to a tree. The creature seemed to have a raw skin - you know, like when you cut a thickness of skin and at the cut the flesh appears white with pink spots. That's what it looked like. A whitish skin, very pale, like that of some salamanders. We looked at each other for a moment, without moving. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was scared and that I tried to start my bike again. But as soon as I made a move, the thing jumped into the canal water and disappeared. I even saw its feet disappear under the water lilies. My motorcycle started again...and so did I. (1991, late August)", + "location": "USA, Cuesta Blanca (Puerto Rico)", + "ref": [ + "Timothy GOOD: \"E.T. Connection\" 1993 Trans. Presses de la Cité 1994 p. 251-253", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3442" + }, + { + "date": "9/11/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7:30 pm, a woman was driving home with her daughter (6 years old) and son (10 years old). As the car entered the driveway leading to their house, the car radio suddenly started emitting loud static, so loud that it had to be turned off. The mother parked the car in the driveway and immediately went into the house to let the dog out. That's when the daughter called her mother outside. The children had their noses in the air and were looking at two huge white discs passing just above the roof of the house. The two discs were similar in shape and in the configuration of their lighting. All around, there was a ramp of multicolored lights, in pastel tones, blinking apparently randomly. Under the belly of the discs, three dark circles could be seen in a triangular formation towards the back. Each disc had the dimensions of a small house and they were moving side by side. A very faint buzzing could barely be heard. The mother estimated the altitude of the two objects to be around 30 or 35 meters. Their brightness was such that the woman could perfectly make out what was on the ground as they moved away in the direction of Canterbury. (September 11, 1991)", + "location": "USA, Loudon (New Hampshire)", + "ref": [ + "Timothy GOOD: \"E.T. Connection\" 1993 Trad. Presses de la Cité 1994 p. 268-269", + "New Hampshire MUFON monthly newsletter, January 1992", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3443" + }, + { + "date": "9/28/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Observation between 0:35 and 0:45. J.P. went out as usual with the two dogs, going around the house to the back garden. The dogs didn't follow him as usual and huddled against a wall; in the back of the garden a mist floated above the garages at 60 m from him, and from behind the garages a sun-like light rose slowly and three spots appeared. The very wide light ensemble rose slowly and the triangular object stayed still at 7 m altitude, diffusing light in all directions. The mist above the garages gradually dissipated, the ensemble rose, and a central rotating beam appeared. After the stillness, the ascending movement resumed. The central beam operated a circular sweep, sometimes interrupted by other non-circular movements and moments of stillness. The ensemble stopped at 18 m altitude and the craft moved horizontally OSO. The speed seemed to be less than 1 km/h. The central beam stopped at a precise point in the bushes, the witness was caught in the beam of light and felt all his hairs stand on end: the distance between the craft and the witness was 25 to 30 m. The phenomenon continued on its route, approaching the square and entering an area lit by public lighting. The spots decreased in intensity (as if regulated by a regulator), the central spot went out and in its place the witness saw a crown of small multicolored lights that lit up and went out simultaneously. At this moment the witness saw the structure better: \"It was all black, immense, it had red-orange reflections\". He estimated the length of each side to be 20 m. At constant speed the phenomenon was in front of a four-story building at the corner of Rue des Combattants and Avenue Josse Goffin. The object stopped in front of the building. There, it pivoted at an angle of about 90°, it accelerated and disappeared behind the houses. At the back the witness saw a small flame similar to that of blowtorches and when it accelerated he heard a faint whistling sound like \"psst..\" Secondary effects: for two weeks the vegetation that had been illuminated by the phenomenon grew in an unusual way; the next day the dogs were taken by fear, whimpered and stayed glued to their master's legs, this lasted three days and the witness himself had feelings of unease; the witness has restless sleep compensated by long periods of daytime sleep, he has considerably lost weight, feels weak and has barricaded himself at home devouring one book after another about UFOs, he also had a rather particular nightmare. [note from vog: first investigation by Mrs. Claire Hauzeur. One year later counter-investigation by Franck Boitte: the witness did not contradict himself in any way, while the counter-investigation came unexpectedly]", + "location": "Belgium, Brussels (Berchem Ste Agathe)", + "ref": [ + "VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, pp. 22 to 25 and 187", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3444" + }, + { + "date": "10/18/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Andrée V., a retired employee, and her mother Suzanne D. observe something from 5:00 to 6:10 in the morning. Andrée gets up and goes to the toilet, which is outside. When she comes out into the courtyard, she sees the house in front of her extended as if by a huge, triangular, luminous building. The base is more than 5m25, and the height is about 8m. Held at arm's length, the base measures 11cm, which is nearly 30 times the diameter of a full moon. The mass is dotted with a multitude of luminous rectangles, which appear to be 1/6 the size of a normal house window. The rectangles blink in an irregular, unsynchronized way, and the light is a red-orange that is difficult to look at. At 10m, a point of light bigger than a star but smaller than the moon is also dotted with blinking lights. Andrée wakes up her mother, and both of them observe this extraordinary event, which illuminates the garden and the inside of the house. They go about their various activities, and at 6 o'clock they notice that the phenomena have decreased in size: they are beginning to disappear, rising up into the sky.", + "location": "Belgium, Brussels-Forest", + "ref": [ + "- investigation by Claire Hauzeur - VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, p. 28, 29", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3445" + }, + { + "date": "11/6/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"It was a bright object, huge compared to other objects that could be seen in the sky at that time,\" said the local police chief who had come to see a UFO above the city of Israel. District Superintendent Yitzhak Mordechai told the army radio that it was a taxi driver who first informed him of the sighting. It was about 3:30 in the morning. The driver, Yossi Ben-Ha'ash, said the object looked like a half-elliptical light. \"We went to the scene and, indeed, we saw the object that we tried to follow eastward,\" Mordechai said. \"It was about 200 meters above the ground and it lasted until the early hours of the day. Around 6 in the morning, it disappeared.\" (...) (Jerusalem Post, November 7, 1991) (Timothy GOOD: \"E.T. Connection\" 1993 Trad. Presses de la Cité 1994 p.274) Shortly before 3 o'clock in the morning, Yossi Ben Maos, in a taxi outside the town of Bet Shean, in the Jezreel Valley, about halfway between Haifa and Tiberius, saw a strange \"vehicle\" with a beautiful illumination, crossing the road at 150 meters. (...) The object stops and remains hovering above the industrial area of Bet Shean. That's where Yossi finds a phone and calls the police, who are quickly on the scene. Chief Inspector Yitzhak Mordechai is also alerted at his home, waking him up. He orders to alert the army, the border guards, and the local kibbutzim. When Mordechai arrives on the scene, the area is already full of armed men. The UFO at this moment, slowly sets off in the direction of Jordan, dragging a whole military convoy on the ground behind him. Upon reaching the border, the UFO turns back towards Israel. After half an hour of this kind of chase, at 150 meters above Kibbutz Maoz Chaim. On the ground, a hundred armed men, believing they were dealing with terrorists. At five o'clock in the morning someone gave the order to shoot. Shots were heard from everywhere. The next day the police blamed the army, and vice versa, for ordering the attack. The object was not damaged, however. An hour later, at sunrise, the object rose and disappeared from view. The observation had therefore lasted more than three hours. The next day Mordechai held an honest press conference. As he was about to leave, the object was first 200 m from the ground, it began to swing and turn on itself, once well stabilized in this position, it stopped and remained there, suspended. (November 6, 1991)", + "location": "Israel, Beit She'an", + "ref": [ + "\"The Return of the Angels - UFOs in Israel, Past and Present - Barry Shamisch", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3446" + }, + { + "date": "11/22/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4:05 in the morning, Thierry M. drove his car out of the garage to go to work at the post office in Arlon. When he looked up, he saw an enormous light: a long metallic fuselage with lots of lights like portholes, yellow, green, and red. The object was motionless. As he drove towards Arlon, he saw the object cross the sky above the road at Houdemont. (November 22, 1991)", + "location": "Belgium, Rulles-Houdemont (Luxembourg)", + "ref": [ + "VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, p. 32", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3447" + }, + { + "date": "11/22/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 4:10 AM Michel L., another witness, while driving towards Arlon suddenly saw through his windshield a large fuselage without wings, full of yellow lights, moving slowly towards the south-southeast. While driving he still turned his head but the object was quickly hidden by the trees. Duration of this brief observation: 15 seconds.", + "location": "Belgium, near Arlon", + "ref": [ + "VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, p. 32", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3448" + }, + { + "date": "11/27/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Jean Marc Hauglustaine, 1st MDL in the Verviers gendarmerie district, in a car with his wife and two children observed a phenomenon apparently motionless suspended at 50 m altitude at the vertical of a bridge on the left side of the E 40. The general shape suggests a winged craft of about twenty meters in wingspan and whose upper part has a fairly massive volume evoking a kind of fuselage. At the front a windshield or a cockpit of more or less rectangular shape lit from the inside with a bright white yellowish light. Further back four powerful white lights each emitting a beam towards the ground, towards the center a series of 4 or 5 lights emitting a tinted orange light. (...) Suddenly, scattered over the entire surface of the device, countless small flashing red lights appear. Then the object marks a backward movement to go forward like a rocket, making a turn on the wing to the left. Total duration of the observation: 7 minutes.", + "location": "Belgium, Alleur (Liège)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 83, p. 13, 14 and VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994 p. 35 to 37", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3449" + }, + { + "date": "11/28/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Claude H., a postal worker working the night shift, and his driver M.P. saw, from the E 411 shortly before the La Hulpe exit 3, an object that did not look like an airplane, seeming to come from Tombeek and moving quickly perpendicularly to the road axis. It was around 3:15. The craft was enormous and clearly visible, moving at an altitude between 50 and 75 meters, was triangular with rounded edges, black, measuring 30 to 40 meters across. The witnesses observed 6 dim white, powerful lights, without a beam, one light in each corner and one in the middle of each side. Each light was directed in the direction of movement with an angle of 30° relative to the surface of the craft. In the center was a kind of hatch whose diameter was larger than that of the lights. This hatch was lit with dim, powerful red lights around its perimeter. The witness estimated the size of the object to be 2.5 times that of a Jumbo jet. No lights were blinking and despite the presence of the moon in front of the witnesses, no projection was observed. The witness had the impression of being in front of an immense camera with a huge red lens. Once the craft had crossed the road, its departure was lightning-fast in the direction of Genval.", + "location": "Belgium, Rosières (Brabant)", + "ref": [ + "VOB 2 - SOBEPS 1994, p. 37, 38", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3450" + }, + { + "date": "12/5/1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Very long observation which began at 6:10 PM and did not end until around 7:30 PM. The first witnesses were Mrs. Laporte and her daughter Isabelle. Driving on the RN 56 Mons-Ath, the driver observed an unusual light in the sky which she showed to her daughter. It was like a Christmas ball, bigger than a star, moving little. Upon arriving in Jurbise, Mrs. L. did some shopping and Isabelle stayed in the car, studying her English exam. Looking up, she saw a \"plane\" flying low in the sky from south to north, with lots of small lights and pipes on the underside, like those of a power plant, with bends. This craft made no noise and seemed to hover a few tens of meters. But at that moment Isabelle did not seem to be aware of seeing anything other than a plane. Shortly after, the witnesses left Jurbise on Rue Champs des Bois, and they saw three \"enormous platines\" as big as house gables, in the shape of a lozenge. They headed towards the D. farm and it was then, in the company of Mr. D., his daughter and his 15-year-old grandson, that the 5 witnesses together saw 30 or 40 red-purple or white luminous balls arrive, which gradually took on the shape of a lozenge as they approached, flying at 50 or 60 meters altitude. On the median they had rectangular portholes with a yellowish light inside. These craft, as big as helicopters, made a slight noise like a \"kitchen hood\". The spectacle lasted until around 7:30 PM. Strangely enough, seen from the underside or in profile, these things always had exactly the same appearance and the binoculars provided few other details.", + "location": "Belgium, Erbisoeul (Hainaut)", + "ref": [ + "Investigation by Michel Renglet for the Sobeps", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3451" + }, + { + "date": "1991", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Another encounter near Laguna Cartagena was reported by Eleuterio Acosta, an 80-year-old trustworthy man who lives in the Olivares area, right in front of the radar installation. He said that one day he was surrounded by five of these small gray creatures when he entered his house. He faced them with a stick, shouted, and a sixth creature, larger this time, appeared, and all together they jumped out of a window and ran away quickly towards Sierra Bermeja.", + "location": "Porto Rico, Cuesta Blanca", + "ref": [ + "Timothy GOOD: \"E.T. Connection\" 1993 Trad. Presses de la Cité 1994 p. 251-253", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3452" + }, + { + "date": "1991 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A 11-year-old boy of Yemeni origin disappeared on his way back from school to his father's house. He finally returned late at night and found his parents in a state close to hysteria. He had no explanation for his delay and could not remember what had happened in the hours before his return home. Two weeks later, his memories returned in a jumble. Giants had caught him and taken him to their lair. He had undergone a medical examination and something was surgically placed in his arm, near his wrist. His parents quickly took the boy to the clinic where, indeed, something was removed from that spot. The father then ordered the family never to speak of the incident again. (1991, No precise date)", + "location": "ISRAEL, Burgata", + "ref": [ + "\"The Return of the Angels\" - UFOs in Israel, Past, Present - Barry Chamish", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3453" + }, + { + "date": "1/24/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) This is the day of the biggest wave of UFOs ever observed in Israel. (...) It starts at 10 pm above Haifa, flies over Beersheva and the Negev, before disappearing beyond the Jordan. Ephi Sarid, photographer for Yediot Ahronot, who saw the vessel in the town of Sfat (Galilee) said: \"I saw a huge light and smaller lights spinning around it. The length is not clear, but I estimate the width to be 30 meters. It was on a fast trajectory at an altitude of 2000 meters. It traveled without sound and lit up the whole sky.\" (January 24, 1992)", + "location": "Israel, Sfat (Galilee)", + "ref": [ + "\"The Return of the Angels\" - UFOs in Israel, Past and Present - Barry Chamish", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3454" + }, + { + "date": "1/24/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Liran Shor, 16 years old, saw it from Haifa: \"It was flying above the houses, and since it made no sound, that's what made me look. Its shape was an enormous ellipse, the length of two jumbo jets. Its light was like burning coal, and it left an orange trail. The whole street was lit up.\" (January 24, 1992)", + "location": "Israel, Haifa", + "ref": [ + "\"The Return of the Angels\" - UFOs in Israel, Past and Present - Barry Chamish", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3455" + }, + { + "date": "1/24/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Pini Shechter, 17 years old, Tiberius; \"A small white ball was flying towards the big ship and was connected to it by a white 'strip'. The big ship left a trail of flames, it was about 35 meters long and 9 meters high. Its color was white or red.\" (January 24, 1992)", + "location": "Israel, Tiberius", + "ref": [ + "\"The Return of the Angels\" - UFOs in Israel, Past and Present - Barry Chamisch", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3456" + }, + { + "date": "1/24/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A military stationed in the Negev desert: \"Seven huge red balls leaving a trail, they flew in formation, behind a head ball. The white luminous trails lit up the whole desert.\"", + "location": "Israel, Negev", + "ref": [ + "\"The Return of the Angels\" - UFOs in Israel, Past and Present - Barry Chamisch", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3457" + }, + { + "date": "2/4/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the evening the man was agitated and couldn't sleep. He must have dozed off anyway because he found himself awake, standing in the parking lot near the basketball stadium, 50 km away in another suburb of Perth. About thirty strangers surrounded him. Telepathically one of the people told him he should be happy to have been chosen. A large blue light appeared, flew overhead and that was his last memory. The next moment he was in the basketball stadium and other people were there too. His confusion turned to panic because these people seemed absolutely sinister. They looked like humans except for their eyes, which seemed empty. Some people were receiving gifts from the entities. He was offered one too: a cricket bat... One of these creatures was on its knees and welcoming his sensations, his emotions and it seemed to him that he was devoid of his own thoughts. That was too much. He threw the cricket bat and said: \"You are not what you seem to be, leave!\" He was then exiting through the door, everything became a bright white and he found himself back in his bed.", + "location": "AUSTRALIA, Perth", + "ref": [ + "Vlad Govic and Keith Basterfield", + "follow up on March 4, 1992", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3458" + }, + { + "date": "2/10/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Example of serious distortion of the truth! During the month of February 1992, Stephen Greer, a doctor, and some members of his research group, the CSETI (Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence), left the United States to go to Belgium and meet the main witnesses and investigators who attended this incredible wave of UFO sightings that took place in this country, that is, more than 3500 (note from vog: let's divide this number by 7 or 8, it will be more correct) cases since 1989. Dr. Greer and his team also had the opportunity to spot some of these unusual objects. Here is the detailed description of one of these observations by Dr. Greer: \"During the night of February 10, 1992, we went with Dr. Brenig (from SOBEPS) to a ridge overlooking the town of Henri-Chapelle, about 15 km from Eupen... Around 10 pm, we noted the passage of a convoy of military or official vehicles... It was obvious that the material transported by this exceptional convoy was the subject of a great deployment of security forces... Dr. Brenig left us around 11 pm to return to Brussels... We continued our sentinel work for several more hours, and around 12:30 or 1 am, we saw another convoy of vehicles arrive from afar, larger than the first... and this time under very high surveillance... From our observation point, we simply watched this great parade when, through a break in the clouds, we noticed the appearance of an enormous, light yellow and very bright light, which moved slowly and seemed wider than the full moon disc. (...) In fact, the light was above the famous convoy. But soon other clouds gathered and the light disappeared from our eyes. A few minutes later, the convoy was no longer visible, we heard - and felt - a kind of deep rumble, a low and intense vibration, just above our car. This lasted from 10 to 30 seconds, and seemed to come from the clouds above us... This sound was nothing like anything we had known before; in any case, it was not the rumble of thunder or the engine of an airplane, or even the passage of the sound barrier by a supersonic jet. (Stephen Greer, MUFON UFO Journal, No. 289, May 1992. [IN REALITY: Professor Léon Brenig did not have to necessarily return to Brussels around 11 pm, but stayed with Stephen Greer and his team all night as well as investigator André Goffard, and even spent the morning of the next day with them. André Goffard, recounted in detail, their night of observation. He is in any case formal: no low and intense vibration. Not the slightest trace either of a military convoy. Nor even of light other than that of the moon...]", + "location": "Belgium, Henri-Chapelle", + "ref": [ + "Timothy GOOD: \"E.T. Connection\" 1993 Trad. Presses de la Cité 1994 p. 285", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3459" + }, + { + "date": "3/4/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: February 4, 1992) Again, around 2:30 in the morning, he was woken up by an intense blue light. In the dazzling light he saw a creature between 1.2 and 1.4 meters tall. What was terrible was that the man's son was in the power of this entity and he could not move to free the child: he was paralyzed in his bed. But the entity in the light gradually moved away, and then the witness could move, he jumped out of bed, grabbed his son, while the entity disappeared in a flash of white light. The immediate memory that follows is the sight of the son, sleeping in his bed, pale and shocked. Not too much though, since he was able to attend school the next day. Shortly after these events, during an evening meal (lamb) the child had something in his throat. He coughed and out came a small metal object. Analyzed, this thing would come from a computer manufactured in Sweden.", + "location": "Australia, Perth", + "ref": [ + "Vlad Govic and Keith Baskerfield", + "??? ", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3460" + }, + { + "date": "4/20/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, a guard at the Oderzo barracks would have been paralyzed while observing two beings covered in a hood, shortly after another soldier had observed an object in the shape of a \"eel\" that was rushing to the ground", + "location": "Italy, Oderzo (Trevisa)", + "ref": [ + "Avvistamenti, cfr CISU", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3461" + }, + { + "date": "5/4/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Case No.: 19920504) The witness is Peter W., a 39-year-old businessman. Around 6:15 pm he observed in the local industrial area an object flying around 120 cm in diameter, emitting an unusual luminosity, near the buildings, without any noise, at an altitude of 10 to 15 meters. A few seconds later, the object flew away and disappeared into the clouds.", + "location": "Germany, Wildeshausen", + "ref": [ + "Hans-Werner Peiniger, GEP e.V., JUFOF - Germany", + "JUFOF Nr. 88, 4'1993:98ff", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3462" + }, + { + "date": "5/8/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the early evening, caretakers Leo and Nola Jones saw upon opening their door two solid beams of light in the shape of an L, orange in color, arriving at the Waranga basin. For ten minutes they watched in amazement \"these perfect square beams\" which stood vertically, to come to a stop halfway between Harriman's Point and a commercial complex. They took the camera, but as soon as the flash (of the camera) went off, \"bang\" they had disappeared. The Jones are the caretakers and guardians of the Waranga Boat Club and the adjoining campsite. During the observation they noticed that these square beams seemed to come from two small orange lights, suspended at mid-altitude and already observed while they were drinking tea around 8 pm. These small lights had the color and size of an orange, were very bright. It was because of them that they went out of the house to see what it was. They were in front of them, on the other side of the basin. The photo of the beams shows orange streaks across the shot. The beams came out vertically from the two orange points, and as soon as they touched the surface of the basin water, they advanced while staying parallel for a distance of 300 meters. They did not reflect in the water. A phenomenon like this had never happened before at Waranga. After the photo was taken, everything vanished, the orange lights in the sky and the beams, and never reappeared. During the observation no sound came from the phenomenon.", + "location": "Australia, Shepparton, Victoria", + "ref": [ + "Keith Baskerfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3463" + }, + { + "date": "5/18/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A couple, in bed around midnight, were reading before going to sleep. Suddenly, a strange buzzing sound was heard, between a purring and an oscillating noise like the blades of a helicopter. Their two dogs became like mad, growling, showing their teeth, moaning, howling, barking, their eyes rolling. The noise became unbearable and the man went out to see where it was coming from. He turned on the 500 watt security lamp on the nearby: immediately the noise stopped and did not repeat. (May 18, 1992)", + "location": "Australia, Perth", + "ref": [ + "UFORA92070 - Keith Basterfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3464" + }, + { + "date": "5/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) K.T. Francovich, photographer and filmmaker (documentaries on wild animals), great-niece of Mike Francovich Sr. who was president of Columbia Pictures, and cousin of two other Frankovichs who participated in the films \"Exodus\" and \"Lawrence of Arabia,\" was walking with two large dogs. They were on leashes (dogs trained to attack). The place was a barren spot where there were still some dead lemon trees, without leaves, in the south of Florida. She heard a loud noise, like that of a lumberjack busy chopping down a tree with an axe. Turning towards the place where the noise came from, she saw a humanoid standing near a tree. Its skin was a grayish pink and seemed to be without pores, like plastic. It must have measured about 1 m 40. It wore a metallic-looking leotard, which showed all its shapes well. It had a very wide head at the top, and large black almond-shaped eyes, where one could not discern either white or pupil, they were uniformly black. It had two very small nostrils but without a marked nose, the lips very thin and ill-defined, just a small slit in the face. It had very small ears located lower on the head than in humans. It was disproportionate in everything: arms really too long, without muscle, ending in very long hands, with 6 fingers. (she counted them several times) The thumb was still exactly where the human hand has one. So there was a thumb and 5 fingers on each hand. The neck seemed very fragile, without tonus, too thin, and the shoulders very drooping, but a rather rounded belly. But the thighs were clearly overdeveloped, the legs of the entity resembled more those of a very trained athlete, muscular. The feet were small, too small in relation to the body. The witness was shocked, and something really strange was happening, because the two dogs lay down, as if they were going to fall asleep. She was thus looking at the entity, and it was returning her gaze, but suddenly the humanoid started to run and this is the most extraordinary part of the observation. It ran exactly like a Thompson gazelle, with lightness and jumping. Mrs. Francovich did not hesitate, but started to run with him, side by side, accompanied by the dogs, over a certain distance. Until the moment when dense vegetation formed a kind of tunnel. The entity jumped into it and disappeared. Mrs. Francovich wanted to follow him, but she entered into \"a wall of stench\" horrible, like a mixture of sulfuric acid and formaldehyde. This stench really formed like \"a wall\", while Mrs. Francovich's nostrils seemed to be burned. She immediately knew (vog: how did she know this?) that other entities were there and she knew that they were waiting for her. But she shouted \"OOOPS!\" and accompanied by the dogs she ran until she was out of breath in the opposite direction, certainly over a distance of two kilometers. [note from vog: for the rest of the story here is the website: http://members.aol.com/KFrnkovich/index.htm] (May 1992)", + "location": "USA, Florida", + "ref": [ + "Filer's Files #15\" of 19.4.1999, George Filer of Mufon", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3465" + }, + { + "date": "7/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A young driver was near Wylandville around 10 pm when she saw a creature moving on the slope of the nearby hill. She stopped when the creature descended and crossed the road. In the headlights, she saw that it was 7 to 8 feet tall, walking on two legs, covered in dark bristly fur. The creature looked like a monkey and had long arms. It was followed by a similar creature, then two smaller ones, perhaps 5 feet tall. This sight scared the witness, who turned around and drove away full speed. (July 1992)", + "location": "USA, Wylandville (Washington)", + "ref": [ + "NABIN, Mark Francis", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3466" + }, + { + "date": "Late 7/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A woman reported seeing in a field near her house two creatures, with amber-colored eyes, wearing some kind of computer equipment, which one of them operated. They glided across the ground without apparent effort. [Note from vog: what was the actual height of the vegetation in this field?] (1992, late July)", + "location": "USA, Springfield, Missouri", + "ref": [ + "Mufon, Mufonet BBS 11.3.1993", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3467" + }, + { + "date": "8/5/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three men were camping near the entrance of the State Game Lands when they heard a series of strange noises in the night. They then shone the torchlight in the direction of the vocalizations and saw the legs of a furry bipedal creature, covered in 6 inches of shiny black fur. One of the witnesses took out his camera to try and take a picture, but the flash apparently scared the creature, which ran off towards the river, \"crying\". It then seemed like there was a \"response\" from a second creature coming to meet the first. The witnesses did not see the second creature, but deduced its presence from what seemed to them to be a duet of vocalizations. The sound was loud, extended, and high-pitched. As soon as the witnesses saw the \"legs\" they climbed up into their truck and saw the huge creature facing them. They stayed there for another hour after the creature's disappearance.", + "location": "Canada, Elk County, PA.", + "ref": [ + "NABIN, Mark Francis", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3468" + }, + { + "date": "8/31/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 7 pm and 7:30 pm, Mr. E. Carette and his cousin Mrs. V.U. made an entirely atypical observation from the balcony on the 11th floor. In a clear sky without clouds, there were two generally rectangular, black, matte, irregular shapes and between these two large shapes, at the top of the larger one and towards the left, three smaller shapes. No visible structure, not even when looking through binoculars and apparently no movement. The smallest of the three small shapes was much larger than the size of a tourist plane. By the time they went to get a camera to immortalize this vision, everything had disappeared.", + "location": "Belgium, Zellik (Brabant)", + "ref": [ + "Investigation by Michel Bry for the Sobeps", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3469" + }, + { + "date": "8/31/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4:25 in the morning, the witness saw to the west of his route, a flashing red light. He had the impression of seeing a \"ham\" flying... At the closest to this thing, the witness stopped the car and saw it hovering above a vineyard. Under the red light, and seeming not to be attached to it, there was a large dark rectangular shape, the length of a jumbo jet. The sides seemed to be made of rubber inflated with air, like inflatable boats, or like the lower edge of a hovercraft. This thing remained stationary for 3 good minutes, then there was a flash of blue light, the object slowly moved in the direction of south, towards Perth.", + "location": "Australia, Midland", + "ref": [ + "Brian Richards/UFORUM - UFORA92083 - Keith Basterfield", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3470" + }, + { + "date": "9/16/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) GARZA: I don't know if it inspired American filmmakers, but for three years in a row, on September 16th 1992, 1993 and 1994, the parade was disrupted. In 1992 a formation of fighter planes was flying over Mexico City, when an oval disk emerged from behind the clouds to overtake the planes. Everyone saw it. The parade was being broadcast live on television, and everyone had a moment of hesitation. Everyone understood that it was a UFO, because on this special day of the parade, all other air traffic is forbidden.", + "location": "Mexico, Mexico City", + "ref": [ + "article by Jan Hertoghs in the magazine HUMO of 24.9.1996", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3471" + }, + { + "date": "9/16/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"Around midnight I took the wheel and headed north, at the junction of highways 94 and 494 I saw three huge balls of light descending from the sky to the northeast of Rogers and the Elk River. They came one after the other, the second following exactly the trajectory of the first. I continued my journey on the 94 and at the exit of Rogers I took the direction of Elk River. Through the dark clouds, I still saw the formation of the three balls, whose lights were flashing all together. Two and a half miles away I had the surprise of my life. Suspended above a less wooded area, there was this UFO, the size of an airliner. It had a circular plate, with a smaller dome on top. The outlines were dark, and I did not see any lit portholes. On the other hand, the ventral part had on the contour, four regularly spaced white lights. Between the whites small green and red ones alternated one after the other. Behind the large white lights, there were always two green lights, and behind the two greens, another red one. It was a beautiful machine, completely motionless, making no noise. The lights were on all the time. It was beautiful, but also frightening at the same time. It was raining, the wind was blowing in gusts. It's strange, but the rain seemed to stop just above the object. Moreover, no drop was flowing from it. This thing seemed to defy all the forces of nature: gravity, wind and rain. (...) After such an experience, one becomes silent, one feels small, as if still living in the age of stone. (Terry Townsend, Princeton) (The Elk River Star News of September 23, 92, journalist: Joni Astrup)\"", + "location": "USA, Elk River", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3472" + }, + { + "date": "9/17/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness, a nurse who wishes to remain anonymous, was in the bathroom around 4:45 in the morning. She saw three huge lights hovering less than two meters above the ground, above the neighbor's garden. The lights had a diameter of at least 50 cm and were spaced 3 to 4 meters apart, with a third one offset upwards. The witness then went to the kitchen and came out to get a better look. The lights had changed position and were sending a wide beam into the street. The beam was still there and the phenomenon had gone. The whole incident lasted 15 seconds. She remains shocked, having no explanation for this very frightening observation. (...)", + "location": "USA, Elk River", + "ref": [ + "The Elk River Star News of September 23, 92, journalist: Joni Astrup", + "Terry Townsend, Princeton", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3473" + }, + { + "date": "11/8/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) After two weeks of multiple sightings, no less than 22 close encounters were reported to the police in the night. Panic spread throughout the region. Most of the sightings took place above the Bonnybridge moor. Isabelle Slogett of Leapark Drive recounts: \"My daughter Carol and I saw a UFO land right in front of us. An opening appeared in the saucer and we heard a sound like coming from a cave. I started screaming and running, terrified.\" The daughter, Carol, 31 years old, explains: \"As I wanted to take a picture of it, there was a huge flash of light. When we went back into the house, the thing was hovering in the sky. All the neighbors saw it. This is confirmed by George Wilson, 43 years old, businessman: \"We were a dozen near the cooperative and we saw the UFO above the moor. I have no intention of causing hysteria: if you have an explanation for all these sightings, I would be happy to hear it.\"", + "location": "Great Britain, Falkirk (Scotland)", + "ref": [ + "The Sunday Mail - Glasgow of November 8, 1992 - Ufo News Story", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3474" + }, + { + "date": "11/18/1992", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Benjamin, 9 years old, in bed, couldn't sleep because it was so hot. \"I got up to get some air at the window of my room. It was 3 o'clock in the morning, I looked at my alarm clock. I hadn't turned on the light in the room. When I got to the window (the street lamps turn off at 11 pm) I saw above the old quarry (about 300 m from the house) a very black object coming above the fir trees. It was moving slowly, horizontally, lying on its side. It was wide and you could see the whole face, from the bottom or the top, I don't know. It had a triangular shape with rounded corners. You could see it well because its color was darker than the sky. When it reached the top of the fir trees it stopped. The whole base was lit up with red lamps and in the center of the base, a big white spotlight the same color as the lamp in the kitchen. It stood up in a vertical position. It was very big. The big spotlight lit up part of the fir trees. I saw a lot of lines on the visible face, it looked like drawings. I didn't see anything else on the object. In any case there were no windows and I didn't hear any noise.\" After staying still for a while it lay back down slowly still on its side and left very quickly above the woods to the right. \"I wasn't scared. I just wondered what it could be since it didn't look like an airplane. I observed this thing for about 1 minute.\" The young witness stayed very quiet about his observation, not even talking to his friends at school.", + "location": "Belgium, Barvaux sur Ourthe", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 86 p. 38 to 40", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3475" + }, + { + "date": "Late 2/1993", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (The Return of the Angels; UFO in Israel, Past and Present - Barry Chamish) Ginat Aharoni, a young woman in her twenties, lives in her house in the town of Tel Mond, about 5 km from Kadima. She was driving towards the Netanya station on an isolated and unlit road, around 8 pm. Near the village of Tel Yitzhak, a very bright object passes over her car, about 30 meters above. More surprised than terrified, Ginat notes that the thing measures 13 to 15 m in diameter, and has a belt of about twenty orange lights that seem to rotate around the thing in the opposite direction of the clock hands. She also notes that the lights turn on one after the other, giving the impression of movement in the darkness. The observation only lasts about ten seconds. During this time the object seemed to land along the Tulkarem-Netanya road. Immediately after the village of Kfar Yonah, that is what it does, for a minute, while cars stop or slow down to get a better look. (1993, late February)", + "location": "Israel", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3476" + }, + { + "date": "3/20/1993", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 6 in the morning Carmel Zsiporet was awoken by \"something\". She went outside and saw a UFO on the ground 50 m away from her. The UFO had the shape of an orange container and was silver in color. On its perimeter there were 18 lit square windows. Five vertical beams of light were coming from the object towards the sky. Suddenly, as if materialized, a second object appeared, identical in shape and size. Their size was 5 x 6 m. Next to the first UFO, Zsiporet saw an entity of about 2 to 2.50 m tall, covered in an overall of metallic-looking aluminum color. It wore a kind of short \"beekeeper's cape\" and its features were not visible. A conversation, apparently telepathic, started and to Zsiporet's question \"why don't you take that thing off your face\", the entity's answer in Hebrew was \"Kakha zeh\" = \"This is the way\". Zsiporet felt compelled to go back inside the house and when she came out the objects and the entity had disappeared.", + "location": "Israel, Kadema (Sharon)", + "ref": [ + "actually, this is an excerpt from \"The Return of the Angels - UFOs in Israel, Past and Present, by Barry Chamish", + "UFO Afrinews, July 1996, n° 14 p. 22, 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3477" + }, + { + "date": "3/31/1993", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 2:20 two gendarmes saw a flying phenomenon with a beam of light at the front. At first they took it for an airplane preparing to make a forced landing. But the phenomenon, which left a luminous trail, suddenly stopped and remained stationary for several seconds. The gendarmes approached in a car and from then on the craft seemed to be elongated with something like rectangular portholes strongly illuminated along a fuselage. At a certain moment there was something like a kind of nebulousness under the craft and when another car arrived, the phenomenon disappeared on the spot. (Lumières dans la Nuit, No. 318 p. 4 + sketch) Around 2 o'clock in the morning, unusual luminous formations were seen by many people over nine French departments: Gironde, Charente, Haute Vienne, Haute Loire, Ardèche, Isère, Rhône, Loire, Esonne. (Jean-Francis CROLARD: \"L'énigme des E.T.\" - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 74) It was the day of the return of Cosmos 2238, but the observations contain parasitic elements.", + "location": "France, Vif (Isère)", + "ref": [ + "\"Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO\", Richard F. Haines - 1994 - p. 51; \"Open skies, closed minds\", Nike Pope - 1996 - p. 134", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3478" + }, + { + "date": "3/31/1993", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Several witnesses from a farm in Kerris observed in the night, around 1:10, a large triangular object, showing three extended lights in the corners and a central red blinking light, floating \"at ease\" before gradually disappearing towards the east. (Omar Fowler: \"Phenomenon Research Association\" - Derby - England) It was the day of the return of Cosmos 2238, but the observations contain parasitic elements.", + "location": "Great Britain, Kerris (Cornwall)", + "ref": [ + "\"Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO\", Richard F. Haines - 1994 - p. 51; \"Open skies, closed minds\", Nike Pope - 1996 - p. 134", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3479" + }, + { + "date": "4/24/1993", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (\"The Return of the Angels\" - UFOs in Israel, Past and Present - Barry Chamish) It was not until the summer that Mara's story was discovered. Indeed, Mara's husband, Torbatian, told the neighbor that they were thinking of moving, as their house was \"haunted\". He told that his wife heard voices and strange knocks on the walls, and that he heard them too. It was Torbatian who discovered a flattened grass circle with four indentations in the garden. The circle was 4.30 m in diameter, and the indentations were respectively 325 cm., 245 cm., 270 cm. and 290 cm. This Russian couple was now totally convinced that they had had \"visitors\". On April 24th, at half past midnight, the house was shaken by a \"bang\" so powerful that the 150 kilo air conditioning unit was dislodged from the wall. At first they thought it was due to an airplane passing the sound barrier. Half an hour later, another \"bang\" accompanied by frenzied barking from the neighbor's dog. The couple called the police, who came to the scene, and could not give any explanation: they saw with their own eyes the fall of the apparatus and heard the barking. During the following months, Mara distinctly heard voices, not in her head, but as if coming from the walls, calling her by her childhood name \"Come with us, Marishka. Come with us\". That was too much: the couple left Kadima and had no more contact with the neighbors or the ufologists who had come to investigate.", + "location": "Israel, Kadima", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3480" + }, + { + "date": "5/1993", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3 o'clock in the morning, Batya Shimon was woken up by lights outside, which she saw in her room. Batya Shiman is a middle-aged woman, not at all attracted to the paranormal. However, hearing a terrible noise in her living room, she jumped out of bed. Upon arriving in her living room, she saw, facing her, about twenty creatures; Batya wanted to scream, but no sound came out of her mouth. The creatures were tall, more than two meters, wearing neon-like bright clothes, round faces, small noses, a thin and circular small mouth, bald heads, but they had brown eyebrows. Believing she was dreaming, the lady went back to bed. Upon waking up the next morning, she found all the doors open, but nothing had been stolen. A kind of yellow sand was spread in the kitchen and in the bathroom, and had a smell of \"phosphorus\". It was then that she spoke of her nocturnal encounter to her husband. He himself had been woken up by lights, but he also thought he was dreaming, turned over to the other side and fell asleep again. The following night, at three o'clock in the morning, Batya is woken up by an intense light coming from the kitchen window. She gets up and looks out the bedroom window: from the sky, a large object in the shape of a mushroom with a lit door arrives. The light from this door touches her shoulder and she feels it like a punch. Her memory stops here, then she sees herself lying in bed looking at a large visitor, who was slowly passing his hand over her husband's head and she received a telepathic message saying \"we do not want to harm you\". While this great being is in the room, another one visits all the rooms floating in a standing position. His feet did not touch the ground. They both looked like the creatures observed the previous night, and this time she noticed more details. Their hands were like human hands, their skin that of albinos, their white clothes shone like neon and stuck to the body. Suddenly, the being who was visiting the place came back into the bedroom gesturing as if to make the other one come and see. They disappeared into the couple's son's room and stayed looking fascinated at the fish in the aquarium. All this only lasted a few minutes, the light went out, everything was over, but the next day again the doors were open, there was the same kind of sand, and the same smell. \"Once they saw the fish, they seemed very excited,\" she said. And right after they left.", + "location": "Israel, Rishon LeTzion", + "ref": [ + "The Return of the Angels; UFO in Israel, Past and Present - Barry Chamish", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3481" + }, + { + "date": "5/30/1993", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 10:30 pm, a farmer who had visited a single friend was returning home through the fields. His farm was only 400 meters away as the crow flies. First, the two witnesses saw a large, unusual star. Then, the farmer in the meadow saw an object very close, passing at an elevation of 30°, very quickly. \"It looked like a minibus with lit windows. It arrived like a car's headlight, then it looked like a minibus.\" The witness heard a small noise, like that of a quiet electric motor. The object flew southeast and went out. Total duration of the observation: 3 minutes.", + "location": "Belgium, Ellezelles (Hainaut)", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 89, p. 8", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3482" + }, + { + "date": "5/31/1993", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (The Return of the Angels; UFO in Israel, Past and Present - Barry Chamish) At 2:30 in the morning, Shosh Yahud was woken up by a loud noise, as if a large painting was falling off the wall. Opening her eyes, she then saw this strange creature, leaning over her, looking at her. In her head she heard a voice saying \"Do not be afraid, I mean you no harm.\" The creature then circled around the bed, taking a glance around the room (note from vog: to estimate the price of the furniture?) The being was very tall, more than two meters, slim and bald. It had round and luminous eyes, the face was round as well and showed a friendly expression. The whole adventure lasted only a few minutes. \"For the rest of the night, my body was itching and I was scratching everywhere\" (note from vog: flea bag?) Two hours later, she got up, went to the balcony and saw two circles of flattened grass in the lawn. \"The next day, talking to a neighbor, I learned that a lot of people had seen a UFO in the night. Everyone was talking about it.\"", + "location": "Israel, Kadima", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3483" + }, + { + "date": "6/1993", + "desc": "(Translated from French) It was about 10 pm when B.R., alone in his small trailer that served as his camp, was about to go to bed. (...) Suddenly he distinguished through the windows of his modest installation, a strange light floating 2 m from the ground and heading towards him. A bit worried, the witness remembers that there is no road in this place that could lead one to believe that the headlights of a vehicle could be the source of this light. Intrigued by what he observes, the witness concentrates his attention on the dimensions of the light, which he estimates to be 3 m in diameter. The weather is foggy and visibility is not very good. (...) The light seems to move in his direction in a zigzag. As the object gets closer and closer to the witness, the latter perceives a curious intermittent sound, whose cadence is regular and which seems to come from the object. (...) Fear then begins to take hold of the young man, who now suspects that something worrying is approaching dangerously close to him. The intensity of this emotion increases as the light approaches, to the point where the witness now only desires one thing: to flee, to leave this cursed place at all costs! While he plans to go outside to escape with the company truck, the sound and the white light that the object seems to emit become even more menacing. The light is now almost above the trailer and communicates such fear to the witness that he is unable to do anything, he is literally frozen in place. Terrified, the man waits, huddled in his torpor. (...) After what seemed like interminable seconds, the witness finds himself inexplicably lying over the blankets of his bed, completely dressed! (...) he then realizes that it is only the light of the sun that filters through the windows of the trailer: (it is day). (June 1993)", + "location": "Canada, near Manic 3 (hydroelectric plant)", + "ref": [ + "Jean THOMAS: \"Synthèse Ovni\" ed. Louise Cousteau 1999, p. 133, 134", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3484" + }, + { + "date": "6/1993", + "desc": "(Translated from French) One of the most spectacular observations was made from a helicopter, by a crew of five men, all belonging to the fire brigade of Pescara. About 7 km from the airport, while they were at an altitude of 500 meters, the men observed something that seemed to be on a collision trajectory with their aircraft. The object measured 1 m in diameter, with two \"legs\" and a trapezoidal antenna on what could resemble a head. Panicked, the pilot veered to the right to avoid the object and made contact with the control tower. The controllers had nothing on the screen, but asked the helicopter to take the intruder in pursuit. The chase began. After 3 minutes, the humanoid turned towards the aircraft, seeming to look at it with large black eyes, then made two complete circles around the helicopter before diving towards the ground and disappearing. (June 1993)", + "location": "Italy, near Pescara", + "ref": [ + "“UFO Files” - ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, pages 54,55", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3485" + }, + { + "date": "7/27/1993", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Investigation by Antonio Cuccu of CISU - Itufor 10.7.95) Around 9 pm a dozen people observed for two or three minutes a strange object above the beach. It was a four-year-old child who saw it first, asking his father and a hotel bartender to \"catch that balloon\" for him. A group of hotel tourists were thus able to observe the phenomenon: round, black, hovering at about thirty meters. A kind of short rope seemed to hang down, which at first made it look like a balloon. But its shape changed, becoming oblong and irregular, then it began to undulate in the air, then disappeared from their sight. The people ran down the stairs four at a time to continue the observation from the street. The object became bigger and bigger, and changed shape again, becoming like a helicopter with a pulsing red light on top. Suddenly it shot off towards the southwest and was lost from sight in a few seconds.", + "location": "Italy, Calabona beach (Sassari)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3486" + }, + { + "date": "8/7/1993", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Night of 7th to 8th August. Kelly Cahill and Andrew (pseudonym) observed a bright light in front of them, the width of the road: it was an object violently lit at the neck. Andrew stopped the car and both occupants got out to take a closer look. At 100 m from their position, another car also stopped. While they were looking at the object, a group of large black silhouettes with red eyes approached them, floating above the ground. Kelly fell to the ground, blinded and nauseous. Then she probably lost consciousness. Later she noticed a red triangular mark near her navel and a small incision in her stomach skin resembling those after a laparoscopy. She bled from her vagina for 3 and a half weeks, and at the hospital an infection was detected.", + "location": "Australia, Belgrave (Melbourne)", + "ref": [ + "Mufon UFO Journal, November 1996, P. 10 - 11", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3487" + }, + { + "date": "8/7/1993", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Night of the 7th to 8th of August. The other witnesses of this encounter were three people: Bill, an entrepreneur, his wife Jane, and a nurse Glenda. These people arrived at the scene (but they were driving in the opposite direction) and they were all feeling sick: nausea. The driver lost control of his vehicle and stopped against a pole along the road. At that moment two cars passed on the road, one of them had Kelly and Andrew on board? The trio saw the same kind of creatures, heard a buzzing sound and then their memories stopped. The driver, in addition, was blinded. Afterwards marks were found in different places on the women's bodies, and Glenda and Jane also had the small triangular mark near their navel. (...)", + "location": "Australia, Belgrave (Melbourne)", + "ref": [ + "Mufon UFO Journal, November 1996, P. 10 - 11", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3488" + }, + { + "date": "9/14/1993", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Armand, 45 years old and already retired from Belgacom due to lead poisoning, made an observation in the Raeren Woods near the Venn Kreuz. [Note from vog: I quote the case taken up in VOB 2, SOBEPS 1994, p. 95 with a color illustration 1.38, but I personally do not add any credibility to it. Indeed, when from 1992 to 1995 I was in charge of the Sobeps investigations, I found in the files a good dozen of observations from this witness, manifestly hallucinating due to his illness]", + "location": "Belgium, Raeren", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3489" + }, + { + "date": "10/17/1993", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 6 pm, the witnesses and their 4-year-old daughter first witnessed an incredible display of lights, then around 6:25 were flown over by a square object, accompanied at a distance by 3 glowing balls that, like cyclists, \"took turns\". The square object was so big that it filled the entire window of the sunroof. The witnesses, seeing this and arriving in the village where family members lived, honked to get them out and got out of the stopped vehicle themselves. The dark square, lit up in a blurry way, continued on its trajectory and after 8 seconds disappeared in place. It flew along a north-south axis, one side at the front, this side slightly higher than the back, so canted.", + "location": "Belgium, Bassilly", + "ref": [ + "personal investigation by vog", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3490" + }, + { + "date": "10/25/1993", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 5:30 PM, Olivier C. saw a large, stationary light point in the direction of the north. He didn't pay it any attention. At around 6:50 PM, while driving to Familleureux, he saw a cigar-shaped object straight ahead of him. On the underside, three white lights were dimming and brightening in intensity, pulsing slowly. A red light was blinking near one of the white lights. He got out of the car: the object was 7 cm in size at arm's length. The object seemed to be moving very slowly towards Feluy (NE). He observed it with 12x50 binoculars and thought he saw a horizontal line on the upper part. The object was the same grey color everywhere. After 10 minutes, the witness continued on his way. Passing by the same spot on his way back from Familleureux, he saw two people at Pont Looza looking up at the sky, between 7:15 and 7:30 PM. The witness stopped his car, turned off the engine, and got out. That's when he found himself right underneath an immense diamond-shaped craft. \"It was there, right above me. At an altitude of 200 m, no more. Each light had a diameter equal to the length of a car. Each light had the size of a car, can you imagine? At arm's length? Impossible to tell you the size, I should have spread my arms to the maximum (at the inquiry this was 110 cm). It was very close, you know. I'm sure that if this object had been on the ground, it would have been the size of the field next to my house (1 ha). On the ground, each light must have been the size of a house! Three white lights arranged in a triangle, they weren't quite in the corners of the diamond. Near two of the white lights was a dark green light. They were small. When the white lights dimmed and the blinking red light went out, I could see green reflections on the structure. It had a metallic look, clear. The surface was like galvanized sheet metal, embossed, a bit like the sheets on car ramps on tow trucks.\" The object emitted a sound, a bit like the sound of a washing machine in the last phase of draining the water, before spinning. This sound wasn't constant and varied in intensity. This sound seemed to come from everywhere at once. The craft was moving very slowly, but not in a straight line, it was like a car swerving from the back, to one side and then the other. The slowness of the movement prompted the witness to go home so his wife could also observe this thing. He started the car, made a U-turn, and when he looked up through the windshield, the object had disappeared and he never saw it again. After calculations, the dimensions of the diamond must have been between 80 and 100 m in altitude and its dimensions must have been 150 x 75 m and a thickness of 24 m.", + "location": "Belgium, Manage", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 89, p. 13 to 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3491" + }, + { + "date": "11/3/1993", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Nicolas T., 12 years old, was alone at home around 6 pm. \"I was sitting in the living room armchair. I was angry because my brother had gone to the neighbors and didn't want to play with me. Suddenly, I had my gaze drawn to a light through the curtains of the first living room window. So I looked through the window of the second window and saw a huge triangular-shaped craft pass in front of the house, from left to right, very slowly. It seemed to be following the road towards Xhendelesse (west). I clearly saw its triangular shape against the sky background and it seemed to me that the corners were rounded. The surface of the triangle was not smooth, but like grid-marked by some kind of reliefs or slats, which I couldn't see the exact shape of. In the center there was a big, round white light that shone brightly. There were also three smaller red lights, one in each corner. At the front, almost at the tip, there was a blue light. I was scared because this object was big, bigger than a house and it was flying very low, about one and a half times the height of the streetlight in front of the house. It emitted a sound that I can compare to a light purring, a bit like a dishwasher running at low speed. The television was off. If it had been on I wouldn't have heard the sound of this object. It was moving slowly, I think I could have followed it on a bike, but suddenly it accelerated sharply, so quickly that in three seconds maybe, it disappeared hidden by a tree. If I remember correctly, at the moment of acceleration, the white light in the middle went out. The passage of this craft lasted maybe fifteen seconds. I'm sure it wasn't an airplane. It was huge and very close to the house. I was very scared.\" (November 3, 1993)", + "location": "Belgium, Grand-Rechain-Stockis", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace n° 89 p. 19 and 20", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3492" + }, + { + "date": "11/19/1993", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 9:35 and 9:40 PM, Mrs. A. and her 16-year-old daughter were driving the cat to an annex at the back of the garden, as they did every night. Mrs. A. had a flashlight, as usual. \"When we were two-thirds of the way there, we saw in the starry sky, airplanes but also two bright points: one red and one green, one above the other at a very high altitude. They seemed motionless. When we reached the shed, we saw three red lights in a triangular formation and a green light in the middle of the top, slightly below the red light at the tip. The formation was standing on its base, it was not very big (4 m on each side). None of these lights were illuminating. They were the size of a tennis ball. They were above the young maples, about 20 m from us and about ten meters in altitude. It was gliding towards us. And then we were in the dark. It was 4 m high and 6 m from us. We were in absolute darkness. My daughter was stiff with fear. We were motionless, as if paralyzed. Then the object suddenly stopped and at the same time it emitted a sound. Ah, that sound. It was not like an engine sound, it was a monotonous sound. Just before it stopped, the green light seemed to detach itself while still attached, as if by an elastic of the same brightness reaching a length of 80 to 100 cm. Just before it had become a bit brighter and a bit bigger. Mrs. A. shone the flashlight: towards the object the light did not come out of the lamp, towards the ground, the lamp illuminated. When the sound stopped, suddenly the object was no longer there: the sound and the object had disappeared simultaneously. Side effects: the young girl had stiffness in her legs and afterwards, she would have had greater ease in studying the so-called exact sciences", + "location": "Belgium, Villers le Bouillet", + "ref": [ + "Inforespace No. 89 p. 17, 18 and important personal documentation of vog.", + "chemistry, math", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3493" + }, + { + "date": "1993", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Eight SAS (Special Air Service) soldiers, specially trained for tough and difficult missions, were in ambush in the early hours of the morning, to flush out armed IRA militants. They were near an IRA weapons cache, on the slope of a hill south of Armagh. When they observed a brief flash of light in the sky, but didn't pay much attention to it. Suddenly, within rifle range, they encountered four gray-skinned, small-sized extraterrestrials. For a few minutes they observed each other warily, then the extraterrestrials left. The soldiers were so affected by this encounter that they all together decided to leave their observation post. Their commander was furious when hearing this story and the other officers suspected them of being drugged. Only four years later, the story resurfaced and was published in \"The People\" on July 13th, 1997, by Joe Brady.", + "location": "Ireland, Armagh", + "ref": [ + "source Michael Lindemann Email CNINews1 at aol.com", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3494" + }, + { + "date": "1/28/1994", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 1:14 pm an object in the shape of a bell was observed by the crew of a bus stop, while it appeared on the radar screen in the underground bunker of the Air Force in Taverny. (Paris Match of 13.2.1994 page 36) 1.3Vol Air France AF 3532 (January 28, 1994) Jean-Charles Duboc (P), captain of the Air France AF 3532 flight, providing the Nice-London connection on January 28, 1994, is assisted by Valérie Chauffour, co-pilot (CP). At 1:14 pm, while they are cruising at an altitude of 1,900 m, around Coulommiers in Seine-et-Marne, in excellent meteorological conditions, the head steward, then present in the cockpit, reports a phenomenon that appears to be a weather balloon. His observation is immediately confirmed by the co-pilot. P, who sees it in turn, initially thinks it is an airplane turning at 45 degrees of inclination. Very quickly, however, all three agree to note that what they see does not resemble anything they know. Excellent visibility and the presence of altocumulus allow P to estimate that the phenomenon is at an altitude of 10,500 m and at a distance of about 50 km. Given its apparent diameter, they deduce that the craft is of large size. They are struck by the changes in shape of the craft that first appears to them in the form of a brown bell, before transforming into a brown-brown lens, and then disappearing on the left of the aircraft almost instantly, as if it had suddenly become invisible. (...) This radar track, which was recorded for 50 seconds, crosses the trajectory of flight AF 3532 and does not correspond to any flight plan filed. It should be noted that the phenomenon disappears at the same time from the view of the crew and the radar scopes. The investigations carried out by the CODA allow both to exclude the hypothesis of the weather balloon and to know the precise distance of crossing of the two trajectories and consequently to reduce to 250 m the approximate size of the craft. It should be noted that the North Regional Air Navigation Center (CRNA), which handles 3,000 movements per day, has instructed only three cases, including that of flight AF 3532, in the last seven years.", + "location": "France, Taverny", + "ref": [ + "COMETA Report, 1999", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3495" + }, + { + "date": "2/2/1994", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Between 7:15 and 7:18 when the witness left her home on foot to go to the school where she teaches, it was still dark and the sky was starry. To her great surprise, a luminous phenomenon was just above the path she had to take, 45 m away from her. Compared to the height of the public lighting post, she estimated the altitude of the phenomenon to be 100 m. It appeared as an alignment of 4 round luminous balls, three white and one red. They were all the same size, about 5 to 6 mm at arm's length, and they were separated from each other by an apparent space of about 1.20 m, the whole making 5 m. The contour of these balls was well defined. She continued to walk \"in her little shoes\" and passed under this phenomenon, there was total silence, a little further on a dog suddenly started to bark, which scared her even more. She passed this phenomenon at 100 m before turning around: there was nothing left.", + "location": "Belgium, Strépy-Bracquegnies (Hainaut)", + "ref": [ + "investigation by J. Dersin/L.Maetens for the Sobeps", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3496" + }, + { + "date": "2/6/1994", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 9:15 PM, Mrs. B., who had been walking the dog, met her neighbor at the doorstep. As they discussed various topics, Mrs. B. had the curious feeling of a presence above her. She looked up and saw a strange phenomenon which she asked her neighbor to observe. Vertically above the vacant lot in front of them, at 70 meters away, a large luminous object flew very low (between 40 and 50 meters in altitude). It was composed of a kind of crown of a multitude of yellowish-white luminous points similar to portholes. There must have been about thirty of them. Each luminous point seemed to be separated from the next by a kind of post. Clearly below, three red lights arranged in a triangle blinked quite quickly. The brightness of the whole was quite strong but did not light up the surroundings which were flown over at a speed of about 30 km/h in the direction of NNE. After about twenty seconds, the phenomenon disappeared behind the trees.", + "location": "Belgium, Ensival (Verviers)", + "ref": [ + "Investigation by Guy BLESER for the Sobeps", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3497" + }, + { + "date": "2/14/1994", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mrs. Hermant and her companion made an observation in three stages late in the evening. First, an immobile light in the sky attributed to an airplane, but intriguing after 10 minutes. The light was filmed with an Explorer zoom x 8 camera, a common commercial video cassette, taking a shot of the immobile thing, sequence duration 3 minutes. In the foreground there were two white lights in an oblique position and immobile, in the background two small red lights, all forming a trapezoid, wide base towards the back. The witnesses did not see how the phenomenon disappeared because the camera battery was flat, so they connected to the network. At that time the phenomenon had disappeared. They thought they saw it in the distance and continued to film... \"Sirius\" low on the horizon. (February 14, 1994)", + "location": "Belgium, Profondeville", + "ref": [ + "investigation by Yves Mine and Vog for the Sobeps - film document deposited at the ERM-Brussels by Patric Ferryn - no more news of this film, why? On July 7, 1997, Lucien Clerebaut from the Sobeps called me to find out what had happened to this film, of which he had no memory.... the witness demands his property back... normal, after 3 years of silence from the Sobeps...", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3498" + }, + { + "date": "2/15/1994", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 11 pm the witness went to his sheepfold, as some of the sheep were about to lamb. As he left the house he heard a loud whistling, like a propeller cutting through the wind. This noise came from the power pole in his field. Thanks to the electric lighting in the back of the garden, he then saw some kind of very dark disk spinning on itself and making this curious noise. It measured about 5 m in diameter. It started to move and some kind of lit-up portholes with a whitish light inside appeared under the craft, which was only 10 m in altitude. The witness had the impression that this thing had a very thin thickness. It moved away, turning in one direction and then the other, about a hundred meters, and came back towards the witness who went back inside to call his wife and daughter and get a gun. When they came out the phenomenon was moving away towards Lamormenil and the witness's wife and daughter only saw the white lights.", + "location": "Belgium, Manhay", + "ref": [ + "Investigation by Michel Warnier for the Sobeps", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3499" + }, + { + "date": "2/19/1994", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness, an amateur painter, left his home in Rosyth to go to Craigluscar with the intention of taking some photos of the site to help him paint a picture of the place. Going around the retention basins, the witness heard a strange buzzing sound at the foot of the high-tension lines, then suddenly felt unwell. Turning around, he saw an aircraft made of a metallic material and estimated its diameter to be 15 m. The witness said that he felt at that moment immobilized, as if drained of his energy. He was unable to take any photos of the object at its closest point, even though he had his camera in hand. It was only once the object had moved away that he took two shots, one showing a saucer shape and the other a tiny point on the horizon. The phenomenon disappeared in a flash. (February 19, 1994)", + "location": "Scotland, Craigluscar", + "ref": [ + "\"UFO Files\" - ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, page 55", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3500" + }, + { + "date": "2/28/1994", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A young couple in a car were intrigued by the appearance of a light configuration above a house. They stopped the car, turned off the engine and the young man got out. He observed 3 immense red light sources, each with a diameter of 1.20 m, arranged in a triangle of 6 m side, one of the sides of the triangle was diffuse. This whole thing was just above the roof of a house, 20 or 25 m from the witness and was stationary emitting a low frequency low buzzing sound. At the moment of the sudden departure of this thing, the sound almost increased to a shrill whistle. Total duration of the observation: 10 seconds.", + "location": "Belgium, Tamines (prov. Namur)", + "ref": [ + "investigation by Yves Mine for SOBEPS", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3501" + }, + { + "date": "3/6/1994", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Renzo Cabassi) Two different observations alerted the CISU. At 4:30 pm, two men on board a Zenair 70 type ULM, flying at 200 or 250 feet altitude at a speed of 80 mph, observed a small sphere that reflected the sunlight, flying horizontally, at about the same altitude as them, but 6 km away. The mysterious object suddenly disappeared after 5 or 6 seconds of observation.", + "location": "Italy, Guardiaregia (Molise) Campo Basso", + "ref": [ + "Italian Ufo Reporter, 10.10.96, Paolo Toselli - CISU", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3502" + }, + { + "date": "3/6/1994", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The next day's newspaper \"Il Tempo\" reported that a mysterious flying object had crashed in the Mutria Mountains around 4 pm that afternoon and that search efforts were still underway. These searches were carried out by rescue teams and the army, using helicopters. Angelo Giambattista, 18 years old, is one of the key witnesses. He was returning home to Guardiaregia, facing the Mutria Mountain between 2 pm and 2:20 pm. He saw a black object coming from the east and falling onto the mountain, bouncing. He called his father, a policeman and former air force officer, telling him that an airplane had crashed. His father, Franco, quickly went out and saw two dark shadows in the snow in a ravine 100 meters from the Mutria peak. Through binoculars he saw an oval-shaped object sunk in the snow and 30 meters away a kind of black fuselage, with a vertical tail and a series of portholes. So Franco called the carabinieri. They arrived around 4 pm and saw the wreckage. It took them another 90 minutes to cordon off the area, place a powerful beacon. Around 8 pm eight volunteers began climbing the wooded mountain in the night, while two helicopters helped with the search. At 1 am the men arrived in the ravine. Even being in the exact spot of the wreckage, they found nothing! In fact, from Guardaregia, people no longer saw the wreckage in the snow either. IN REALITY: in May 1995, the court asked for and obtained that Franco be fined heavily, for \"foolishly reporting a supposed airplane accident mobilizing the civil protection and the army\"....", + "location": "Italy, Mutria Mountains", + "ref": [ + "Italian Ufo Reporter, 10.10.96, Paolo Toselli - CISU", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3503" + }, + { + "date": "Late 3/1994", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (source: Dr. Johannes Fiebag's conference, Germany) Carole is 36 years old and lives in a small village in Mecklenburg. It was around 11 pm and the children were already asleep. She was getting ready to go to bed herself. As she was heading to her bedroom, she felt strange, as if someone was watching her through the windows. Everything was dark in the garden. She suddenly panicked and ran to her bed. When the fear had subsided a bit, she heard a strange, light humming. Again scared, she wanted to sit up to listen better, but she couldn't move. She then saw several small, gray silhouettes at the foot of the bed. It seemed like they were talking about her. There were also two of these silhouettes near her 15-month-old son's bed. Her fear for her child was indescribable. She wanted to scream to call her daughter, but she couldn't make any sound. At that moment she knew it was useless because she could hear her daughter whimpering in her sleep. Then suddenly, Carole was unable to see or hear anything. The most unpleasant thing was that her brain was blocked, unable to think of words or ideas. She doesn't know what happened that night to her family and to herself. [note from vog: does anyone really think this person physically saw these silhouettes and everything?] (1994, late March)", + "location": "Germany, in Mecklenburg", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3504" + }, + { + "date": "4/10/1994", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A mother and her three children, on their way to school around 7:30, saw a strange object on the side of the road. At first it was like an immobile cloud, but they quickly realized it wasn't one. It had a strange shape (sketch: vaguely like the tank of a small concrete mixer, with the bottom ending in a point) and a color of blue-black, or maybe black. Then it went away to the north while the wind was blowing from the west. There was something on the top that seemed to be turning, the witnesses stopped to continue the observation. It went up into the clouds where it disappeared. It was the strangest thing ever observed by this family and every day when passing the same place, the witnesses still think about it.", + "location": "South Africa, Doornplaats (Merweville, Great Karroo)", + "ref": [ + "UFO Afrinews, February 1996 No. 0 13, pp. 12, 13", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3505" + }, + { + "date": "4/11/1994", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the drive of the Tumulus, Mrs. H.B. and her daughter, and further down the street, Mrs. B.M.M. were witnesses, around 10:15 pm, of the slow flight, close to the trees, of a bulky object equipped with lights, emitting a high-pitched turbine noise. This object was heading from south to north, where it was seen shortly after by Mr. M. in Rixensart. The shape of the object could not be defined, its apparent size was 40 cm and its thickness 4 cm. Its white circular lights arranged in a triangle seemed to be at the level of the mass of the object and a small fixed red light was in the center of the triangle formed by the white lights. In the mass, several other white lights seemed to be embedded. The noise made by the object was more deafening heard from inside the house than perceived from outside; it was continuous in frequency. Its speed was extremely slow: about 10 km/h. Unusual fact: about 3/4 of an hour after this observation, fighter planes flew over the region.", + "location": "Belgium, Villers la Ville", + "ref": [ + "Investigation by Michel BRY for the Sobeps", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3506" + }, + { + "date": "4/16/1994", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf: September 16, 1993) In 1994 everyone was in front of their television wondering what was going to happen. Again, a UFO appeared in the middle of a formation of helicopters. HUMO: In September 1994 they even had to close the Mexico airport for an hour because of a UFO flying low and slowly. GARZA: Yes, a UFO was hovering at low altitude above the takeoff and landing strips. The control tower stopped all traffic. For the pilots this situation was untenable. They couldn't talk about UFOs, being bound by professional secrecy, and here a UFO was preventing their work. The union of professional pilots asked for military assistance and since then pilots dare to openly talk about their UFO sightings, like the incident where an enormous saucer crossed an airplane right in front of the landing strip, or that other incident where a UFO hit the landing gear of an airplane.", + "location": "Mexico, Mexico City", + "ref": [ + "article by Jan Hertoghs in the magazine HUMO of 24.9.1996", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3507" + }, + { + "date": "7/13/1994", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Marco Bianchini, investigator, has just completed his report on the observation of July 13, 1994, where a young girl in a car with colleagues noted the presence in the sky of a circular luminous phenomenon around 10:30. The thing looked like a disc (of music) that reflected the sunlight and was next to a cloud. Suddenly the disc disappeared to reappear on the other side of the stretched cloud (CISU, NOTIZIE UFO n° 48) July 24, 1994 Belgium, Lierneux Testimony of Mr. A.C., witness of \"crop-circles\" during their formation: \"On July 24, 1994, I was in the Belgian Ardennes, near Lierneux, where I was spending a few days of vacation. The heat was scorching and there was not a breath of wind. The sky was blue without a single cloud and the sun shone intensely. Around 2:00 pm, while I was walking in the countryside with my dog, I stopped near a small pond surrounded by pines. A high-voltage line passes over the place. In front of me was a meadow and a little further to the left were thickets composed of small pines and very dense ferns, about 1.5 meters high. My dog bathed in the pond and as he was coming out I heard a whistling of wind in the high-voltage line. I thought that this wind would be welcome in this heat. After more or less two seconds, I heard an appalling crash a little in front of me. It started with two sounds that are difficult to translate into writing, but which I compare a bit to two huge bundles of straw falling to the ground, that is, a dull sound.

This sound continued with a continuous sound of broken branches that lasted 2 or 3 seconds. I thought that a herd of cows was running in the thickets, crushing everything in its path. My reflex was to look for shelter to protect me from this herd. My dog flattened himself to the ground, out of fear. I looked in front of me but my field of vision was limited by the trees and I could only see the meadow in which the grasses were moving, 50 meters away from me. When the noise stopped, after 2 or 3 seconds, I noticed that I had not felt a single breath of wind. I went to see in the meadow where the grasses had moved. To the left of this place was the fence of the meadow and behind it the thickets composed of small scattered pines and ferns. I then noticed that the ferns were crushed in two places and that this formed two circles of about 10 meters in diameter. A distance of one meter separated the two circles. The most curious thing was that in this meter (of separation), the ferns were intact. The two circles were separated from the meadow by a distance of one meter of ferns, also intact. Two or three young pines were inside these circles but had no damage. I went inside the circles and saw that the ferns were lying down and formed a carpet of more or less 10 cm in height. They were directed towards the outside of the circles, the center being however located closer to the meadow. I then left the place, supposing that I had witnessed a mini tornado and feeling a retrospective fear of what would have happened if I had been in that place. I could not explain how the ferns were intact around the circles, in the hypothesis of a mini tornado. A little later, thinking about this phenomenon, I thought that the whistling of the wind in the high-voltage lines resembled the whistling caused by a glider. Could there have been an accident with such a device? A glider could have crashed a little further! So I went back to the place and searched around without noticing anything abnormal.\" [note from vog: this witness and investigator of Sobeps at the time, is an officer of the gendarmerie] (July 13, 1994)", + "location": "Italy, Campiglia d'Orcia (SI)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3508" + }, + { + "date": "9/14/1994", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Garry and Jenny, along with friends, were on board their boat. They saw an object come and slowly fly over the boat. It was huge, with a lot of blinking lights, but totally silent. The observation lasted at least 6 minutes, from the appearance of the object on the horizon to its disappearance behind the Kariba Mountains. Three people took photos, but there was nothing on the shots. The observation caused them all a feeling of fear and unease. From its appearance on the horizon, in a few seconds the thing was already above them where its flight seemed then slow.", + "location": "Zimbabwe, Lake Kariba", + "ref": [ + "UFO-Afrinews - July 1996, No. 14, p. 15", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3509" + }, + { + "date": "9/16/1994", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Garza: On September 16th, 1994, again on the anniversary of our Independence, a kind of mothership landed with five smaller craft in a rural village: Metepec. All the inhabitants saw it and from the closest house to the craft on the ground Maria Cueva then filmed for one and a half minutes, a luminous creature that was near the craft. (1994, 16 September)", + "location": "Mexico, Metepec", + "ref": [ + "article by Jan Hertogs in the magazine HUMO of 24.9.1996", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3510" + }, + { + "date": "10/2/1994", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In this small rural town, everyone was sleeping around 4:30 in the night of Saturday to Sunday. Except for the two year old youngest of Mrs. N.N. She often cries at night, so her mother gives her something to drink and usually that's enough for her to fall asleep again. Not this time. The little one said she was scared. Mrs. N.N. took her to put her to bed next to her father and then went back to see in the bedroom what could have scared the child. It was at this moment that she saw light through the curtains. \"I moved them aside and it was really well lit, like in broad daylight. I opened the window to look, but there was only a big white round beam of light about 3 meters wide, widening slightly towards the ground, to make about 4 meters. I thought a neighbor was playing a joke on me, that he had invented a 'thing'. I thought it was strange and then I went back to my bedroom. There I also went to the window, it was also lit up there. I saw the same white beam of light at a distance of about 1.50 m from the window. I went back and forth from one room to the other to see: it was the same thing. I tried to wake up my husband (he had a serious motorcycle accident), but there was no way. I wanted to see what was happening, I didn't insist on waking him up. The big white spotlight, from what I could see, was embedded like a spot. The white light could be compared to about ten halogen lamps, at least, all lit up together, so strong. It was as if panels were preventing the light from going elsewhere, it was really well directed towards the ground, a precise point. The light was transparent and did not spread beyond. The white beam was about the size of my living room (3.20 m). It was huge and a little wider on the ground, but not much (4 m). There was a kind of dull, regular noise, like a vacuum cleaner and, from time to time, a sound like crumpled greaseproof paper. On either side of the spot, towards the house, there was also a small rectangle of red light, which did not light up the ground. It was neither too hot nor too cold, I slept with the window open. There was no smell, no wind, no pulsed air because the leaves of the trees did not move. I saw two rounded points, one on each side of the house. The outline was well defined, of an aluminum color, shiny. It looked like a material that could be molded. It was smooth, regular and at least one meter thick above the spots. From the white spotlight at the back of the house, a transparent blue beam, like a telescopic device, descended in jerks. It was about 8 centimeters in diameter and it moved, without noise, towards the door at the end of the garden (length of the garden 12 m). I don't know if it touched that door, because from the bedroom I didn't see anything. This blue beam then retracted in one go, faster than it had developed. The total duration of this maneuver can be estimated at a short minute. Then I only saw a white ball of light leaving horizontally, it was going so fast. It was as if something was lit up inside, without illuminating the outside. When the object was 600 meters away I had the impression that it was going up and then I saw nothing more. The noise remained the same throughout the observation. It \"left\" with the craft\". (1994, 2 October)", + "location": "Belgium, Chapelle lez Herlaimont (Hainaut)", + "ref": [ + "investigation carried out on October 5th, 1994 by Mrs. Léonce Maetens and Mr. F. Brael. From his report it appears that the craft, because it was indeed a craft, measured 19 meters long and was only 4 meters from the witness", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3511" + }, + { + "date": "11/16/1994", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 8:15 PM, with the car parked in the garage, Mr. K. saw three strange lights coming from the south-southwest, from the bottom of the garden above the woods, at about 35° elevation. The object approached and revealed to the astonished witness its unusual bell shape. Apparent dimension: 4 cm at arm's length between thumb and index finger, the bell flew with a large diameter towards the front. The object seen from the front was a bluish circle with a red light in the center, flanked on each side by a yellow-white light; seen from below: it was grayish blue, with a row of twinkling lights like a crown on the back edge, and a large red rear light; seen from the back: it was a grayish blue circle, with a twinkling luminous edge and a luminous red center. Surprised, he shouted to his wife: \"Quick, come and see a UFO!\" His wife and daughter came out and arrived in the garden at the moment when the phenomenon was above them and enjoyed the strange sight of the craft seen from below. They continued to follow this thing with their eyes, which they gradually saw on its back side until it disappeared hidden by the houses. When the phenomenon was closest, the witnesses heard a very light \"Bzzt\" like the sound produced by an air purifier. Estimated distance 250 m in altitude during the overflight. Duration of the observation: about 1 minute for Mr. K. and 30 seconds for his wife and daughter. Speed of the object: 110° of arc in 1 minute. Trajectory: from SSW to NNE.", + "location": "Belgium, Kain (Tournai)", + "ref": [ + "personal archives of vog - investigation carried out by Mr. Bonno", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3512" + }, + { + "date": "1/1/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the morning, around 7:45 AM, EH saw from a window of his house in Burnaby a round and dark object. It must have been very close as its apparent size was larger than his outstretched hand. (...) EH went to another room to get a better view, and the object then turned around and slowly moved eastward, with a slight ascent. Seeing it from the side now, the witness noticed that the object was conical, flying with the tip pointing upwards. It had no lights and disappeared from sight around 8 o'clock.", + "location": "Canada, North of Vancouver (BC)", + "ref": [ + "Investigation by Graham Conway, on the Internet by Aufora in June 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3513" + }, + { + "date": "1/3/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On this night, around 3:45am, Ms. C.L.G. was unable to fall asleep, as is often the case. She got up, as she had seen a red light flanked by a blue one in the distance, which intrigued her. Ignoring the plane, which was what it was, she was surprised to see a bright orange bar appear low on the horizon, at an altitude she estimated to be \"three times the height of a four-story building\", or about fifty meters. She grabbed her binoculars and, barefoot despite the cold, went out onto the terrace to get a better look at this unusual thing. The bar approached slowly, and was at least twice the diameter of a full moon. Through the binoculars, Ms. C.L.G. could see nothing more. She leaned against the wall and the railing to keep the binoculars steady, but it was useless: she could only see this very bright orange bar. The thing was now no more than 100 meters away, yet in the quiet night she could not hear the sound of an engine... Suddenly, to her great surprise, the phenomenon made a sharp turn and rose, and she saw the bar transform into a uniformly orange triangle, with the center appearing a bit brighter and a bit more yellow. Very quickly, the thing gained altitude and disappeared from the witness's view, towards the southeast.", + "location": "Belgium, Brussels, Molenbeek St Jean", + "ref": [ + "Archives and personal investigation by Vog", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3514" + }, + { + "date": "1/4/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness left the workshop (garage) and went into the kitchen, he looked at the time: 10:35 pm. His gaze was drawn to two strong stationary white lights above the highway, at a low altitude, estimated at that moment between 50 and 100 m. Used to the sight of planes taking off or landing at Zaventem, these fixed lights intrigued him and he went out to the terrace to get a better look. The immobility of the two lights lasted for some time. At one point, one of the lights began to approach - followed a few seconds later by the second. The witness did not have enough of his two eyes to contemplate the strange craft that flew over him: in shape it resembled a rhombus, with the largest diameter being the width, the shortest the length. In the direction of the width, the corners of the rhombus are cut off, the back of the craft is vaguely rounded. On the front two large headlights project a very strong, white light forward. The top of these crafts is vaguely domed, the rear edge is only 2 m thick. In the upper part of this rear edge there are about fifteen green and red flashing lights, there are also some on the sides; in the lower part of this edge there are separations - spacings, ventilations? The body of the craft is light gray, matte, smooth, without any other visible structure, the ambient light is reflected on it. There is no inscription either, the flying phenomena so low that if there had been any inscription the witness could have read it. Apparent dimension: 40 cm at arm's length. After calculation this gives 12 m wingspan, 7 m length and 2 m thickness. At the time of the flight, very muffled, a slight turbine noise is heard, however for the altitude, the noise is clearly \"silent\". They fly on a straight trajectory, at very low altitude, and at a speed of 80 to 100 km/h. Once over the witness they quickly disappear from his sight hidden by the building. The flight was very stable, \"like on rails\", without oscillation, without breath, but from the fixed point the start seems to have been progressive, the flight at constant speed without acceleration.", + "location": "Belgium, Ophain Bois Seigneur Isaac (Brabant)", + "ref": [ + "personal archives of vog - investigation done by Michel Bry", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3515" + }, + { + "date": "1/6/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 18:48, Commander Roger Wills and co-pilot Mark Stuart aboard a Boeing 737 approaching Manchester Airport observed a triangular phenomenon of a size between that of a light aircraft and a medium-sized carrier. The plane was flying over the Pennines in northern England about 8 or 9 nautical miles southeast of Manchester, at 4000 feet. Wills was heading north at a speed of 180 to 210 knots. As he was above some tumuli, the crew saw the object cross their path to the right of the aircraft at very high speed and coming from the opposite direction. They were able to follow the object for several seconds through the right portion of the windshield, then through the side window. There was no sound or vibration perceptible. There was no radar echo of the object. (Phenomenon No. 31 - SOS OVNI, pp. 25, 26) Was it following this incident that the BBC received an order of silence to no longer broadcast any news about triangular objects? (1995, 6 January)", + "location": "Great Britain, near Manchester - in flight", + "ref": [ + "LUFOS, PO Box 73, Lancaster", + "BBC has been \"Heavely D Noticed\" forbidding broadcasting any information aubout triangles", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3516" + }, + { + "date": "1/7/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A person heard the sound of a fall when a humanoid about 1.5m tall fell from the sky. He was wearing tights and gloves, and had a ski mask on his head. He flew away, buzzing.", + "location": "Italy, San Quirino", + "ref": [ + "CISU, Avvistamenti...", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3517" + }, + { + "date": "1/9/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A young girl saw a large light flooding her room at 3:30. She went to the window. In the garden there was a humanoid about 1.2 meters tall and large lights", + "location": "USA, Marion (NY", + "ref": [ + "Listing NUFORC, Jan. 96", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3518" + }, + { + "date": "1/15/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Night of the 15th to 16th of January. Various people saw in the sky an enormous rotating disc and rush to the ground. It was the 40-tonne vitreous-ceramic cover of a water purification basin, torn off and sent into the air by a tornado. (1995, 15 January)", + "location": "Italy, Palermo", + "ref": [ + "CISU, Notizie Ufo n°48", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3519" + }, + { + "date": "1/27/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: Rudder rudder at delphi.com, spontaneous testimony of a pilot) \"On Friday, January 27, at 12:45 AM, I was flying from Orlando to Sarasota. I had a sleeping passenger in the back and another, to my right, awake. We were about 30 nautical miles from Sarasota, I was flying at 3000 feet, the sky was clear without clouds, unlimited visibility. My ADF radio (low frequency) began to \"pulse\" instead of emitting its usual noise. At first I didn't pay attention to it. Then my aircraft was shaken, although nothing on the dashboard indicated a failure. I was looking towards the ground (towards the earth) when the cockpit was lit up by a violent green and white light. At 11 o'clock I saw an orange-red, oval object, maybe a quarter of a mile from us, and the size of a semi-trailer, about 50 feet long (16 to 17 meters). The object left a double trail, merging into one about a half mile behind it. It crossed my route quickly descending. My first impression was that of an airplane fuselage in flames that was going to crash in Sarasota.... But the object rose, without turning, and rose as quickly as it had descended, always rising above Sarasota, beyond the bay and then... it was gone. Vanished! By radio I immediately alerted the Tampa Approach Control, explaining to them what I had observed for about 5 seconds. Tampa had no radar echo of the thing.", + "location": "USA, in flight, above Florida", + "ref": [ + "NUFORC Listing, Jan. 95", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3520" + }, + { + "date": "2/2/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 8:10 PM, the 10-year-old girl suddenly ran into the house and excitedly began to describe the flying saucer she had just seen pass overhead with her older brother and two friends while they were jogging up the hill. The boys arrived shortly afterwards, accompanying their description with gestures, holding their arms out above their heads to indicate the size of the object, which made a noise \"like the microwave\". The children said they were engulfed in a white light, then the saucer hovered close to the ground a little further away. It rose up to go west, then south, quickly disappearing from their sight. When asked why the boys came back much later than the girl, they said they had to get dressed! They explained that they were sitting in the mud with their clothes neatly folded on the snow and that they had dressed to come back. This was certainly strange, given that it was freezing and the outside temperature was 20° Fahrenheit, especially since the boys had never in their lives \"neatly folded\" clothes.... (February 2, 1995)", + "location": "USA, Traverse City (Michigan)", + "ref": [ + "National UFO Reporting Center P. O. Box 45623 University Station Seattle, WA 98145", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3521" + }, + { + "date": "2/6/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two truck drivers, on Route 136, 15 miles from the Dixie Brothers Truck Stop, had a strange experience around 6:30 PM. The lead truck suddenly slowed down, while the driver of the other truck didn't understand why. Both eventually stopped completely on the ramp. At that point they saw in the hazy sky, on the side of the highway, a strange, stationary phenomenon. It presented itself as a set of two or three (it is no longer certain how many) \"vertical lines of light\". The middle line was longer than the other two and had a different tone of color. The witnesses watched this phenomenon for 5 minutes, when the \"line\" in the middle ejected a cloud of red dots, and the entire phenomenon suddenly disappeared. The drivers had noticed that during the observation, the highway remained totally empty of traffic, but immediately after the disappearance of the unusual phenomenon, traffic on the road resumed. (February 6, 1995)", + "location": "USA, Bloomington, IL (McClean County)", + "ref": [ + "National UFO Reporting Center P. O. Box 45623 University Station Seattle, WA 98145", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3522" + }, + { + "date": "2/28/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) This Tuesday evening around 7:20 PM, Chantal S. was driving to the Perwez Sports Center for a mini-football match. She was accompanied by her teammate Stéphanie M., 16 years old. After crossing the St Michel intersection in Glimes, at the intersection of Glimes and Thorembais les Béguines, shortly before the crossing of Rue du Chêne (in Thorembais les Béguines), the two athletes saw in the sky, at low altitude (approx. 30 m, equivalent to the height of two traditional houses) at low speed, a dark rectangular mass flanked by blue and red lights at the four corners and arranged in a quincunx. This strange object, seeming to come from the direction of Perwez, flew over them and disappeared in the direction of Dongelberg (south/north trajectory) without producing any noise that could have been heard in the car, which did not stop due to traffic.

While Chantal S., at the wheel, continued her journey looking ahead and driving at a speed of about 80 km/h, Stéphanie had time to see the aircraft move away to her right, whose lights suddenly changed color (becoming green and yellow), without ever flashing. The carrier mass apparently had no thickness, was dark (gray-black) but was not perfectly flat, as she could distinguish some kind of pipes, but not completely detached from the platform (kind of bas-relief). The length was twice the width and compared to the road the wingspan was around 15 m.", + "location": "Belgium, Glimes", + "ref": [ + "investigation by Mr. Gérard GREDE for the Sobeps", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3523" + }, + { + "date": "3/4/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:08 PM, Jonathan, 15 years old, entered the bathroom on the first floor and, in the darkness, observed an unusual light above the woods through the window. This light, which seemed unique and fixed, was yellow and not dazzling. Jonathan opened the window. The light approached and Jonathan observed that it was 4 lights in a horizontal line, the two strongest in the center, the two weakest at the ends were slightly set back. He discerned a carrier element of about 10 m in wingspan that he perceived as being gray or black. The object flew over the house and Jonathan rushed to the north facade where he saw the back of the carrier mass with a halo of light above and below. The whole moved with extraordinary ease and seemed to glide on the air. The lamps seemed to be curved and there was no other lighting at the back which appeared to him as a half circle. At the moment when the object approached and Jonathan opened the window, he perceived a vibrating hum that he compared to the sound of a powered speaker. This sound vibrated in his head and it seemed to him that it must be reflected throughout the house. According to Jonathan, this sound must contain infrasound which he had learned to know in school during physics. As it left, the object pivoted on its axis and changed direction with extreme ease. The headlights had beams that, according to Jonathan, must have carried about 20 m away.", + "location": "Belgium, Zellik (Brabant)", + "ref": [ + "investigation by Mrs. Claire HAUZEUR for the Sobeps", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3524" + }, + { + "date": "3/9/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 3pm, Kevin McCarthy, recently moved to the province, was drinking his coffee in the kitchen, admiring the mountainous landscape that borders Vancouver. Suddenly his attention was drawn to three dark objects, shaped like bats, slowly approaching above the valley. It took from 5 to 10 minutes for them to get as close to the witness as possible. Then two of these objects flew off to the east, the third coming right in front of Kevin who, in the meantime, had gone out to the porch with his camcorder. At the top the object had three very visible protuberances. It was apparently stationary and rotating. Kevin was not only stunned, but also felt anxious at the same time, not knowing very well why. The apparent size of the object, to the naked eye, was that of a dollar coin held at arm's length. At no point did this object reflect the sunlight, yet the day was clear and the sun was shining. During the investigation the details provided by Kevin allowed to calculate the altitude of this object, which must have been around 1100 to 1200 meters. There was no audible noise perceived. Kevin then saw that other people had their noses in the air and went to join them: it was Joanne, Gay and their 8 year old son. They were observing the object with binoculars. It was only when the object resumed its trajectory that Kevin realized he had not taken a single sequence, which he did promptly. The total duration of this observation was around 45 minutes.", + "location": "Canada, Vancouver", + "ref": [ + "source: Graham Conway", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3525" + }, + { + "date": "3/16/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 5:30 PM Peter Hickie and his brother were driving on the A 52. An hour away from Willington to Swarkstone they saw to their right a large triangular object approaching their position. The object had 9 three-dimensional light panels, like cubes of white light on the underside of the craft. These blocks were so bright that it was difficult to make out the outlines of the object. They saw it when it was almost directly overhead: a kind of flying wing. They stopped and got out of the car for several minutes. The object was flying really slowly and it was incomprehensible that it didn't spread out. If it was a military plane, the witnesses couldn't understand why it was carrying its large light blocks on its underside to draw attention. As it was cold, they got back in the car and stayed to watch until the object disappeared behind a line of trees.", + "location": "Great Britain, Willington (Derby)", + "ref": [ + "Omar FOWLER: \"Phenomenon Research Association\" - Derby - England", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3526" + }, + { + "date": "3/28/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Early in the morning the witness left his home to go to work, about 15 miles away. Suddenly the witness saw \"a bundle of fog\" flying over the road in front of his vehicle. To summarize the very detailed observation: this bundle of fog flew around the car in a circular flight six times, stopping either just above or just in front. After the sixth (presumed) flight the witness only vaguely remembers seeing two objects on the ground next to his vehicle.", + "location": "USA-Alaska South", + "ref": [ + "National UFO Reporting Center P. O. Box 45623 University Station Seattle, WA 98145", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3527" + }, + { + "date": "3/30/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7:30 in the morning, an object of metallic appearance, landed on three feet in the middle of a street where various people saw it and prevented a bus from continuing its route. The bus stopped at 90 meters from the phenomenon which had multiple lights of all colors. After a few minutes the object rose slowly, then disappeared at very high speed. Earlier in the morning already two policemen had seen an unusual flying object, while a civilian witness filmed it with his camcorder.", + "location": "South Africa, Bloemfontein", + "ref": [ + "CISU, Notizie Ufo n° 49", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3528" + }, + { + "date": "3/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) \"Santili Affair\" - Autopsy Film - A dispatch from the France Presse agency announced that an English producer, Ray Santili, had acquired an American military document from 1947 showing the autopsy of an extraterrestrial. The affair made its way around the world.", + "location": "Great Britain", + "ref": [ + "AFP", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3529" + }, + { + "date": "4/25/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 5 o'clock, Mrs. K. heard her 11-year-old eldest child, who was sleeping in the attic, shout: \"Come and see the big ball!\" The mother went upstairs and to her astonishment saw an enormous ball suspended in the air above the neighboring houses. Before the mother went upstairs, the boy had seen two smaller balls in the vicinity of the large ball. They were all three white-yellow in color. Mrs. K. then woke up her husband, after which she continued to observe: a kind of yellow geometric shape seemed to be attracting the big ball. First slowly, then faster and faster. The ball and the geometric shape disappeared. Mrs. K. was quite anxious after the observation.", + "location": "Netherlands, Eibergen", + "ref": [ + "© 1997 Jeroen Slurf and Jeroen Kümeling.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3530" + }, + { + "date": "4/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Since the 1980s, nothing was heard of the Popobawa (dwarf cyclops, pointed ears, wings). The first victim in April was Mjaka Hamad, a 55-year-old farmer. At first he thought it was a dream, but something was pushing him in his mattress, waking him up. He wanted to scream but had no voice. Then he knew that the \"Popobawa\" had come to do something sexual to him. For men it is worse than what it does to women. Mjaka Hamad fought with the \"thing\". The Popobawa appeared for the first time in 1972 and the whole island talked about the sodomizations suffered. It lasted for a few weeks. Then it started again in 1980. Hamad knew it was not a dream because the whole household was awake and panicked. \"Impossible to see it, you can only feel it,\" he said. His family ran out screaming 'Huyo!'. Hamad had sore ribs from being beaten. (April 1995)", + "location": "Zanzibar, Sogea", + "ref": [ + "Chris McGreal in \"The Guardian, 2.10.95", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3531" + }, + { + "date": "5/3/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Note from vog: This series of Belgian observations from May 3, 1995 is grouped under the generic name of \"Night Flight\". Indeed, trying to get confirmations from the Glons radar station, Lucien Clerebaut suggested \"Night Flight\" to the plouc on duty who was not authorized to answer us. Between 8 and 12 pm (local time) military flight exercises took place and 15 F 16 planes, including those from the Florennes base, would have participated. At Florennes they denied it: the runway being under repair and unusable, their F 16s had stayed on the ground. In vain I tried to get information from our national aviation: I was referred to Sobeps... where I was in charge of the investigations! ...) In Brussels (Berchem Ste Agathe): R. D. (17 years old) first observed at 10:55 pm, and then at 11:22 pm, from the 9th floor of his building, a flying phenomenon appearing as three red points flashing very quickly (2 times per second) in triangular formation and a white glow at one of the bases. At a third of the distance traveled and observed, there is a sudden acceleration and the red lights become white. Quite fast speed, flight direction NE towards the Koekelberg basilica. As the witness is used to the flight of planes (air corridor towards Dilbeek where the planes then turn south or east) he was surprised to see these light points at about 150 m altitude evolving so quickly, while hearing a slight humming. In Aiseau Presles, C. A., 19 years old, amateur astronomer beginner, observed from 10:35 pm to 11:40 pm a total of 15 objects of which he estimated that 12 were of the same type. He found them to have unusual movements. Apparent size between 2 and 7 mm according to the distances, between 1000 and 3000 m altitude. (vog: these were the F.16s) In Yves Gomezée, T. W. and his companion observed between 11:10 pm and 11:15 pm an F 16 approaching very close to a phenomenon composed of two white headlights, estimated altitude of 500 to 1000 meters. The phenomenon suddenly accelerated without noise and distanced the F 16 which remained in place. In Andenne, J. A. observed at 11:43 pm, at an estimated altitude of 300 m approximately an object flaming with a plume, the size of the moon, which disappeared in an oblique trajectory behind the roof of his house: no noise. He thought he saw a barrel or a barrel on fire. In Namur, Mrs. L. D. saw on May 4 between midnight and 12:15 am an object of the appearance of a blue white sun, with a yellow-white plume, disappearing in the direction of Charleroi, without any noise. Magnetic and electrical effects on her telephone device and on the bell installation in the building. Anecdote: the next day the witness sees 3 small dead sparrows, standing on their legs...", + "location": "Belgium, Brussels", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3532" + }, + { + "date": "5/3/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11pm passersby and motorists were left stunned, observing a luminous ball 2.50m in diameter, flying at 30m from the ground and lighting up the area like it was daytime... IN REALITY: The curious onlookers were in front of an illusionist performing a special act", + "location": "Italy, Campiglione (TO)", + "ref": [ + "Eco del Chisone, 11-5-95; CISU, Notizie Ufo n° 49", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3533" + }, + { + "date": "5/19/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11:15 pm, a worker who was returning home by car saw a light shining above a field. As it was quite unusual, he stopped 6 meters away from the phenomenon. It was a saucer, in the shape of two overturned plates, suspended motionless 80 cm from the ground and illuminating the entire field with a yellow light. Through the transparent walls of the saucer, the witness was able to look inside. There were at least 25 small entities (a little over a meter). They had elongated heads; huge eyes, large mouths, and emaciated purple bodies. The witness thought the beings were smiling at him. Less than three minutes after this confrontation, the UFO rose and moved away in the direction of Prata.", + "location": "Italy, between Villanova and Pasiano di Visinale (PN)", + "ref": [ + "Il Gazzettino, 3-6-95; L'Indipendente, ed. Triveneto, 6-7-95; CISU, Notizie Ufo n° 49", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3534" + }, + { + "date": "5/1995 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An farmer encountered in the countryside, a very small humanoid of violet color, who smiled at him... (1995, May (exact date unknown))", + "location": "Italy, Porto Recanati (AN)", + "ref": [ + "Il Mattino di Padova, 4-6-95; CISU, Notizie Ufo n° 49", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3535" + }, + { + "date": "7/21/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Five people experienced a strange adventure. Two men, a father and his son, on a hiking excursion around this large isolated lake, saw an oval-shaped UFO, the size of a car, hovering over the water for 3 minutes, before shooting off like an arrow. When they arrived at the refuge, where they were camping with three other people, they told of their observation. The next morning, the father and son were packing up to return home, and on this journey, they stopped at a gas station on Route 97. They bought a newspaper, not understanding how it was dated July 23 instead of July 22: they had a missing day of an entire day. The strangest thing was that the same misadventure was shared by the other 3 campers at the refuge. They packed up on July 22, and on their journey home, they listened to the car radio: the speaker was announcing the news of the day, specifying that it was July 24! These people went to report to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. (July 21, 1995)", + "location": "Canada, Lake Taharti, Quesnel (British Columbia)", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Folklore Center - Masinaigan", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3536" + }, + { + "date": "7/24/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) AFP reported the discovery of humanoids: a colony of hairy dwarves, height 70 cm...", + "location": "SUMATRA, Kerinci Slebat", + "ref": [ + "SRES - UFO Bank, Central File - Bagneux-France, p. 313 2/2", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3537" + }, + { + "date": "7/26/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A huge UFO was detected on the radar screens of the Tobías Bolaños airport. At the same time, pilot Everardo Carmona was transporting a crew on a training mission. He saw it and described it as \"formidable, ovoid and shining\". Controllers Gerardo Giménez and Javier Mayorga confirmed that the instruments in the tower had failures for a few seconds.", + "location": "Costa Rica, San José", + "ref": [ + "Forerunners to the incident of Bariloche, Carlos Ferguson, Samizdat 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3538" + }, + { + "date": "7/31/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11:30 PM GMT, as flight 674 of Aerolinas Argentinas from Buenos Aires, with 102 passengers and 3 crew members, was finishing its approach maneuvers to land on the Bariloche runway, the pilot Jorge Polanco suddenly saw a white light coming directly towards him at full speed, stopping at about a hundred meters away. The object made a strange turn to follow the plane's descent and stayed parallel to it at a hundred meters away. After a while, the saucer, the size of a commercial plane, changed color, two green lights appearing at the ends with an orange light in the center that blinked intermittently. As the pilot began the final approach, the lights of the airport runway suddenly went out and he had to climb to 3 miles, still accompanied by the UFO, which then rose at a supernatural speed. When the light returned to the ground, the pilot was able to land. He admits to having stayed, once landed, \"five minutes in the cabin with his heart in his throat\". (AFP-BELRTL EXT 0012 02 AUG 1995, 08.43) 2.5San Carlos de Bariloche (July 31, 1995)

Source Sepra - Flight Aerolineas Argentinas AR 674, a Boeing 727 from Buenos Aires, was 140 km from San Carlos de Bariloche, a tourist station in the Central Andes where it was about to land. At that precise moment, an electrical failure plunged the city into darkness and the pilot was ordered to wait for a few minutes before making his final approach. As he began it, the pilot observed a strange star. At the same time, the control center put a second plane arriving in the area on hold. Flight AR 674 continued its approach, but as it was at the end of the turn, in the axis of the runway, an object resembling a large plane appeared on its right side and flew parallel to it. This object had three lights, one red in the middle. The lights of the airport fell out again, the runway lighting and the approach ramp also went out; the plane on hold observed the same phenomenon from its position. The pilot, unable to land, increased power and made another turn to line up with the runway. At that moment, the object, which had become luminous, passed behind the plane, stopped, rose vertically and stopped again. It passed in front of the plane before disappearing definitively towards the Andes Cordillera. The crew, the passengers of flight AR 674, those of the other plane, as well as the airport controllers and part of the inhabitants of San Carlos witnessed, stunned, this unusual aerial ballet. This case is interesting for more than one reason: - observation corroborated by multiple independent observers, in flight and on the ground, - duration of the phenomenon of several minutes, - varied trajectories, some of which follow those of the plane, - observation of an electromagnetic phenomenon (extinction of the lights of the city and the airport) in direct relation with the presence of the object.", + "location": "Argentina, Bariloche (Rio Negro)", + "ref": [ + "COMETA Report, 1999", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3539" + }, + { + "date": "8/7/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Sirk Jooste and Fanie Kleyn were out on the lake at night in a rowing boat, fishing. Suddenly a triangular object appeared in the sky, bigger than a passenger plane. It had three large lights on its belly at the base and small orange lights up to the top point. The object appeared at around 2am, stayed above them for two minutes in absolute silence. Then it came closer, made a turn and in a fraction of a second disappeared. Fanie Kleyn rowed to the shore and drove to the river mouth but nothing more was visible. Sergeant Steven Schneider of the Sedgefield police was out of the village in a car around midnight when he saw red lights above the road. At first he thought it was a vehicle on the mountain, but there are no roads there. He called his colleagues, as he had the feeling of something unreal: at one point he saw these lights less than 100m in front of him and the next second he saw nothing.", + "location": "South Africa, Sedgefield", + "ref": [ + "UFO Afrinews-July 1996, No. 14 pp. 15, 16", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3540" + }, + { + "date": "8/12/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A large festival was gathering more than 2000 people. At 23:35 they were able to observe a large UFO, in the shape of a pear, emitting a red light. At the bottom of the object, small white lights were spinning. The object was estimated to be at an altitude of 3000 feet and eventually disappeared, rising vertically at an enormous speed. (AURORA n° 2 - SOS OVNI, p. 31) IN REALITY: one of the balloons launched by the Milo space agency in ITALY. (1995, 12/13 August)", + "location": "Spain, Canaries - El Hierro", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3541" + }, + { + "date": "8/7/1995 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Second week. This is what Madeline Tolentino and her husband Jose Miguel recount: August: the first observation took place in the second week of August 1995, around 4 pm, in front of their house in Campo Rico, southwest of San Juan. Madeline's mother was also present. Madeline notes that something is rising in the sky and goes to the window to see what it is. Outside she sees the neighbor standing next to his car, talking to the passenger sitting in the car. Suddenly, the man turns around and looks stunned and scared. Madeline then sees the strange creature coming onto the road, walking towards the neighbor. The creature stops in front of Madeline's window. It is about one to one and a half meters tall, covered in dark brown hair or fur (not really a fur coat), wearing no clothing and with no apparent sexual organs. Its arms are held very close to its body, they are very long and thin and end in a three-fingered hand with long claws. On its skin there were circular marks like burn scars. Its mouth is just a slit, its nose nonexistent but there are two small openings there. It has small ears and large gray-white eyes that look like something gelatinous. When it moves its head, it does so in a mechanical motion. The upper part of its body is thin and disproportionate compared to the lower part which is big and looks robust. The neighbor did not wait and jumped into his car and drove away. Madeline shouted for her mother to come and see. The creature then started moving so fast that its legs seemed not to touch the ground. It was heading towards a field of tall grass (...) (1995, August 7 (approximate))", + "location": "PORTO RICO, San Juan", + "ref": [ + "AUFORA", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3542" + }, + { + "date": "8/24/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Patrick W., 19 years old, was walking and guiding his bike through the Thier woods to get home at 10:40 pm when he had a traumatic encounter. He found himself facing an apparition of vaguely humanoid shape, phosphorescent greenish in color, about 1m 80 tall, surrounded by a halo. This \"specter\" brushed against the witness's arm, who, terrified, started running to get out of the woods, leaving his bike and the bags with the provisions on the road. For at least three hours, 14 other witnesses, all from the neighborhood, witnessed unusual luminous and sound phenomena, while Patrick W., exhausted, had already been home for a long time. Strange attitude of the police in this case. Physical effects on the witness and on the \"walkman\" he was wearing, whose rechargeable batteries melted. Unfortunately, Patrick W.'s friend Mohamed M. (17 years old) handled these batteries, destroying them even more, so that Patrick W.'s parents threw away the debris. But there are at least 5 witnesses who saw the state of the batteries.", + "location": "Belgium, Liège \"Thier à Liège\"", + "ref": [ + "Investigation by Daniel BUKENS for the SOBEPS, at the request of the Liège police, in the person of Mr. Clerbout - full report at vog", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3543" + }, + { + "date": "8/29/1995 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Davey de L. took a 22-second film sequence with his father's camcorder of a UFO. The boy explains: \"Normally I was supposed to do my homework (it was around 4 o'clock) but I was playing with my father's camcorder. All of a sudden I saw this black thing above the trees and I filmed it.\" Mr. Souren from the Astronomical Institute says that indeed, the images obtained are very different from other UFO films... (Roy Deen) HOAX? [note from vog: and for good reason! Wim van Utrecht from Antwerp made a remarkable analysis of a copy of this film. His conclusion is that Davey stuck a small paper UFO on the window and then manipulated the camcorder by moving it strongly from left to right and from top to bottom, to give the illusion that the \"UFO\" was flying...] (1995, August 29 (this date seems inaccurate, he was coming back from school...))", + "location": "Netherlands, Heerlen", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3544" + }, + { + "date": "8/31/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 11:30 PM, Jorge Divino Pereira was woken up by his dog's barking. He noticed a bright light coming through his bedroom window. Taking a lamp, he went outside to see what was happening. At that moment, the light became much brighter, blinding him completely. He saw the oil from his lamp being sucked towards the light while burning, and then felt himself being pulled into the air before falling and passing out. When he woke up, 5 hours had passed. Everything was quiet and he was in pain all over. In the days that followed, he suffered from severe headaches, vomiting, and strong irritation in his eyes. (August 31, 1995)", + "location": "Brazil, Aparecida do Norte", + "ref": [ + "Phenomena #33, pp. 8-9", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3545" + }, + { + "date": "9/10/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) From his apartment, the witness saw an object with the appearance of a pyramid above the Scott Road aerial metro station. It was covered with a multitude of small, bright, green lights. The object was only seen for 7 seconds, disappearing behind the hill.", + "location": "Canada, Burnaby", + "ref": [ + "Graham Conway - Aufora", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3546" + }, + { + "date": "9/11/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7:45 a.m. a young woman in her twenties, a shepherdess, had taken her sheep out to graze in the valley, when she saw something luminous in the air. She approached the object, which suddenly came towards her, revealing itself to be a very small humanoid smiling, 50 cm tall, wearing a tight-fitting brown garment and its head, from the shoulders up, was in a kind of transparent diving suit. It had two eyes and a nose, two legs as well, but apparently no arms or mouth. The diving suit was half silver-colored spherical shape, and had an antenna. The young woman remained amazed looking at it from a distance of 200 to 250 meters. (Note from Vog: this Italian woman had sharp eyesight, that's the least I can say. At 200 meters, I can only make out the general silhouette of people, but I can't say for sure that they have two eyes, for example, and no mouth!) Then she decided to go back home, but to her surprise, she saw that the creature was following her. In panic she started running on the road, and met a motorist who she told about the event. The man tried to get closer to the entity which he described as a dwarf who went back and forth in the valley, then started running on its short legs and then flew away, while the woman (but not the man) heard a motorcycle sound. The man seems to have seen a white trail coming out of the half-sphere covering the humanoid's head when it was in flight. Two other people from the small town also saw this phenomenon.", + "location": "Italy, Rocchetta Sant'Antonio (Foggia)", + "ref": [ + "ITUFOR, investigation by Archangelo Cassano of CISU", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3547" + }, + { + "date": "10/15/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 9:30 pm, a turtle-shaped object, surrounded by a blue fire, with two humanoids in conversation nearby. (Banque Ovni, Fichier Central, Bagneux-France, p. 313 1/2) On July 4, 1996, Radio Rebelde in Havana broadcast a special program dedicated to this event. The object landed in Torriente near Playa Giron. A witness, Adolfo Zerata, a farmer, was working in his field when an object shaped like a bell emerged from the clouds and landed in the vegetation. He saw \"two little men\", one behind the UFO's window and the other walking around the object. They seemed to be wearing diving suits. The humanoid who had come out began to pick \"malanga\", a kind of potato. With his small arms full of uprooted plants, he re-embarked. The craft was surrounded by white and blue smoke and disappeared into the clouds at very high speed. Zerata called the police who arrived at the scene and collected evidence of the landing. There were footprints of small feet and the foliage at the landing site was all black.", + "location": "CUBA, Torriente", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Folklore Center", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3548" + }, + { + "date": "11/6/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Two Chupacabras had already been captured in Porto Rico. One of them was alive, presumably young, by a man who kept it in a cage for 6 days at his home. Upon learning the news, the local police dispatched several agents to the site to verify it. Two hours later, several men arrived in 4 grey 4x4 vehicles and took the creature away in a kind of quarantine box, made of a transparent material, like reinforced plexiglas with a mesh of iron. It was a kind of intervention team composed of agents from the Porto Rican Department of Agriculture and an American federal agency of indeterminate nature. (...) On November 9, Resolution 5012 was taken by the House of Representatives - 12th legislative session to order a thorough investigation into the deaths and mutilations of animals attributed to the Chupacabras. (November 6, 1995)", + "location": "Porto Rico, Hato, San Lorenzo", + "ref": [ + "Phenomena #31 pp. 6-9", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3549" + }, + { + "date": "12/4/1995", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 5:45 PM, four Chinese pilots from four different planes reportedly observed an object. One of the pilots connecting Harbin to Beijing contacted authorities to say that he saw a white, oval UFO moving at 15km/Minute (900 km/h) near his aircraft. According to the pilot, \"the object then became green\". Neither the AP nor the Sunday Post of Bangkok specify how the observation ended. (Phenomena #32 p. 23) The commander of a plane flying from Harbin to Beijing reported by radio that a white oval UFO was moving near the plane at a speed of 900 km/h. Later he announced that the UFO was becoming green. Another pilot confirmed the presence of the UFO. Two other aircraft crews reportedly saw in the airspace above China, a UFO that was red for one, or yellow for the second. (December 4, 1995)", + "location": "China, Beijing", + "ref": [ + "Belgium, BRTN Teletexte p. 176, Sunday, December 31, 1995 at 9:50:22", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3550" + }, + { + "date": "8/16/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (excerpt from \"Alien Encounters\" Ed. Andy McDermott, December 6th 1996, p. 38) \"Rumors circulated that an extraterrestrial vessel had crashed in the northeast. It was a 200 m diameter disc, probably shot down by air-to-air missiles. The region was surrounded by the military, and the search was supported by helicopters for several days. The population said it was a large triangular object and dozens of hermetically sealed nylon bags, containing the bodies of the extraterrestrials (200 bodies!) were probably sent to the USA.\" The article referred to what the FAO (Fundaccion Argentina de Ovnilogia) was saying. The full story of the FAO, written by Carlos Iurchuk, was sent to the British by Luis Pacheco, by email and was found in \"Ovniciencia electronico n° 6 October 1996\". In reality, on August 16th the Paz Zamana couple were observing the movements of an orange light above their property and the next day they saw a \"thing\" fall from the sky. (vog: probably a space debris) In fact, at 1:45 pm hundreds of inhabitants of Salta saw a huge beam of light over a distance of 300 km followed by two strong explosions while a kind of earthquake was felt. A column of smoke was rising from the supposed crash site. On the official side, an investigation was carried out by the Universidade Nacional de Salta (UNSA) and by the Centro Atomico de Salta, while the search was undertaken by rescue groups from Rosario de Lerma. The evidence: a photo showing the white smoke column left by the \"UFO\" and a video filmed by plane at 3,370 meters altitude, showing a large area of vegetation on fire, but which, the next day, was extinguished. Navy aspirant Pedro Olivera, 31, in charge of the rescue services, said that with binoculars he had seen a metallic object shining in the sun. While an employee of the university added: \"What is it? We don't know, but it's something quite sophisticated\". In any case, there was no question of encircling the place or recovering \"bodies\" and the official information was that it was again a meteor, as there have been so many lately. (1996, August 16th and 17th)", + "location": "ARGENTINA, Salta", + "ref": [ + "\"Gente\", Buenos Aires; \"Diario Cronica\", Buenos Aires; \"Diario Popular\", Buenos Aires; \"La Tribuna\", Salta; FAO", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3551" + }, + { + "date": "1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Failed attempt to land a probe on Mars. The probe is lost, coming back to Earth. It was carrying half a pound of plutonium. It is assumed to have fallen into the Pacific Ocean, in Chile or Bolivia... The plutonium has not yet been found.", + "location": "Russia, space", + "ref": [ + "The Associated Press", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3552" + }, + { + "date": "1/14/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Dennis Porter was walking his dog around 9:45 PM and strolling along the path alongside the Leeds-Liverpool canal, walking in the direction of Red Rock. When he reached the small bridge that crossed the canal, the witness stopped to light a cigarette. At that moment he received a blast of cold air so strong that he stumbled. Looking up, he then saw an object triangular in shape, about 10 meters in width, silently passing overhead before accelerating and disappearing at a dizzying speed towards Wigan. He described the triangle as perfectly equilateral, with what looked like an overheated wheel protruding from its belly, which otherwise had the appearance of matte aluminum. (January 14, 1996)", + "location": "Great Britain, Welley-Wigan", + "ref": [ + "UFO Magazine - UK", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3553" + }, + { + "date": "1/20/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The agricultural worker couple Oralina Augusta and Euricode Freitas, living 10 km from Varginha, were woken up around 1 am due to the lowing of their cows. They got up and saw through the window the animals circling the house, completely disoriented. They saw in the sky an object gray in shape like a submarine, the size of a van. This object flew without noise and a kind of white smoke was coming out of it.", + "location": "Brazil, near Varginha (Minas Gerais)", + "ref": [ + "UBIRAJARA F. RODRIGUES from CBPDV - Brazilian Center for Research of Flying Saucers - and VITORIO PACACCINI from CICOANI - Civil Investigation Center of Unidentified Aerial Objects - \"The Varginha Case, August 1996", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3554" + }, + { + "date": "1/20/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The most spectacular encounter took place in Brazil in Jardim Andere, a suburb of the city of Varginha. On Saturday, January 20, 1996, the Varginha firemen were called at 8 o'clock in the morning, because a mysterious creature was in the park. The firemen are used to having to evacuate wild animals that have come out of the forests and are lost even in the suburbs. They went to the place with a cage and were amazed to see a creature like they had never seen before. It measured about 1.20m, had red-blood eyes, olive-colored skin, three long bumps on the head and made a buzzing sound. Four firemen managed to catch it with some difficulty, called the army and closed off access to the park. The creature was loaded into a wooden box and a truck from the army took it away. That same day, at 3:30 pm, three young girls returning from work saw a strange creature against the facade of a house. Believing they had seen the devil, they ran away screaming. In the following minutes, dozens of people gathered in the street and some children threw stones at the creature. The firemen and the military arrived in turn to catch the being in a net. These two creatures would die quickly but there were no details about their remains. Within 24 hours, UFO investigators were on the scene. They questioned dozens of shocked witnesses (military, doctors, firemen) and were so impressed that they called for a congress in Curitiba in June, dedicated entirely to the incident. (Jan HERTOGHS \"Humo\" of 24.9.96, p. 47) (note from vog: Brazilian investigators correct this report as follows:) At 8 o'clock the firemen are called for \"a strange animal\" in the park. They arrive around 10 o'clock and find a group of children throwing stones at the \"animal\". Three adults observe the capture of this being by 4 firemen. At 10:30 the creature is caught without resistance in a net, put in a box which is covered with a tarp. An ESA (Exército) van takes this package in charge and heads towards Três Coraçoes. The fire truck returns to the Varginha district.

At 3:30 pm Liliane, Valquiria and Katia (22, 16 and 14 years old) see in the Rua Benevenuto Bràs Vieira, near number 76 a strange creature, less than 7 m away from them. They flee screaming and crying. At 4:10 pm the mother of Katia and Valquiria goes to the meeting place. There is no more creature but there is a very strong smell, unidentifiable, at the place. At 6 pm there is a hail storm over Varginha. The electricity is completely disrupted, trees are uprooted. At 8 pm the military police capture the second creature (note from vog: it is not specified where). The creature is sent for care to the hospital where admission is refused \"since it is not human\". It will finally be delivered to the Regional Hospital. This is followed by a back and forth of officials. In the night, around 2 o'clock in the morning, the creature is transferred to the Humanitas university hospital, under good military escort. At 9 o'clock on January 22 the dead creature is made available to the ESA. It will only be taken away in the night of January 23, at 4 o'clock and it will be deposited at the military school. The next day (January 24) Doctor Fortunato Badan Palhares (who identified the funeral remains of Mengele) performs an autopsy on the creature in Campinas. (...) There are 48 witnesses at the various stages of the events. Among them the military: Sergeant Pedrosa, Corporal Vassalo, Soldier De Melo, Sergeant Cirilo, Captain Ramires, Lieutenant Colonel Olimpio Vanderlei, Commissioner Tibério.", + "location": "Brazil, Jardim Andere (Varginha)", + "ref": [ + "UBIRAJARA F. RODRIGUES DU CBPDV - Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas de Discos Voadores- and VITORIO PACACCINI DU CICOANI - Centro de Investigaçao Civil de Objetos Aéreos Noa Identificados - \"O Caso Varginha, agosto de 1996", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3555" + }, + { + "date": "1/27/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 10 pm a gigantic rectangular UFO was observed by hundreds of people, during a thunderstorm. The object was approaching the city, coming from the northeast. Before seeing the object, the witnesses saw two huge flashes of light. One of the witnesses, the Texas farmer Pedro Alaniz had a 20/20 vision of the phenomenon. He was on Camino (route 180) driving south towards Alvaredo, when he saw the UFO. He was able to give a detailed description. It was flying from northeast to southwest at about 200 miles/hour. It measured about 90 m long and had bright white lights on its belly, going from the front to the back. The tail took up 1/3 of the total length and had 5 appendages shaped like \"fingers\". Near the tail, on the left side, there was a pale blue light. The object was heading towards Cosamaloapan and was filmed by dozens of amateur camcorders.", + "location": "Mexico, Vera Cruz", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Folklore Center - Masinaigan", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3556" + }, + { + "date": "1/30/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Note from vog: Excellent hoax to sell a book or to misinform?) During an Alan Handleman radio show, Dr. Norman R. Bergrun (\"The Ring-makers of Saturn\" re-edited in 1986 by Pentland Press) claimed that a large UFO in the shape of a cigar had been photographed in orbital phase around the rings of Saturn. He said that judging by the photographs, the vessel appeared so huge that it could contain an entire civilization. It would be an electromagnetic vehicle. Dr. Bergrun specified that NASA had not reported this observation under the Space Act of 1958, stipulating that the public should only be informed of facts concerning space if they are qualified as non-hostile. A craft of this size would surely be classified as hostile. (...) Three immense vessels assembled of 13 units whose diameter is equivalent to that of the Earth (UECDDS: report Jan. to April 1977, several unnumbered pages) New detection of rings, satellites with capricious behavior, appearance and disappearance of objects: the harvest of observations collected during the last passage of the Earth in the plane of the rings of Saturn, August 10, 1996, brings a new vision of these amazing structures. (...) The overall brightness of the rings seen in the slice would be dominated by the brightness of the outer ring F, whose thickness is estimated at 1.5 km. (...) Of the eleven small known satellites, two were not present: one, \"Pan\" which orbits inside the main rings, was not identified, the other, Prometheus, accumulated an unexplained delay of nearly 50 minutes compared to its ephemeris. (...) About a dozen new objects were detected in the vicinity of ring F. (...) It seems that we are witnessing an incessant carousel on a scale of a few months at most, of formation and destruction of bodies in ring F, at the limit of the so-called \"Roche\" zone. This zone corresponds to the place where tidal forces due to the planet tend to destroy the satellites in formation, roughly balancing the gravitational forces between the particles which, in turn, tend to accrete the material into small moons. (...) If all goes as planned, the European-American probe Cassini / Huygens will leave in October 1997 for Saturn which it will reach in 2004 for a 4-year stay", + "location": "Space, Saturn", + "ref": [ + "La Recherche No. 293 of December 1996, article \"Jeux de Lumière dans les anneaux de Saturne\" by Bruno Sicardy and François Poulet, pages 34 to 37; library ref. \"Planetary Rings, by R. Greenberg and A. Brahic - The University of Arizona Press 1984", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3557" + }, + { + "date": "3/7/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An employee witnessed the landing of a UFO, 56 m from his house. Three small humanoids descended from it. The device left triangular marks on the ground and outside of it there were also footprints, \"feet that have nothing human\" (...)", + "location": "Spain, Ferrerias, Friol.", + "ref": [ + "Investigation: Manuel Carbalal, Cnifo Newsletter", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3558" + }, + { + "date": "Late 5/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Rory Thornton, local ufologist, declares that a saucer coming from the planet Sunas (vog: Sun-as?, very indicated as a name) made a forced landing near Boyle. The whole affair was kept secret by the Dublin government. Rorty Thornton is a kind of seer who runs a mental health clinic (sic!) in Newcastle, Galway. The extraterrestrials would have missed their shot, hitting the treetops and crashing into the waters of the lake. The whole region was surrounded by the police and there were at least six Americans driving around in jeeps (note from vog: that many?) According to the locals, something did happen in the night, but they think it had much more to do with NATO than with extraterrestrials. (1996, late May)", + "location": "Ireland, near Boyle", + "ref": [ + "Irish Sunday Mirror, 21.9.97, p. 4", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3559" + }, + { + "date": "6/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) MOI-TV of Bucharest reported that a saucer had landed in Vidra, a very isolated village in the Carpathians. The whole village saw it, as well as a flock of occupants, smaller than humans, with large ears and big eyes, gray in skin color. Frightened, the villagers fled, locking themselves in their homes. The next day a red sphere was seen above the woods of Galati, 150 km east of Vidra, near the border with Ukraine. (June 1996)", + "location": "ROMANIA, Vidra (Carpathians)", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Roundup, vol. 1 no. 38 - Masinaigan", + "Email Interview", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3560" + }, + { + "date": "6/25/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A UFO was observed around midnight (at 4:55 AM), on the road from Vilnius to Miadininkaï, 10 km from the capital, for half an hour by two police officers who alerted the entire Lithuanian police. The object, round, luminous, shaken by pulsations, was stationary 20 to 30 meters above the ground. (It was equipped with red and yellow lights that lit up and went out intermittently). \"At the same time a strange noise similar to an electrical or electronic crackling was heard,\" they specified. The police officers, (including chief Anatoly Dobrynin) after observing it for half an hour, approached it. (This object was sending a beam of green light towards the ground from time to time). When they arrived at about 50 meters, the object began to move, rose into the air, then quickly moved away in the direction of Vilnius. (It was then 6:35 AM: the observation had lasted about 100 minutes) Trucks full of soldiers from the rapid reaction forces and police dogs went to the site, but arrived after the UFO had left. The police studied the terrain, measured the radiation, recorded the noise on a tape recorder that could still be heard after the UFO had disappeared. The dogs, calm, detected nothing. The tall grass, above which the object was located, was withered on a perimeter of 10 meters. (The Midi Libre of June 30, 1996) For the information added in parentheses: (1996, June 25-26 (July 23))", + "location": "LITHUANIA, Nemejis", + "ref": [ + "Masinaigan, Richard S. Ralston \"Ufo Folklore\" Internet, November 1996", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3561" + }, + { + "date": "7/11/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A 76-year-old man, Rudolf Slam, allegedly saw a UFO land in a field. The witness had gone out on his balcony around midnight to smoke a cigarette when he saw a triangular-shaped, luminous object slowly land in the field. The witness rushed to grab a camcorder to film the phenomenon, but his batteries had run out. (...) In the field, an investigation revealed a triangular trace on the ground, made up of circular holes 10 cm deep located precisely 1.70 m apart. Burned grass was discovered at the center of the trace. The witness said that the object took off after a few minutes, then quickly disappeared while emitting a 300 m long trail of flames and a deep rumble resembling thunder.", + "location": "Austria, Drosendorf", + "ref": [ + "Phénoména n° 33 p. 23", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3562" + }, + { + "date": "7/14/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At five o'clock in the morning, the camcorder of the couple David Remiro and Ana Pilar Muñecas was recording a sequence of what they called a \"UFO like the one from the other day\". The images were transmitted by a regional Aragonese television transmitter. During my interview with the witnesses we agreed that if they saw the same UFO they could call me. I didn't expect them to do it, and even less at five o'clock in the morning. But three days later they called me: the UFO was there. I went to the place. Result: their lack of astronomical knowledge had made them take the planet Venus for a UFO.", + "location": "Spain, Zaragoza", + "ref": [ + "Angel Briongos Martínez, Investigator, Zaragoza - Spain - abmz at arrakis.es", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3563" + }, + { + "date": "7/16/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A countryman, Dionisio A., had a daytime encounter with three beings that seemed to not belong to our world. Although he received us amiably, this 66-year-old man was still in shock, suspicious of us, and only wanted to say \"just what was necessary\". Several times during the interview he interjected with the statement: \"I will never pass by here again, never again.\" The place was one kilometer from the village. Dionisio said: \"Since I'm retired, I walk a lot in the countryside. I came almost every day here around noon. There is this stone on which I sit to rest. When I arrived here, I saw a device next to the electric pylon. There was an unbearable smell, like when burning used oil. I thought it was an ICONA container. But it wasn't. The object was made of a very shiny metal, transparent like crystal, and there were four black crystal hatches. It wasn't on the ground, but suspended 30 cm from the ground. It was like a bell three meters wide and 1.5 meters high but in the shape of a half moon. On one side there was a symbol like a \"yoyo\". And then I also saw this surprising thing: two dark cables came out of the back and joined the high voltage line above. \" At that moment Dionisio's heart began to beat violently, because he saw three motionless beings, like statues. Where did they come from, he doesn't know. They measured about 1.7 meters. There were two men and a woman, wearing clothes so close to the body that at first he thought they were naked and had painted themselves a silver color on the skin. Their tight-fitting clothes reflected the sunlight. They were of Asian type with high cheekbones, very pale, with slanted eyes. They had large hands with five well-defined fingers. They wore boots of the same color as the outfit. There was no expression on their faces and that's what made Dionisio even more uncomfortable. \"Suddenly I received a great blow in the chest that made me lower my eyes. When I looked up again, the woman was pointing to one of the companions further back. They had small mouths without lips, like a line. When speaking they did not open their mouths. I did not hear their voice with my ears, but inside my head. Then I felt bad. When I became aware again of the bad smell of burned fuel accompanied by a buzzing, I looked up: there was nothing here, no device, no men, nothing. \" Since the encounter Dionisio has been going badly: he is always tired, he does not eat anymore and he is afraid \"they\" will come back to take him away. The next day the son went to the site and found traces. Two weeks later they were still visible: four cylindrical holes 9.5 cm in diameter and 1.5 cm deep, forming the corners of a perfect square of one meter. No vegetation was burned, but folded and bent as if it had suffered a great weight, despite the fact that Dionisio said that the device was 30 cm from the ground ©Midwar Flash-Net 1993-1998, All Rights Reserved.", + "location": "Spain, Los Villares (Jaén)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3564" + }, + { + "date": "7/25/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 5 in the morning the local police were overwhelmed with calls. People were seeing in the sky a very bright \"star\", which as it approached became a more or less incandescent disc. [Note from vog: Simultaneity of testimonies over a large distance; Arad is 200 miles from Haifa; probable atmospheric entry]", + "location": "Israel, Haifa, Tveria and Arad", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Reality - issue 4 - p. 7 - 1996", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3565" + }, + { + "date": "8/14/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Many witnesses in these locations were able to observe, at a few minutes interval, around 8:45 PM, a phenomenon that stirred up the population and authorities. It first appeared as an enormous luminous sphere slowly crossing the sky, emitting a wavering light. Then it changed into a diffuse ring of light that increased in intensity as it approached the cities it flew over. Following a trajectory from south to north, it was responsible for various anomalies, such as an electrical power outage in Comodoro during its passage. An agriculturist from Guatrache told the press that he had seen the UFO escorting the vehicle he was in for about fifteen minutes, and that he had clearly distinguished protuberances resembling feet, as if it wanted to land. The phenomenon quietly disappeared. (Phenomena #33, p. 25) IN REALITY: the observation around 9 PM and for a duration of about twenty minutes, throughout South America and Chile, refers to the Russian Molniya telecommunications satellite, stage 3, being put into orbit", + "location": "Argentina, Chubut, La Pampa, Rio Negro, San Juan, Cordoba, Catamarca", + "ref": [ + "Alejandro Agostinelli, Nezws Sept. 1996 - CISU", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3566" + }, + { + "date": "8/18/1996 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Three young boys observed a flying humanoid in the woods. It flew 50 cm above the ground at first, then it kept rising higher and higher as it moved away. (1996, around August 18)", + "location": "ITALY, Valtellina", + "ref": [ + "Archivi NEWS Settembre 1996 su concessione del CISU", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3567" + }, + { + "date": "9/14/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Youri Iskov (Isakov) is of sound mind and body. (...) With a moustache, in his sixties and alert, this immigrant from the former USSR claims to have received a visit from extraterrestrials. According to his description: bald humanoids, of small size, with two eyes, a mouth and three fingers on each hand. These strange beings would have burst into his house in Nazareth near the Sea of Galilee and taken him away without mercy, pulling him by the hair, into their flying saucer. There, unable to speak - his tongue inexplicably stuck to the roof of his mouth - he would have been subjected to various experiments for three hours. The extraterrestrials would have notably smeared his body with a sticky green and yellow mixture, all the while commenting on their operations in a babble that was audible but incomprehensible. After which, brought back to his starting point, Youri rushed straight to the police to tell of his misfortunes. Without taking him very seriously, the investigators still had the product that remained on his body analyzed. To their great surprise they found no trace of the most common substances on Earth, revealing an unusual chemical composition with 55% aluminum - an abnormally high rate. (Le Figaro - Saturday, September 21, 1996 \"Les extraterrestres sont chauves\" - signed Ph. G. which dates the event to September 16, 1996). Uri Sahov (Shakov, retired cook), resident of Nazareth, was on his way to post a letter when he suddenly heard a whistling (and was flown over at very low altitude by a huge UFO) and felt himself grabbed by the hair and shoulders. He was taken away in what he described as an egg-shaped UFO inside of which he saw several small beings one meter tall with heads like bulbs and thin limbs. They emitted incomprehensible sounds and seemed to have a larger being as their leader, rather greenish, with a strange head, rather narrow, with an eye on each side like fish. Uri then remembers that one of the small beings stepped forward towards him, sprinkling him with some kind of yellow powder. He claims to have undergone a certain number of horrible medical tests during which he eventually lost consciousness. When he came to, he was lying on his back in the middle of a football stadium 500 meters from his home. Feeling very ill and dizzy he returned home and called the police.

Taken to the hospital he had to undergo another battery of tests. He still had yellow powder on his face which the doctors took samples of to analyze. The results indicated that it was composed of 60% aluminum (as well as iron, calcium and potassium, but containing no trace of silicon) and bore no resemblance to the earth in the vicinity. The samples were said to have been sent to NASA. (PHENOMENA n° 34 of 1997, p. 13) (Ufo Roundup, vol. 1 n° 25, cites the Associated Press) Barry Chamish, journalist, in an article published on the Internet \"Ufo Folklore Center\" under the title \"Yuri Isaacov - another blow to Israeli ufology\" explains that Michael Heseman of \"Magazine 2000\" (Germany) called by him to meet Yuri, proposed, since the witness claimed to be ill, to have him examined in Houston by abduction expert Derrel Sims. If Yuri had no money Heseman would have paid for the trip on condition of obtaining a copy of Yuri's medical report. At the hospital they were told by Dr. Michael Kedem that Yuri had signed an exclusivity contract with a lawyer by the name of Michael Luxemburg. Without Luxemburg's agreement, nothing could be copied. Luxemburg contacted wanted $5,000 for this \"work\". By the end of February 1997 Heseman was filming an interview with Yuri where the latter claimed that the week before two extraterrestrials had been in his apartment as well as in an old lady's from the neighborhood. (...) Finally Barry Chamish concluded that Yuri had set up the whole story for financial gain, and that for the neighborhood Yuri Isaacov is a pathological liar. [note from vog: THEREFORE, if we believe Barry Chamish, this case is a HOAX, however, is this same journalist not subject to caution? He was the first to bombard the foreign press with this story, as well as with those of December 1996]", + "location": "Israel, Nazareth", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3568" + }, + { + "date": "9/15/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A young man went hunting in this border region with Spain. On his way he decided to visit a cave about which it is said that in the 14th century a little girl was found after three days of disappearance. (see 14th century - Fundao) Once in the cave, the young man lost consciousness. He came to in a huge \"underground hangar\" surrounded by three kinds of extraterrestrials. Several silver ovoid UFOs were parked there. The humanoids, the young man recounts, are part of an interstellar alliance for observing Earth. Their base under the Serra da Guardunha is one of the four bases they have here, the others are in Warminster (England), the Grand Canyon (Arizona USA) and Peru. After hearing all this, the young man lost consciousness again. He regained his senses at eight o'clock in the evening, on the ground, next to the cave. (1996, 15 September)", + "location": "Portugal, Cabeca da Penha (Serra da Guardunha - Beira Alta)", + "ref": [ + "Masinaigan at aol.com", + "Wouldn't one say that this young man is repeating word for word what William Hermann of Charleston (South Carolina) said at the end of 1978 and was widely exploited by authors?", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3569" + }, + { + "date": "9/25/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) There was a recent sighting in Alken, near Hasselt, on the 25th of September. Something like a balloon, which was descending into the meadows, with 4 things, like legs, but which were wriggling with each descent or ascent of the thing. No gondola. The closest distance was not even 100 meters. It descended into a meadow and had to go up a bit to pass over a row of poplars. The witnesses took agricultural paths to approach it, and where they always saw the balloon, when they arrived at the scene: nothing! Nothing in the air, nothing on the ground. It was broad daylight, it was noon and the sun was shining. Duration: about 25 minutes. Officially no balloon was in the air that day. (1996, 25 September)", + "location": "Belgium, Alken (Hasselt)", + "ref": [ + "source: FUO - Hasselt, Belg.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3570" + }, + { + "date": "10/6/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Residents saw creatures, larger than humans, with skin resembling that of frogs. The witnesses explain that they were very frightening to people before they left the sky (with no other details). These testimonies were taken very seriously by the Palestinian press. According to Palestinian scientists, it would probably be \"highly technological products\" sent by Jewish settlers...", + "location": "Palestine, Tulkarem", + "ref": [ + "© 1997, UFO nieuwsbrief jaargang 2, nummer 1", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3571" + }, + { + "date": "10/14/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Abdul Alharzrad, an Arab living in Jenin, was driving at night towards the Dotan post. On the side of the road he saw a man hitchhiking. He took him on board. To his astonishment, this hitchhiker changed his appearance completely: he became huge, dressed in black, with a dog's head with drooping ears and a single cyclops eye. Panicked at this sight, Abdul slammed on the brakes, causing a fishtail. He quickly got out of the vehicle. The entity also got out, took a few steps in his direction and faded away on the spot.", + "location": "Israel, Jenin", + "ref": [ + "UFO Roundup vol. 1 no. 31", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3572" + }, + { + "date": "10/23/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 2 in the morning, Rachel and Leah Gorovitz were driving in a jeep in a side street of Montefiore Street in Ahuzat Bayit, a district of Tel Aviv. The street was deserted. They saw there a small individual (1.5m) but very obese in a red suit, carrying a backpack that seemed to be an integral part of the vest. He walked like a robot, had a pale wax face without any expression. The individual was coming in their direction. The driver, taken by panic, maneuvered to turn around and leave at high speed. Later the magnetism of the jeep was measured, it attested several hundred milligauss higher than the average of vehicles in Tel Aviv.", + "location": "Israel, Tel Aviv", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Roundup vol. 1 no. 36 - 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3573" + }, + { + "date": "11/7/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Elena Antonescu, 29 years old, was watching a gymnastics competition on television in her apartment. During the commercial break, she went to the kitchen to smoke a cigarette and opened the window. The night was dark, full of clouds. However, she saw a small red star. While continuing to smoke her cigarette, she stayed in front of the open window, looking for other stars, which she did not see. Then she saw a red ball, not circular but shaped like a rugby ball. At this point she wanted to close the window, but she was stunned to see this ball come 50 meters from her. She ran and rang the neighbors, asking them to look outside. Seen up close, said Elena, it was more like a half moon, with a flat base, of a color between bright red, orange and pink. The neighbors, braver, continued to observe this thing for a quarter of an hour and saw it slowly move west.", + "location": "ROMANIA, Constanza", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Roundup vol. 1 no. 38 - Masinaigan", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3574" + }, + { + "date": "11/9/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Just before sunrise, around 6 o'clock, people in the streets of the Kandivli district of Bombay saw three small UFOs, described as the size of cricket balls, flying above their heads at great speed but only 9m from the ground. At 6:45, they suddenly shot off into space and disappeared to the west.", + "location": "India, Bombay", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Roundup vol. 1 N, 39 - Masinaigan", + "See the Times of India for November 11, 1996.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3575" + }, + { + "date": "11/22/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7:20 local time, hundreds of people were able to observe a yellow-green sphere with a golden streak in the middle. People called radio stations, television stations, and police stations to report the phenomenon which was slowly drifting westward, passing over the Han-gang river. The cameraman of a cable television channel was able to film the observation for several minutes before the light gained speed and quickly disappeared. This film was shown on CNN.", + "location": "South Korea, Seoul", + "ref": [ + "PHENOMENA #34 of 1997, pp. 14, 15 and photo extracted from the film", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3576" + }, + { + "date": "11/30/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 6:30 pm, three witnesses observed a UFO. It was a pink-red ball heading south to east. One of the witnesses initially thought it was a helicopter about to land on the roof of the \"Spectrum\" (hospital) of Twente, and was surprised to hear nothing. The phenomenon had the apparent size of a full moon and flew on a constant trajectory. Another witness, in a car stopped at a red light, observed the same object. The third witness, living in the south part of the city, saw the thing fly over the city center, heading northeast, with his whole family.", + "location": "Netherlands, Enschede", + "ref": [ + "© 1997. UFO nieuwsbrief jaargang 2, nummer 1", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3577" + }, + { + "date": "12/19/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Large images appeared at a window, CNN reported, and people gathered to see the Virgin appear on the window of an office building. Sister Martin, a nun from the Order of St. Anne in Bangalore, India, said that God was giving them a sign. The image, two stories high, appeared on December 19th on the glass walls of the financial building. It varied in color from blue to green to red, and there seemed to be a well-defined head and clothing on a torso. Skeptics said that it was only reflections of light on more or less dirty windows. But the nuns of the cited order prayed and sang out loud, drawing a lot of people into the same gestures. Finally, the financial company asked for a team of window washers to put an end to the pilgrimage....", + "location": "USA, Clearwater (Florida)", + "ref": [ + "1996 by Jeroen Wierda Picard UFO Research International", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3578" + }, + { + "date": "12/20/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 12:30, a tourist plane disappeared from the air force's radar screens. At that moment, it was supposed to be flying over the Bastogne and Bertogne region. Curiously, despite the searches carried out throughout the afternoon, no trace of a possible plane crash was found and no one in the region seems to have seen anything. It is true that a thick fog has been covering the Bastogne plateau since this morning. It also prohibited the use of a helicopter. The searches, which were interrupted at 5 pm, will resume tomorrow morning at 9 am. (\"La Wallonie\" of 20.12.1996 \"Appearance of a UFO or an airplane?\") IN REALITY: C. T. d'Havelange wrote to me this: \"As a rescuer, my sister participated in the search parties coordinated by the army. As usual, the people in charge of these parties did not provide any concrete elements to the people on the ground, so they did not know exactly what they were looking for. (...) Finally, it appears that the story is a misunderstanding. The day before, a German helicopter landed on a base in Bastogne, after activating its distress beacon. The next day, the aircraft took off again but it would have forgotten to turn off its beacon. It would have cut it off later, after a certain amount of flight time already completed. (???) Moreover, loggers reported to the authorities having heard an aircraft (small plane or helicopter). They did not see anything because of the fog, but they imagined that this aircraft could be in trouble. So there was on the one hand an erroneous human testimony and on the other hand an accidental distress signal. My sister and many others traveled miles in the Ardennes woods for nothing. Moreover, if there had been something to find, they would not have found it since the group leader who held the compass and who made the people walk in line managed to make them go around in circles. False alarm then, but my version is accurate to the detail.\"", + "location": "Belgium, Bastogne-Bertogne", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3579" + }, + { + "date": "12/21/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the night, the police were called by the villagers. People reported the presence of blue luminous disks flying over their farms. The next day, Mrs. Tziona Damti observed an \"alien\" near her father-in-law's barn. Of humanoid type, it measured about twenty centimeters high, was greenish in color, had limbs (arms and legs) without fingers and large black eyes. She found it in the morning of December 22, lying on the ground in a puddle of green liquid and called the police. In order to preserve the small corpse from decomposition, Tziona Damti and her husband put it in the freezer compartment of the fridge. When the police arrived, the creature's body, taken out of the freezer, had shrunk to only 5 centimeters long. It was sent for autopsy to the Technion Institute in Haifa. Having seen images of the creature on a television show, the microbiologist, Dr. Rachelle Fishman, suggested that it could be an absorbed embryo (by another animal) or newborn of a vertebrate, such as a salamander. Another scientist suggested an embryo of a chameleon. The liquid found on the site would have been the amniotic fluid. (Note from vog: this was confirmed by the analysis, it seems) Another farmer in the area said that the extraterrestrials had stolen 18 sheep from him in the night of 21 to 22 December, while in the nearby town of Tamara, an Arab shepherd also complained of the theft of sheep that night. (1996, December 21 and 22)", + "location": "Israel, Achihod-Ahyud (Akko)", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Folklore Center produces on the Internet under the title \"It's a bird, it's an alien, it's a fraud\" an article by the journalist-uflogue Barry Chamish, but very curiously transmitted by Dr Rachelle H.B. Fishman, whose address is: The Sea View, PO BOX 387, Zichron Ya'akov - 30900 ISRAEL. This article features the protagonists already mentioned above, adding even less likely details, such as that the creature was observed the day before and that it jumped in the air if one wanted to catch it, as well as the unappetizing fact that it began to disintegrate from the head which liquefied ... But also mentioned on the spot, arguing over the remains of the ET which is put up for auction at a starting price of 10,000 dollars, Uri Geller himself and Michael Heseman (Germany). The latter made headlines during the famous Roswell autopsy shown on TF 1 some time ago. Heseman claimed in Leeds, at a conference, that he had interviewed and videotaped this interview with the cameraman Barnett (who sold the film to Santili) in case something happened to Barnett. Needless to say, at present no one saw this interview. The article continues by claiming that \"the little material\" of the ET provided to the laboratory for analysis did not allow to reach a conclusion. All this seems to me to derive from a sick fantasy, or from a manipulation of opinion for the purposes of disinformation.", + "Life & Time, electronic telegraph issue 610 25.1.1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3580" + }, + { + "date": "12/1996 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Derrel Sims, ufologist, and Barry Chamish, journalist, report the story of a teenager named Alex Lemkin. At 11pm this young man was walking in the park when he saw a small girl of about 6 years old, with strange behavior. Believing her to be lost, he approached her and to his amazement the girl had an albino complexion and long hair of the same color. While he was looking at her, the girl broke into dozens of small lights. His memories stop there. He regains consciousness lying on the grass of the park, with several unexplained scratches on his back that hurt him. (1996, December (around the 22nd?))", + "location": "Israel, Rishon Lezion", + "ref": [ + "Joseph Trainor - Masinaigan - Ufo Folklore Center", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3581" + }, + { + "date": "12/29/1996", + "desc": "(Translated from French) After spending the night in his bed, Daoud Ahmad wanted to get up on the 30th of December when two creatures jumped on him and bit him. The intruders were about 60 cm tall. They had an ugly head with a single Mohawk-style fringe of hair, and they had only one eye (note from vog: two cyclopes escaped from the encyclopedia?). These creatures had enormous strength, and they were dressed in leather clothing. \"After they bit me, I lost consciousness,\" said Daoud Ahmad, who was quickly taken to the hospital, treated, and released the same day. According to Palestinian television, the neighbors heard strange sounds coming from the bed, but not a single one saw anything or anyone emerge from the house afterwards. (1996, December 29th and 30th)", + "location": "Palestine, Nur-a-Shamat", + "ref": [ + "CNI News, Vol. 2 No. 21, Part 3 - Mike Lindemann", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3582" + }, + { + "date": "10/14/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Bashad, an Arab Bedouin raised in Europe, and his friend Mr. Massoud, left the Arab town of Tel Sheva in the direction of Beersheba. Driving at night on the unlit highway, Mr. Bashad saw along the road a man standing on the side of the road. This unusual presence made him stop in front of the individual and he asked if he could help. At that moment, the humanoid passed his palm through the metal of the door, as if it did not exist, while the two motorists saw his horrible face of \"mutant\". They put the gas without asking for their rest. The entity remained attached to the door for a distance of 2 km, at the speed of the vehicle (75 miles per hour) before dissolving as if it were made of air.", + "location": "Israel, Negev Desert, Tel Sheva", + "ref": [ + "Ma'Ariv Journal of 15.10.1996 - Ufo Roundup vol. 1 no. 36", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3583" + }, + { + "date": "1/5/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Manipulating the crowd was psychic Helinor Harrar. Hadn't he predicted in 1995 the victory of Benjamin Netanyahu in the elections? After the Achihod story of December 21, 1996, he thus predicted the arrival of three huge flying saucers for this Monday, January 5, 1997. By the hundreds, the Israelis were on the beaches from the morning. An atmosphere of celebration reigned there, and loudspeakers mounted on trucks broadcasted the musical theme of the X-Files. Nothing happened. [Note from vog: this is not the first time a psychic has led people astray!]", + "location": "Israel, Tel Aviv", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Roundup vol. 2 no. 2 of 12.1.1997, Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3584" + }, + { + "date": "1/5/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At the place called Chantepie, around 2 am, B.C., 57 years old, a farmer, was woken up by an explosion sound and a shrill whistle. His wife, however, kept sleeping. He got up, went to the kitchen to have a bite. Suddenly, outside, a big flash. He looked through the window and saw, in the middle of his fields, something like headlights. He went out taking his hunting gun. He hurried towards the blinding light and tried to shout, but no sound came out of his mouth. He felt stopped by an invisible force. He couldn't move anymore. Then he saw two beings coming out of the blue luminous shape. The viscous and transparent shapes passed near him, seeming to ignore him, heading towards the barn on his right. He felt prickles all over his body, he was sweating and he realized he was in the snow in his nightshirt and slippers. He was scared. The small humanoid shapes passed near him again and he saw them merging into the electric shape that disappeared vertically instantly. Then B.C. went back with difficulty to the kitchen. It was 5:15. He had spent 2 hours and 45 minutes outside in the cold, at -9°C, in light clothing and he was sweating. His slippers were frozen. When he entered, his wife was still sleeping. The lights were all on", + "location": "France, Ille et Vilaine", + "ref": [ + "Sentinel News n° 6; July-August '97 p. 36", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3585" + }, + { + "date": "1/12/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Pedro Viera, a retired policeman, was driving around 2:30 in the morning on Route 40 between Caguas and Humacho. Suddenly he saw a disc-shaped UFO hovering over a field, lifting a cow in a \"tractor beam\". The animal passed through an opening in the bottom of the UFO and then disappeared from view. Viera accelerated, engaging in a kind of pursuit. Speeding along Route 40, he kept the UFO in sight. His chase was abruptly interrupted by the arrival of an old 4x4 model, and he had to stop on the side of the road. Two men in black uniforms emerged from the 4x4, approached him and said \"let them do what they had to do\". At first Viera didn't understand, but then he had to accept the evidence that these words were related to the UFO. Meanwhile he had obviously lost sight of it and Viera returned home. Five hours later, around 7 in the morning, Puerto Ricans found a mutilated cow along Route 40. They said the animal seemed to have been thrown from a considerable height.", + "location": "Puerto Rico, between Caguas and Humacho", + "ref": [ + "UFO Roundup vol. 2 no. 8, Joseph Trainor", + "Scott Corrales", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3586" + }, + { + "date": "1/22/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 3:30 in the morning a bright green light ball traveled across the entire sky of the Central US and was observed in five states, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas. Wayne Wyrick of the Kirkpatrick Planetarium in Oklahoma City said the phenomenon looked like a plane on fire descending. Major Steve Boylan, spokesperson for Norad, said it was debris from a Delta II missile used to launch a satellite in December. In the January 25th edition of The Daily Oklahoman, the testimony of a woman is reported; she saw the ball descend as if to crash just west of Oklahoma City. (...) On January 24th, Ed Longcope went to feed the cattle in the fields, when he saw something shining half-buried in the ground, in the cow pasture. It was a fairly large hollow ball (medicine ball) of metallic appearance, with nuts on the opposite sides and a median rib. The half-melted object was entrusted by the witness to the local sheriff who sent it to the New Braunfels Meteorological Institute. The object could not be identified there and eventually the object was entrusted to Randolph Military Base (east of San Francisco). A few days before this find, witnesses had seen unusual lights in the sky in the New Braunfels region (Joseph Trainor - Masinaigan - Ufo Folklore Center) IN REALITY: According to United States Command No. 1-97, Springs Colorado: the body of the Delta II missile, launched on April 24, 1996, entered the Earth's atmosphere at 3:30 in the morning. This cylindrical tube measured 7 feet long by 4 feet in diameter and could be observed in at least five states and fell 3 miles east of Georgetown, Texas, the tank (the largest part of the second stage, landed in Austin less than 100 m from a house. It measured 9 feet long, 6 feet in diameter, cylindrical in shape with rounded ends, weight about 750 kg. The piece found by Ed Longcope was the rounded base of the second stage of Delta II, 80 cm in diameter and weighing about 35 kg. On February 7th, near Seguin, other debris from Detlta II were also found.", + "location": "USA, Central Region", + "ref": [ + "MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 347, March 1997 pp. 3-7", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3587" + }, + { + "date": "1/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In this village of 1070 people, a 73-year-old woman claims to have had the visit of 12 extraterrestrials, sitting around her table, taking notes and murmuring to themselves. They did not want to leave before 3:30 in the morning, despite her polite requests repeated.... Until this visit, the person in question had a perfect reputation, since then she is no longer the same.", + "location": "USA, Colebrook (New Hampshire)", + "ref": [ + "source: UFO Folklore Center", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3588" + }, + { + "date": "2/9/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the first week of February 1997, USAF retired Colonel Mr. Wilson was in a village in Mexico to investigate UFOs. The place is called Concepcion del Oro. It is in the vicinity of Zacatecas. Nearby is the Pico del Toro mountain at 2793 m. The American investigator spoke with the locals, including one Gonzales Cabrio. People saw a saucer land and spoke with the men who came out of it. These \"extraterrestrials\" said they were from the planet... UMMO! They said they were on a mission on Earth. The Mexicans were not scared of their appearance... because these \"ummites\" were small, stocky, and very dark-skinned, like the Mexicans! Of course, they spoke Spanish. The story does not say if, in addition, these Mexican ummites wore the sombrero. [vog: and to think they made the Spaniards believe they (the Ummites) were tall blondes…]", + "location": "MEXICO, Saltillo, Concepcion del Oro", + "ref": [ + "Concon.files on the Internet", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3589" + }, + { + "date": "2/13/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around 11:30 PM, Marta Aguilar Montoya and her two young children were sleeping in their bedroom in Gran Avenida, in the Llano section of Santiago. Suddenly, the mother was awoken by a crackling sound coming from the television, even though she was certain it was not turned on. She got up and saw a \"slim\" figure standing 1.5 to 1.6 meters tall, wearing a tight-fitting suit and a helmet with a visor. She could not see its eyes. This apparition also had a backpack attached to the helmet by two straps over the shoulders. Her husband being away at work, Marta was terrified. She grabbed her two children in her arms and stayed there, watching. The occupant kept \"looking\" at her but made no movement. After several minutes it turned towards the wall of the room, and Marta heard the electric crackling sound again, a kind of \"SSHH\" crackling noise. The creature disappeared through the wall, leaving an imprint of its silhouette on the wall. This imprint disappeared after two minutes. The cases of Lago de Rapel and Llano are being investigated by the ufology group AION.", + "location": "Chile, Llano (Santiago)", + "ref": [ + "UFO Roundup vol. 2 n 8 - Joseph Trainor", + "Luis Sanchez Perry", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3590" + }, + { + "date": "2/20/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Heliodoro Nunez was tending to sheep in a pasture 3 km from the road to Chandrexa, along the Devesas river. It was around 4 pm when I was with the flock, he said. Suddenly the dogs started barking and I received a ray of light on me. Turning around I saw these strange creatures. He describes several entities 3 m tall and wearing strange conical hats. The whole group changed color simultaneously, from red to blue, then to yellow and again to green. \"It was not from this world, and at the sight of this apparition I started to pray\". A neighbor, Juan Gonzalez Gonzalez, confirms saying that he saw something strange in that meadow at the same time. It was a red light of a very intense tone hovering above the trees. But due to the distance separating him from Nunez, he did not see the giants. The investigation was carried out by the Fenix group from La Coruna. To the investigator, Nunez's wife recounts that her husband came home that day completely scared. He only prayed, could not sleep for two nights and could not eat anything. [vog: coincidence to say the least: the Vatican had just issued a new stamp, anti-Semitic moreover, where one sees Jews wearing the famous pointed hat mandatory for them in the Middle Ages]", + "location": "Spain, Paradeseca (Orense - Galicia)", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Folklore Center - Roundup vol. 2 n° 18 of 4.5.97", + "La Region newspaper, 23.2.97", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3591" + }, + { + "date": "2/22/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Five people were followed along the road by two gray-silver objects that flew above the highway and then gently glided towards the snow and landed. The objects had rows of \"windows\" lit up with a bright blue light. As they continued on their way, taking a crossroad, the witnesses lost sight of the objects.", + "location": "CANADA, Aklavik, NWT", + "ref": [ + "The 1997 Canadian UFO Survey", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3592" + }, + { + "date": "3/4/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (AFP) The police deployed a dozen cars and patrols, following calls from Schiphol Airport and other citizens that a spaceship was about to land. This was reported to the press by spokesperson Klaas Wilting. \"They were observing stationary bright lights that did not appear on the radar screen,\" he said. \"We only found a huge crane, 50 meters high, reported in the night with stroboscopic lamps, that is what misled people,\" he added. It was enough that the radio mentioned the observation of lights for dozens of calls to reach the police....", + "location": "Netherlands, Amsterdam", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3593" + }, + { + "date": "3/5/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A strange object, shaped like a refrigerator, was \"yet\" observed by a retired man from San Martino Spio around 8 o'clock in the morning. The object was resting on the ground \"on some legs\". There seemed to be two portholes. Only an hour later the object rose up and flew away.", + "location": "Italy, San Martino Spino", + "ref": [ + "Resto del Carlino, ed. Modena, March 7; avvistamenti 97, CISU", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3594" + }, + { + "date": "3/9/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 7:15 pm an object was observed that was black and square, 2 m long, with two powerful headlights. It was reported that there was a wall of light 165 m long and 11 m high. (BANQUE OVNI, Bagneux France, 1997, p. 5/8, updated 13.5.97) Paul Dassault, 67 years old, was walking near his house. To his right, about 200 feet away, he saw two large yellow lights in the woods. He was alarmed, as there is no road there, not even a trail for a snowmobile. After a few seconds, he realized it was a solid, black, square object 6 feet long (1.8 m) with two bright yellow lights. Deciding to investigate, he entered the woods, but from the center of the object a huge wall of light emerged on either side, 165 meters long and 11 meters high. Frightened, the witness returned home, but he saw that the UFO was still in place.", + "location": "Canada, St Emile de Suffolk (Quebec)", + "ref": [ + "investigation by CEIPI of Quebec", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3595" + }, + { + "date": "3/13/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) According to the police, a man had seen a UFO above the Prescott Valley shopping center around 8:00 PM. Peter Davenport, from the National Ufo Reporting organization, received dozens of calls first from Paulden, then from Prescott, then from Glendale and the last observations were taking place above Tucson. A man from Paulden told the newspaper \"The Daily Courier\" that he had seen an object shaped like a diamond. An astronomer called to say he had seen an object with five white lights. Apparently from the AFB Luke base, two planes with cameras were launched to intercept the object. Upon its return, one of the pilots was shocked. However, the base spokesperson, Sgt. Rolla Suttmiler, denied this information. (Aufora News Update 16.3.1997, collected by AREPS.) The first call came from a former policeman saying that he and his family had seen a strange cluster of red lights moving very quickly in the sky around Paulden at 8:16 PM. This cluster of lights clearly had orange-red lights among them, with 4 to 5 red lights in the lead, followed by a single light seeming to be in the back of the others. The lead lights seemed to be in a \"V\" formation or like a boomerang. The following calls came from Phoenix where several people saw 4 or 5 very intense white lights pass by at 8:17 PM. These people reported that the formation had a triangular shape with a complex group of lights along the sides. One of the observers said that the orientation of the white lights seemed to change as he watched the phenomenon with his family.

In Prescott Valley, a witness was outside with his wife and sons when they saw the cluster of lights to the northwest of their position. The lights seemed to be in a triangular formation and all seemed to be red in color except for the lead light which was white. The phenomenon was observed through binoculars for 2 to 3 minutes before passing to the right of the witnesses who then saw a \"band\" to the right. The phenomenon disappeared to the SE of Prescott Valley. In the quiet night, none of the witnesses heard any sound coming from the phenomenon. The next witness came from Dewey, 10 miles south of Prescott. Five adults and young people, in a car driving north on Highway 69, saw a cluster of lights in the sky in a V formation. The driver stopped in a commercial parking lot and all the occupants got out. At that moment the phenomenon was directly above them where it hovered for several minutes. One of the witnesses in this group reported that the phenomenon was so big that he couldn't cover the surface of the thing with his fist at arm's length. He estimated that the phenomenon was at 100 feet in altitude and said it was absolutely silent. He saw a small private plane in the vicinity of the object and that the phenomenon seemed to be heading towards the Prescott airport. This witness then alerted the airport as well as the AFB Luke base, whose telephone operator confirmed having received many calls. Other testimonies then came in from Chino Valley, Temple, Glendale, Phoenix, Kingman and Tucson. All these witnesses described the phenomenon in detail. An amateur astronomer from Phoenix saw to the left of his house a mass of solid, non-shining lights and was able to discern that each was composed of two smaller lights. He saw two planes in the vicinity of the phenomenon, planes that were turning around to the west and east. The phenomenon was moving from north to south. (...) Later, between 8:45 and 9:00 PM the phenomenon was seen for about ten minutes, hovering and disappearing behind the mountains in a southerly direction. A lot of witnesses made statements having seen F 15c intercepting the object and photographing it with gun-cameras before returning to the Luke base, this aspect of the observation is unfortunately impossible to verify. (NUFORC, B. Davenport- News 002 collected from the Internet by CAAP - Roulers, Belgium) A video film was made by Tom King and Bill Hamilton (CBS EVENING NEWS). In the different phases one can see: - an orange light appearing in Ahwatukee around 9:50 PM, it comes to position itself near two other orange lights. - then, a few seconds later, another orange light arrives. - then one sees the 4 orange lights and a fifth arriving on the left. A pilot leaving Skyhabor Airport said he had seen this formation above his plane. (E-mail Bill Hamilton, web page by Tom King -and- Ufo Folklore Center AUFORA News update 17.5.1997) IN REALITY: military exercises, nighttime interceptions, with a simulated battle at an altitude of 5000 to 50000 feet in the air space known as BUKEYE MOA. There are identical exercises every quarter, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. (1997, March 13...until July and beyond.)", + "location": "USA, Prescott Valley, Arizona", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3596" + }, + { + "date": "3/19/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4am, the Girona police officers, M.D and M.C in a car, observed a phenomenon they qualified as identical to \"Foo Fighters\", round in shape, orange in color, without any perceptible noise. The phenomenon was first observed stationary at 4m from the ground, 40m away, just above the karting. When the police officers wanted to take a photo with the camera on board, the UFO made a sudden approach towards the patrol car, before accelerating incredibly and disappearing in the sky. The sky was clear without clouds, there was no wind or rain, the temperature was 10°C.", + "location": "Spain, Karting de l'Escala, Girona", + "ref": [ + "the full case is published in the Monográfico nº1 of the magazine ENIGMAS, Jordi Jiménez", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3597" + }, + { + "date": "3/24/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Monday night half of the city of Sheffield was left without electricity around 11:45 pm. In the night, around the same time, there was an alert in the Peak district after the observation of what seemed to be an airplane flying very low above the marshes. This observation ended with a red light flash and a trail of smoke. Other people, including a group observing the Hale-Bopp comet, said they saw an object followed by smoke and a strange red glow on the marshes. A few minutes later a couple heard a loud explosion that shook their house near Strines Inn. Having found nothing after their personal searches, these witnesses called the police. The police officers who arrived on the scene saw what they believed to be a plume of smoke rising from the marshes towards a wooded area. They said there had been no distress call in the area and the Civil Aviation Authority said there was no missing plane. The West Yorkshire police and the RAF were called in to carry out aerial searches in the marshy area around Bolsterstone, while the local police and military carried out searches on the ground. Nearly 100 military personnel scoured over 40 square miles, without finding any wreckage. The searches continue with little hope of finding anything. It would be a strange observation of a crash without any fatalities. After the strange observations of the last few weeks in the suburban area of Sheffield, rumors have been circulating after it was revealed that researchers were examining a video sequence showing an object flying very slowly. This film showing an object flying with flashing lights was taken by a man who was outside observing Hale-Bopp, on the same night as the events described above. Scientists from the University of Edinburgh, seismology department, also revealed that they had recorded a sound explosion on their equipment, immediately after the observation in South Yorkshire. They say that this supersonic bang could only have been caused by the Concorde, a military plane flying low, or by the fall of a fairly large meteorite. However, any attempt to contact the Ministry of Defense or the RAF has failed. The police confirm having received 40 different calls from witnesses describing the phenomenon as a single wing flying low over northern Sheffield, or of triangular shape. (English report received by AREPS on March 30, 1997) IN REALITY: the RAF was questioned in Parliament and specified that it was involved in a low-altitude flight exercise that night with jets flying at 250 feet (80 to 90 meters) altitude and that this was part of the specific training. The Tornado planes were not interceptors but Gr 1 bombers from the Marham base", + "location": "Great Britain, Sheffield", + "ref": [ + "Norfolk", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3598" + }, + { + "date": "3/31/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Ufologists observed an aerial battle between an air force jet and a squadron of five UFOs, according to Lars Osterman. They came to know of the affair because of the calls of the pilot (whose name will not be disclosed) and who kept repeating that he had trouble. His plane was an F-18A Hornet of the Finnish Air Force Suomen Ilmaviomat based at Lapin Lennosto 400 km north of Helsinki. The F-18 had taken off for a routine 960 km patrol along the border with Russia. As it flew over the frozen tundra southeast of Lake Inarijarvi, the pilot suddenly saw three UFOs (discs) flying in the direction of the northeast. Approaching to get a better look at what they were, he saw that there were 5 discs instead of 3. He alerted the base by radio and received the order to intercept the objects. The five UFOs shone with an orange color and suddenly veered towards the northwest. The F-18 chased them to Ivalo, a town 200 km north of Rovaniemi. From there the F-18 chased the discs towards the west up to above Inari, where, after a failed interception, the UFOs took the course towards the east and disappeared at high speed and high altitude above Lake Inarijarvi. At the moment the formation was breaking up the pilot had asked for permission to fire. Permission granted to fire at will. The pilot went towards one of the discs and, finding himself exactly behind it, made the intimidation maneuver. But then he suddenly heard in his helmet an alarm sound. The on-board computer was cut off and the 20 mm cannon ready to fire had returned to its waiting position. Wanting then to use the air-to-air missiles, a red malfunction light began to blink. The UFOs left at Mach 4 or 5. Finally none of the flight equipment was affected and the pilot was able to return safely to the base. The last time he saw the UFOs was in the direction of Talvikula in Russia.", + "location": "Finland, Rovaniemi (north of the country)", + "ref": [ + "Email Interview with Lars Osterman, Ufo Roundup Volume 4, Number 1, January 5, 1999, editor Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3599" + }, + { + "date": "4/8/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Christophe W. left as usual on his bicycle to go to his workplace. It was 5:40 in the morning. Five minutes later, as he was riding on the Anvers road, he saw to his right, 500 meters away and at 7° elevation, a bright light, sometimes hidden by the presence of houses. A few minutes later, when he arrived near the parking lot of his workplace, this light flew over the parking lot, preventing the young man, who was scared, from venturing there. The phenomenon, which in the meantime had presented itself as three large white lights in a triangular arrangement, with a small red light blinking from time to time in the center of this configuration, was positioned obliquely above the Anvers road, at 91 meters altitude. Held at arm's length it measured 11.5 cm and the calculations made gave it a real size varying, according to the degrees of angle of observation, between 43 and 66 meters. The phenomenon was silent. There, above the witness and the parking lot, this thing began to zigzag, do loopings, execute a lot of incredible maneuvers, for more than ten minutes. It was only when the young man's boss arrived at the parking lot in a car that the phenomenon returned from where it had come, but on the other side of the road. Total duration of the observation: 20 to 25 minutes. Consequences: fear that persists: the boy never ventures alone on the parking lot in the early hours of the morning.", + "location": "Belgium, Lochristie (East Flanders)", + "ref": [ + "investigation by Joris Rogge, whom I thank very much", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3600" + }, + { + "date": "4/27/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Television reported something strange at 8:15 PM in Ziva Istina (Living Truth). The presenter said that a UFO appeared above Zagorje. It had the appearance of a giant cigar. It was a man who at 6:45 PM was watching television and suddenly saw a red light coming from the window. He left his chair and went out into the garden to see what it was. About 160 meters above a field he saw a fireball hovering just above the ground. He described it as a black ball surrounded by fire glows, about 12 meters high and 15 meters wide with three \"holes\" that could be considered as portholes. After the UFO left, a 28 m. diameter crop circle was found in the field. He also found footprints larger than his own, which were size US 9. The witness, however, gave different versions of his observation and is not very credible.", + "location": "Croatia, near Zagorje", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Roundup places this event on April 16, 1997", + "Giuliano Marinkovicc in Croatia: ufoinfo.com/organizations/org_croatia.html", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3601" + }, + { + "date": "4/29/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The media were making fun of the announcement made by Antonio Chiumiento, claiming to have collected testimony of an abduction that occurred in the outskirts of Udine, shortly after midnight on April 29. A 22-year-old man, accompanied by some friends, was doing pranotherapy (breathing exercises) when he was allegedly sucked up by a red conical beam of light that lifted him, passed him through walls, and then disappeared from his friends' sight. Looking out the window, they saw rotating luminous trails in the sky that gradually dissolved. Four hours later, the young man reappeared on the couch from which he had been \"captured\" and told that he had found himself inside a luminous room, where three monstrous-looking beings at least 3 meters tall had examined him, taken blood samples, and injected him with a substance in his arm. This product caused inflammation and he had to undergo an operation as a result of the injection", + "location": "Italy, Udine region", + "ref": [ + "Adn-Kronos, May 23; Televideo RAI, May 23; La Stampa and various other newspapers on May 24, reported by CISU in Avvistamenti", + "in a terrestrial hospital this time", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3602" + }, + { + "date": "5/1/1997 (approximate)", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 12:13, horses started galloping like crazy. Veterinarians believe there must have been something in the air: a storm, an earthquake. The KNMI (Dutch Meteorological Institute) finds no explanation. Suddenly, all at the same time, the horses in the riding school, ridden by children, reared and threw the children to the ground. At the same time, between Riel and Goirle, a horse in harness started galloping. In Hilvarenbeek, citizens saw with amazement a wild horse galloping in the street. All the owners are unanimous in declaring that they have never seen anything like it in their lives. The most astonishing thing is that all the horses started running like crazy at the same time, while Mr. H. Haak from the weather station sees nothing on the seismographs, although he admits that there are sometimes small shocks in Hilvarenbeek. (1997, May 1 (or 5?))", + "location": "Netherlands, Udenhout and elsewhere", + "ref": [ + "Source: Brabants Dagblad, May 5, 1997", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3603" + }, + { + "date": "5/17/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) USA, Rogers Dry Lake, Edwards At 7:08 (PDT) the tailless, unmanned aircraft lifted off and in five minutes reached 4900 feet (about 1600 meters). In the next six months, 24 more test flights of the X-36 are scheduled. Rod Baily, the X-36 program manager said that the craft has the look of what aircraft of the future will be like. There are already two 28/100 scale models of the X-36, which have neither vertical nor horizontal tail. They measure 18 feet (a bit less than 3 m) long, 3 feet (m) high, 10 feet (3 m) wide with wings included, and weigh 1250 pounds (600 to 620 kg). They are equipped with a 350 kg thrust Williams Research F112 turbofan engine. The aircraft is controlled by a pilot on the ground, in a cockpit cabin, equipped like a regular aircraft, with a headset. The technologies necessary for this pilotless combat aircraft are being studied jointly by NASA and McDonell Douglas.", + "location": "Test Flight: Unmanned X-36 Aircraft", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3604" + }, + { + "date": "5/23/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the village of Quintas, about twenty people observed around 22 o'clock an extraordinary phenomenon. It was something quite large, round at first, and then transformed like a daisy flower. This thing approached, went behind a hill, and then reappeared on the other side. The color was a deep, luminous blue, but it did not illuminate anything and was apparently at an altitude of 60 to 70 meters. Its diameter was about 20 meters. Some saw a religious symbol, since this light very much resembled the rosette of church stained glass windows. The newspapers of Coimbra spoke of it abundantly. (Bruno Miguel Lopes and Luis Ribeiro) (UFO Roundup Vol. 2 No. 22 - 1.6.97 - Joseph Trainor) IN REALITY: Ufologist Joao Cardoso made his investigation and saw the light cannon in Lamego, yet 100 km away from Quintas. But since the sky was cloudy and the cloud layer was low, the powerful machine of Lamego is probably the cause of the observation.", + "location": "Portugal, Quintas (Tras os Montes)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3605" + }, + { + "date": "6/7/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Investigators are astounded by a near collision between an Aer Lingus plane and an unidentified object. The BAe 146 flight, departing from Stansted in East England to Dublin (Ireland) had to make an emergency maneuver when the two pilots saw a red craft with blue and white lines coming straight at them north of London. The Aer Lingus jet passed only 30 meters above the craft two seconds later. The crew immediately reported the incident to air traffic control, suggesting it might have been a military plane, like the RAF's Red Arrows acrobatic team's Hawk. However, all searches of the radar records yielded no results: there was no other plane in the area. Investigators are certain there were no \"Red Arrows\" of the RAF in the air that day, and as for the Hawks, the last one to land had been on the ground for four hours already. (...) (The Daily Telegraph newspaper Friday 13 June 1997 and The Ottawa Citizen 13.67.1997) - The incident occurred at 9000 feet altitude above Hertfordshire. Aer Lingus still has no explanation, especially since the pilots say it was not an airplane at all.", + "location": "England, London", + "ref": [ + "UK Ufo-news", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3606" + }, + { + "date": "6/17/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In broad daylight, around 11:20, Olga Booker, the initial witness, was driving towards her home when she saw what she thought was a balloon with red and white lights. It wasn't a balloon, she realized, and she began to follow the phenomenon in her car. The object resembled a large iron pot and flew slowly from south to north above the trees and houses. It was pyramidal in shape (note from vog: I want a pyramid-shaped pot too...) with one side slightly curved, and had a pulsating orange-red light in each corner. There was also a series of small blinking white lights. She estimated the number to be around thirty, on the back side, which she saw while following the phenomenon. It was flat, like a pancake (vog: pot or pancake? In my opinion the witness had an empty stomach crying out for food) without wings or tail, without portholes. There were also lines, scratches or small grains going from left to right giving a copper reflection to the surface.", + "location": "USA, Tampa, Florida", + "ref": [ + "Mufon Ufo Journal No. 353, page 8, Sept. 97", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3607" + }, + { + "date": "7/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The first X-38 atmospheric vehicle left the Johnson Space Center in Houston for the Edwards base. Its future vocation will be to be an international space station for crews in orbit: it will be the shuttle to one or the other orbit. (...) Its flight control system is completely electric and although the tests will undoubtedly reveal surprises, the head of the X project, John Muratore, is confident in the results to be obtained. (...) This X-38, named \"No. 131\" will be launched from a B 52 at an altitude of 25,000 feet, at the end of August 1997. It will then fly, unmanned, completely remotely controlled. The tests will probably continue until 1999, since it should be operational to be launched from a Space Shuttle in the spring of 2000. To land, it will use a parachute like the current shuttles. The Americans hope in the coming years to attach a Russian Soyuz as a habitat for the crew, but if the crew consists of 6 people, a transformed X-38 will be necessary.", + "location": "USA, Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards (California)", + "ref": [ + "www.nasa.gov", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3608" + }, + { + "date": "8/11/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11:15 PM a UFO emerged from the clouds above the Pacific and slowly flew over Magdalena del Mar, a suburb of Lima. Eventually the UFO hovered 300 meters above the ground, along the coast and near the police station. A policeman on duty saw it and sounded the alarm. A spotlight was turned on and directed at the UFO which appeared to be \"light by itself, red in color, with a black dot inside\". Viewed through binoculars, the UFO moved in a \"diagonal\" manner (note from vog: ??) A little later, the UFO still there, the spotlight was again directed at it. The UFO quickly rose into the sky and positioned itself a little further above the ocean. There it emitted a powerful beam of light, sweeping from left to right and illuminating the houses and boats of the police patrol. Shortly after midnight the journalists arrived with their cameras. The UFO remained in position until around 3 in the morning.", + "location": "Peru, near Lima", + "ref": [ + "UFO Folklore, Roundup vol. 2 n° 33 - 17.8.97 -Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3609" + }, + { + "date": "9/10/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Muhand Faras, 16 years old, was returning home from school when he encountered \"a strange man with some kind of root in the middle of his face. He had green skin like a frog. His hands were very thin, ended in three fingers, and his nails were very long. The stranger made some threatening gestures towards Muhand, shouted something, and flew off into the sky. Muhad, too scared, didn't even try to follow the creature with his eyes, also thinking that it could have \"fired something dangerous\" at him.", + "location": "Palestine, Tulkarem", + "ref": [ + "Yerushalayim for September 19, 1997; CNI News, volume 3, number 15, part 1, for October 1, 1997. Mike Lindemann", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3610" + }, + { + "date": "9/18/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Police are investigating an attempted abduction of a 10-year-old girl by an \"alien\" from space. The Israeli magazine Yerushalayim recounts that the girl, Suha A'anam, was doing her schoolwork on the balcony of the second floor of their house in Dir Al Ajwan (64 km from Jerusalem). Suddenly she felt herself grabbed by the arm, and looking up, saw an \"alien\". She screamed hysterically so that the neighbors were able to intervene in time to save her. She was taken to the hospital in Tulkarem, presenting scratches on her arm. A neighbor told the police that she heard a helicopter noise and looking out the window, saw a kind of \"tornado throwing ashes\" in front of the balcony of little Suha.", + "location": "Palestine, Dir al Ajwan (Tulkarem)", + "ref": [ + "Yerushalayim for September 19, 1997. CNI News, volume 3, number 15, part 1, for October 1, 1997; Mike Lindemann", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3611" + }, + { + "date": "9/19/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A motorist, Carlos P.A. aged 34, attacked another man, Jesus T.L. aged 55, with a machete, leaving him in a critical state. The massacre took place on the highway between La Roca del Valle and Vilanova del Valle, near Barcelona. Upon arriving at the crime scene, the police found the assailant covered in the blood of his victim. The victim had been struck multiple times in the neck, with the 22 cm long machete. The murderer was taken to the psychiatric annex of the Modero prison (Barcelona). He continually explained to the authorities that he had received the order to stop his car and attack the other person \"by a voice coming from Mars or perhaps from a flying saucer hovering there\". He claimed to have had contact with extraterrestrials already before the attack.", + "location": "Spain, near Barcelona", + "ref": [ + "UFO Roundup, vol. 2 no. 37, 28.09.97 - Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3612" + }, + { + "date": "10/2/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: Associated Press, CNN) Secretary of Defense William Cohen today gave the Army permission to send a laser beam into space, towards an American satellite. Cohen said that the test does not aim to destroy the satellite, causing a number of debris, nor to put any other satellite, American or not, at risk. The targeted satellite is nevertheless \"dying\". Among the more than 500 current satellites in space, about 220 are American. The only limitation, the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, prohibits nuclear-type destruction. In 1985, laser tests were defended by Congress for a period of 10 years. The time has expired, tests can resume...", + "location": "USA, SPACE", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3613" + }, + { + "date": "11/26/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 11:34 PM, Pilar Olazabal was driving her friends Juana Villalobos Moreno and Carlos Iturbide Masana home. \"300 meters from their house there was something strange, an oval thing that seemed to be on fire. It lit up the whole road\". The strangest part of the observation was that the thing was only seen by the two women, the man didn't see anything out of the ordinary. The apparition lasted several seconds. When they arrived at their friends' house, the trio talked a bit more about the strange thing, then Juana took the road to go back home. Ten minutes later, in one of the main streets of the city, she saw in the rearview mirror a lit object following her. \"It was very close, only 50 meters away and 20 meters from the ground. The UFO was oval and had yellow, blue and red lights\". Juana parked and the object flew over her car, less than 20 meters away. She could see it in its entirety. The object then accelerated and flew away like an arrow towards Estrecho de Magallanes (Strait of Magellan). (November 26, 1997)", + "location": "Chile, Punta Arenas", + "ref": [ + "The case is being investigated by Bertran Cardenas of AION", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3614" + }, + { + "date": "11/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 11am J.G. and his father-in-law approached the Kuess train station. About 100 meters away, there was a dilapidated facade with a window without glass. J.G. then saw the top (roof) of a passenger wagon pass behind the window. The wagon was orange. J.G. then pointed out to his father-in-law that trains usually run at this time of day. They arrived at the station, which was closed. Going around the ruined facade, they were surprised to find that there was nothing behind the wall. No railway tracks, no platforms, no trains. Only an open space with a burgundy-colored truck parked there. A row of houses and people painting the facades (in white). (November 1997)", + "location": "Germany, Bernkastel, Kuess", + "ref": [ + "GESAG, Bulletin 98, March 1998, p. 4, direct testimony", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3615" + }, + { + "date": "12/2/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Woman Mysteriously Falls From Sky - The Associated Press Wednesday, December 3, 1997; 9:28 a.m. EST) A woman dressed in black mysteriously fell from the sky into the wall of an apartment complex. The inhabitants heard a loud crash and went outside to find the body cut in two, half embedded in the wall, said Inspector Delrish Moss. Nearby there is a 20-story tower, but Moss believes that given the way the body was embedded, the woman fell from much higher. \"We have no indication\" said Moss. The woman was wearing a long black shirt and black pants, no identification was found on her remains. She was white, with medium-length brown hair and seemed to be between 30 and 40 years old (...) The police will try to identify her by her fingerprints. The autopsy will also determine if the woman was alive at the time of the fall. In May 1996 a compressed body covered in grease was found in the outskirts of Miami and it was said that this person had been a stowaway who had fallen from the wheel well of an airplane. In the same week another body of a stowaway who had fallen from an airplane was found in the water outside of New York City. [note from vog: ufo = unidentified flying object, right? so as long as the body is not identified.... Apart from that, I find it very hard to believe these stories of stowaways falling...]", + "location": "USA, Miami", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3616" + }, + { + "date": "12/2/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The FUO (Hasselt) reported that in the evening of December 2, during the shift at the Ford factory in Genk, 200 people saw some kind of large black diamond that made a strange noise: like stones spinning in a cement mixer. When the object turned, all its lights were on one line. The ufology group was alerted at 10:10 PM. In the last days of November and the days following December 2, a similar object was seen by other witnesses in Waterschei, Zolder, and Maasmechelen. FUO contacted Eurocontrol to see if a \"Galaxy\" was in that part of the sky. This was not the case.", + "location": "Belgium, Genk", + "ref": [ + "see meeting in Hasselt on March 7, 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3617" + }, + { + "date": "12/8/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A Boeing 737 of British Midland Airways took off from London's Heathrow Airport for Belfast (Northern Ireland). At 2:15 pm, the jet flew over Liverpool on its northeast trajectory. One of the passengers suddenly saw a very large UFO in the direction of the right wing tip of the aircraft. The distance between the plane and the object was estimated to be 240 km. Miles Johnston of the BUFORA group said it was an enormous, black, thin object with a very intense light in one corner. The object seemed to be flying very slowly (difficult to estimate at that distance). The length of the thing was 20 times its thickness. It had the shape of a cigar and must have measured more than 650 meters long. It was observed at approximately the same altitude as the plane, 33,000 feet, but all on the horizon. This places it above Yorkshire, said Johnston. It was observed by the passenger for 15 minutes (vog: by only one of the passengers? That's so unlikely...) Under the object there was a layer of clouds, so the object could not have been detected from the ground. After 15 minutes of observation, the object itself entered the clouds. Before that, it was visible under a beautiful sun.", + "location": "England, Yorkshire (in flight)", + "ref": [ + "Filer's Files #51 for December 24, 1997, George A. Filer of MUFON", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3618" + }, + { + "date": "12/14/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Seven witnesses observed an object that had the shape of the \"@\" sign (though \"A\" is more accurate). It suddenly came into their view and stopped halfway. It was a kind of silver, flat pyramid. It hovered for a while, then went up and down like a yo-yo before suddenly disappearing.", + "location": "Canada, Vancouver, BC", + "ref": [ + "The 1997 Canadian UFO Survey", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3619" + }, + { + "date": "12/23/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Hundreds of Chinese workers from the industrial zone adjacent to Canton saw a UFO in the sky. It was oblong and white, with a row of portholes. At intervals a beam of light came out from the lower part. Around the portholes there was a luminous halo. For several minutes the UFO hovered and flew slowly above the factories and houses, before suddenly flying away at an enormous speed.", + "location": "CHINA, Canton", + "ref": [ + "\"Il Stampa du 27.12.97, Edoardo Russo du CISU, Italy", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3620" + }, + { + "date": "Late 12/1997", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A very large UFO landed near an isolated railway track and was observed by the crew of a freight train. The event took place in Kajabbi, also known as Milk Stop, at the end of a Cloncurry line on the Brisbane-Mount Isa route (a passenger train, the Sundowner, makes the trip twice a week). Kajabbi is 1,936 km northwest of Brisbane. As the freight train arrived at Kajabbi, the crew saw something like a huge structure, next to the tracks. It was rust-colored, partially transparent, and long enough to be a train (300 meters). As the train approached, the object rose and flew away. The crew was shocked by the observation and some of them no longer wanted to return to the site. (1997, late December)", + "location": "Australia, Kajabbi (Queensland", + "ref": [ + "UFO Roundup vol. 3 no. 9, 1.3.98, Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3621" + }, + { + "date": "1/10/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) D. Bruno, 62, a retired aviation technician, and three friends, went out hunting and drove north on the D 27 road. As they approached Grisy-les-Platres, Bruno noticed the presence in the sky of a series of lights as bright as the Moon. He was intrigued by the strange arrangement of the lights at an altitude of 20 meters. As the four friends got closer, they couldn't believe their eyes or identify what they were seeing. The lights seemed to be linear luminous portholes spaced 5 meters by 3 meters and located on an enormous black mass estimated to be 45 meters wide. This phenomenon was hovering above the road. \"It must have weighed thousands of tons,\" said Bruno, who had lowered the side window to hear the noise the object was making and was leaning out to get a better view of the underside. The thing was huge, preventing them from seeing the sky above them. A central part of the construction was a lighter gray color than the rest and was octagonal in shape. Below there were dazzling lights. This was the last memory Bruno had of the object. Then Bruno came to his senses, still on the D27, having passed Grisy-les-Platres by 4 km and in fact having passed the rendezvous point by 3 km. The friends were in the same state of confusion. On January 23, 1998, 13 days after the encounter, Bruno had to see the doctor about marks of burns that appeared on the left side of his face and an eye infection.", + "location": "France, Grisy les Platres (Val d'Oise)", + "ref": [ + "Franck Marie and Banque OVNI Bagneux", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3622" + }, + { + "date": "1/7/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Second week of January. The newspaper \"Vercernji List\" reported that four extraterrestrials had landed in a meadow north of the port city of Sibenik (on the Adriatic Sea). According to the newspaper, farmer Jako Vrancic was with his herd when a UFO landed without making any noise. The object is described as resembling an iron. He said the extraterrestrials had the size and appearance of children. The farmer offered them to share his snack, ham and dried figs, but they replied that they were not hungry. There was no problem of communication, it seems, since the little strangers spoke bad Croatian. Vrancic had no fear, since \"he had already seen such things on television\". After their brief visit, the four creatures returned to their craft which took off. The newspaper adds that Vrancic is an honest man, and known to be rather down-to-earth.", + "location": "Croatia, near Sibenik", + "ref": [ + "CNI News volume 3, number 22, part 2, Mike Lindemann and James Sutton.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3623" + }, + { + "date": "1/8/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 1:30 in the morning, the Spanish police raided a building on Barrio de la Salud street and arrested 32 members of a local UFO group. A few hours earlier, the group's founder, German Dr. Heide Fittkau-Garthe, 57 years old, psychologist, who had settled in Tenerife in 1985, had already been arrested. The Spanish Minister of the Interior, Mr. Antonio Lopez Ojeda, said that Dr. Fittkau-Garthe was charged with incitement to suicide. He added that the police were certain that Mrs. Heide Fittkau-Garthe's sect was a sub-sect of the Order of the Solar Temple (cfr New York Times for January 9, 1998, \"Suicide Sect Leader Held On Canary Islands,\" page A-8). The group had a double name. \"Centro Sagrado de Isis\" (Sacred Center of Isis) and \"Orden del Santuario Solar\" (Order of the Solar Sanctuary) and had its headquarters in Tenerife. The arrested people were 14 men, 13 women and 5 children under 12 years old. The police spokesman Juan Antonio Perez said that \"Dr. Fittkau-Garthe had subjected the members to brainwashing, who now needed to be \"deprogrammed\". In the building a toxic chemical substance was found, it would probably have been used for collective poisoning. (The Boston, Mass. Globe for January 10, 1998, \"Police Find Poison at Home of Suspected Cult Leader,\" page A-9.) On January 9, the police spokesman told the press that the UFO group had planned to go to Pico de Teide, an extinct volcano located 80 km southeast of Santa Cruz, and that at the top they had an appointment with the \"space brothers\" who were to take them aboard a spaceship. (Boston, Mass. Globe, January 10, 1998). The police had noted a large influx of Germans and Belgians this week, all members of the sect. Thanks to Interpol, the operation was successful, the case was also broadcast by Spanish television.", + "location": "Tenerife, Santa Cruz", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3624" + }, + { + "date": "1/18/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Hundreds of gallons of a strange substance, like a kind of brown wax, fell in the afternoon on the Snell family home. \"It fell from the sky, splashing the roof, windows, walls, barn, driveway. The police don't know what it is, nor does anyone else. It's the color of mud but not granular. Our insurance agent ordered an analysis\". Rose Snell discovered the substance when she returned home around 7:30 pm. She thought the boys had organized a mud battle. She was about to say two words to her son Marc, who at that moment was returning home. However, what he told her was very surprising. \"I came home around 6 pm,\" he said, \"and there was all this on the door, on the windows. There was also on the windshield of my car and I tried to remove it with a product. It only came off with difficulty. It's like paste or like wax...\" The Snells then called the Northern York County police. When the patrolman arrived with his strobe light, they could then see that their entire property was covered with this material. Lt. Mark Bentzel has the impression that this substance fell from the sky. (January 18, 1998)", + "location": "USA, Paradise Township (Pennsylvania)", + "ref": [ + "Source: The Pennsylvania Daily Record for January 21, 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3625" + }, + { + "date": "2/18/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On February 18, at 9:15 PM, I was going with my daughter to visit a friend. My daughter saw something coming and I exclaimed: \"What is that?\" and we stopped walking to look at the object. It was totally silent, no wind, no engine, nothing, we looked at it with our mouths open. It had a floor with semi-circular windows, everything was silent and it seemed like it was just us two. It seemed like we were alone in the world. I started screaming, but nobody heard us until the object had passed, which suddenly tilted and came towards us. I saw the ventral side and suddenly I saw three very large lamps (spherical) that looked like a triangle (sic). Then I saw a lot of small lamps and then my daughter and I only saw a very deep black hole. We started running. A few months later I had a tumor in my breast, with small tumors all around it. The doctor had no idea what it was but the tumors were not malignant.", + "location": "Netherlands, Pendrecht (?)", + "ref": [ + "Registered letter from C.V.d.L. to Ufo Belgium, Marc Broux, received on February 7, 2000 after a telephone interview on January 19, 2000", + "Continued in December 1999", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3626" + }, + { + "date": "2/19/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 10 pm Bob M. and his friend, George P., were driving west on the Garden State Parkway (Route 37) when they approached a pine forest area. They decided to turn back onto Route 37 and make a U-turn. At this moment George had to slam on the brakes in order to avoid a large object next to the road, in a kind of clearing. The thing, in the shape of a saucer, resting on three legs, was only 10 meters away from them. They stared in amazement for a minute at this craft on three legs, with a kind of small staircase, all of it aluminum-colored, without any other markings, then Bob asked: \"Do you see what I see?\" George replied \"If you see a flying saucer, that's exactly what I see...\" They didn't want to stay there and, putting the pedal to the metal, they drove back onto the asphalt and the busy roads. Bob still wanted to go back, but George refused. So they drove straight home, and arrived an hour later. To their surprise the sun was rising! (It must have been 6:15 then) In their opinion it could only have been midnight.", + "location": "USA, Toms River (New Jersey)", + "ref": [ + "Filer's Files #8 for 1998. George A. Filer of MUFON", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3627" + }, + { + "date": "3/8/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Very early in the morning a local farmer observed a UFO in the shape of a pear with its tail pointing downwards, white in color. This thing was hovering above a wheat field. The farmer called his wife and together the couple observed the phenomenon for half an hour. However, during the middle of the observation, an opening appeared in the object and an occupant emerged from it: it was very small, between 60 and 80 cm tall, with very large black eyes. This occupant floated in the air, very close to its craft, for about 10 minutes. Then it went back inside and the object shot vertically into the air, lighting up. (1998, 8 March)", + "location": "Italy, near Rho (Lombardy)", + "ref": [ + "Investigation in progress by Giancarlo D'Alessandro of the Italian Center for Ufological Studies: CISU; La Padania newspaper of 15.3.98", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3628" + }, + { + "date": "4/3/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Date: 3 April 1998 from 21.30 to 22.00 The night was dark and cloudy, there was no moon or stars when we were driving through the village of Fredelsloh. My wife, looking out the side window suddenly saw something dark covering the sky above our car. I was driving and looking at the road, so I didn't see anything special. A minute later a large rotating object came from the hill above the valley and crossed the road right above our car. We only saw the lights which were in two concentric circles, about 10 in the outer circle and 7 in the inner circle. The diameter must have been 50 meters. There were no colored lights: they were all white and each one was as bright as the car headlights. The rotation speed was about one and a half rotations per second, so it was not easy to distinguish one light at a time. But each light must have had a diameter of about 50 cm. This object flew at an altitude between 10 and 20 meters above the fields to a wood, in a bend, inclining as an airplane or helicopter would. But there it made a U-turn quickly to return to the road, stopping its trajectory near our car and flying alongside us at our speed which was 100 km/h. Then the object rose up, inclining, and I could see its amazing size. It flew above the car to go to the other side, then made the reverse maneuver. This repeated 5 or 6 times during our journey. Apart from the noise of our car we heard nothing, felt nothing. The car radio was not on. The maximum speed of this object was 400 to 500 km/h and the acceleration observed was 2 to 3 g. (I know my speed, I know the points where the object crossed the road and the distance between these points and I made calculations) It is impossible that it was only a projection in this very cloudy sky. We met three other cars on the road. Did the occupants see what we saw? Thank you. Michael m_michael at gmx.net (1998, 3 April)", + "location": "Germany, between Moringen - Lutterbeck - Fredelsloh (100 km south of Hannover)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3629" + }, + { + "date": "4/12/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Four UFOs were observed immediately before and during a general power outage. The first power outage of the electrical network occurred at 7:45 PM and lasted until 10:11 PM. The spokespeople of the Cooperativa Electricidade Bariloche (CEB) claimed that there was no explanation for the event that left a large part of the city in darkness. The current was cut off on the transmission lines of the Cipresales substation. However, at 10:15 PM, there was a new general outage and it lasted until Monday, April 13 at 1:30 AM. The newspaper \"Diario Rio Negro\" reports the testimony of Gustavo and Beatriz Riveros who saw strange lights above the Cerro Carbon hill to the east. Beatriz saw two lights merge above a field, at the exact moment of the power outage. Other witnesses observed bizarre illuminations above Lake Nahuel Huapi. In the San Francisco neighborhood, a woman saw a red fireball descend in a zigzag towards the stairway cut into the rock at Triscornia. A luminous disc was observed elsewhere at the intersection of Calle Fernando Beschtete and Calle La Paz. Nicolas Lavalle saw four UFOs hovering: \"there was one big one and three smaller ones,\" he said, \"the small ones attached to the big one.\" Andrea Caparo and her sisters Natalia and Caroline observed around 11:30 PM a saucer \"like a tomato and bigger than an airplane\" huge with twinkling red, yellow, green and blue lights as well as another longer object with red and yellow lights. These objects remained in sustentation for several minutes before leaving towards the lake.", + "location": "Argentina, Bariloche", + "ref": [ + "TOLAM Agency and AFP, Diario Popular Buenos Aires, Diario Rio Negro of April 14, 1998", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3630" + }, + { + "date": "4/19/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The shuttle \"Space Ark\" was launched for a \"Neurolab\" mission. The shuttle Columbia departed to complete its 25th mission, which will last two weeks. The goal is to study the effects of space travel on the brains of living species. In addition to the pilot Scott Altman, the commander Rick Searloss, and the crew, the voyage includes: 1514 larval crickets, 18 pregnant mice, 152 rats, 60 snails, 75 snail eggs, and 233 swordfish. (April 19, 1998)", + "location": "Space", + "ref": [ + "New York Post for April 18, 1998, \"Shuttle roars off into space with a cast of thousands\" and for April 19, 1998, \"Shuttle crew looks to brainless rats for help.\"", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3631" + }, + { + "date": "4/25/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The London newspapers Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail reported that the Royal Dutch Interceptor Squadron had pursued a giant triangular-shaped UFO over the North Sea. According to the Daily Mail, the RAF radar at Fylingdales in North Yorkshire had an echo of an unusual flying object, zigzagging at a speed of 17,000 mph (27,200 km/h) and RAF fighter planes were dispatched for interception, while two Dutch F-16s also attempted, but in vain, to approach the object, which increased its speed to reach 24,000 mph (38,400 km/h) flying northeast and towards the Atlantic Ocean (vog: weird... I thought the Atlantic was more to the west compared to the Netherlands...) Still according to this newspaper \"official spokespersons of the RAF were dumbfounded by the object, which was really being piloted intelligently taking into account the numerous maneuvers it was executing\". \"It was triangular in shape and had the size of a warship, that is 900 feet (about 300 meters)\" According to the Daily Telegraph, \"recordings studied by British and American experts, would show objects changing shape at mid-altitude as well as an object as big as a warship flying at 33 times the speed of sound\". The recordings would be shown in June at the Space Symposium to be held at the RAF Cranwell Air Warfare Center in Lincolnshire.\" The newspapers published the articles on Monday April 27th, but the RAF press office denied that a joint operation with the Dutch had taken place concerning a UFO. They said that indeed a symposium would be held in June, but that it concerned military strategies in space and not UFOs at all. The Daily Telegraph wrote on April 29th 1998 \"that it stood by its story and its RAF source\". According to Graham W. Birdsall, editor of the English ufology magazine \"UFO Magazine\" this \"source\" would be Philip Burden, a former employee of the Ministry of Defense, who, when he was still engaged more than ten years ago, wrote small articles for the publication \"RAF News\". [vog: IN REALITY I SUPPOSE THIS IS A HUGE JOURNALISTIC HOAX, this is also the opinion of Dutch ufologist Andy Denne of AURA.] (April 25th 1998)", + "location": "Netherlands and England", + "ref": [ + "Daily Telegraph for April 27, 1998, \"RAF Spots Speeding UFOs with New Radar,\" Daily Mail for April 27, 1998, \"24,000 MPH UFO Buzzes Britain.\" and Errol Bruce-Knapp, Graham W. Birdsall and Dave Clarke of BUFORA", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3632" + }, + { + "date": "8/8/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 5:30 in the morning, five people saw an extraterrestrial flying above the football field. According to Italian ufologist Antonio Chiumiento, two farmers, the manager of the football field and a tourist couple saw the phenomenon. The flying extraterrestrial then joined the saucer that was hovering high up. It then left at the speed of light. \"Angelo F., one of the farmers, was taking his snack near the field before starting his work when he saw a multicolored object. In his opinion, it measured 70 cm at arm's length. The manager Angelo B. observed the thing as it passed over his head. He described it as \"a humanoid with a big head and a very thin body, like a doll. The being must have measured about 130 cm tall and wore a body armor in the shape of a V and was in a \"packaging\" of light. Once the being had joined the UFO, it immediately shot off at a dizzying speed", + "location": "ITALY, Claut (Pordenone - Giulia)", + "ref": [ + "Il Manifesto, Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno of 15.8.1998, and Edoardo Russo, Lucio Cassano and Remo Ponti", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3633" + }, + { + "date": "8/10/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Investigators: Moira McGhee, Bill Chalker, Bryan Dickeson, Diane Harrison, Robert Frola UFO Group: INUFOR, UFOIC, UFOR(NSW), UFOICQ) Mrs. Eunice Stansfield, 61, had just finished having tea in the garden with her daughter Noelene. It was about 1 pm, and she was bringing the cups into the house when she heard her daughter say \"Oh no, here it comes!\" Coming out of the house they saw \"spider webs\" falling from the sky where they saw about twenty silver balls maneuvering and accelerating at an altitude higher than commercial airplanes. The substance resembling spider webs was falling to the ground, on the telephone lines... Her daughter, who had stayed outside, was covered in it. Trying to grab them, they disintegrated in her hand. The family car was covered in it but when she tried to take them to put them in a jar, the thin threads disintegrated. (Tamworth's North Daily Leader, 10.08.98) On August 11, 1998, Moira McGhee from INUFOR visited the witnesses and was able to collect a closed yogurt pot that had been placed in the freezer in which a bit of the material had been kept. It was apparently intact and was subjected to analysis.

During the observation, Mario, Eunice's husband, a former NATO pilot, estimated the altitude of the spheres to be 50-60,000 feet. Among the single balls there were two pairs of spheres connected to each other by a cylindrical shape. The observation lasted more than an hour and a half and probably close to two hours. These balls were coming from the east in waves and then began to maneuver. Eunice said that the largest ones measured 5 to 8 cm long at arm's length (if the altitude is correctly estimated, this gives them a diameter of between 820 and 980 meters. The maneuvers observed seemed very complicated and difficult to follow by a single witness. The spheres were gathering, approaching each other, moving away, flying making right-angle turns, making \"mirror\" maneuvers in pairs; the balls were coming slowly, then began to move quickly, flying directly over the house. At one point four of these spheres seemed to be placed one on top of the other while remaining motionless in the sky. Then the upper one fell forward, followed by the other two. All this seemed to be done in deliberate and controlled movements. Then from a V formation of 5 spheres, one went left, the other right and the three others then formed a straight line. Finally Mario saw one of the smallest spheres enter a formation of two large ones connected by a cylinder. No trail or emission was seen coming from these spheres. Until several seemed to drop something from the back. This something solidified when falling and had the appearance of spider webs covering the lines, trees, hedges, everything. During the observation Eunice was calling friends and neighbors asking if anyone could film the phenomenon. Weather conditions: it was the first day of blue sky after a period of rain, but the temperature was still cool for the season, there was a bit of wind. In the neighborhood and the region, all the dogs were barking frantically during the entire duration of the observation.", + "location": "Australia, Quirindi (near Tamworth, New South Wales)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3634" + }, + { + "date": "8/12/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The spy satellite exploded directly after launch. The launch of the top secret Vortex satellite ended in disaster, 40 seconds after launch when its Titan 4A carrier missile exploded. The 20-story tall missile rose from its launch pad at Cape Canaveral at 7:30am on Wednesday, August 12, 1998 \"nosedived and exploded without warning\". Barely two seconds later, controllers activated the destruct command to break the missile into smaller pieces to minimize damage to people and things on the ground. The double bang was heard for miles around and set off all the alarms in the area. Most, if not all, of the pieces landed half a mile out to sea. Titan 4A was carrying 250 tons of highly toxic fuel. There were no reports of injuries. Built by Lockheed Martin Corp., the missile was carrying the Vortex satellite for the US National Reconnaissance Office, the NRO. This constitutes one of the largest financial losses in US space program history. The missile was estimated to be worth $300 million and the satellite was worth between $800 million and $1 billion. The satellite was supposed to orbit to provide the US with intelligence on \"hot spots\" in the Middle East, China, India, and Pakistan.", + "location": "USA-SPACE", + "ref": [ + "USA Today for August 13, 1998, \"Rocket, spy satellite explode.\"", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3635" + }, + { + "date": "8/21/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) People from one of the suburbs of Perugia, in Citta di Castello, claim to have seen \"a flying humanoid extraterrestrial\". The encounter took place on the outskirts of the suburb, where the witnesses saw \"a small extraterrestrial bent like an old woman picking herbs\". As the silhouette did not respond to the people's calls, they approached it cautiously. \"When they got to 200 meters from the being, something like a silver cylinder appeared. The cylinder began to hover two meters above the ground. The humanoid then rose up into the hovering object, which then quickly accelerated vertically, disappearing in a few seconds.\"", + "location": "Italy, Citta di Castello, Perugia.", + "ref": [ + "Corriere dell'Umbria of 28.8.1998 and the Cisu, cfr Edoardo Russo, Simone Cumbo", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3636" + }, + { + "date": "8/26/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Another Galaxy satellite destroyed by an explosion during launch. Galaxy 10 has joined the list of satellites that have had trouble this summer, following the explosion of its carrier rocket, 55 seconds after launch from Cape Canaveral. At 9 pm on Wednesday, August 26, the launch of Galaxy 10 was scheduled by the new Boeing Delta III rocket. The 225 million dollar communications satellite, owned by PanAmSat Corp., was to replace Galaxy 4, which mysteriously left its orbit at the end of May, interrupting communication services and TV channels worldwide. The Delta III rocket, 12 stories high, began its ascent correctly after launch. But NASA's long-range cameras saw it nose-diving just before exploding into a huge orange fireball around the 55th second of flight. A large part of the rocket fell into the Atlantic Ocean 16 km east of Florida and exploded, causing a huge mushroom cloud that could be seen for miles.", + "location": "USA - SPACE", + "ref": [ + "USA Today for August 27, 1998, \"Rocket blows up,\" and the Providence, R.I. Journal for August 27, 1998, \"Another rocket explodes on liftoff,\" page 2.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3637" + }, + { + "date": "9/10/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The end of summer 1998 marked the most catastrophic disaster concerning the launch of satellites. On September 10, 1998, Russia attempted to launch a missile carrying 12 commercial satellites from the Baikonour base. The Zenit-2 launcher departed without incident, but after 5 minutes of flight the device made a sudden downward curve and crashed. It would be a failure of the computers. On board were a dozen Globalstar, communications satellites built by Loral Space Systems Division of Loral Space and Communications Ltd of New York. The satellites were to serve as elements of a global system for mobile telephony and costing 2.6 million dollars. The missile and its cargo partially burned during their re-entry into the atmosphere", + "location": "Russia (Kazakhstan) Baikonour", + "ref": [ + "The Providence, R.I. Journal for September 11, 1998, \"U.S. satellites destroyed in Russian-led launch,\" page A-7", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3638" + }, + { + "date": "9/15/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Engineer J.L. de Villiers was slowing his train to a stop at 3:32 a.m. as it approached the Schalkrust station, which is located near a 4 km square flat field. \"A strange orange-yellow light was going up and down in the middle of the field at great speed,\" de Villiers said. \"It was not a very big object, the size of a football or a bit more,\" he said. \"This thing was going up to 20 meters high at great speed, came back to ground level, and then went up again. After a minute it vanished into thin air.\" Leon Bouwer, UFO Roundup's correspondent for South Africa, reports that there are several abandoned coal mines in the province of Mpumulanga (formerly Eastern Transvaal) where Schalkrust is located, and that possibly the train crew could have seen one of these gas geysers.", + "location": "South Africa, Schalkrust (Lydenburg)", + "ref": [ + "Stig Agermose, Errol Bruce-Knapp, Leon Bouwer and UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 3, Number 38, Editor: Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3639" + }, + { + "date": "9/17/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Craig Calonica, an American climber, was descending from a high-altitude camp site when he saw two Yetis wandering in the snow. It was during his descent from 6500 meters to the site located at 5200 meters that he saw the creatures. He said they had thick, black and shiny fur and they walked in a human-like way, but with hunched shoulders. \"I saw something and what I saw was not human, not a gorilla, not a bear, not a goat or a reindeer,\" said Calonica. The Nepalese cook of Calonica was a co-witness. The description of the Yeti is identical to that made by Lt. Col. C.K. Howard-Bury during his expedition in the Himalayas in 1921. This observation took place on the north face of Everest, about 56 km southeast of Dinggye, Tibet.", + "location": "Himalaya, Mount Everest", + "ref": [ + "Reuters Agency and Erik Beckjord of the Sasquatch Research Project", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3640" + }, + { + "date": "10/30/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) In the newly partially built neighborhood, a woman was looking out the window and saw small extraterrestrials running through the garden. This person told her story to ufologist Christopher O'Brien. \"It seemed like small objects were hitting the wall of the house at the same time,\" she said. \"You can see the surroundings because there are no trees at all for about a hundred meters. The small extraterrestrials had heads proportionate to their size, which was about 1.20 m. In their run they were accompanied by some kind of very hairy pig.\" The next day, Saturday October 31st, the woman saw a fast flying oval object enter through the garden door and then slow down as it rose into the hall, above her. The object had the color of milk with a reflective band around it, which seemed chrome. The witness was so stunned that she didn't want to look at the thing anymore, which gave the object the opportunity to disappear. She estimates that the thing was about 3 meters away from her. (1998, October 30th and 31st)", + "location": "USA, Baca Grande (Colorado)", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Roundup, Volume 3, Number 45 November 9, 1998, Editor: Joseph Trainor - Christopher O'Brien, author of THE MYSTERIOUS VALLEY", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3641" + }, + { + "date": "11/25/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Declaration of the radio amateur D.B.R. with the call sign \"Alfa\" residing in Alacala de Guadeira, Seville: \"I am a career military man assigned to guard duty. At around 5 in the morning, two hours before the end of my guard duty in front of the special hangars 1-509 with my partner Pastor-Aleman, I heard a noise in the bushes, as if someone was sawing wood. My partner said to me: \"Let's go! Let's go!\" and with a machine gun in hand, I saw movement and I shouted \"Who goes there?\" without receiving an answer and I fired two shots in the air. From the bushes emerged a tall man, more than 2 meters. We did not have flashlights and so we did not see his features since it was still dark. But what scared us were his bright eyes, of a fluorescent green and so I shot a 20-bullet magazine at him. The man did not move, he stayed still. I shouted in panic to my partner to shoot too. But when he found himself in front of the huge man (he must have been close to 2 meters 50) he started to back away, then he started to whimper and put his head on my shoulder. I inserted another 40-bullet magazine. When I was ready to shoot, the man raised his hand as if in a salute, looking at me calmly with his luminous green eyes and he returned to the bushes. I looked around a bit, but I could not find him anymore. I called the central by walkie-talkie. They sent me a patrol and they took me to the commander. When I told him what had happened he said to me: \"See, hear and be silent, and that is as soon as you leave this room.\" He immediately granted me an unsolicited week of leave. When I returned to my duty a week later, I went back to the site: there was no trace of anything: not even the shells, or even the ashes of my cigarette! Since that event I feel bad, I have cold sweats and my hands tremble just by thinking about it. Yet on the base strange things often happen, but none have disturbed me so much.\" (continued on December 5, 1998, same place, same witness) The investigator adds that this military man aged more than 25, behaves as if he is persecuted, and only observes the street around his house in a state of true paranoia.", + "location": "Spain, Seville, Moron de la Frontera Base.", + "ref": [ + "Carmen Pina, Box 1129, Seville, 19.6.1999", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3642" + }, + { + "date": "12/5/1998", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Account from radio amateur D.B.R. with the call sign \"Alfa\" residing in Alcalà de Guadaira, Seville: \"In a special hangar, whose number I can't remember if it was 1-6 or -0, five patrols arrived. We had to surround the hangar. In less than ten minutes we were deployed and then a US ARMY trailer with a cylindrical shape resembling a missile (but I'm not sure if it was one) came out of the hangar. Its color was metallic silver, without any registration number or other references. On the object there was a hatch or a door that opened. At that precise moment the commander ordered us to keep the object in sight with our weapons. In this position we waited for a certain time for the appearance of an American plane in which the trailer with the cylindrical object was loaded. The transport plane took off escorted by two other planes.\" [vog: I highly doubt that the cylinder has anything to do with extraterrestrials. ...]", + "location": "Spain, Seville - Moron de la Frontera base", + "ref": [ + "UCU, Carmen Pina, PO BOX 1129, Seville", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3643" + }, + { + "date": "2/5/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 10:25 PM Jeff Cook and Mick Cartwright, both from Minlayton, were driving south from Roxby Downs towards Port Augusta when Cook (who was not driving) saw what he thought was the scene of a car accident about 1.5 miles ahead of them. There were a multitude of red lights and at least one flashing blue light. A few seconds later he realized that the lights were not stationary in one place, but were moving along the road at a speed similar to their own car. With the added strangeness that the lights would occasionally veer off the road on either side for a few feet. He pointed out the phenomenon to Cartwright, and looking at the car's speedometer they noticed that they and the mysterious lights were travelling at 110 km/h. After a few minutes they saw car headlights coming in the opposite direction, apparently going up a curved hill. Cook said: \"As the headlights got closer, it seemed like the vehicle was going to be blocked by all these lights in front of us. Well, no. In two seconds the red and blue lights disappeared on the spot, the headlights of the car in the opposite direction seemed to be at the bottom of the hill and disappeared... but we never saw them again. Continuing on our way we noticed that there was no descent or ascent at that point of the road, nor any interruption in the row of trees that lined it on either side. There wasn't even a trace of dust that could indicate that a vehicle had left the asphalt for a dirt road at that point.\"", + "location": "Australia, Roxby Downs (near Port Augusta in the south)", + "ref": [ + "Australian newspaper \"Country Times\" of 20.02.1999 and Diane Harrison of the Australian UFO Research Network Hotline, 25.02.1999", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3644" + }, + { + "date": "2/20/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Several young people in a car were on their way to Alicante when suddenly the car lost all power and stopped. \"At first we laughed, my friends and I. But then, noticing that our cell phones weren't working either, nor the digital clock in the car, nor the headlights, nothing that was electric, we were surprised. As we then heard a kind of buzzing, we got out of the vehicle. Looking up we saw three lights in a triangular formation and just as we saw them, they started up and disappeared. Immediately all our devices were working again and the engine started on the first turn of the key. The strangest thing is that we were right underneath this phenomenon and we didn't feel the slightest breath of air displacement. Yet the thing was at most 30 meters above us. (February 20, 1999)", + "location": "Spain, near Alicante", + "ref": [ + "Filer's Files #9 of February 1999, George A. Filer, Eastern director of MUFON", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3645" + }, + { + "date": "3/9/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A rectangular UFO caused excitement among construction workers living in the small village of Siledi, where they are working on the construction of a school. \"They got the shock of their lives when an object resembling a coffin (a large rectangular box) flew over their houses just after 9 pm. It started with the sound of a very strong wind and believing it to be a storm they went out to see this \"coffin\" black flying over the roofs.\"", + "location": "Malawi, Siledi, Mwanza district", + "ref": [ + "The Daily Times of Blantyre, Malawi of 10.3.1999, title \"Coffin' flies over houses.\" and correspondent CNI Diane Cammack", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3646" + }, + { + "date": "3/29/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 4 in the morning Ryan H. was sleeping like a log on the second floor of the family house, when he was suddenly woken up by shaking in the room, as if there was a medium intensity earthquake. However, he quickly noticed that the shaking seemed to come from the top rather than the bottom and from east to west. He then thought that a big animal might have fallen from a tree onto the roof of the house and he got up to look out the window. To his astonishment he saw high in the sky a big and intense orange light in the shape of a balloon. He then moved to another window to get a better view and noticed that the object was flying quickly towards the west. However, on this course, it would stop and remain still. Up to this point the observation had taken about 30 seconds and Ryan went to wake up one of his brothers in the next room. The two young men (both over 20 years old) then went out onto the balcony and watched the light balloon for about 10 minutes. At the moment the UFO finally started to move, Ryan shone some light flashes from his flashlight at it. Is it a coincidence that at this moment the object stopped again? It was then that the rest of the family was woken up, including the parents, so that as many people as possible could watch the phenomenon. After some time the object suddenly started to move again quickly in the direction of the south. Then suddenly it stopped in its course and the family could see a bunch of smaller objects coming out from the base of the balloon and descending towards the ground. After this performance, the light went out and the UFO disappeared. A certain time after, the family could then observe a surprising UFO completely different. It is described as a big cube with rounded corners, of a dark grey color. The color of the object almost blended in with the clouds in the sky. This floating cube was watched until it was lost from sight on the horizon", + "location": "USA, LaVerne (California)", + "ref": [ + "Tim Hagemeister from NACOMM, 5.4.1999", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3647" + }, + { + "date": "4/3/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Testimony of D.S.J.M. Two witnesses (him and his wife). Object of a size greater than that of the full moon observed from the first floor of a building at 22:30. No sound is heard coming from this object having a luminosity twice that of the brightest star. The speed of movement was faster than that of a jet, and the trajectory went from SSW to NNE. The center of the thing was dark, surrounded by lights and the general shape was that of a boomerang whose perimeter was lit by a multitude of small headlights. (the witness said that if the boomerang makes an angle of 90°, this object had a rounded obtuse angle of 130°) It must have been flying at a high altitude and at very high speed since from one end to the other of the observation neither its size nor its luminosity varied much. On arrival the witnesses only observed the lights at the front part, at the beginning they then saw the lights on the rear part, arranged in a kind of arc. It looked like a very open wide V of a flight of migratory birds.", + "location": "Spain, Seville (east of the city)", + "ref": [ + "this report is transmitted to me by Ignacio Darnaude Rojas-Marcos from Seville", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3648" + }, + { + "date": "4/9/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Maybe a bird, or an airplane?... What is certain is that it is excrement. And in the Salt Lake City valley, they don't joke around, where since April 9th and a dozen times, thick showers of filth have fallen from the sky, so big that they dirtied seven houses at once. The neighbors blame the airplanes, but the Federal Aviation Administration retorts that commercial jets don't dump their septic tanks in flight. They are studying the \"splatter patterns\" and the firemen are hosing down the houses to clean them... The complainants have obtained the collaboration of a judicial investigator because, as the mayor of Taylorsville, Janice Auger, says: \"It has never been funny. The smell is terrible, health is at stake. Feces have always been potentially carriers of a lot of diseases\". Captain Lee Smith of the police affirms: \"It is feces, but nobody seems to be able to tell us if it is of animal or human origin. The FAA, often solicited in the case of bizarre phenomena, is dumbfounded about these \"fallouts\". \"We have never heard of anything like this,\" says Mitch Barker, their spokesperson. (Between April 9th and May 14th 1999)", + "location": "USA, Salt Lake City", + "ref": [ + "Copyright 1999 The Associated Press 15/05/99", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3649" + }, + { + "date": "4/27/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Debbie had gone to check on her son's room to make sure everything was alright during the night, when a blue light came in through the shutters. It was 4:30 in the morning. Looking out another window into the street, she was astonished to see a group of 8 to 12 rectangular stationary lights, illuminating the whole alley of the neighbor. The lights were stationary and the whole thing measured about 2.50m on each side. She also heard a kind of deep buzzing. After observing the phenomenon for about ten seconds she was so shocked that she returned to her son's room. As she went there, she saw a beam of white light at the back of the house, illuminating the whole Dogwood Park area. Glancing, she could then see the white light of the UFO between the trees.", + "location": "Canada, White Rock (British Columbia)", + "ref": [ + "Filer's Files # 22 of June 4, 1999", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3650" + }, + { + "date": "5/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) New asteroid receives the name of Phil Klass as explained by the magazine \"Aviation Week & Space Technology\". Astronomer James McGaha says: \"The Klass asteroid will represent a man who was a shining light of scientific skepticism.", + "location": "USA, SPACE", + "ref": [ + "Editor's Note: Congratulations to the loyal opposition! Filer's Files #19 of May 14, 1999", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3651" + }, + { + "date": "5/10/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Phenomenon observed for half an hour, from 2:30 in the morning at the Aznalcollar mine by truck drivers and a mine guard. The object was moving in an area enclosed by the triangle Aznalcollar, Gerena and Castillo de la Guardas. According to the witnesses it was blue in color and had a shape resembling a round electric radiator. The approximate diameter of the object was 50 to 60 meters, according to the witnesses, but it is difficult to accept these figures without further triangulation.", + "location": "Spain, Aznalcollar (Seville)", + "ref": [ + "Investigation by Joaquin Mateos Nogales, Gerena-Seville, May 1999", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3652" + }, + { + "date": "5/14/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A couple was walking along Mud Bay at 8:15 PM when they saw something black that was at least 10 meters long. It had a tail shaped like a fin that was raised up and it was moving in the water. It made no noise or even ripples in the water! The husband is convinced that it was neither a sea wolf nor a shark. Around 8:30 PM they were on the road near \"1000 Steps\" at Crescent Beach when they saw on the road an orange light spot that was about 3 meters in diameter.", + "location": "Canada, Mud Bay (British Columbia)", + "ref": [ + "Filer's Files # 22, Mufon, June 4, 1999", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3653" + }, + { + "date": "5/16/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) William Jones, director of Mufon for Ohio, reports that three observations were noted on May 16 above Columbus, all three around 10:15 PM. First, a family of three people from Upper Arlington saw for about ten minutes a UFO in the shape of a disk but with a dome on the top and bottom. The craft had a very intense and flashing light at the top and bottom. The whole phenomenon was luminous, the domes more than the central part with a rectangular or elongated part. The object was in the south of the sky relative to their position and flying slowly in the west-northwest direction. Very shortly before this observation, a couple driving on Ackerman Road (2 miles east of the family of the above observation) saw a large ovoid object in the south sky. It seemed to be flying over the Ohio State University, or the nearby football stadium. It had a white, fuzzy and vaporous light above, more defined below and near the base several flashing lights. As they drove, they had the impression that the object was gliding. The observation was of short duration, until they crossed the Olentangy River. IN REALITY: A third witness reported seeing between 10:15 and 10:20 PM a large luminous object apparently traveling at 15 or 25 mph in the direction of the south. It seemed to be following the I-270 route; At one point, after turning west, the thing was close enough for the witness to read the word \"Budweiser\" on the side of the object. It was an illuminated advertising blimp.", + "location": "USA, Columbus (Ohio)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3654" + }, + { + "date": "6/9/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Diane Harrison, director of Australian Skywatch, reported that Peter saw tons and tons of a filamentous substance falling from the sky over an area of 90 km². Everything was covered: houses, hedges, trees, and it hung on electrical lines in large pieces up to 10 meters long. The sky was heavily covered with this material, apparently up to an altitude of 300 meters. The substance fell for five hours: from 10 am to 3 pm. Everything was covered. Peter collected some of the material for analysis. During this angel hair shower a Cessna flew at 80 to 100 meters through the downpour.", + "location": "Australia, Esperance", + "ref": [ + "Australian UFO Research Network and Filer's Files #24, June 18, 1999, MUFON Skywatch Investigations", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3655" + }, + { + "date": "6/20/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, and the June 24 edition of the Art Bell radio program) Janice Price recounts that she was sitting with her son on the porch of their trailer. The night was very quiet. It was about 11:15 PM. \"Suddenly this light came through the woods up above our home. At first there were four separate flashes of light, of an intensity of one million watts. They only lasted a second. It went up to our car entrance and stopped: nothing! No sound. Perfect silence.\" Not knowing what to think, Janice then went into the trailer to talk with her brother-in-law. When she came out again, her house was bathed in an intense blue-white light. The trees were lit up like it was daytime. Something was moving quickly in the sky, as the shadows of the trees and things were lengthening and shortening in all directions. \"I was watching from the front door, talking with my uncle,\" said the son. \"Through the trees I saw big beams of light moving. It went from west to east. It went through the trees which sometimes blocked the light. The shadows were moving in all directions, all the time. Then it went over a big pine tree, lighting up everything. I ran to the other side to get a better view, but the house was in the way. That's all I remember.\" The son's memory ends there. \"Then I remember looking down and everything was black,\" he adds. Meanwhile, not far away, a retired Air Force pilot was in bed, looking out the window. He was surprised to suddenly see a bright object. Owen Mitchell, also present on the Art Bell program, said he had been retired for two years after 26 years of service and over 20,000 hours of flight. His trailer is a half-mile from the Prices'. He saw \"a round object, flying from east to west at an elevation of about 60° in the sky.\" He had never seen anything like it. \"It was above the trees and really very bright, like the light of a welding arc. It was hard to look at, but it was fascinating.\" The whole canyon was lit up, but his observation only lasted two seconds. Mitchell estimates that the object was a half-mile away and at an altitude between 750 and 1000 meters. He looked at the time: it was 11:18 PM.", + "location": "USA, near Lava Hot Springs (Idaho)", + "ref": "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)", + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3656" + }, + { + "date": "6/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Eric Carman writes: \"I would like to share an incident that I have only told my brother about. It was in June, I'm not sure of the exact day, and it was a beautiful day. I was sitting in my living room around 10:30 in the morning, waiting for my daughter's school bus. Near the panoramic window something caught my attention: I thought it was children's balloons, floating in the wind. But upon closer inspection, there was something strange. A high-tension line with 4-6 wires passes in front of the house, and these balloons were flying parallel to the line. Intrigued, I went outside and noticed three gray, slightly oval-shaped, almost metallic-looking balls spinning on themselves and each other as they moved horizontally. A fourth ball, flying even lower, joined the other three. For a few moments they all followed the high-tension line, then they rose up incredibly fast and disappeared. I even took a picture but it doesn't show much: it was just at the moment when the 4 balls were joining before they rose up. I don't know what it was, but I'm sure I'll never forget this phenomenon.\" (June 1999)", + "location": "USA, Gary (Indiana)", + "ref": [ + "Eric Carman, CARQUEZ at aol.com. and Filer's Files #24, June 18, 1999, MUFON Skywatch Investigations", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3657" + }, + { + "date": "7/25/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) An unidentified creature that had been terrorizing the population and their poultry (vog: sic!) was captured Sunday night July 25. People had already seen the \"beast\" during the month of June, but generally it made its ravages at night, devouring dozens of chickens and pigeons. The creature with a small head and big eyes, teeth, and a tail was finally taken when it seemed to be methodically visiting certain residential areas of Mafraq each night. Provisionally the creature has been given the name \"Al-Massara\" and has been handed over to veterinary services to determine its species, but nothing says that it was the only one of its kind roaming the night in Mafraq.", + "location": "JORDAN, Mafraq", + "ref": [ + "The National Post of Toronto for July 27, 1999, \"Police end unidentified creature's reign of terror.\"; UFO Newsclipping Service for August 1999; Lou Farish and UFO ROUNDUP vol. 4 no. 21 of 16.9.1999, ed. Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3658" + }, + { + "date": "8/20/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Stories of ghosts are common around the old town of Haditha. But when the naked ghosts start dancing in front of motorists driving on the road, it creates traffic embarrassment. According to the Iraqi newspaper Al-Alwan, \"motorists passing through the Horan Valley, just outside the town of Haditha (216 km northeast of Baghdad) saw the appearance of 'naked spirits' performing acrobatic movements, next to the bridge. The drivers were in panic,\" said the newspaper, which adds that motorist Shawki Sabar said: \"They were rather human, but I could not focus on their exact shape because it was dark and I was scared to see it.\" The spirits seemed so alive that one of the drivers thought he had run over a person and went to report the accident to the police. (August 20, 1999)", + "location": "Iraq, Haditha", + "ref": [ + "Weekly Al-Alwan of 21.8.99, and the Charlotte, N.C. Observer of 22.8.99; Lou Farrish of Ufo Newsclipping Service", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3659" + }, + { + "date": "9/1/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Hundreds of residents reported seeing 7 or 8 glowing UFOs in the sky. Most of the sightings took place between 9 pm and 9:30 pm. One of the witnesses claimed that several F-15 fighter jets had taken off from the Portland military airport four minutes after the UFO flyover. Interceptor planes were also reported in the sky over Bend, Oregon. In total, there were reports of either 7 or 8 glowing UFOs, flying from northwest to southeast in a \"formation\" at low altitude and at a surprisingly slow speed; or 8 UFOs with fire trails traveling from west to east across the sky in one and a half minutes; or 7 or 8 flaming objects flying in a straight line and formation from northwest to southwest, with one object leaving the formation and then returning. IN REALITY: Jerry Rolwes from MUFON contacted NORAD and discussed the sightings with Major Nouis, in charge of public affairs for the Air Force. This was re-entry number 25761 in the NORAD catalogue, the Russian SL-12 rocket launched from Baikonour on 28.2.1998. It entered the Earth's atmosphere at 22:11 (9:11 pm Pacific time) at 17,000 mph, which explains the fire trail observed by the witnesses.", + "location": "USA, Northwest Pacific Coast", + "ref": [ + "Steve Wilson Sr. UFO Roundup vol. 4 no. 20, 8.9.99, ed. Joseph Trainor.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3660" + }, + { + "date": "9/12/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At around 7 pm on Sunday a large V-shaped object appeared in the sky, above the Garza Garcia district of Monterrey where two supermarkets are located. According to Mexican ufologist Santiago Yturria Garza, \"The UFO was large and stationary in the sky at low altitude. Its shape was a V and on the upper part it had something spherical that seemed to emit a continuous white light. In addition, the UFO continuously changed shape, into a boomerang, into a triangle, while rotating on its axis. At one point the two arms of the boomerang separated.\" Hundreds of Mexicans stopped their cars to observe it and several called the television stations. At 9:29 pm the television reporter Marta Zamarripa arrived to film the phenomenon for the show TeleDiario, on Channel 12. The object was still there at 7:45 pm. During the next day's broadcast, the presenter told viewers that a Boeing 737 was descending and was at 3000 m when the Mario Escobede airport control tower warned it to be \"vigilant about something it could encounter on its descent path.\" But upon inquiry, the control tower firmly denied having made such statements.", + "location": "Mexico, Monterrey - Garza Garcia (Monterrey)", + "ref": [ + "Santiago Yturria Garza and OVNI Investigaciones de Mexico, Ufo Roundup vol. 4 no. 22, 22.9.99, Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3661" + }, + { + "date": "9/24/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: article in 'Komsomolskaya Pravda.' magazine for young people from Moscow) A respected Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences El'chin Hallilov used an advanced Sony video camera to film for 40 minutes a giant and shining UFO rotating above the capital of Azerbaijan. A conference of astronomers was held at the Shemahinskoj Astrophysical Observatory in Azerbaijan at the same time. The 50,000 video images were brought to the meeting and examined by expert astronomers who were impressed by the high quality of the digital video camera. They were shocked by the clarity and length of the film which seemed to show a huge spaceship or a confidential American weapon. The video is considered sensational because it shows a large illuminated object with a powerful and blinking blue light suspended above the city for several hours starting at 21:45 on September 24. The astronomers could not explain this as plasma or comet. The film then shows the object enlarged 300 times showing an apparatus of surprising complexity. It was composed of three main parts. The front was in the shape of a complete sphere. The back rotated around an axis crossing the entire object. It seemed to radiate a great power of heat and radiation. The object rotated and it was possible to see the entire length, and then it was a large sphere with a truncated base. There were blinking lights and portions seemed to turn showing an object with two decks. At certain moments it took the shape of an isosceles triangle then took the shape of an eclipse and disappeared. The astronomers agreed that natural objects do not take this shape and do not remain stable for several hours. The object seemed obviously some kind of technical object. The decision was taken unanimously to create a commission to study the film and obtain information about the film.", + "location": "AZERBAIJAN, Baku", + "ref": [ + "Thanks to Anatolij.- Ovni Science, mailing list - Oct. 1999", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3662" + }, + { + "date": "10/23/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Around noon a luminous UFO was seen above the summit of ETNA and stayed there for ten minutes, performing maneuvers (of smoke: there was an eruption less than a week later, and black smoke, sometimes mixed with fire, was already coming out of it...). The oval-shaped UFO was seen by hundreds of people from the town of Adrano, southwest of the volcano, and by those from the small towns of Belpaso and Viagrande. The UFO was described as a white round object, with a dark center and the whole thing seemed \"reddish\". The object changed its position from vertical to horizontal, and changed its shape from round to oval. In Adriano two people took video images and are convinced they filmed a flying saucer.", + "location": "Italy, Sicily, Mount Etna", + "ref": [ + "La Sicilia\" of 24.1099 and \"Il Messagero\" of 25.1099; cfr also the CISU.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3663" + }, + { + "date": "11/8/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Sources: infOvni Ufotel - CISU (Edoardo Russo) - translation Luder -A rain of strange white filaments fell from the sky over Vercelli and the surrounding area on Monday, November 8. The unusual phenomenon had significant proportions, since the phenomenon repeated itself at various times over an area of about ten square kilometers, covering houses, fields, electrical wires, and even pigeons! There are photos, a film, and also residues of these angel hairs. Unlike other previous cases, the filaments, up to one meter long, did not dissolve immediately and it was thus possible to collect and preserve various samples that will be analyzed by the Italian Center for Ufological Studies.", + "location": "Italy, Vercelli", + "ref": [ + "CISU", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3664" + }, + { + "date": "12/5/1999", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On Sunday, December 5th, 1999, the Chinese newspaper China Daily reported that a scientific team in the Shenongjia Mountains had found traces of a large, hairy hominid, which they called the \"Wild Man\". Standing, it measured nearly 2.4 meters tall and was covered in long, red hair. It was searching for seeds in the nature reserve. The scientists set out to look for the creature after a hunter reported seeing it in the reserve two months earlier. The hominid left footprints measuring 40 cm long, and they found hairs and empty seed pods.", + "location": "CHINA, Shenongjia Mountains, Hubei Province", + "ref": [ + "USA Today, December 8th, 1999, \"Big Foot Returns,\" page 24A", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3665" + }, + { + "date": "1/1/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On Saturday morning, around 6:30am (Beijing time) a silver-gray UFO appeared above the Great Wall of China and was filmed \"live\" by the American television network CNN. Mr. Lamb was watching CNN at home when they showed the sunrise above the Great Wall, and there was a gray ellipse floating above. Immediately the camera took another view, without explanation. [VOG: This American witness, the only one to have seen the Chinese UFO, must have confused a reflection effect...] (January 1, 2000)", + "location": "CHINA, Great Wall", + "ref": [ + "Duluth, Minn. News-Tribune for January 3, 2000, \"Aliens or Illusions?\" page 5A.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3666" + }, + { + "date": "1/10/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A motorist saw a strong light above him. The engine of the car then stopped by itself, as well as the headlights and the car radio. J.J. Velasco from Sepra went to the witness, whose anonymity he respected.", + "location": "France, Sézanne", + "ref": [ + "source: Journal de la Marne, and CEOF 04.10.2000", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3667" + }, + { + "date": "1/16/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Taiwan MND Confirms Incoming UFOs From China - From: Diane Lovett -Translation: Phil – ovnipage) Taipei, Jan. 18 (CNA). The Ministry of Defense (MND) confirmed Tuesday that 10 unidentified objects had been seen crossing the Taiwan Strait from the Chinese mainland and heading north of the island before disappearing at an altitude between 14,000 and 25,000 (?) on January 16. Judging by the direction of the wind and air currents, the MND supposes that the UFOs come from the Chinese mainland and adds that these movements also threaten the security of Taiwanese air traffic as well as international traffic. During a press conference, the MND informed the Civil Aeronautics Administration and promptly indicated to them to pay great attention to this situation. The MND also urged the mainland to refrain from such dangerous behavior. Following the MND's warning, the SEF (Strait Exchange Foundation) sent a letter to their Chinese counterparts (ARATS) so that the relevant authorities could investigate this matter. In the same spirit, the CAA (Civil Aeronautics Administration) set up an alert plan on Tuesday for pilots navigating the Taiwan-Kinmen air corridor in case they judged that the unidentified objects could cause problems for aircraft using this corridor. So far, no unusual objects have been detected by the CAA's radars, but the MND's warning clearly illustrates that UFOs are a potential danger in the Taiwan-Kinmen corridor - Diane Lovett [vog: given the political situation between China and Taiwan, one can wonder if these \"UFOs\" were not simply missiles ... of intimidation?]", + "location": "TAIWAN: Taiwan Strait", + "ref": [ + "OVNI-SCIENCES, Information Bulletin No. 17, 27.01.2000", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3668" + }, + { + "date": "1/16/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (cf. 18.2.1998 and 00.12.1999) \"It was Sunday, January 16, 2000, at 2 in the morning, when my daughter was going to bed. She felt a kind of wind passing near her, especially in her face, and she then had the impression that she was being lifted. It only lasted 5 minutes. She also had the feeling of not being in her own bedroom, she has scars in the shape of V, lines and stomach ache. Do you want to do research? because my daughter is very scared.\" (January 16, 2000)", + "location": "Netherlands, Pendrecht", + "ref": [ + "registered letter from C.V.d.L. to Ufo Belgium, Marc Broux, received on 7.2.2000 after a telephone interview on 19.1.2000", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3669" + }, + { + "date": "3/5/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (From: Muzzafar Zabidin - Trans: Phil - Malaysian UFO Report, March 8. - A report from the newspaper The Star (Malaysia) by UFO Folklore - Tanah Merah (Kelantan)) An observation of a large object emitting light beams was reported. According to the witnesses, it even landed in a marshy area. This observation took place three days ago and held the approximately 1000 inhabitants of Kampung Gobek in awe. The witnesses say they saw the shining object land around 3:00 in the morning. The lights coming from the object came intermittently, like flashes of lightning, but that day there was no sign of rain, according to Mohamad Mat Diah, 51. The lights from the object were very strong and the beams bathed the inside of my house. \"As I noticed something was happening outside I looked out and saw this object moving above the marshes for several minutes\". Mohammad says that at daybreak he went to the area which is about 100 m from his home and there he noticed a kind of Y-shaped depression measuring 15 m by 5 m wide which could have been caused by the unidentified object. Near this depression was another crescent-shaped depression about 3 m and three holes around each one of 1 m in diameter. \"I was accompanied by two people who were originally scared to come with me,\" adds Mr. Diah. Another resident of the place, Saupi Salleh, 28, recounts having been woken up by the intense light. \"At first I thought it was a storm but I realized it was something else\". He also went to the alleged landing site and concluded that if an object had come there, it must have been very imposing. Many other people then came to inspect the site.", + "location": "Malaysia", + "ref": [ + "Malaysian UFO Network http://myufonet.cjb.net", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3670" + }, + { + "date": "3/7/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A woman was driving on a country road between 9 and 10 pm. In the passenger seat was a baby seat with her young child. She told ufologist Davina Ryszka of Montrose, Colorado about her terrifying encounter with a UFO. \"There was a very low flying object, displaying a very large white light and small green and red lights on the side. This UFO was on a deliberate collision course. Coming straight at me, and so low, I did everything I could to avoid a probable crash\" she said. But the UFO stopped right in front of the car which the driver had managed to stop almost in place. Then, when she wanted to leave, the UFO made the same maneuver, she reversed, the UFO too. She made a maneuver in place to change direction, the UFO imitated her. She was really panicked, all the more so because her baby was in the car. Finally, she managed to get back in the direction she had followed first, the UFO still facing her. She drove fast and the object seemed to be following her now, she could see it in the rearview mirror. \"Then, for a few moments, I couldn't see it anymore, and I was already relieved thinking it had gone\". But suddenly a bright light came from above illuminating the car and the whole area around. She drove as if she had the devil on her heels and finally arrived safe and sound, but very shocked in Olathe.", + "location": "USA, near Olathe, Colorado", + "ref": [ + "UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 5, Number 13, March 30, 2000, Editor: Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3671" + }, + { + "date": "3/8/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Ufotel No. 208) This report was published in a local newspaper. An employee and a teacher who were walking in the woods in Lucignano in the afternoon of March 8, would have observed around 4 pm, a stationary luminous triangular object in the sky. Shortly after they were aware of a presence nearby, behind them. It was a humanoid form (not otherwise defined) wearing a suit and a helmet with a visor, through which the witnesses would have seen blue eyes without eyelashes or eyebrows, a nose like that of humans, and lips barely outlined. A whistle from above drew the attention of the two witnesses to the object in the sky, which after a slight undulating movement catapulted itself into infinity, gaining more and more speed.", + "location": "Italy, Lucignano (Arezzo)", + "ref": [ + "\"Corriere di Arezzo\", March 15, 2000", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3672" + }, + { + "date": "3/10/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) There would have been thousands of witnesses to a spectacular observation in the Peruvian capital, Lima, on March 10th. A cameraman from the local channel Canale 5 managed to film for a few minutes the lights seen for at least a quarter of an hour shortly after one in the morning. On the video one can see four lights of changing colors, arranged in a triangle, which moved slowly and at low altitude above the roofs of the city. According to some testimonies, among them those of journalists busy with the control of the observations, there were also around other smaller lights.", + "location": "Peru, Lima", + "ref": [ + "Source: Ufotel http://www.cisu.org; \"UFO Updates\", 11.3.2000, \"UFO Roundup\", 16.3.2000; translation: Luder - infOvni - Ufoweb 27.3.2000", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3673" + }, + { + "date": "3/23/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A Belfast worker in Northern Ireland reported that his car was lifted off the ground during the observation of a UFO and as a result he is missing 6 hours from his memories. The experience is said to have taken place on the evening of Thursday, March 23, when the man was returning home from work. Stopping at a gas station, he saw in the sky a large light, it looked like the moon but with an oval shape. Getting back in the car, he noticed that the light was following him and, with amazement, he also realized that he had taken the wrong road. Terrified, he stopped and got out of the car in the middle of the countryside, realizing that the car was being lifted off the ground. His next memory is of him being in the driver's seat of his car, near his house, at 2:30 in the morning. What he thought had lasted five minutes had actually lasted 6 hours. A typical episode of \"missing time\", usually associated with abduction cases, which local ufologists are currently examining.", + "location": "Ireland, Belfast", + "ref": [ + " \"UFO Roundup\", April 6; Ufotel - CISU: http://www.cisu.org; translation: Luder for infOvni - Ufoweb of 12.4.2000", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3674" + }, + { + "date": "4/1/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Cliff Blyth, 68, told the Grimsby Evening Telegraph that he had been struck by \"a 5 cm diameter fireball that had gone through the window\" and had passed through his chest. He experienced no physiological effects from the incident. His wife, who was on the phone at the time, witnessed the event and was shocked. She immediately lifted his shirt but could not find any marks from the fireball. They were left with only fear. (April 1, 2000)", + "location": "England, Corn Mews", + "ref": [ + "UFO Roundup, Volume 5 Number 18 May 4, 2000 edited by Joseph Trainor and \"Grimsby Evening Telegraph\" from April 4, 5, 10 and 14, 2000", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3675" + }, + { + "date": "4/8/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Five minutes before midnight a bright yellow-orange UFO was slowly approaching the Indira Gandhi International Airport and the Palam Regional Airport in New Delhi. According to one of the witnesses, K. Anupam, \"the UFO was approaching from the northeast. Its movement was irregular but slow.\" A group of people were watching it when it stopped above the Gandhi Airport terminal. \"The UFO was at a rather high altitude and no sound was coming from it,\" said Anupam. \"It stopped in the air and stayed there for a moment, then it suddenly veered to the left and descended a bit. Again it stayed still for a moment and then moved quickly to the right. It tilted and disappeared at an incredible speed. During the whole observation its bright silhouette suggested an oscillation, a swaying.\" Anupam described the UFO as cigar-shaped. \"It was elongated with glows in three parts. There were two dark areas between the three bright parts. It seemed to be sending flashes suggesting a rotation on itself. It was at the altitude of commercial airplanes (10,000 meters), but its movement was very different, oscillating.\" (April 8, 2000)", + "location": "INDIA, New Delhi", + "ref": [ + "alt.ufo.reports, Jess, April 13, 2000", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3676" + }, + { + "date": "4/12/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Wave of Chupacabras attacks in Chile Witnesses claim to have seen two bizarre humanoid creatures. It all began on April 12 in Tucapel, when a large pile of dried thorns was set on fire by an unidentified luminous phenomenon.", + "location": "Chile, Tucapel (Bio Bio) near Concepcion", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Roundup, Volume 5 Number 19; May 11, 2000, Editor: Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3677" + }, + { + "date": "4/15/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On Saturday, April 15, 2000, between one and two in the morning, Alan S. was sleeping in his house in Ballwin. Suddenly, he awoke and \"I looked to the right of my bed. It was standing there. It disappeared after two minutes. It was a very strange creature. Lemon-green in color, glowing, and there was like a big green aura all around it. It had two arms and two legs. Its eyes were glowing red. The skin seemed to be made of scales like that of a reptile. It was about 4 feet tall (1.30 m). I stayed motionless in bed until it disappeared, vanishing into the air.\" One could have taken Alan's vision for a waking dream if there hadn't been an earlier UFO sighting elsewhere in Missouri.", + "location": "USA, Ballwin (Missouri)", + "ref": [ + "UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 5, Number 16, April 20, 2000, Editor: Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3678" + }, + { + "date": "Mid 4/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Noel Duggan, of Ballyconnigar Lower in Blackwater, told Gerry Ryan's radio show in early June that he was having a drink in his mobile home with his girlfriend Kathleen Roche, and his friend Martin Egan from Wexford, when they were joined by a strange little man about 5 feet tall with peculiar ears. \"'The creature was sitting on the mattress next to my girlfriend but she didn't see it, nor did she hear when we spoke to it. It appeared out of nowhere and we didn't ask it where it came from. My friend Martin and I were in discussion with the creature, but I don't remember what about. The man had huge ears and slightly curly hair.\" The incident happened around 7 in the evening and after a short while the strange visitor placed his hands above the girlfriend's head saying \"It's not her fault\" and then vanished. [vog: famous beer, and terrible whiskey in Ireland!] (2000, mid April)", + "location": "Ireland, Blackwater", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Roundup vol 5 n° 23 of 8.6.2000, ed. Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3679" + }, + { + "date": "4/17/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) A policeman was returning home at night, taking the Alfonso de la Vega square. He then saw a small being which he took for a child. He reprimanded the kid for being outside at such a late hour, but in response he received a menacing look from a pair of red eyes. Suddenly scared, the policeman continued on his way without insisting. (April 17, 2000)", + "location": "Argentina, Frias", + "ref": [ + "newspaper \"El Ancasti\" of 6.7.2000", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3680" + }, + { + "date": "4/24/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (From Dr. Virgilio Sanchez-Ocejo - Source: http://www.elsur.cl/index2.html - 'Cronica' Newspaper, Chile Monday 24, 2000. Trad: Phil ovnipage npdc.) Jose Ignacio Prieto and 4 friends had just finished dinner when they felt a strong sensation of heat. The lights went out, they were in complete darkness when a powerful blue light entered the room where they were. It lasted a few seconds which were enough to blind them momentarily after the lights came back on. The next day they found a triangular mark. The base measured 35 meters and each side was nearly 20 meters. At one corner of the triangle there is a transformer that distributes electricity in the area. The triangle is located on a small mountain. The plants inside the triangle were twisted at the base just like in the mysterious crop circles. The place is only accessible by horse. There are no nearby roads or even vehicles in the area. In San Pedro de Atacama, the police received reports of strange red lights (UFOs?). The narcotics police went to investigate the site, thinking they would find a clandestine laboratory but to their great surprise they only found another triangular trace with a base of 50 meters formed of small stones not exceeding ten centimeters. The stones forming the triangle seemed burned and were still hot to the touch.", + "location": "Chile, San Pedro de Atacama", + "ref": [ + "Dr. Virgilio Sanchez-Ocejo Miami UFO Center.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3681" + }, + { + "date": "4/27/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) [01/05/2000 12:47/Belgabrief/General/Afsud/Espace/Divers) Two metal balls have fallen from the sky in the last few days in fields in the Cape region, leaving police and press perplexed while awaiting analysis: UFO, piece of satellite? The first of these balls landed Thursday in a field 70 km northeast of Cape Town, the impact preceded by a double \"bang\", according to the testimony of employees of the Peter Viljoen farm, cited by The Star on Monday. The ball, which weighed more than 30 kilograms, was hot like it had been heated white at the impact and the witnesses could not touch it for half an hour. - The second ball, oblong and more massive, measuring between 1 m and 1.50 m in diameter and weighing nearly 100 kilograms, landed Friday in another farm in the region, near Durbanville. The balls, which according to the newspaper could be pieces of an old satellite, were transported to Cape Town Airport from where they were to be sent to Pretoria for expertise.", + "location": "South Africa, Cape Town", + "ref": [ + "VPT", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3682" + }, + { + "date": "4/29/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) On Saturday, April 29, 2000, Jose Ismael Pino, 59, an agricultural worker employed on the Esperance ranch 2 km east of Huepil, near Tucapel, encountered a chupacabra. Pino was leaving the barn at 8 pm when he thought he saw a large bull running wild. He approached and shouted at the animal. Then he saw that it was not a bull. The creature was there, motionless, looking at him. It measured 1.50m, like a large monkey, with long arms ending in claws, huge fangs coming out of its mouth, and the creature also had wings. \"I was so scared that I ran to get the dogs. I released the dogs to chase away this 'bird'. The dog Cachorro came back very quickly, his neck open and bleeding. My boss Jorge Venegas then armed himself with a rifle to defend us. Since there have been all these luminous phenomena around, he even sleeps with the rifle next to him.\" In the region four sheep were killed in one farm and one cow in another. But not everyone believes in the guilt of the chupacabras, says the farm manager Raul Perez to the newspaper Cronica. \"A few years ago we had a big problem with stray dogs: in one night they killed 70 sheep.\"", + "location": "Chile, Huepil (near Concepcion)", + "ref": [ + "UFO Roundup, Volume 5, Number 19, May 11, 2000, Editor: Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3683" + }, + { + "date": "5/3/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) At 1:30 in the morning, while Professor Liliana Romero Castillo was deeply asleep in her apartment located in Laguna Redonda in Concepcion, she was awoken by the barking of her five young puppies. They were with a mastiff named Black in the garden. Looking out the window, she saw the puppies barking and noticed the motionless body of Black near the wall. To her painful astonishment, she also saw the back of what seemed to be a very tall man over two meters tall. At shoulder level, the back was divided, as if it had wings. His posture was as if he had just struck something. So she woke her husband, but he was too sleepy to get up. Going back to the window, Mrs. Romero saw that the creature had disappeared, leaving the dead mastiff in its place. The next day, when sending her children to the grocery store, they took a shortcut and returned home saying that a big beige dog had died in the alley. This dog had holes in its throat and was exsanguinated.", + "location": "Chile, Concepcion", + "ref": [ + "UFO Roundup, Volume 5 Number 19 May 11, 2000, Editor: Joseph Trainor", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3684" + }, + { + "date": "5/5/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) Mr. Hugo Macias, aged 60 and employed for more than 37 years at the newspaper \"La Capital\" of Mar del Plata, who since 1997 has always taken the same route between Balcarce and Tendil, and claims to know the National Route 226 perfectly, contacted \"El Eco de Tandil\" to tell his experience.

\"On Tuesday, May 5th, as usual (details recorded in the National Gendarmerie), at the place called La Planta Terrena, after passing the \"Puerta del Abra\" road from Mar del Plata to Tandil and having traveled about 5 to 6 kilometers, I heard a strange noise of something approaching from behind. I felt enveloped by a very powerful light. I say enveloped and tubed because it was a light that covered a diameter of 50 meters and that entered from all sides of my vehicle. It seemed to go through the sheet metal of the roof.\" Hugo assures that it was at that moment that the radio went off, then the engine and the headlights stopped, but meanwhile, there was so much light coming from the outside that he could not see if the car lights were on. \"It transported me for about 600 meters and then it cut off. It only lasted a few seconds but it seemed interminable. Everything started working again, I found myself facing a dark but starry night, and I saw in the sky at an approximate height of 1500 to 2000 meters an enveloping light in the shape of a tube that descended to the plain. During the rest of the trip I crossed two cars. It was a day of less traffic. (...) After my return to Mar del Plata I went to the gendarmerie post of Planta Terrena to see if the sentinel on guard that night had seen something. But I could not meet her, another guard commented to me that in this place five or six similar things had happened. He also told me that during the summer period witnesses had reported a circular shape in the prairie on which a burned paste rested as if acid had been poured over it. \"(...)", + "location": "Argentine, Tandil", + "ref": [ + "source UEDDS France, Claude Chapeau, but no Argentine news found about it", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3685" + }, + { + "date": "5/5/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: Rheinische Post newspaper, 8 and 18.5.2000) About fifty police officers were sent to search for a UFO that people said they had seen falling outside the city of Munchengladbach in the night of Friday, May 5, 2000. Calls flooded in and a ufologist had already contacted the airport for information about the illuminated object, flying slowly in the area of the A52 highway near Hardt. One of the witnesses, Karl W., said that the object with red and white flashing lights had fallen shortly after 10 pm behind the trees. When an expert identified the position of the flashing lights as belonging to a small sports plane, the search was launched by 50 police officers, 12 firefighters, and 22 volunteers from the Red Cross with tracking dogs. At dawn, a helicopter also appeared, but nothing was found. One of the witnesses said that in fact the object was flying so slowly and in complete silence, at the height of the tree tops, that it must not have appeared on the radar screens. Ten days later, a \"radio amateur\" claimed to have listened to radio transmissions from the search team and to have heard the police talking about green humanoids, passing through our solar system during their journey.", + "location": "Germany, Muchengladbach", + "ref": [ + "Ufo Roundup vol. 5 no. 24, 16.8.2000", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3686" + }, + { + "date": "5/10/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) UFOs were observed. They were transparent, with a hole in the center, and their appearance had similarities to the observation of a school of jellyfish, tentacles excluded.", + "location": "Philippines,", + "ref": [ + "The Manila Times for September 14, 2000, \"Three sightings of UFOs aliens stump PAGASA astronomical experts,\" by Jeannette Andrade.", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3687" + }, + { + "date": "5/14/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) The witness was driving on Route 12 in Millston, near Eau Claire, when \"the engine of his car suddenly stopped.\" \"I got out to open the hood,\" he said, \"and I heard a noise coming down the road from the east. I looked and saw an object shaped like a disk spinning very quickly on itself on the road. I got back in the car as quickly as I could, all the while watching this thing. Suddenly it started moving and went straight up into the sky. This happened about 25 yards from my car. I was scared out of my wits. I haven't told anyone, who would believe me. I'll never take that road again. The noise this thing made sounded like a faint buzzing.\"", + "location": "USA, Millston (Wisconsin)", + "ref": [ + "report from Peter Davenport of NUFORC: National UFO Reporting Center", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3688" + }, + { + "date": "5/26/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) James Schuld called to report that he saw \"plasmoid\" UFOs around 8 PM, as night was falling. They were directly above his house and stayed there all night. Several beeps per minute, a ten-beep pause, then two beeps, which he said were observed by nearby Indians. They also seemed to come out of the ground. They were pink fireballs 60 to 90 cm in diameter emitting beeps.", + "location": "USA, Santa Ana (California)", + "ref": [ + "Filer's Files 22#-2000; MUFON; 5.6.2000", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3689" + }, + { + "date": "6/22/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (UFO ROUNDUP, vol. 5 no. 26 of 29.6.2000, ed. Joseph Trainor) \"Seventeen people gathered at a party of the Overejo and Gomex families said they saw and struck a \"lobizon\" (werewolf) between midnight and 12:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 22, 2000. Eva Castillo, a witness to the scene, told the Argentine newspaper \"Norte\" that the first to detect the strange creature was her nephew Marcelo, 11, who saw the creature attacking the little dog and opened the window to see what was happening. The creature was standing on the platform where the chickens and ducks find water. Another family member said he did not believe in either the Lobizon or the Almamula (another legendary animal of the region) and that he thought people were telling lies about them, but that he saw this \"thing\" and gave it a terrible kick.

\"As if nothing had happened, the creature got up and left,\" adds Jesus Alcides Gomez, who joined the other family members to beat the creature with sticks, bricks, and whatever they had at hand. Mrs. Castillo said: \"We joined Alcides because the lobizon was chasing Marcelito, who had to take refuge on the trailer to avoid being hurt.\" According to the witnesses, the creature looked like a dog with long, drooping ears, but with legs like a child's. The Argentines believe that the seventh son of a line of boys turns into a lobizon at midnight, during the full moon, and especially if it happens on a Friday. Colonel Juan Domingo Peron, president from 1943 to 1955, had even ordered that all seventh sons be baptized in a public ceremony, thinking he could thus subdue the superstition. In the case of the Gomez families, the police came to the scene after the creature's escape and collected samples of blood, and yellow and brown hairs, and some droppings. Another witness also claims to have seen the lobizon that night. It is Odilio Pontes, who runs the service station along Route 16: \"Around 1:30 in the morning I saw a strange dog hiding behind the diesel pump, I was scared and I only looked at it through the window without going out. But it was bloody from the back, that I saw. It left towards the city, it had long \"hair\" of dark brown color. \" (2000, June 22,)", + "location": "Argentina, Concepcion del Bermejo (in the north)", + "ref": [ + "Scott Corrales, Gloria Coluch", + "Norte newspaper of 23.6.2000: \"Concepcion del Bermejo convulsed by Wolfman apparition,\" and of 24 June: \"Numerous residents of Concepcion del Bermejo claim having seen Wolfman.\"", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3690" + }, + { + "date": "7/5/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (UFO Roundup, Vol. 5, No. 28, 13.7.2000, Editor Joseph Trainor) \"Diabolical Elves (El Diablillo) in Two Argentine Cities\" On July 5th, 2000, police closed the auxiliary office in Dande Varela and placed two guards there after the auxiliary sheriff had seen the apparition of El Diablillo. Corporal Miguel Angel Aguero was hospitalized that morning in a state of shock, having had a nervous breakdown due to the alleged appearance of the infernal elf in the office. Aguero, age 37, and having been an auxiliary police officer for ten years, is a well-known athlete, especially because he was a marathon champion in his province. He was found unconscious, sitting on his chair, eyes wide open looking at the ceiling. When his colleagues approached him he started to scream: \"There, there! He's here. He's coming for me!\" pointing his finger up. Corporal Aguero was alone in the office around 1 o'clock in the morning when he made his routine round, passing through the empty cell block and returning to his office. He then heard something coming through the double doors behind him. \"What do you want?\" he asked, petrified. \"I have come for you, as Satan wished\" the thing replied. At the hospital, Aguero described the entity in detail: \"It was a person, I don't know if it was a man, it had red eyes, very red eyes. Its face was deformed and horrible, full of warts. It was about my size and it was wearing black pants and a green shirt. Its eyes were red and bulging. Horrible!\" According to a police report, around 1:30, after three unsuccessful attempts to contact the auxiliary office in Dande de Carela by radio, a vehicle was dispatched to the scene to check on the situation of the corporal. (July 5th, 2000)", + "location": "Argentina", + "ref": [ + "newspaper \"El Ancasti\" of 6.7.2000; Scott Corrales, and Gloria", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3691" + }, + { + "date": "8/17/2000", + "desc": "(Translated from French) (Source: Cisu, Update Number 276 - September 1, 2000) In the sky of Carozzo (La Spezia) a new sample of flying humanoid appeared, it was a dark human-like silhouette that at least three people observed, while it moved in the sky \"like Batman\" without wings or paraglider.", + "location": "Italy", + "ref": [ + "La Nazione, La Spezia edition, August 19; collaboration of Roberto Labanti", + "[_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html)" + ], + "source": "Overmeire", + "source_id": "Overmeire_3692" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/bin/process_all.bat b/bin/process_all.bat new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ec9aeb8 --- /dev/null +++ b/bin/process_all.bat @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +call process.bat +call process_kwic.bat